Fortnite’s Android gambit could reform mobile’s walled gardens
Epic Games’ decision to release Fortnite on Android outside of Google Play is one of the biggest stories in the mobile games industry in...
How game companies can boost cybersecurity and avoid Fortnite’s fiasco
The mobile gaming market is one of the fastest growing industries, and for the first time, market watchers forecast it to generate more than...
You can download Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost, but you can’t play it yet
Nintendo has launched its latest mobile game … sorta. Dragalia Lost is out now on iPhone, and it should hit Google Play soon. But...
Google launches final preview of Flutter, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK
At Google Developer Days China today, Google launched the final developer preview of Flutter, the company’s open source mobile UI framework that helps developers...
Newzoo: Smartphone users will top 3 billion in 2018, hit 3.8 billion by 2021
The number of smartphone users across the globe will top 3 billion in 2018, with the Asia-Pacific region accounting for more than half of...
Facebook will forego 30% share of Instant Games in-app revenue on Android
Facebook has announced it is going to forego its 30 percent share of Instant Games in-app revenue on the Android platform. Instant Games are casual titles...
App Annie: Android users will download 170 billion apps in 2018 thanks to Fortnite
Android users will download 170 billion apps, spending over $50 billion in 2018. This is according to mobile insights company App Annie, which pegs...
Fortnite Android beta expands beyond Samsung phones
After launching for Samsung Galaxy phones with the debut of the Note 9, Epic Games is now bringing its popular last-player-standing shooter Fortnite to...
Review: Fortnite on Android brings authentic battle royale to (most of) the rest of us
Epic Games announced today that it is launching the beta for Fortnite battle royale on Android, starting with select Samsung devices. The Samsung devices...
Tim Sweeney: Epic’s CEO on Fortnite on Android, skipping Google Play, and the open Metaverse
Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn’t shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the...