Categories Posted inin Business Lessons from a game guru: Candy Crush Saga creator once survived six months without pay Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 18, 2014 19 min Tommy Palm seriously considered working at McDonald's. But he stuck with his career in video games. Continue Reading 19 min
Categories Posted inin Business Papaya Mobile's Appflood helps Chinese game makers succeed outside their homeland (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 12, 2014 6 min With Appflood, PapayaMobile is promoting itself as having the only transparent global mobile ad network. Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile user acquisition is still a hard slog. Listen to what the experts say about it. Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 1, 2014 22 min A trio of user acquisition pros answer a bunch of questions about getting quality mobile users. Continue Reading 22 min
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Google's $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (updated) Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 24, 2014 2 min Google wants some of that video livestreaming magic. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The new Android Wear smartwatches already have their first game (exclusive) Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 21, 2014 2 min Swip3 brings gaming to the Moto 360, LG G Watch, and Samsung Gear Live. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development 10,000-developer survey: 2% of coders split staggering 54% of all app revenue Posted byby GamesBeat July 21, 2014 3 min It’s a Darwinian world out there. And not many are winning. A new 10,000-developer survey by Developer Economics says that 50 percent of iOS developers... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Google & Apple: ‘If you charge for in-app goodies, you can no longer call your app free’ Posted byby GamesBeat July 18, 2014 2 min Google and Apple respond to European Commission's requests to change how they offer games with in-app purchases. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Announcing our next trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2014: a store guy, a broadcaster, and a reporter Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 18, 2014 4 min Bob Meese of Google Play, Malathi Nayak of Reuters, and Jonathan Simpson-Bint of Twitch will join us on Sept. 15-16. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business iOS still dominates Google Play for making money as China and Japan turn up the spending Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 16, 2014 2 min Google Play is actually outpacing iOS in terms of downloads, but people open up their wallets more for Apple. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business With Ingress, even Google is making games for iOS Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 14, 2014 2 min This is the first Google-developed game to debut on iOS. Continue Reading 2 min