China’s $7.1B mobile gaming market is tougher than ever for its small developers
No country spends more on mobile games than China, but even Chinese companies are struggling to get a piece of that money. China has...
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.
Esports makes up 21.3% of Twitch’s viewers
Esports is becoming a big deal in driving online video traffic. Market researcher Newzoo said today that esports drives 21.3 percent of viewership on...
Bethesda’s Fallout 4 season-pass price hike has it on top of Steam’s best-seller list
Jacking up the price of downloadable content could turn into a new form of marketing. Fallout 4’s season pass for all of its upcoming...
Esports market to grow 43% to $463M in 2016 and reach $1.1B by 2019
The global esports market is expected to grow 43 percent from $325 million in 2015 to $463 million in 2016, according to a new...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for the game industry in 2016
The video game business is unpredictable. But if you can predict the trends with a reasonable degree of accuracy, your company can gain a...
The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed drastically in five years
Five years ago, not many people outside of China had heard of Tencent. But today, the company heads the list of the top 25 public companies...
Activision’s $5.9B King deal will rewrite the gaming landscape
Activision Blizzard’s $5.9 billion purchase of Candy Crush Saga maker King Digital Entertainment will alter the gaming industry in the years ahead. The giant...
Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and EA show that the multiplatform strategy — console, PC, and mobile — is golden in 2015
The industry is making plenty of money these days. Games market research group Newzoo today released its list of the top 25 public game...
Here are the countries that make up most of the $91.5B global gaming business (Spoiler: China rules)
Planet Earth spends a ton of money on video games, but it turns out that only a fraction of the countries make up the...