Poc In Mobile
Roblox's VP of engineering Julian Walshaw-Vaughan on diversity in games
For real change, we need more inclusion
New View
Rovio teams up with Burger King to offer Angry Birds plushies and AR game
Uses Zappar's tech
Data-driven
Poornima Seetharaman and Vimal Sathish on mastering data for engaging game design
“Games, as a business of entertaining people, is booming... but so is the competition.”
Big Data Smarts
What is a data warehouse and why do hit studios use them?
GameAnalytics' Sara Rubio explains
Sweet Numbers
Animoca Brands raises $88,888,888 to fuel blockchain game growth
Values the company at $1 billion
Risky Business
Apple App Store rejected 1 million apps in 2020
The walled garden remains high
Tricky Times
EA's 2021 mobile revenue was $781 million
Total revenue rises to $5.6 billion
Streaming
Blacknut releases cloud gaming service for iOS
Progressive web app is live
Over 450 Staff
Jagex expands product, analytics and data science teams
"We are thrilled to be in a position where we can continue to expand..."
Driving Down Cpi
How Bridge Race reached #1 with Supersonic
Garawell Games' CEO Nebih Başaran explains
Not For Sale
Why Life is Strange dev Dontod rejected several M&A proposals
But did sell a minority stake to Tencent
Private Beta
Niantic renames Real World Platform to Lightship, offering more access
Access to suite of tools that power Niantic games
Dark Horse
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby storms mobile revenue chart for April 2021, Honor of Kings still top
CyberAgent developed title launched in February 2021
Making Of
How Gameloft looked to capture the spirit of the original Oregon Trail
"We had always envisioned this as an Apple Arcade exclusive"
Unforeseen Consequences
Why Gree may win the law but lose its Supercell patent war
Be careful what you wish for
Incoming
Case filed against Apple in the UK to compensate 20 million iOS users
Claims of monopolistic behaviour
More Data
Apptopia raises $20 million in Series C funding
Expanding tech for more nuaunced insights
Flying High
Top Roblox game Adopt Me devs launch as Uplift Games
Looking to expand headcount and launch new products
Blox Party
Roblox revenue up 140% to $387 million in Q1 2021
Looking to hire more engineering talent
Testing, Testing
Why top publishers rely on WeTest for QA services
Making sure everything works correctly
Full Vision
Supersonic launches new hypercasual analytics plaform LiveGames
Part of its new business-focused initiative
Teaching
YoYo Games launches game-making tutorial Little Town for students
A new way to learn Game Maker Studio 2
Beyond Games
Roblox: In the metaverse, we can improve on reality
Roblox's Morgan Tucker on that Lil Nas X concert
Small Gains
Why Zynga’s Chartboost acquisition is more strategic than reactive
COO Matt Bromberg explains
Epic V Apple
Master the Meta: Fortnite’s cross-platform strategy
Fortnite’s multi-platform presence revealed as the full legal drama unfolds
"financial Stability"
Nintendo willing to utilise $9 billion war chest for acquisitions - when needed
Next Level Games purchase was first in a decade
Staffing Up
Outright Games announces mobile division
Six new senior roles for fast-growing company
New Ways
Building a (new) company culture
Charting our path to the City of Amber
Boom Times
BoomBit Group tripled revenues to $35.7 million in 2020
Net proft rose to $3.7 million
Most Read
Hot Five: Finnish boom as Metacore gets $180 million and Small Giant $240 million
Hottest articles of the week
Its Today
Beyond Games starts in less than an hour - are you ready?
There’s still time to join us!
The Big 5
Voodoo crossed five billion downloads
Hypercasual keeps on growing
Big Brain Time
BigBrain raises $4.5 million in funding to launch real-money trivia game
Going live later in 2021
Upside
Fyber's 2020 revenue soars 76% to $255 million
And continues to grow during Q1 2021
Watching
Twitch mobile app hits 22 million installs in Q1 2021, up 62%
81 million total installs made in 2021
Division Multiplied
Tom Clancy's The Division coming to mobile
New free-to-play title and movie still in works
Ugc’s Importance
Mod.io’s Scott Reismanis on the importance of UGC communities
“UGC will become a feature studios optimise and plan for early, as monetisation further shifts towards content and events”
Got Your Number
China announces a new playtime logging system for all gamers
CCP tightening the screws
A Metaverse For All
Genvid’s Dan Pearson on ensuring the world has access to the metaverse
“We connect people and give them valuable cultural experiences”
Bigger Cash
Zynga pays Small Giant $240 million in second performance earn-out
And one more payment is due
History And Development
Prof. Kawal Rhode on the link between home computing and video games
The development of video games and video game technology has had a huge impact on the development of healthcare technology.
All About Context
Data: Why mobile and console players like loot boxes but PC gamers don't
PickFu co-founder John Li asks the questions
New Blood
Ace Games raises $7 million in seed funding
Ex-Peak co-founder starts again
Testing Times
Post-Covid, Newzoo expects games market to decline (slightly) in 2021
But mobile will rise to $90 billion
Mobile First
Mobile to drive Brazil games market to $2.3 billion in 2021
Largest market by games revenue in Latin America
Done Deal
Why Ninja Kiwi co-founders Chris and Stephen Harris felt now was the right time to sell
"They understood our vision for the company"
Expand The Pool
Using player motivations for user acquisition
Facebook explains its Big Catch playbook
New Worlds
Epic Games' Paul Doyle on populating the Metaverse with digital humans
Why ML-driven approaches to artist augmentation are taking off
Exit Strategy
Stadia sees talent exodus as multiple executives join Jade Raymond's Haven
Jumping ship
Make It So
So Real Digital Twins' Erinrose Sullivan on the future of interactive media
"When I work in other sectors, I'm surprised by how behind they are technically..."