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Lessons from a game guru: Candy Crush Saga creator once survived six months without pay
Tommy Palm seriously considered working at McDonald's. But he stuck with his career in video games.
Fates Forever will test whether MOBAs designed for tablets can attract those who play League of Legends or Dota 2 (interview)
Fates Forever, a new multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA) for tablets, debuted on iOS last week. The title has gotten good reviews and...
10,000-developer survey: 2% of coders split staggering 54% of all app revenue
It’s a Darwinian world out there. And not many are winning. A new 10,000-developer survey by Developer Economics says that 50 percent of iOS developers...
Google & Apple: ‘If you charge for in-app goodies, you can no longer call your app free’
Google and Apple respond to European Commission's requests to change how they offer games with in-app purchases.
iOS still dominates Google Play for making money as China and Japan turn up the spending
Google Play is actually outpacing iOS in terms of downloads, but people open up their wallets more for Apple.
Android vs. iOS: Revenue gap 'appears to be closing,' claims Racing Rivals developer
Racing Rivals is making more money on Android than it is on iOS.
Google Play growing, growing, growing: Downloads up 1.5x, revenue up 2.5x
Games now generate 90 percent of Play revenue, and 98 percent of that revenue comes from freemium apps, according to a new report from mobile analytics company App Annie.
Nexon's new CEO wants creative devs, free-to-play to be fair — and cloners to take a hike (interview)
Owen Mahoney, new CEO of Asian free-to-play game giant Nexon, says we've gone through five years where the best game creators weren't being rewarded.
How EA is marshaling a new assault on mobile games (interview)
EA Mobile head Frank Gibeau believes his company has an opening as console quality graphics moves to mobile.