Ranking the best of ParadoxCon
When I first started covering Paradox games six years ago, they were a developer of complicated strategy games with much love in their niche...
AppsFlyer helps mobile advertisers beat back ad fraud via machine learning
AppsFlyer is helping mobile game and app developers deal with the severe problem of fraudulent advertising responses via third-party ad networks. In doing so,...
MXGP3 and MotoGP 17 raise the bar on realistic racing simulations
I got some hands-on experience with the motocross racing simulations MXGP3 and MotoGP 17 yesterday. I’m not sure what I accomplished, other than proving...
Magikarp Jump gives Pokémon’s fishy weakling his own mobile game
Pokémon’s most pathetic creature is now a star. The Pokémon Company International released Magikarp Jump for iOS and Android devices today. The free-to-play game has...
How Unity convinced investors it’s worth $2.6 billion
From what we hear, a lot of investors in Silicon Valley wanted to get in on Unity Technologies’ $400 million funding round. Unity received...
Seriously takes the Angry Birds path with Best Fiends animated cartoon
Mobile game maker Seriously is taking a page from the strategy of its neighbor Rovio, the maker of the Angry Birds mobile games and film,...
Why Far Cry 5’s Mountain West extremism enables Ubisoft to criticize America
Ubisoft is going to screw up Far Cry 5 — at least as far as my expectations are concerned. But it can only fail because...
Card game Gwent enters open beta phase — it’s essentially launching
One of the biggest challengers yet to Hearthstone’s throne is now available to everyone. Gwent: The Witcher Card game has entered its public beta...
Jam City’s Cookie Jam hits 100 million downloads as Cookie Jam Blast debuts
Jam City announced that Cookie Jam has passed 100 million mobile downloads, and the company is launching Cooking Jam Blast as a new match-3...
Apple’s App Store is creating twice as many million-dollar publishers as Google Play
Apple’s App Store is creating twice as many newly minted $1 million publishers as Google Play in the U.S., according to a report by...