App Annie: 5 predictions for mobile app and gaming success in 2020
App Annie collects a lot of data on mobile devices, apps, and games. And so the mobile insights and analytics company has five predictions...
Candy Crush Friends Saga helps King have the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores
Activision Blizzard noted today when reporting its earnings for the third quarter that the Candy Crush series remains the top-grossing franchise in the U.S....
Niantic sets up $10 million third-party developer fund and names first dev contest winner
Niantic has scored hundreds of millions of players and billions of dollars in revenue from games like Pokémon Go. And now it is using...
Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games
Niantic has had big corporations like McDonald’s and Starbucks sponsor locations for some time in its location-based games. Now the creator of Pokémon Go...
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Niantic has learned a lot about location-based gaming and augmented reality from the hundreds of millions of players in its games like Ingress, Pokémon...
GSN Games names former Angry Birds developer William Taht as Bingo Bash chief
GSN Games announced former Rovio executive Wilhelm Taht will be the new senior vice president and general manager for Bingo Bash, effective November 18....
TabTale will publish movie-based Charlie’s Angels and Jumanji mobile games
TabTale, a maker of cartoony casual and hyper-casual games, is announcing today it will launch two mobile games based on the upcoming films Charlie’s...
Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5 million, moves on to new game, and hands Vainglory off to Rogue Games
Super Evil Megacorp has had more than 45 million players for its Vainglory multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game on smartphones, tablets, and the...
Clash Royale League World Finals take place December 7 with $400,000 purse
The 2019 Clash Royale League (CRL) World Finals will take place on December 7 before a live audience at Los Angeles’ iconic Shrine Auditorium....
Supercell shuts down Rush Wars after players shrug
Supercell is closing down Rush Wars. The developer posted a blog today that explains the decision. Fans weren’t loving the early beta test, which...