The DeanBeat: Casual Connect’s mood reflects the highs and lows of gaming
The game industry always fluctuates between hope and despair. I witnessed that this week at the Casual Connect game event in Seattle. All sorts...
Galatron brings retro-arcade-style space shooting to Facebook Messenger instant games
You’ve got a new way to blast a bunch of alien goons in spaceships while mucking around with your phone — but this one...
Big Viking will turn Valiant Entertainment’s comic properties into HTML5 mobile games
Big Viking announced a new partnership with Valiant Entertainment, the third-place comic company behind Marvel and DC. Valiant is responsible for series like X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger,...
Big Viking Games unveils $10 million fund for Facebook’s new HTML5 Messenger Instant Games
Those big vikings in Canada have some big bucks to invest in games for Facebook’s latest platform. Big Viking Games announced today that it’s...
HTML5 is the next $100 billion game platform
We believe over the next 12 months, billions of mobile messenger users will become prolific consumers of games and apps using HTML5 and messenger...
HTML5 gaming studio Big Viking raises $21.75 million in funding
Canada isn’t just the home of major blockbuster publishers and developers, it’s also home to some of the fastest-growing social-gaming studios. As part of...
Big Viking Games acquires Gallop Labs to mashup casual games with data-driven science
Free-to-play game development is all about having intelligent analytics, and one developer in this space has made an acquisition to help it get important...
The future of mobile game-player acquisition: Play before you download
While Supercell and Machine Zone paid a whopping $13.6 million collectively to advertise at this year's Superbowl, smaller- to medium-sized studios need new, achievable ways to acquire users.
Big Viking Games shows how Ontario is becoming a hotbed haven for startups
Credit it all to a combination of hefty government tax credits, top engineering and animation talent, lower costs -- and now, a favorable exchange rate.
Why you should start your video game company in Canada
In the next few years, Canada will undoubtedly release many of the top video games in the world, and the support system set up here will be a big reason why.