Niko: China’s mobile game market will hit $8.3 billion in 2017
China implemented tough new regulations this summer for mobile games, but that isn’t expected to dramatically slow the market. Market researcher Niko Partners predicts...
Turkey’s puzzle game maker Gram Games shoots for another big hit with Six!
First came 1010! Then Merged! And now there’s Six! That’s a lot of exclamation points from Gram Games, the Turkish company that has specialized...
The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next
Niantic Labs is riding a rocket, generating an estimated $200 million in revenue in its first month with Pokémon Go. It grew faster to 10...
Vungle has grown video ad revenue by 400 percent in China since 2015
China has become a critical market for mobile app and game companies, and video-ad firm Vungle has helped them monetize there. Vungle chief executive...
GamesBeat 2016 panel delves into balancing monetization and retention
Everybody wants to make money with free-to-play games, but they don’t want to turn up the monetization so high that it turns off loyal...
Mobile-social gaming firm RockYou lays off 65 people
Mobile social game RockYou is laying off 65 people, or 18 percent of its staff, over the next three months, GamesBeat confirmed today. The...
N3twork’s Neil Young believes $10 billion mobile game is inevitable
Neil Young is one of the big thinkers in mobile games, and he came up with a big thought in a talk at today’s...
China surpasses the U.S. in iOS game revenue for the first time
In the second quarter, China hit a new milestone as it surpassed the U.S. to become the No. 1 country for iOS game revenue,...
Kabam lays off 25 people at its San Francisco mobile game studio
Kabam has confirmed a report that it laid off about 25 people, or 3.5 percent of its global workforce, at its San Francisco mobile...
The DeanBeat: Pokémon Go has a chance to change the world
Everyone is talking about Pokémon Go as if it is changing the world. And it is. I don’t mean that I absolutely believe all...
