Supercell stakes a beachhead in the mobile gaming clash in Iran (updated)
Update, 2:15 p.m. August 31: Cafe Bazaar says there are numerous errors in this guest post: Supercell is left with 61 percent of revenues...
Call of Duty: Heroes hits 30M downloads (update)
Call of Duty is a juggernaut on home gaming consoles and PCs — and it’s finding players on mobile as well. Activision announced today...
Video games will become a $99.6B industry this year as mobile overtakes consoles and PCs
Forty-seven percent of that $99.6 billion will come from Asia, as you can see in the chart below. China is seeing exceptional growth. Mobile in that country will be up 41 percent from 2015 to reach $10 billion.
Like father, like son: A second-generation game developer launches Plight mobile game
James Castle didn’t fall too far from the tree. He just graduated from college and is launching a mobile game that he built from...
User acquisition costs up 26% in February after January’s drop, Fiksu finds
Getting those people to download your app doesn’t come cheaply. The cost to secure a loyal user for a mobile app was $3.50 in...
Nintendo’s Miitomo for iOS tops Japan’s App Store in fewer than two days
For years, industry watchers speculated that Nintendo could rule mobile if it would only make games for smartphones and tablets. And based on how...
Google Play gets ‘Indie Corner’ to promote games from smaller studios
SAN FRANCISCO — Remember when your teacher made you sit in the corner after you did something bad and you would spend all that...
Supercell’s Clash Royale rushes to the top of the download charts in 12 hours
The developer responsible for Clash of Clans has another hit. Supercell’s Clash Royale, an online multiplayer tower-defense game for iOS and Android, has reached...
The game industry has an abundance of talent in 2016
I’ve been in the online media, mobile and games industry for 23 years, and in 2009 , I witnessed the first major change for...
Total War Battles: Kingdom takes epic war strategy franchise to free-to-play mobile
Total War Battles: Kingdom will soon be able to find you wherever you play games. The free-to-play epic battle-strategy game from Sega’s The Creative...