Categories Posted inin Business Apps featured by Apple or Google get 6 times the downloads and 9 times the revenue — or nothing Posted byby GamesBeat April 24, 2014 2 min Everyone who has published an app in the iOS App Store wants Apple to feature them, because that will boost download numbers to insane... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business From backwater to blockbuster: The lessons that games can teach mobile companies (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 17, 2014 7 min Games engage users because of minute-to-minute action and emotional engagement. Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why accurate ad measurement is critical to the growing mobile ecosystem Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 15, 2014 3 min Mobile ad platforms still need the equivalent of the cookie on the web for proper ad tracking. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business What the deuce? Fox's copyright club quashes videos and streams of Family Guy mobile game Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 9, 2014 2 min Fox has already forced Twitch to close one person's account. Continue Reading 2 min
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