Casual Connect Indie Prize goes to Super Gravity Ball
Casual Connect Europe’s best-in-show audience prize went to Super Gravity Ball by American developer Upside Down Bird. The Indie Prize is an international scholarship program...
The DeanBeat: Casual Connect Europe shows inspiration and salvation for mobile game devs
Mobile gaming has become half of the global game market, bringing in about $70 billion of the $137.9 billion annual take. But it’s not an...
ClanPlay unveils blockchain marketplace for in-game actions
ClanPlay has created a mobile app that serves as a social hub for gamers who play in clans in games such as Clash Royale....
Voodoo raises estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs for mobile games
Mobile games publisher Voodoo has raised an estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs. The company has plans to use it to develop a publishing...
10 reasons your game studio will never get funding
Jason Della Rocca is a nice fellow who has been in the game industry for a long time. But as the cofounder of Execution...
Rovio spin-out Hatch lines up 90 mobile games for social hub
Hatch has signed up more than 90 games from 50 studios to debut this year on its social hub that can stream mobile games instantly...
How to make a virtual reality game before the market even exists (hint: you don’t)
Oculus VR is only a few weeks away from releasing the Rift headset. And while that kicks off high-end virtual reality on PC, it’s the end of an...
After spending $32M, World of Tanks developer Wargaming is still figuring out esports
AMSTERDAM — If you spend millions of dollars on something, you would hope that you know exactly what that something is. But that was not the...
Saudi Arabia’s mobile-gaming whales want what’s hot — even if it’s in another language
AMSTERDAM — The price of oil continues to drop, but Saudi Arabia still has cash to burn on mobile games. Only around 30 million...
Looking East: The Western advance on China’s burgeoning mobile gaming market
Western developers need to think smart if they want a piece of China's $18.5 billion gaming industry.