Lessons from a game guru: Candy Crush Saga creator once survived six months without pay
Tommy Palm seriously considered working at McDonald's. But he stuck with his career in video games.
Papaya Mobile's Appflood helps Chinese game makers succeed outside their homeland (interview)
With Appflood, PapayaMobile is promoting itself as having the only transparent global mobile ad network.
Mobile Internet investment explosion: $47B in M&A plus $14B in investments
Over the last 12 months we’ve seen an unprecedented explosion of financial deals in the mobile space. That includes a staggering $47 billion in mergers and...
Mobile user acquisition is still a hard slog. Listen to what the experts say about it.
A trio of user acquisition pros answer a bunch of questions about getting quality mobile users.
Oculus VR begins shipping its latest Rift virtual-reality development kit
The improved hardware will enable developers to experiment with new features that the consumer version will have.
Facebook closes Oculus VR acquisition — let the virtual-reality 'liking' begin
Oculus VR and Facebook promise to work together to build the next computing platform.
Report: Samsung and Oculus will launch co-developed 'Gear VR' headset at IFA 2014
The two companies will unveil the new device at IFA 2014, says the blog Sam Mobile.
Study: 9K apps and 397M users show cost-per-install is the worst mobile user acquisition method
Thousand of developers are making millions of apps to reach billions of consumers. Unfortunately, that critical last step of mobile app development, user acquisition,...
Nexon's new CEO wants creative devs, free-to-play to be fair — and cloners to take a hike (interview)
Owen Mahoney, new CEO of Asian free-to-play game giant Nexon, says we've gone through five years where the best game creators weren't being rewarded.
Facebook unleashes game discovery feature for the iPad
Facebook says 70% of users of its iPad app have played a Facebook-connected game in the last three months.