Sony and Kabam join GamesBeat Summit — early pricing ends at 5 p.m. today
Ticket prices will go up at 5 pm today for our brand new event for 180 top gaming executives on May 5-6 in Sausalito, Calif.
Why Nintendo’s mobile gambit will exceed your expectations
By using its success with the old Game & Watch and the money-making Game Boy, DS, and 3DS handhelds, Nintendo could easily find a way to get people to download a $1 app a billion times.
South Korea’s Gamevil takes mobile game Dragon Blaze to global audience
Gamevil is taking its hit Korean game Dragon Blaze to a global audience starting on May 11 by launching the title worldwide in new Western markets. Preregistration starts today for the role-playing game, which originally launched in February 2014 on the KakaoTalk messaging platform in South Korea and later in Japan.
Mobile marketing: winning at ‘brandvertising’
Can traditional brand advertising work on mobile? The answer is a definitive yes.
Marvel: Avengers Alliance counts 70 million players since launch on its 3-year anniversary
Comic-based RPG is going strong after three years.
Compass Point: West is Next Games’s debut, mixes strategy, card-collecting, and cowboys
Next Games takes to the Wild West, cards in hand, for its first game.
Scopely teams up with Kung Fu Factory to make a series of mobile games
Scopely teams with the maker of popular titles like Adventure Time Card Wars.
Square Enix taps DeNA for its free-to-play expertise for Final Fantasy: Record Keeper
Final Fantasy maker pulls in a partner to bring one of its biggest mobile games to market.
How Nintendo can capitalize on in-app advertising without annoying players
If Nintendo can bring the same level of innovation to its game monetization strategy as it does its gameplay experience, this deal could create a new template for how mobile games and advertising can work together going forward.
Nintendo finally awakens to the modern age of games with its DeNA mobile deal
Back in November 2008, I warned Nintendo that the iPhone represented a threat to the dominance of the portable Nintendo DS gaming handheld. Seven years later, Nintendo acknowledged the threat by creating an alliance with Japan’s DeNA to make mobile games with Nintendo characters.