Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau has been doing some victory laps in recent quarterly earnings calls. The maker of social mobile games like FarmVille, Merge...
Snapchat’s latest mobile game is Subway Surfers Airtime from Sybo Games
Sybo Games has launched its endless runner Subway Surfers Airtime on Snapchat’s mobile game platform. The Copenhagen-based Sybo designed Subway Surfers for Snapchat’s real-time...
Why Snapchat is making mobile games like Bitmoji Tennis
Over the past eight years, Snap has made one of the world’s most popular social chat clients with Snapchat. And lately, the company has...
Zynga launches Tiny Royale on Snapchat
Social gaming firm Zynga has launched its fast-paced battle royale game, Tiny Royale, as an exclusive on Snapchat. It’ll be part of Snap Games,...
Apple is prioritizing AR — and that’s a good thing
Until recently, it was easy to dismiss augmented reality as at best a luxury add-on to cellphones, at worst a gimmicky marketing stunt. From...
How to foster your game’s community in 2019
The relationship between brands and their audiences has drastically changed in recent years, and 2019 will force gaming companies to adapt and grow in...
Spotify, Snapchat, and more are down following Google Cloud incident (update: fixed)
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Pacific time. Google has fixed the problem. Multiple online services are experiencing outages and slow responses today due to a...
Who owns augmented realities?
Last year, a seldom-discussed event started to raise important questions about augmented reality’s geographic boundaries. A group of artists digitally “vandalized” Snapchat’s AR overlays...
Snapchat’s new Snappables let you play augmented reality games with friends
In another step to market itself as a leader in augmented reality chat, Snap today is rolling out Snappables, AR filters for games. Snappables will...
3 ways augmented reality will transform UX design
With Apple’s recent launch of AR Kit and Google’s announcement of AR Core, the nascent augmented reality space is set for a major battle. AR...