Alien: Blackout review — This is how you do a mobile spinoff
A couple weeks ago, a pre-launch build of Alien Blackout taught me a lesson: Don’t assume a mobile port of a popular game series...
Chinese regulators start approving mobile games for Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World
After a long delay, big Chinese game publishers Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World are getting their mobile games approved for the Chinese market again....
NCSoft trims jobs on unannounced project at Iron Tiger Studios
NCSoft, the South Korean online game publisher that makes games like Lineage 2 and Guild Wars 2, has laid off an undisclosed number of...
Harry Potter mobile game maker Jam City raises $145 million
Jam City, developer and publisher of the hit mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, has raised $145 million in funding. The money comes from JPMorgan Chase...
Top 5 countries for soft-launching hyper-casual games
Hyper-casual games have some unique advantages over other genres when it comes to soft launches. Their minimal designs often require little-to-no localization for international...
23 games for your new iPhone
If you got a new iPhone over the holidays, one of the best ways to enjoy it and show it off is to play...
The DeanBeat: 12 predictable predictions on gaming in 2019
I’m making my annual predictions for the game industry again, not because I’m good at it, but because it has become one of the...
App Annie: Game and app downloads grow 10% in 2018 to 113 billion
Mobile data and analytics firm App Annie said that global app and game downloads, as well as consumer spending in those apps, reached new heights...
Sensor Tower November report: Monster Strike and My Talking Tom 2 top the leaderboards
Monster Strike might have been an international miss, but folks in Japan continue playing — and spending — enough that it made more revenue...
101XP announces Era of Legends, an online role-playing mobile game
Russian developer 101XP on Era of Legends (MT4 in China), the fourth part of its free-to-play online mobile role-playing series that it claims makes $2...