Mobile app market to grow 270% to $189 billion by 2020, with games accounting for 55%
The mobile app market is expected to grow 270 percent — from $70 billion in 2015 to $189 billion by 2020 — according to...
China dethrones U.S. as its iOS app revenue hits record $1.7 billion in Q3
China has dethroned the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for iOS App Store revenue, earning more than $1.7 billion in...
Finland’s Seriously launches clicker adventure Best Fiends Forever on mobile
These folks are serious about the $36 billion mobile game market. Finland’s Seriously has launched Best Fiends Forever, the second game in a trilogy...
Kabam receives $800 million bid for its best asset: its Vancouver studio
Kabam has received an unsolicited bid to sell its successful Vancouver mobile game studio, according to source familiar with the matter. GamesBeat has learned that...
Coin-In uses social game rewards to get people into physical casinos
Coin-In has launched a new service that uses social casino games that drive foot traffic into brick-and-mortar casinos. It does so with a loyalty...
Ex-Sims chief Rod Humble gets his third life at Jam City
Jam City (previously known as SGN) has hired Rod Humble, the ex-CEO of Second Life developer Linden Lab and former head of The Sims...
Pop ’til you drop with Wooga’s Bubble Island 2: World Tour
Wooga likes to handcraft its mobile games. So it’s a relatively rare event when it launches a new one. Today the Berlin-based company is...
Ex-Runescape devs announce Lightseekers, an ambitious-but-risky take on Skylanders (update)
Former designer who worked on the popular Runescape game have created a new startup PlayFusion and a new game Lightseekers that it hopes will represent...
Newzoo: Mobile games will make 82% of global app revenues this year
The global mobile app market will generate $44.8 billion in gross revenues in 2016, and 82 percent of that comes from mobile games, according...
NYU students take you into a clockmaker’s workshop with mobile game Cognition
If you ever feel like a cog in a wheel, then you might relate to Cognition, the first game from a student-led team called...
