Game Developer

JULY 23, 2024

News of the mobile title's demise comes with reports of layoffs swirling.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Two-year alums Olivier Courtemanche and Justin Kubiak will respectively lead the direction and business partnerships for PlayStation's mobile ventures.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Without a proper monetization plan and licensing fees to pay, Tencent pulled the plug on Nier's second mobile spinoff.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

With all that immense popularity, its perhaps unsurprising to note that anime has crept into the mobile market, too. Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe.

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Game Developer

JUNE 26, 2024

The streamer still has dreams of being a big player in games, but keeping its feet on mobile ground is where it wants to be until it can make good on its larger plans.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Despite wanting to be a big player in the mobile games industry, acquiring Zynga to achieve those dreams may have come too late for Take-Two.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Months after it swore off releasing new mobile games, Playtika has bought up Innplay to create "exceptional gaming experiences for our players."

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Leading experts in mobile advertising share their advice on the transformative applications of generative AI for ad creatives.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

NCSoft and SIE plan to partner on a number of "global businesses.across and beyond genres and regions," including the mobile games space.

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Game Developer

MARCH 15, 2023

The FBI suggests mobile players be wary of anyone who wants them to spend real-world money on cryptocurrency to play a game on their phones.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 19, 2024

Dive into the benefits of mobile in-game ads for mobile marketers and the 6 ad formats to take your campaigns to the next level.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 27, 2023

Mobile games and gacha mechanics have been closely aligned for a significant time. Regardless of the genre, most gamers playing titles on a mobile device will inevitably encounter gacha mechanics in some shape or form, whether that’s a box gacha, sugoroku gacha, timed gacha, or one of many others.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

How do you create a mobile game marketing strategy to make your game stand out from the crowd? In this article, we explore several ways of achieving this.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Bethesda tries its hand again at bringing its Elder Scrolls franchise to mobile audiences.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Grand Theft Auto maker recently made a bunch of layoffs and sold Private Division, but remains keen to splash the cash on mobile M&A.

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Game Developer

JUNE 28, 2023

Microsoft has wanted to get its foot in the door for Japan and mobile games, and owning Square would've allowed for both.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 29, 2024

The post The Casual Gaming Insights Mobile Marketers Need to Know in 2024 appeared first on GameRefinery.

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Game Developer

JUNE 20, 2023

Nicola Sebastiani has departed PlayStation Studios after joining in 2021 as vice president and head of mobile.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 18, 2023

With Rovio now among its subsidiaries, Sega has a bigger presence in the mobile game market and another franchise to play around with.

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Game Developer

APRIL 11, 2024

Koei Tecmo claims, despite numerous cease and desists, that Youzoo kept using material from its games to advertise its own mobile titles.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Learn how game developers can expand their mobile game business beyond the app stores, improve UA and discoverability, and discover more freedom to deliver unique experiences directly to new and existing players.

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2023

Second Life , one of the earliest attempts at the metaverse, is branching out into the mobile game market.

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Game Developer

JUNE 15, 2023

The unnamed project will be a standalone mobile game focused on car customization.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

We’ve been writing about the growth of ‘hybrid’ mobile games – when a title merges two or more genres to create an entirely new gameplay experience – since 2020, but hybrid games have evolved a lot since then, especially when it comes to the game genres that are being merged together. Why are hybrid mobile games becoming more popular?

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Warzone Mobile's cross-progression means players always have Call of Duty, and can spend money on it wherever they like.

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Game Developer

JUNE 13, 2023

Unity's new report on 2022's mobile game revenue shows in-game spending had a hard drop in revenue during the holiday season.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Google Play Games is a defense strategy against competing storefronts that host PC ports of mobile games, ensuring Google continues to capture revenue from users who abandon mobile to play on PC.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Be advised against that phone version of Lethal Company going around on mobile app stores.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 4, 2024

Dive into some of the most popular and successful ways app developers implement season-based systems in mobile games.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you’re looking for ways to improve player retention for your mobile game, hosting a collaboration event with a well-known franchise as part of your LiveOps might be the answer you’re looking for. To figure out what makes a brand collaboration successful, let’s look at some recent examples of in-game collaboration events in mobile games.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

User acquisition has become increasingly challenging for mobile marketers ever since Apple introduced its App Tracking Transpency (ATT) policy in April 2021. With that in mind, mobile marketers should focus on identifying better ways to push monetization opportunities to their existing audiences.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 11, 2024

Mobile GameDev Awards celebrate innovation and excellence in live event design within mobile games.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Merge Puzzle: Gossip Harbor One of the most common places to encounter storytelling elements on mobile is within the puzzle genre, and while this might sound unconventional, it’s all relatively seamless in practice. A blog post exploring why storytelling is important on mobile. Gossip Harbor (source: GameRefinery platform).

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The London-based developer is known for working on titles like Beatstar and Transformers: Earth Wars.

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The post Announcing the 2024 Mobile GameDev Awards appeared first on GameRefinery.

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Game Developer

JULY 10, 2024

Pixelberry wants to use Series to get highly requested features out the door, while Series is looking to add its proprietary Rho engine into the developer's pipeline.

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