Gamesforum North America October 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
The highly anticipated Gamesforum North America 2023 is set to take center stage at the Bell Harbour International Conference Center in the vibrant city of Seattle, where industry leaders, and innovators in the realms of UA, Ad Monetisation, ASO, and Product will come together for one of the most important events on the games industry calendar. With a mission to foster ...
African gaming market continues to grow driven by mobile game revenues
Friday, July 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
New data released from Newzoo and Carry1st reveals that the African gaming market is set for continued growth, driven by increased mobile gaming revenues.
According to this latest report commissioned by African company Carry1st, the Sub-Saharan Africa gaming market is projected to reach over $1 billion by 2024 and will continue to grow in the following year by a...
Best alternative app store of the year award goes to AppGallery
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Richard Harris
AppGallery has won 'Best Alternative App Store of the Year' at the Mobile Games Awards (MGA) 2023 at an industry gala event held at BAFTA in London. A prestigious recognition that celebrates the very best in mobile, this award is an acknowledgment of AppGallery's commitment to users and developers. Not only is it an avenue where users can easily downloa...
Casual gaming could get disrupted by social design
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Turkish mobile games studio Magic Games has raised more than $5 million in seed funding led by Makers Fund, with participation by Firat Ileri, and Hummingbird Ventures. Founded by former Peak Games leaders Cagri Ozturk, Ruya Celikcan, and Mert Kasar, and joined by senior industry leaders Murat Ozcelik, Anil Sert, and Orhan Tuc, the team draws from deep experience creati...
Mobile tower defense game stats
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 by Richard Harris
One of the most popular genres in mobile gaming is tower defense games. The mobile tower defense games market is especially popular on smartphones and tablets, where gamers can easily take them with them wherever they go. In addition, tower defense games are great for keeping people occupied on long road trips or flights, as they require little to no interaction from th...
Gaming app availability going down
Thursday, June 2, 2022 by Richard Harris
Current data from BanklessTimes.com shows that the available game apps on Google Play went down by 32.96% in Q1 of 2022.
The store shed over 220,000 mobile gaming apps from the 670,447 it had in Q4 2021. In November 2021, Google began filtering apps and games, removing those not targeting an API level within two years of the most recent Android version.
Gaming app...
N3TWORK Studios Inc lands $46M in funding
Friday, May 20, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
N3TWORK Studios has closed $46 million in a Series A financing round led by Griffin Gaming Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Galaxy Interactive, KIP, Floodgate, LLL Capital, and N3TWORK, Inc. As part of the financing, Griffin Gaming Partners' Peter Levin will join the Board of Directors. The funding will help further the development and launch ...
Tom Brady defies age using this app
Sunday, February 7, 2021 by Richard Harris
Tom Brady is making a record tenth Super Bowl appearance by upsetting the #1 seeded Green Bay Packers. This past summer when Brady signed with Tampa Bay, many questioned if the future hall of fame quarterback would see as much success in a new city with a new offensive system, coaches, and teammates. If he hasn't already, Brady will have a chance to put those questi...
New hyper casual game development studio emerges from Gismart
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 by Austin Harris
Gismart has announced the launch of a new internal studio, which will focus on producing both hypercasual and casual games.
The new Gismart studio boasts an ambitious growth strategy, with a roadmap that will see ten quality casual and hypercasual games launched within its first year of operation, as the company looks to recruit over 40 talented games indus...
Gaming industry trends released ahead of GDC 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 by Richard Harris
The 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) has released the results of the seventh annual State of the Industry Survey, revealing trends in the game industry ahead of GDC 2019 in March.
The survey compiles responses from nearly 4,000 game developers and reflects that nearly half of game developers support game industry unionization, as well as uncertainty around Steam...
Women worth more than men in mobile F2P games
Thursday, December 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
New data released today from deep-data analytics and player marketing platform, deltaDNA, reveals that while the gender split within mobile Free to Play (F2P) games has now reached a parity (from 60% female in 2015), women on-average are 36% more valuable than their male counterparts.Based on data from more than nine million players, the study found that when looking at...
Gamifying an app can help it stand out along with these ideas
Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Hunter Jensen, Founder and CEO of Barefoot SolutionsWith more than 4.2 million smartphone apps in the Apple App and Google Play stores, there’s a lot of software that will never pick up the steam needed to become the next Angry Birds, YouTube, or Snapchat. There is good news, though. If you’re considering building an app from scratch or...
IDTechEx report reveals much larger drone opportunity
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Just when many investors are running for the exit, having burnt their fingers with toy drones and the like, IDTechEx reveals a much bigger picture with considerable potential for the level-headed. The new IDTechEx report, "Electric UAV Drones: Autonomous, Energy Independent 2017-2027" invites developers, and software engineers to consider the trends to larger drones inc...
Stopping mobile ad fraud
Sunday, February 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
ClicksMob just released a data report that gives key insights into the $8.2 billion ad fraud problem by analyzing data collected throughout 2016. In the report they address not only the surface problem of the billions of wasted cash but they go on to talk about how all of this fraud is actually tainting a lot of mobile marketing analytics with "dirty data." As...
Vision VR-AR Summit 2017 by Unity details released
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Vision VR/AR Summit 2017, a event for augmented and virtual reality hosted by Unity Technologies will be held May 1-2, 2017 at the Loews Hollywood, Los Angeles. As the third Vision Summit, it will once again bring together creators, artists, programmers and leaders in the VR and AR space for a two-day conference focused on laying the groundwork for and understanding of ...
Mobile games market generated $40.6 billion in worldwide revenue in 2016
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
First ever joint look at mobile, mobile VR and VR markets by SuperData Research and Unity Technologies shows the category equaling that of global box office sales during that time The mobile games market generated $40.6 billion in worldwide revenue in 2016 - a sum equivalent to all global box office sales during the same time period - and grew 18% over the year bef...
Mobile Game Market Predicted to Overtake PC with $37 Billion in Revenue for 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Newzoo has released the latest quarterly update of its “Global Games Market Report”, which predicts that the total game market revenue in 2016 will be just shy of $100 billion ($99.6 billion) up 8.5% when compared to 2015. For the first time mobile game revenue will overtake PC gaming with $36.9 billion, up 21.3% globally. Regionally, APAC continues to lead all reg...
Gap Between iOS and Android Continues to Grow
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
According to App Annie’s Q3 2015 Market Index the gap in performance between the iOS App Store and Google Play continues to grow. Its not a one sided affair however, as Google Play’s overall market share continues to dwarf iOS, but from the app revenue side, Apple is a clear winner over Google.In Q3 2015 the report shows that worldwide downloads on Google Play were abou...
Newzoo and Priori Data Show You Top Games By Revenue and Downloads
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
Newzoo is offering a new monthly listing of top iOS games by revenues covering the US, China and Europe. Newzoo’s new top iOS games by revenue ranking is based on its proprietary analysis and modeling of app store data in combination with its predictive global revenue model which provides projections for smartphone and tablet gaming on a global, regional and countr...
App Stores And App Distribution Drive The $700B Mobile Internet
Saturday, December 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile internet revenue are expected to more than triple to $700 billion by 2017 and app stores and app distribution are one of the main drivers to this area. Digi-Capital released results that over $19 billion has been invested in the last 12 months. There are currently 32 billion-dollar mobile Internet companies to date.Consumer apps were indicated to d...
MediaBrix Now Natively Supports Intel's Architecture Including Free To Play Games
Friday, April 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
Collaboration with Intel Provides a Scalable Monetization Option for Android App and Game Developers—Such as Vector Unit—and Features Immersive Ads from Top BrandsMediaBrix is extending its proprietary emotional targeting and Breakthrough Moments™ (BTMs) technology as an in-game ad platform that natively supports Intel® Architecture. Through this extension, Android...
Twitch Partners with Gameloft for First Ever Mobile Streaming Experience
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Critically-acclaimed Asphalt 8: Airborne to feature fully interactive Twitch broadcasting functionality Twitch has announced that Gameloft’s Asphalt 8: Airborne for iOS will be the first ever mobile game to feature Twitch’s live streaming functionality. Gameloft will demonstrate the game’s broadcasting capabilities during the week of the Game Developers Conference ...
Mixamo Launches Major Upgrades to Online, End to End 3D Character Creation Solution
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Upgrades to help artists create, rig and animate any 3D character in minutes Mixamo, Inc has unveiled a series of major upgrades to its online, end-to-end solution for 3D character creation. The upgrades include the launch of Fuse 1.0, Mixamo’s character creator, with its all new import pipeline; new monthly subscription pricing of $150 for Mixamo’s ALL ACCESS prog...
Nordic Gaming Forces To Exhibit At The GDC This Year
Thursday, March 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Each spring, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) presents a unique opportunity for U.S. industry executives and journalists to check out the latest technology innovations and entertainment software offerings from the Nordic countries. Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland have been major players on the gaming scene since the industry’s beginning; their collect...
AppLift’s Customer Lifetime Value Optimization Technology Yields 150 percent Return On Investment For Aeria Games
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift announces that its proprietary Customer Lifetime Value Optimization Technology (LTV) yielded 150% return on investment after recouping the initial investment for Aeria Games’ user acquisition campaigns in over 15 countries. The acquired users achieved break-even in an average time of one and a half months. For the best p...
Monetizing Your App with Game Offers
Monday, December 2, 2013 by Thomas Sommer
Passion is
without doubt the main driver of a developer’s motivation to build great and
beautiful apps. This passion will keep you awake at night and fuel the
creativity and hard work necessary to the completion and perfection of a
beautiful product.However,
passion is not enough.
And
although you may not be in the game for this reason in the first ...
HitFox Group's AppLift Acquires One Million Users Per Month For Top Game Publisher
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
San Francisco (GDC) & Berlin– March 27, 2013 – HitFox Group continues its fast growth in the $25 billion mobile and online game distribution market. Only half a year after its start, AppLift, one of HitFox’s portfolio companies, delivers more than 1M quality users in one month for its largest partner and rapidly executes on mainstream and niche market campaigns all ...
If Apple ran the video game business, this is what is would look like.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple's stronghold over the tablet industry that means the iPad (for the foreseeable future) is going to be the future of gaming. Not just handheld gaming, mind – all gaming.If this comes to pass – and it's requiring something of a mental leap from ourselves – ...
