GamesBeat 2016 explores how to take games between Asia and the West Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 30, 2016 19 min China has become the biggest gaming market, surpassing the U.S. quite easily in the past couple of years. But only a handful of companies... Continue Reading 19 min
Spellgun launches big budget Clash of Gods mobile game as China moves to the West Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 16, 2015 3 min Spellgun, a mobile-game publisher that is marrying the East and the West, has launched Clash of Gods, a fantasy role-playing game where massive armies... Continue Reading 3 min
Spellgun to help Western-made Storm Casters crack Chinese mobile-game market Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 21, 2014 3 min Storm Casters developer Get Set Games has had more than 50M downloads. Now it will use Spellgun to succeed in China. Continue Reading 3 min
New startup Spellgun will take Western mobile games to China (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 7, 2014 3 min Talkweb and Concept Art House are creating Spellgun to bring Western games into China's complex mobile market. Continue Reading 3 min
The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2013 7 min The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped. Continue Reading 7 min
After 2 years, Legacy of a Thousand Suns is a ‘truly social’ social game Posted byby GamesBeat November 9, 2012 2 min 5th Planet credits its success with social game Legacy of a Thousand Suns to many factors, but one most of all. Continue Reading 2 min
Social mobile game maker Zattikka goes public on London Stock Exchange Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 16, 2012 1 min Zattikka, a London-based maker of browser and mobile games, has gone public on the London Stock Exchange. The company is a social game developer... Continue Reading 1 min