Lila Games raises $2.8 million for mobile shooter
Lila Games has raised $2.8 million to build a game studio and craft a new subgenre of mobile shooter games. It’s another example of...
Squad Wars: Death Division is the latest attempt to make multiplayer shooters work on mobile
In Asia, first-person shooter games are very different from the West, where Call of Duty and Battlefield rule. In China, Crossfire is the big...
Sweden’s Starbreeze invests $1.4M in mobile shooter game developer Cmune
With the success of other console ports like the space shoot-’em-up Geometry Wars 3 and adaptations like the turn-based shooter-turned-puzzler Hitman: Go, Cmune is hoping to find a different path to profits in the $30 billion game industry.
China’s Cmune capitalizes on its mobile shooter success with launch of innovative Bullet Rush
Cmune's previous games have been downloaded 25 million times.
Cmune raises funding for first-person shooters on mobile and Facebook
Will first-person shooters emerge as a big market on social and mobile platforms?
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Cmune spreads UberStrike to new platforms and raises funds from Skype founder
Cmune has just announced that it has raised money from Atomico, the international venture capital firm founded by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström.
Will Facebook games become faster and richer?
The problem with Facebook as a game platform is that most of the games running on it are slow. For hardcore gamers, as well...