Moon Active acquires Family Island mobile game maker Melsoft
Moon Active announced today the acquisition of the mobile game company Melsoft. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Melsoft has become a...
App Annie: Mobile game and app spending will grow 25% to $112 billion in 2020
Mobile game and app spending will grow 25% to $112 billion in 2020, according to year-end estimates from mobile data and analytics researcher App Annie....
Apple names Genshin Impact as iPhone game of the year
Apple has named the App Store’s best games and apps of 2020, and Genshin Impact won the iPhone Game of the Year award. The...
Sensor Tower: Among Us surpasses 217 million downloads on mobile
The mobile version of Among Us has passed the 217 million-download mark, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. Among Us is out for PC...
Apple v. Epic lawsuit could open door to third-party payments — led by esports
Without releasing a single game, Apple is one of the largest gaming companies in the world, simply by taking a cut of all transactions...
Why genre matters for mobile game monetization (VB Live)
Presented by Facebook Audience Network No matter your game genre, if your goal is to maximize the revenue impact of ad monetization — without...
What mobile game developers need to know about global expansion
Presented by Facebook Audience Network Publishers are capitalizing on the rise in mobile gaming by expanding their reach into new, lucrative markets. But finding...
The app industry’s reckoning with privacy, control, and consumer empowerment
For the first 12 years of its existence, the app industry, like many nascent markets, pursued growth by focusing primarily on investor-pleasing metrics such...
The ripple effect of the Epic Games v. Apple battle royale
It was only five years ago that Epic Games’ Josh Adam and Bill Bramer were onstage at Apple’s WWDC demoing Fortnite and talking about...
ProBeat: Google should have picked Microsoft’s app store principles over Apple’s
Microsoft this week outlined a list of 10 principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows in a not-so subtle jab at Apple and Google....