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Scopely is investing $20 million in Burlingame Studios.

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Scopely invests $20M in casual game maker Burlingame Studios

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 10, 2022
3 min

Scopely has made a $20M investment in Burlingame Studios, a new game studio started by veterans of casual games. Unlock premium content and VIP community...

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3 min

The Akamai/GamesBeat multiplayer gaming breakfast at GDC.

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The state of multiplayer gaming and how it’s going to change

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 5, 2019
39 min

Multiplayer gaming has been a staple of video games for decades. But while internet access has grown more reliable and faster for many people...

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39 min

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Glu Mobile redesigns its headquarters and its strategy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 25, 2018
21 min

Glu Mobile moved into a brand new headquarters in San Francisco recently, with much of its staff together under one roof in a move...

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21 min

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Design Home helps Glu Mobile transform its financial outlook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 1, 2017
2 min

Glu Mobile announced today that it beat expectations for its second fiscal quarter ended June 30, and it owed much of the results to...

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2 min

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Glu’s Design Home is another big hit targeting female mobile gamers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 13, 2017
2 min

When Glu Mobile bought CrowdStar for $45 million in December, it picked up a game publisher that had rare success with female gamers through its Covet Fashion mobile...

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2 min

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Covet Fashion mobile game adopts diverse female body shapes for its models

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 10, 2017
3 min

Covet Fashion is embracing the diversity of female beauty by changing its virtual models so that they have different body shapes, sizes, heights, skin...