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A new study on free-to-play mobile game revenue shows that big spenders, known as whales,” still account for the majority of in-app sales. In fact, they’re taking up more of the pie than ever before. Gamasutra points to new research by mobile app analytics platform Swrve which shows the top …
Read More »Why apps fail – and what you can do to prevent it
Perfecto Mobile's technical evangelist Eran Kinsbruner offers insight into the secrets of mobile success
Read More »Nexon acquiring Boolean Games
Online games giant moves to purchase Korean mobile studio
Read More »2K announces WWE mobile game designed to replicate console experience
A ‘proper’ simulation WWE wrestling game is on the way from 2K. Called WWE 2K, the iOS and Android will as you’d expect feature a recognisable roster of both current brawlers and faces from the past, with Hulk Hogan and Sting named. The publisher reckons the title looks to offer …
Read More »Matthew Wiggins: Planning for the reactive key to F2P success
Poor reactive decision making can be avoided, asserts JiggeryPokery’s CEO
Read More »Supercell revenues nears $2bn for 2014
Clash of Clans firm saw its earnings triple last year
Read More »Newell: The iPhone should be more like the PC
The Valve boss on the importance of freedom for developers
Read More »Game of Thrones set to be Warner Bros’ ‘most expensive mobile game ever’
Publisher betting big on popular fantasy IP
Read More »It costs more to play as a female in mobile games
Fewer games than you think offer free playable female characters by default A 12 year-old has discovered that it costs gamers more money to play as female characters than male characters in the most popular iPhone games. The Washington Post has run an article by 12 year-old Madeline Messer in …
Read More »Analytics firm App Annie plans Singapore office
Mobile analytics firm App Annie has opened a new office in Singapore. The company said the move was due to the flourishing and fast-growing mobile market in India and Southeast Asia. It claimed the INSEA and ANZ regions were almost as large as China, Japan and South Korea combined in …
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