How Legacy Games still has a good business selling DVD games at Walmart
Legacy Games has been publishing and distributing casual PC games at retail since 1998. And believe it or not, it’s still in business. Founder...
Kongregate focuses on building its own idle games for mobile
Kongregate took off as an early platform for free-to-play web games from indie developers. It saw a lot of success and went through some...
ByteDance’s Ohayoo has published more than 150 games with 500 million downloads
Ohayoo is the new kid on the block in Chinese games. The company is a division of ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, and it...
How Jam City views growth for mobile games in 2021
Jam City president Josh Yguado said he is optimistic that the game industry can continue to grow in 2021, despite the challenge of having...
Wildlife Studios raises $120 million for casual mobile games at $3 billion valuation
Brazil’s Wildlife Studios has raised $120 million in a new round of funding for its casual games across multiple genres. Wildlife Studio‘s mobile game...
FunCraft raises $1.8 million to make ‘casual forever’ mobile games
FunCraft, a new studio headed by former Electronic Arts and Zynga veterans, has raised $1.8 million to make what the call “casual forever” mobile...
Playtika doubles down with a new casual games lab
Playtika said it is launching an independent division dedicated to the creation and rapid development of casual games. The Playtika Casual Games Lab plans to...
Ready Makers launches subscription for 130 esports mini-games
Ready Makers has launched a $7 monthly subscription plan for its Ready Games app, which offers 130 minigames for competitive casual game players on...
Gram Games expands to London as part of move to expand worldwide
Gram Games was running out of cash in 2014, and then Istanbul-based company made its fortune. It released 1010!, a Tetris-like puzzle game that has...
Storm8 lays off about 130 from its social mobile gaming studio
Social mobile game publisher Storm8 laid off a large number of its employees this week. By one account, the San Mateo, California-based company cut about...