Tilting Point acquires AstroKings developer AN Games
Tilting Point announced today it is acquiring a majority stake in Korean mobile game developer AN Games. With this acquisition, Tilting Point will help...
Nexters acquires three gaming companies as part of mobile investment
Nexters today announced a series of acquisition deals as part of its investment into mobile gaming. It will acquire Cubic Games, RJ Games, and...
Carry1st raises $20M from A16z and Google for mobile games in Africa
Carry1st has raised $20 million in funding from marquee investors for its mobile game publishing platform targeted at unlocking demand in the African market....
Turkey’s Spyke Games raises $55M for casual mobile games
Spyke Games has raised $55 million in a seed round to make casual and social mobile games. It’s the biggest seed round raised by...
Avatar: Reckoning turns the hit film world into a mobile MMORPG shooter
Archosaur Games, Tencent, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Disney announced today Avatar: Reckoning, a new mobile game based on the hit sci-fi film. Reckoning is an...
App Annie: Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021
Smartphone users spent 3.8 trillion hours on mobile in 2021, according to a State of Mobile 2022 report by mobile data and analytics firm...
Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B enterprise value
Take-Two, the maker of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto games, is buying mobile social game publisher Zynga for an enterprise value of $12.7 billion....
Playtika CEO Robert Antokol interview — Why player retention matters now
Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika, believes we’re in the middle of the revolution. But when he describes what it is, it can sound like...
Jam City unveils blockchain division and first NFT game Champions: Ascension
Mobile game maker Jam City is taking the plunge into nonfungible token (NFT) games with the launch of a new blockchain division and its...
Whaleapp hits 40M mobile game downloads thanks to Blitz: Rise of Heroes
Whaleapp has hit 40 million mobile game downloads thanks to Blitz: Rise of Heroes, the first midcore title that the casual game maker has...