TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: COD and King see Activision Blizzard exceed projected revenues; Ubisoft revenues trump revised forecasts, despite year-on-year drop; and Take-Two GAAP revenue down USD$300m YOY for it's [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR glasses; Wildlife Studios raises USD$60m (£45.7m) for mobile portfolio; Gameloft closes UK studio. Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR [...]

TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Facebook acquires Beat Games; Candy Crush Saga passes USD$2bn (£1.6bn) in revenue; and Coffee Stain invests in Kavalri. Facebook acquires Beat Games Facebook has acquired VR developer Beat [...]

TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Candy Crush designer expected game would be ‘dead in six months’; French government attempting to lure British game developers post-Brexit; and US hacker behind gaming DDoS attacks [...]

In the UK the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been speaking to representatives from Electronic Arts and Epic Games, as it's 'Immersive and addictive technologies inquiry' continues. The enquiry - which is not just focused on games - [...]

The last two days have been a bumpy ride for Panic. The software company and occasional game publisher recently dazzled the global games industry by revealing its delightfully unconventional gaming handheld, the Playdate. Then the organisers of a modest gaming event [...]

Social Networking giant Facebook saw its mobile app downloaded more times than those of any other publisher globally in the closing months of 2018, according to a new report. The Facebook app was downloaded 800 million times through October to December [...]

In the span of five years, mobile gaming has grown from the smallest segment of the gaming market to a USD$70bn (£61.6bn) industry. It’s unsurprising then, that the past couple of years have been huge for mobile gaming acquisitions, from Zynga [...]

According to a new report, the EA Sports division of EA has seen its free-to-play mobile games bank revenues of USD$1bn (£763m) to date. That's according to research by mobile data outfit Sensor Tower. The estimate – which reflects spending across [...]

A new report from mobile attribution and marketing analytics specialist AppsFlyer highlights the fact that, throughout 2018, in-app advertising (IAA) has gradually replaced in-app purchasing (IAP) as the key revenue driver for casual mobile games. Historically, IAP has powered the soaring [...]