Mag Interactive’s IPO shows Europe’s mobile game industry is strong
Mag Interactive went public today at a market valuation of $137 million. It’s the Swedish company behind the hit puzzle word game Ruzzle. The company...
Building Reigns: Her Majesty’s queendom
Reigns: Her Majesty builds on its predecessor’s devilishly simple mechanics with a new story of political and cosmic intrigue. As in the first Reigns,...
Sensor Tower: Animal Crossing gets 15 million mobile downloads in 6 days
Judging by the flood of memes on Twitter about Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, it’s no surprise to hear that it had a successful launch. In the...
Candy Crush Saga: 2.73 billion downloads in five years and still counting
Candy Crush Saga is the most popular mobile game in the U.S. after a dramatic comeback in the third quarter. As the mobile game...
Lineage 2: Revolution launches its lucrative mobile battlefields in the West
Lineage 2: Revolution has already conquered Asia, and it’s here to do the same in the West. And it’s off to a good start: Over...
Tiny Bubbles wins 3 indie mobile game contests but still needs a publisher
Tiny Bubbles has scored well in three separate indie-mobile-game contests. I’ve had the honor of judging the game from Pine Street Codeworks in those...
How I accidentally became a video game writer during the mobile boom
Back in 2006, rumors were swirling about Apple’s new iPhone, but most of us were still carrying around clamshell phones or old-school BlackBerrys. A...
Bury me, my Love’s tale about Syrian refugees launches October 26 on iOS and Android
Indie French developers The Pixel Hunt and Figs announced today that their new mobile game, Bury me, my Love, is coming out for iOS and Android...
Cosmic Top Secret is a charming mobile game about one family’s Cold War secrets
Cosmic Top Secret is an autobiographical mobile game about the Cold War, but it’s far from a staid affair. Archival photos, film clips, and...
Middle East and North Africa take their turn in this set of mobile gaming award nominations
The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) has announced its second annual nominees for games developed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its...