Facebook finally launches playable ads, improves game monetization
Playable ads debuted four years ago as a new way to entice gamers to play mobile games. The ads were interactive, allowing people to...
Sega of America taps THQ, Acclaim vet Ian Curran as new president and COO
Sega of America announced today that Ian Curran is its new president and chief operating officer. Curran has worked for major gaming companies like THQ...
Cloudcade forms game studio and invests in Pakistan as a tech hub
San Francisco’s Cloudcade has done well with games such as Shop Heroes in the past five years. And now the company is expanding in...
Kixeye enlists players to provide customer support for Battle Pirates
Kixeye launched its Battle Pirates strategy game on Facebook seven years ago, but the game still has a loyal following of 100,000 players. The...
Nexon is bringing Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed to Japan
Mobile and PC game publisher Nexon announced today that it is bringing Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed to Japan. Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed is the No. 658 ranked game...
Mobcrush’s livestream multicasting tool can reach 750 million people
Mobcrush started out as a mobile game streaming company that let people stream from a smartphone. But it recently added its Mobcam tool to...
The RetroBeat: Final Fantasy’s 16-bit classics need definitive editions
Final Fantasy is one of my favorite game series, and its 16-bit era might be its best. You have the groundbreaking Final Fantasy IV,...
Apple features Super Evil’s Vainglory in ‘Unleash’ video touting mobile gaming
Apple is highlighting gaming once again in a new commercial dubbed “Unleash.” It is aimed at showing that Apple’s A11 Bionic chip in the...
MapleStory M mobile game goes live in 140 countries
When Nexon launched its free-to-play PC game MapleStory in 2003, the 2D side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game wasn’t that impressive. But it has...
PUBG Mobile’s July update adds a new mode, clans, and more
Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. released a new update for the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds today. It adds War Mode, which has players...