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Fait Accompli
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Bet Him It Won't
XBLA creator Greg Canessa on why real-money gaming portal Sparcade will revolutionize casual F2P game monetization
What GSN Games did next
Bet A Buck
Launching with Tetris and Pac-Man, GSN Games announces its competitive-yet-casual real-money platform Sparcade
A new way to win
Fan Play
Japanese marketing network Dentsu invests in US superfan platform Victorious
The new way to engage
Wrist Quick
Wooga's debut Apple Watch game is retaining players twice as well as mobile games
A new way to play
Late Surge
How Tilting Point increased Photo Finish Horse Racing's DAUs 1,920%
Post-launch recovery
Consolidation
Mobile game advertising market hits maturity as Fiksu sells out for historic data
Facebook ate their lunch
French Fancy
Has Vivendi just bought an over-staffed, under-skilled company, which is failing to compete in a rapidly maturing market?
Buyer beware
Gallic Quest
Vivendi promises Gameloft staff a "great collective adventure" as its takeover bid gains majority
Bid has gained 56% of voting rights
Ad Battle
It ain't broke but mNectar reckons its new interactive ads are going to 'kill video ads'
Claims higher conversion and retention rates
Ua Xp
UA MegaTrends guy Eric Seufert on setting up Heracles, a boutique agency providing CMO smarts
Partnering for success
A Winning Hand (shake)
6 years and 2.8 trillion poker hands later, success is all about community says Pokerist dev
Crunching years of data
Neat Strategy
Kabam acqui-hires Dawn of Steel dev Superweapon to boost its LA studio
Consolidation move
London Calling
Pokerist dev KamaGames expands with new London office, hires Daniel Kashti and Sam Forrest
Appoints new CMO and PR
Frontman
Bastian Schweinsteiger does a Megan Fox as the German face of Clash of Kings
Elex splashes some celebrity cash
Show Me The Money
Slither.io is ripping up the download charts, but has it really only made $72,000?
So reckons Apptopia
That Vision Thing
Will Google's Daydream be a wake up call from VR's current nightmare?
What's the why?
Tooled Up
Unity and Unreal Engine quick to pledge support for Google Daydream VR platform
A new vision
Launch Window
Flaregames' Olympus Rising hits 1 million downloads
Strategy revisited
Looking Ahead
Google announces its high performance mobile VR-for-all ecosystem Daydream
For future Android hardware
Stark Contrast
Which Marvel games are beating up the US top grossing charts?
Super heroes and villains
Chomping Up Charts
Looks like Ubisoft has a mobile hit on its hands as Hungry Shark World does 10 million downloads in 6 days
And top 50 grossing too
Burst The Bubble
Chinese government cracks down on game and VR investments
Market forces quashed
Home Growth
Sega Sammy sees 6% growth in Japanese mobile game revenues in FY16 to $375 million
But overall company sales down 5%
On The Up
Hoshi No Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius boost Square Enix's FY16 sales 28% to $2 billion
Old brands sparkle
Echo Idiots
Let me tell you a secret. The moon isn't made of cheese. Nintendo is making F2P games
What's Nintendo up to?
Rpg Cash Machine
Summoners War hits $500 million in lifetime revenues, boosting Com2uS to another sales record
From only 60 million downloads
Rising High
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes helps boost EA Mobile FY16 sales up 9% to $548 million
Big brand, big hit
Home Runs
Baseball titles boost Konami's FY16 game sales up 27% to $1.2 billion
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyu bats well
Focus On Rewards
How Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes enables players to optimise their time and rewards
John Salera on three ways to play
Smells Good
How a running Sephora-branded campaign boosted Daily Celebrity Crossword's revenue by 79%
Matching demographics
Team Up
What's been the impact of adding guilds to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' grossing performance?
How to enthuse already engaged players
It's A Wrap
Alternative Android distribution platform Flexion raises $3 million to expand into India, Iran and more
Going global
Creative Accounting
Estimates suggest King may have stabilised its revenue decline
Very simple math
Discontinuous
Stripping out King stub revenues, Activision Blizzard sees FY16 Q1 mobile sales down 58% to $36 million
Up and down
Sibling Rivalry
Two months after launch, Kendall & Kylie is being out grossed by two-year-old Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Elders and betters
Kim Is Still King
Kendall and Kylie fails to sustain as Glu sees FY16 Q1 revenues down 11% to $55 million
B-list
Foxy Business
Plarium reboots Stormfall with Megan Fox as your in-game inspiration
Doing things the MZ way
Player Survey
Nielsen launches its Mobile Game Tracking service
From the players mouth
Growing Pains
As the Chinese mobile game market matures fast, "abnormal" ad clicks become a problem
So reckon Newzoo and TalkingData
Downward Spiral?
Increasing competition sees Day 7 retention for mobile F2P mobile games drop 50%
GameAnalytics has been number crunching
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Tracking
GameAnalytics now freely available for Unreal Engine
Getting the inside scoop
Talk Talk
Montreal International Game Summit 2016 call for speakers ends 30 May
Talking in Montreal
Better Together
How adding guilds plays into longterm retention for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
John Salera on thinking ahead
Making More Of Less
Despite 'Peak iPhone', this is the opportunity for mobile game developers
Know your audience
Ua To Pr
Why paid UA startup PocketWhale pivoted to employ the power of the press
From performance to brand UA
It's Not Yet Mario
Nintendo mobile games #2 and #3 will be Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem
Two of five to go
Awarded
Clash Royale, Galaxy of Heroes and Alphabear in the running for first Google Play Awards
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