Artie raises $10 million as it pivots to make instant games
Artie has raised $10 million to make instant mobile games that can be played directly inside social media, video, and messaging platforms in a...
Supercell’s Brawl Stars is its fifth mobile game to cross $1 billion
Supercell is an extraordinary company that prints money with its mobile games. But in 2020, it had another off year from a financial analyst’s...
Unity CFO Kim Jabal interview: Understanding the tradeoff between market share and profits
Unity Technologies recently reported better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter ended December 31. It reported revenues rose 39% to $220.3 million, but...
The RetroBeat: Dragon Quest III is as good as 8-bit era RPGs get
Usually when I beat a Japanese role-playing game, I take a break and play something a bit shorter and faster-paced. When I finished Dragon...
The DeanBeat: Has the game industry hit its peak with crazy valuations or just begun its growth?
Money is pouring into the game industry, and I’m not just talking about GameStop’s crazy stock rise. I wrote about this last week, and...
Hearthstone had over 23.5 million active players in 2020
Blizzard Entertainment has released a new infographic showing Hearthstone‘s big numbers for 2020. That digital card game attracted over 23.5 million players during year....
Pokémon Go maker Niantic unveils Black Developers Initiative
Pokémon Go maker Niantic announced today that it has created a Black Developers Initiative (BDI). It will provide access, opportunity, resources, and mentorship to...
UN launches Reset Earth mobile game to raise awareness for protecting ozone layer
The United Nations is launching a mobile game called Reset Earth to raise awareness about the need to protect the world’s ozone layer. Building...
Singular: TikTok and Apple Search Ads are hooking mobile users
Google and Facebook still dominate the mobile ad networks, but TikTok and Apple Search Ads are rising stars, according to measurement Singular‘s 2021 ROI...
SayGames announces 2 billion downloads, $10 million hypercasual dev program
Hypercasual mobile game publisher SayGames said its 40 games have been downloaded more than two billion times, including a billion downloads during 2020 alone....