Lost Ark review — a lot of content in an attractive package
Two types of games garner attention: those that innovate and those that refine. Portal, for instance, is a good example of an innovative game....
Esports drives user engagement — and revenue — for free-to-play games
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the video game industry experienced a critical inflection point, although it went largely overlooked. Most of the media coverage focused...
‘Balance that in-app economy’ and other game monetization pearls of wisdom
Monetization in free-to-play (F2P) and freemium games is in constant flux as the technology around it changes and evolves to better serve an increasingly...
COVID-19 could accelerate the ‘maturity of Chinese players’ in the free-to-play market
The free-to-play market is gigantic worldwide, including the hundreds of millions of players within China. Nielsen’s SuperData Research Group found that free-to-play games revenue...
Scopely addresses fan protest in The Walking Dead: Road to Survival mobile game
Running a free-to-play mobile game isn’t easy. Lots of fans download the game, and sometimes they make a lot of demands. Scopely has learned...
NBCUniversal’s Chris Heatherly — The future of interactive storytelling
Chris Heatherly, executive vice president of games and digital platforms at NBCUniversal, has seen storytelling evolve in mobile, console, and PC games in the...
Top Apple, Google, and Samsung smartphones hit game monetization records
The latest smartphones from Apple, Google, and Samsung achieve high rates of monetization compared to other kinds of smartphones, according to a study from...
Open book: Fractured Space developed in broad daylight
Presented by Intel “I was looking at what people were playing, and changes in the world and it was League of Legends and World...
Let It Die slashes its way past 2 million downloads on PlayStation 4
A free-to-play game is finding success on PlayStation 4. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America and developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced today that the free-to-play hack-and-slash...
Super Mario Run’s not-so-super success
The days leading up to the December release of Super Mario Run were full of buzz and excitement about the beloved franchise’s latest iteration....