Mobile

Miniclip has agreed to acquire Sybo, maker of the smash mobile gaming hit Subway Surfers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But it’s a pretty big deal. The move is a sign of consolidation in gaming, and it comes on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the launch of Subway Surfers. The game

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. A new report by Ericsson found that 5G mobile subscriptions will surpass 1 billion in 2022. Furthermore, more than 20 service providers launched 5G standalone networks last year,

Supercell has generated billions of dollars in revenues over the years. It remains one of the biggest successes of the mobile gaming free-to-play boom. Tencent bought majority control of the Helsinki-based company at a $10.2 billion valuation in 2016 and it still generates a huge amount of cash. Supercell has changed mobile gaming with titles

GameRefinery takes deep dives into mobile games and now it has released a report that explores how mobile games are using blockchain technology, which could prove revolutionary for game business models but risk angering gamers and game developers who are suspicious of monetization schemes. Blockchain games are one of the most trending topics in the

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. CloudFeather Games is announcing its $1.25M seed funding round, led by Lumikai. Venture Highway is also a participating investor. Angel investors like OYO’s Maninder Gulati and Nazara Technologies’

Parallelz has raised $3 million for its tech that enables mobile games and apps to run instantly in a browser with no loss in quality, no downloads, no performance losses, and no need to change the coding. You can get instant gratification in starting a game or an app. It has raised a relatively a

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Lumi Interactive is announcing a $6.75M seed investment, led by a16z. 1Up Ventures, Galileo Ventures and Heracles Capital also participated in the round. Double Loop Games boss Emily

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. WowWee is introducing a new toy line to its portfolio. The My Avastars line of toys grew from the fact that kids use avatars to explore, create, and

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Scopely revealed its new mobile game, a medieval fantasy title called Kingdom Maker. The free-to-play game is an RTS/RPG/MMO hybrid, and it launches today on the App Store

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Cloud infrastructure provider Radian Arc announced it’s partnering with accessory manufacturer Aksys to bundle low-latency controllers with the Blacknut cloud gaming platform. With this partnership, it plans to

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Square Enix revealed during today’s Final Fantasy VII Anniversary Celebration event that Ever Crisis will have a closed beta this year. Ever Crisis is a mobile game that

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Animoca Brands has acquired TinyTap, the platform for user-generated educational content. Animoca paid $38.875 million for 80.45% of the issued capital of TinyTap Ltd. Overall, Animoca Brands now

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. VersusGame announced it has raised $25 million in a new fundraising round. It plans to use the funding to develop its platform and staff as well as augment

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Tamatem Games, headquartered in Amman, Jordan, is a leading publisher in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Notably, the company is responsible for publishing over 50

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Sensor Tower released its five-year forecast for the mobile gaming market, in which it predicts that the market will grow at a steady rate. In addition to in-app

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. Back in April, Wargaming, the studio behind World of Tanks, announced it was pulling out of Russia and Belarus. The decision to exit the two countries was a

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. June’s Journey, a popular hidden object game by developer Wooga, just finished up a tree planting event. In this event, players from across the world get to re-forest

Interested in learning what’s next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Learn more. What would boots look like in the metaverse? Better yet, what would they look like as part of the landscape of Fortnite? We see the answers to these