25 years of covering games: My views of then and now
This is one of those posts where you get to hear a lot of what I think about gaming, from my own perspective. As...
The Mustards dish on Shadow Complex Remastered and working with J.J. Abrams on Spyjinx
Chair Entertainment has been busy since it concluded its 50-million-download Infinity Blade mobile game series in 2014. Chair, a division of Epic Games, has just...
World of Tanks publisher Wargaming talks about accelerating change in the game business
Victor Kislyi, the chief executive of World of Tanks online game publisher Wargaming, says we live in interesting times. There’s so much change happening in...
Chinese cloners copy Supercell’s Clash Royale hit in just a week
This was inevitable, but the speed at which it happened is surprising. A Chinese company has already come up with a clone of Supercell’s...
With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015
There’s something magical in the water, or the snow, in Finland. Helsinki-based Supercell announced some astounding financial results for 2015 based on revenues from...
Supercell hits 100M daily players with just four mobile games
Supercell chief executive Ilkka Paananen announced today on Twitter that the Finnish company has hit 100 million daily active players who play its four...
Clash Royale is already the top-grossing iOS game in the U.S.
No other mobile game has done this so quickly in the age of Clash of Clans, Game of War: Fire Age, and Candy Crush Saga....
Periscope competitor Stre.am expands with pivot to mobile esports
While Twitch and YouTube gobble up live and recorded video for traditional gaming platforms, a battle is heating up on smartphones. Stre.am, a mobile...
Hands-on: Supercell has another big winner in Clash Royale
Supercell is the maker of huge mobile games Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Hay Day, and it has another big hit on its hands....
Supercell’s Clash Royale rushes to the top of the download charts in 12 hours
The developer responsible for Clash of Clans has another hit. Supercell’s Clash Royale, an online multiplayer tower-defense game for iOS and Android, has reached...