Categories Posted inin Business Apple vs. Google: A world view on the mobile gaming war Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 25, 2014 10 min Android and iOS are battling each other in every major market in the world, and gaming is the biggest part of that fight. Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Candy Crush Saga is now in the fastest-growing mobile market of them all: China Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 17, 2014 2 min Tencent will release Candy Crush Saga on its QQ and Weixin apps soon. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business How a seasoned venture capitalist at IDG Ventures views game investments (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 16, 2014 16 min IDG Ventures' Phil Sanderson has quietly become one of the most successful venture capitalists backing games. Continue Reading 16 min
Categories Posted inin Business Research firm: China’s Tencent is now a bigger gaming company than Microsoft and Activision Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 10, 2014 2 min The League of Legends owner is making more money than any other gaming company. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business China’s CrossFire shooter is bigger than League of Legends and World of Tanks Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 15, 2014 2 min Top 10 free-to-play titles generated $3.6B in worldwide sales in 2013, according to SuperData. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Tencent faces a new threat to its mobile-gaming biz: Alibaba, the Amazon of China Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 8, 2014 2 min Gaming is the latest part of Alibaba's growing mobile strategy. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hi-Rez teams up with China's Tencent to publish battle game Smite Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 21, 2013 2 min Tencent is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world thanks to titles like Smite and League of Legends. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Rumble’s Greg Richardson on building games that last forever (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 4, 2013 11 min With cash from Nexon, the CEO of Rumble Entertainment says he has time to get game quality just right. Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business How Tencent is slowly transforming into one of gaming's biggest investors Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 26, 2013 2 min The Chinese company owns portions of Riot Games, Epic Games, and now Activision. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Activision Blizzard and Tencent join the game industry’s lobbying group Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 8, 2013 1 min Activision rejoins the ESA, while China's Tencent joins for the first time. Continue Reading 1 min