Specific Sharing Mobile gamers prefer to share achievements and fails over chat apps than social media
June 28, 2018 Oh Snap Report: Snapchat games platform to land later this year One games publisher is said to be lined up already
June 6, 2018 Chat App Gaming Games in the age of messaging apps Gamee's head of games Martin Zakovec takes a look at the exciting new sector that can offer new gaming experiences
March 15, 2018 An Instant Success? Facebook Instant Games opens up to all developers Platform rolls out with ads-based monetisation, ads optimisation and measurement tools and cross-promotion features
March 7, 2018 Getting The Message How to approach game design for Facebook Instant Games Chatterbox Games CPO Adam Telfer breaks down how to make games for chat apps like Messenger
February 13, 2018 Key Figures The key user numbers behind the rapidly growing chat app games market Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten offers the big stats showing off the opportunity of messaging apps
February 6, 2018 Chat App Revolution "Playing games on messaging platforms will definitely become as ubiquitous as playing downloadable apps" Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten on developing HTML5 titles for chat apps
December 11, 2017 Sowing Discord Gamer messaging app Discord clears 87 million registered users Now has 14 million DAUs sending 9.5 billion messages a month
November 24, 2017 Infinity Stickers Chair Entertainment partners with messaging app Pundit on a pack of Infinity Blade stickers Now you can stab the God King with the Infinity Blade in cartoon form
November 7, 2017 Funding News UK messenger games start-up Mojiworks raises $2.75 million Guildford studio set to grow from 10 to 25 employees
May 18, 2017 Growing Discord Gamer messaging app Discord hits 45 million users in two years A lot of "notice me, Senpai"s sent every day
April 27, 2017 Next Big Thing? Spil CEO on Facebook Instant Games: “We think it has the potential to be a massively significant gaming platform” Tung Nguyen-Khac talks up the platform's potential
April 13, 2017 Shoot The Messenger Facebook Messenger app hits 1.2 billion monthly active users A big audience for its Instant Games platform
March 23, 2017 Apps Become Platforms Are we heading for a post-app store future? Blackstorm's Michael Carter and Ernestine Fu on the rise of the super apps
January 16, 2017 Message And Play GameAnalytics on how to design good games for messenger apps Tom Kinniburgh talks session length and choices
December 23, 2016 Instant Success How Facebook Instant Games powered Endless Lake to 12 million users in three weeks Spil Games CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac reveals all
December 15, 2016 Safe Bet Social casino developer KamaGames expands Tango messenger partnership with new release 3D Blackjack makes debut on chat app
December 13, 2016 Tapping Up Line Tapjoy partners with LINE to bring rewarded Interplay ads to 220 million chat app users Earn stickers by playing ads
December 5, 2016 Instant Success Facebook has 26 million MAUs in Japan as it readies itself to make a splash with Instant Games A fifth of the population have probably played Pac-Man again
December 2, 2016 Html5 Has Arrived Billions of users and millions in investment: Is HTML5 finally coming of age? The coding platform could change the way we play games on mobile
November 29, 2016 Instant Developers King, Zynga, Konami and more launch 17 games on Facebook's Instant Games platform 14 developers give their support
November 29, 2016 Games In An Instant Facebook launches HTML5 platform Instant Games for News Feed and Messenger Access to one billion possible players
September 28, 2016 Hit Me KamaGames brings its social casino games to messaging app Viber Makes it easier to talk to friends while playing Blackjack
September 21, 2016 'allo 'allo Google releases iOS 10 Messages rival app Allo Stickers, font sizes, and Google Assistant
September 8, 2016 Heart Eyes Emoji Apple outlines huge upgrades to Messages and more when iOS 10 launches on 13 September We hope you like emoji
August 31, 2016 Getting The Message Why in-app messaging is your best brand ambassador How mobile developers can learn from brick and mortar retail
May 19, 2016 I'm A Dinosaur :3 Bigger than Miitomo, Futurefly releases 3D chat app Rawr "A millienial equivalent to pen pals"
January 26, 2016 Social Scene Hammer & Chisel raises $20 million for gamer messaging app Discord Everybody talking
November 23, 2015 Make It Social Video: Palringo on the potential of gaming with mobile messaging Elina Arponen explains all
November 17, 2015 Cue Smilies Futurefly gains more investors, taking its seed round to $3 million Hope to shake up messaging apps
February 3, 2015 Joining The Dots LINE looks to partner with mobile game devs in Taiwan and Thailand Building presence in its #1 markets
December 17, 2014 Community Palringo announces 35 million users, but expects 50 million by end of 2015 Community and gaming platform growing by 1 million a month
December 8, 2014 Payments Updated: LINE Pay to launch soon for digital and real-world purchases Following Apple and Google into wallet business
April 30, 2014 Deal LINE partners with Wandoujia to grow in China Taking on WeChat in its own back yard
April 24, 2014 Tencent tells 'Mark Zuckerberg' to find real friends on WeChat Spoof TV ad from South Africa
April 3, 2014 LINE passes 400 million users worldwide, adding 826,000 new users per day Not bad for three years on the market