Categories Posted inin Business Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft rushes up the iPad charts like a pack of Murlocs Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 3, 2014 2 min Blizzard's card game is in the top-10 most-downloaded apps in each of its three soft-launch territories. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Dhruva CEO explains how India’s game industry is coming of age (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 30, 2014 10 min Will India's fortunes rise on the global gaming stage? Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Discover the state of mobile gaming in a fireside chat with SGN’s Chris DeWolfe (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 25, 2014 21 min SGN is making mobile games, but it hasn't abandoned Facebook as a proving ground for new ideas. Continue Reading 21 min
Categories Posted inin Business How Scopely is building a hit factory, one mobile game at a time (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 23, 2014 10 min Scopely has been able to crank out multiple hits as a publisher of third-party mobile games. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Wooga’s Jens Begemann on making the transition from social to mobile games (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 22, 2014 8 min The German gamemaker's revenues doubled in the past year. And 70 percent of it now comes from mobile. Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hackers compromise EA website, use it to steal Apple IDs (report) Posted byby GamesBeat March 19, 2014 2 min An EA games server has been hacked and is being used to host a phishing site that steals Apple IDs, according to a report from security firm Netcraft. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Google introduces cross-platform multiplayer gaming for iOS and Android Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 18, 2014 2 min Games that use the Google Play Games Services can offer live multiplayer to people regardless of the platform they are on. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business How a seasoned venture capitalist at IDG Ventures views game investments (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 16, 2014 16 min IDG Ventures' Phil Sanderson has quietly become one of the most successful venture capitalists backing games. Continue Reading 16 min
Categories Posted inin Business Even a copyright wouldn’t help Flappy Bird creator get his hit’s name back thanks to Apple’s rules Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 14, 2014 3 min Apple says that no company can reuse an app's name when it deletes an app from the App Store, and now someone else has the "Flappy Bird" name on iOS -- and has plans to use it. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Moscow’s Game Insight has quietly been amassing big mobile game revenues (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 14, 2014 10 min We caught up with Game Insight CEO Alisa Chumachenko to talk about games that are making tens of millions of dollars. Continue Reading 10 min