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Hyper-casual competitive gaming platform Ready secures $5 million in seed funding round led by Bitkraft News Aug 28th, 2019

Hyper-casual competitive gaming platform Ready secures $5 million in seed funding round led by Bitkraft

The money will be used to expand the company’s audience of engaged players

Pixion Games raises $2 million to fund mobile esports development News Jul 17th, 2019

Pixion Games raises $2 million to fund mobile esports development

“We are seeing a re-segmentation of casual players looking for a more core experience on mobile”

Will Smith headlines $46 million funding round for esports group Gen.G News Apr 18th, 2019

Will Smith headlines $46 million funding round for esports group Gen.G

Funding to go toward global expansion, youth development and new LA HQ

Gamemaker Studio 2 gets Amazon GameOn support enabling cross-platform competitions News Jan 25th, 2019

Gamemaker Studio 2 gets Amazon GameOn support enabling cross-platform competitions

YoYo Games and Amazon have released an asset to get GameMaker devs onto the GameOn service

2 Playdemic CEO Paul Gouge explains how Golf Clash is getting more competitive with clans and potentially esports too Interview Dec 5th, 2018

Playdemic CEO Paul Gouge explains how Golf Clash is getting more competitive with clans and potentially esports too

Two years on, plenty to come

1 Amazon’s $100,000 Mobile Masters esports tournament returns in June News May 1st, 2018

Amazon’s $100,000 Mobile Masters esports tournament returns in June

Games include Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Survival Arena, World of Tanks Blitz and Critical Ops

Mobile esports company Skillz doubles revenue to $200 million run-rate in less than nine months News Apr 6th, 2018

Mobile esports company Skillz doubles revenue to $200 million run-rate in less than nine months

Revenue run-rate up by 125 per cent thanks in-part to player involvement in over one million tournaments per day

Game Insight developing eSports-specific PRO Play mode for mobile shooter Guns of Boom News Dec 13th, 2017

Game Insight developing eSports-specific PRO Play mode for mobile shooter Guns of Boom

Game surpasses 20 million downloads in six months

Global games market now expected to grow to $116 billion in 2017 News Nov 29th, 2017

Global games market now expected to grow to $116 billion in 2017

Newzoo adjusts its expectations to account for popular trends in games

How will Peak Games spend its new $100 million warchest? Data & Research Nov 13th, 2017

How will Peak Games spend its new $100 million warchest?

Spending Zynga’s largesse

Seriously takes Best Fiends back to its puzzle roots with soft-launched Best Fiends Rivals News Oct 26th, 2017

Seriously takes Best Fiends back to its puzzle roots with soft-launched Best Fiends Rivals

A twist on a classic

Panzerdog on distilling the essence of console shooters into its 5v5 mobile game Tacticool Interview Sep 21st, 2017

Panzerdog on distilling the essence of console shooters into its 5v5 mobile game Tacticool

Fast-to-start, quick-to-end

Why Wargaming is doubling down on mobile eSports with World of Tanks Blitz Interview Sep 4th, 2017

Why Wargaming is doubling down on mobile eSports with World of Tanks Blitz

This years Blitz Twister Cup triples prize pool

$1 million Clash Royale Crown Championship attracts more than 27 million participants News Aug 30th, 2017

$1 million Clash Royale Crown Championship attracts more than 27 million participants

Supercell's big competition attracts a big audience

3 Millionaire's Run has players competing for a real-world $1 million cash prize Interview Jun 30th, 2017

Millionaire's Run has players competing for a real-world $1 million cash prize

Launches July 13th, now in beta

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