South Korea’s Netmarble uses Marvel to bring its mobile games to the West
Netmarble Games has grown to nearly $1 billion in sales. That’s a long way from its humble beginnings in 2000, when Jun-Hyuk Bang started the...
Tencent-led consortium to acquire up to 84% stake in Supercell from SoftBank at $10.2 billion valuation
After months of speculation, Chinese tech giant Tencent has confirmed that a consortium it established will acquire a majority stake in Clash of Clans-maker...
Square Enix CEO is still taking risks with bets on core console games
Square Enix has continued to thrive as one of the few successful companies that can make games that appeal to those both in the East...
AppsFlyer expands analytics biz into $1.4B Latin American mobile gaming market
Latin America is one of the growing sectors of the gaming industry, and it will hit $4.1 billion this year (as market research firm...
Fraud is mobile gaming’s $6.3B problem — and publishers need to solve it
A gaming studio can easily pay 10 times its development budget on acquiring players, and the frightening truth is that companies are flushing a...
Nexon chief Owen Mahoney thinks art is the solution to mobile gaming’s rising marketing costs
Making money from mobile gaming is expensive thanks to rising costs of acquiring users, but one company wants to subvert this by treating the...
Western mobile gaming will grow to $30B, predicts Ngmoco founder Neil Young
Mobile gaming is on pace to generate $36.9 billion worldwide this year, but one of the people responsible for kicking off this industry in...
Nielsen is now tracking mobile games in an effort to expand in a streaming TV world
Nielsen (you know, that group that’s always going on about TV show ratings) is entering a new entertainment market. The company revealed today that it...
Nintendo is bringing Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem to mobile
It looks like Nintendo’s mobile strategy won’t just be about casual play. The Japanese company revealed today that two of its most popular franchises,...
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes mobile game gets guilds and raids in new update
The ability to blow up a planet is insignificant next to the power of an update. The mobile role-playing game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has...