Categories Posted inin Business Scopely launches Star Trek: Fleet Command on the PC Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 20, 2021 3 min Scopely is taking its hit mobile game Star Trek: Fleet Command to the PC as part of a new cross-platform strategy. That’s a big... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Zynga teases its first sneak peek at animal breeding in FarmVille 3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 20, 2021 2 min Zynga debuted its first sneak peek at FarmVille 3 in a video on YouTube today. The video gives fans a glimpse of the newest version of... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Interpreting what Epic v. Apple means for games Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 17, 2021 20 min A federal judge last week issued a landmark ruling in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit against Apple over how Apple runs the App Store and... Continue Reading 20 min
Categories Posted inin Business Stardust raises $5M to provide secure U.S. dollar payments for NFTs in games Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 15, 2021 3 min Stardust has raised $5 million in funding for its platform to enable players to buy nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in games using U.S. dollars. The... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Playco launches the first third-party game on TikTok: Sway Stories Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 15, 2021 4 min Playco, a maker of instantly playable games for social platforms, announced Sway Stories for TikTok. The game is a first in terms of third-party... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Marketing mobile games is dead. ‘Probabilistically’ Posted byby Jason Wilson September 14, 2021 5 min By any measure of value, audience size, or growth, mobile is the dominant form of gaming media. Already immensely popular due to its accessibility... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Anzu taps Human Security’s anti-fraud protection for in-game ads Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 14, 2021 2 min In-game ad firm Anzu has teamed up with security firm Human Security to bring antifraud protection to Anzu’s platform. Human Security protects against sophisticated bot... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hypercasual game studio FreePlay amasses more than 400M downloads with 3 big hits Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 10, 2021 3 min The success of hypercasual games is being measured in hundreds of millions or billions of downloads. And that’s why we’re shining a light on... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Niko Partners: Asia’s cloud gaming addressable market will triple to 500M by 2025 Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 10, 2021 3 min Cloud gaming could reach an addressable market of about 150 million people in 2021, but actual numbers of cloud gaming users are smaller than... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Epic Games seeks to restore Fortnite on iOS in South Korea Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 10, 2021 2 min Epic Games has asked Apple to restore its Fortnite developer account and re-release its Fortnite game on iOS in South Korea following the adoption... Continue Reading 2 min