Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 12, 2016 5 min 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... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Vungle has grown video ad revenue by 400 percent in China since 2015 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 25, 2016 3 min 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... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat 2016 panel delves into balancing monetization and retention Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 23, 2016 14 min 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... Continue Reading 14 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile-social gaming firm RockYou lays off 65 people Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 22, 2016 1 min Mobile social game RockYou is laying off 65 people, or 18 percent of its staff, over the next three months, GamesBeat confirmed today. The... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business N3twork’s Neil Young believes $10 billion mobile game is inevitable Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2016 3 min 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... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business China surpasses the U.S. in iOS game revenue for the first time Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2016 1 min 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,... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Kabam lays off 25 people at its San Francisco mobile game studio Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 16, 2016 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Pokémon Go has a chance to change the world Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 15, 2016 5 min 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... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Netmarble’s hit Soul King mobile game goes global Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 13, 2016 1 min Netmarble Games is determined to make a big splash in the West. The South Korean mobile game company’s latest attempt is Soul King, a... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Facebook: 43% of mobile gamers are parents Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 11, 2016 2 min Gaming has become a $99 billion market, with mobile games accounting for $36 billion of that in 2016, according to market researcher Newzoo. And... Continue Reading 2 min