TabTale changes its name to Crazy Labs with focus on hyper-casual mobile games
TabTale got 2.6 billion downloads thanks to its past focus on kids educational games. But in the past couple of years, the Israeli company...
Litesprite’s game for managing depression gets an endorsement from Bayer’s startup accelerator
Litesprite had the vision years ago to use a mobile video game to help patients manage problems such as stress, anxiety, or depression. And...
Flavourworks raises $3.8 million to make interactive games with live-action video
Flavourworks has raised $3.8 million in funding for its interactive movie games that fuse together live-action video with interactive gameplay. Flavourworks has created a...
The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces
The week was thick with gaming news, so some folks may not have noticed that Playtika, the Tel Aviv-based social casino games company, is...
Candy Crush Friends Saga helps King have the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores
Activision Blizzard noted today when reporting its earnings for the third quarter that the Candy Crush series remains the top-grossing franchise in the U.S....
At BlizzCon, most fans found a reason to move on from Hong Kong
Earlier in October, it seemed like this year’s BlizzCon could be a disaster. Blizzard Entertainment’s annual fan event took place on November 1 and...
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Niantic has learned a lot about location-based gaming and augmented reality from the hundreds of millions of players in its games like Ingress, Pokémon...
Clash Royale League World Finals take place December 7 with $400,000 purse
The 2019 Clash Royale League (CRL) World Finals will take place on December 7 before a live audience at Los Angeles’ iconic Shrine Auditorium....
Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox offer better matchmaking for game devs
Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox divisions have joined together to offer game developers matchmaking and multiplayer parties at no cost when used by an...
Tumblr partners with Medal.tv to highlight 15-second gameplay videos
Tumblr has partnered with Medal.tv to highlight 15-second gameplay videos in an attempt to foster a growing gaming audience. It’s one more example of...