Tripledot raises $78 million for London-based mobile game studio
Tripledot Studios, a fast-growing London-based mobile game studio, raised $78 million in funding. That’s an extraordinary amount for a mobile game studio, and it’s...
Zynga’s Small Giant Games launches mobile match-3 action-RPG Puzzle Combat
Zynga’s Small Giant Games studio has launched Puzzle Combat, a new mobile match-3 action-RPG from the maker of Empires & Puzzles. Small Giant Games’...
Genies brings customizable 3D avatars to Giphy
Genies has partnered with Giphy to bring its custom 3D avatars to the animated GIF search engine. That’s a big deal for Genies‘ effort...
Netmarble and Kung Fu Factory launch NBA Ball Stars mobile puzzle game
Netmarble has launched NBA Ball Stars, a free-to-play puzzle-based mobile basketball game developed by the company’s newly purchased Kung Fu Factory studio. The game...
Roblox is so lucrative that it has attracted professional studios like Gamefam
Roblox is one of gaming’s many quiet giants. Or, if you have teenagers or children, perhaps it is not so quiet. The long-running user-generated...
Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $22.2B in 2021 Q1, up 25% from 2020
Consumers spent $22.2 billion on mobile games in 2021’s first quarter, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. This is up a massive 25% from...
Aglet unveils NFT collections for sneakerheads
Aglet has taken a step further toward its “sneakerverse” — a metaverse for sneaker superfans. Aglet said today it is using blockchain-based nonfungible tokens...
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest debuts in June with Day of the Devs
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, an industry-wide online celebration of video games, will return in June, and it will include Day of the Devs,...
Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’
Manticore Games has raised $100 million for user-generated games in the “multiverse,” which is the company’s preferred term for what a lot o of...
GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) Kingdom Hearts title names
I love Kingdom Hearts. It combines two of my favorite things: Square Enix RPGs and Disney. My colleague, Jeff Grubb, thinks the series is...