Categories Posted inin Technology People are playing mobile games at home — especially in bed Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 22, 2012 2 min Mobile games rule in the home these days, and the most popular place to play them is in bed. MocoSpace surveyed 15,000 of its mobile... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Zynga buys OMGPOP for a reported $200M Posted byby GamesBeat March 21, 2012 2 min We’ve confirmed that Zynga, the app-studio-eating megalith of social gaming, has acquired OMGPOP, maker of new hit mobile game Draw Something. You know what they... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Tablet game revenue to hit $3.1B by 2014 Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2012 1 min The tablet game market is expected to grow to $3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. The spending... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business OMG Stop! Why Zynga is considering $200M purchase of DrawSomething creator OMGPOP Posted byby GamesBeat March 20, 2012 2 min Welcome to the wild world of mobile gaming, where a new king can be crowned in the span of three weeks, and a struggling... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Peter Relan on how to get two iPhone games into the top 25 Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 16, 2012 12 min Peter Relan wants to build a mobile gaming empire, one app at a time. The chief executive of CrowdStar and chairman of game incubator YouWeb... Continue Reading 12 min
Categories Posted inin Business With 4 women leading 300 men, Game Insight will triple revenues in 2012 (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 12, 2012 3 min Game Insight has quietly become a big force in mobile. The Moscow-based game publisher owns a majority stake in 15 game studios with more... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 10, 2012 2 min Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 8, 2012 3 min Mobile games are so plentiful that discovering the right one has become a nightmare. But Facebook believes that it has a solution in layering... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Pocket Gems grows fast with its “mobile first” game business Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2012 3 min Pocket Gems was one of the early “mobile first” game companies that did nothing but make games for mobile devices. The company was founded... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Aeria Games joins the mobile-gaming fray Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 2, 2012 1 min Aeria Games, one of the players in the free-to-play online game market, is moving into mobile games with the announcement today of its Aeria... Continue Reading 1 min