Futurefly’s EatMessage app turns your face into a game controller
Futurefly is launching an iMessage app called EatMessage, a selfie-based game where challenge friends to eat or dodge emojis. And in this game, your face is...
The end of mobile gaming as we know it
As they face market saturation and rising marketing costs, mobile gaming marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to report healthy return on investment (ROI)....
Unreal Engine gets native Nintendo Switch support
One of the industry’s most popular game-making tools is getting a wave of improvements as well as support for a major upcoming console. Epic...
Plarium makes match-3 mobile game with Fox’s Rio animated characters
Mobile game publisher Plarium has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox to create Rio: Match 3 Party, a mobile game debuting this spring on iOS...
How to get a player to commit to your mobile game
For marketers of mobile games and apps, user acquisition is a lot like swimming in the dating pool. Smartphone users represent a vast population,...
Hearthstone targets fast metagame by weakening Shaman and pirate decks
Shaman’s reign of terror on Hearthstone may end even before the beginning of the next year of Standard. Blizzard announced today that it is changing...
The DeanBeat: How Berlin has become more tolerant than Trump’s America
Maybe they should move the Statue of Liberty to Berlin. Seventy-two years after the fall of Adolf Hitler, the capital city of the former Nazi...
Dungeon & Fighter in China drives Nexon above expectations
Asian online game giant Nexon reported fourth quarter revenues that were down from a year ago but exceeded the company’s own outlook. The better-than-expected...
Activision Blizzard more than doubled the money it earned from in-game sales in 2016
This whole “games as a service” thing is really working out for Activision Blizzard. The publisher had a record fourth quarter and a huge year...
Zynga credits focus on legacy hits Words With Friends and Zynga Poker for positive Q4 earnings
Thanks to some of its legacy games, Zynga had a good financial fourth quarter for 2016. The mobile and social game publisher reported GAAP...