Over the past days and weeks, a number of the global games industry's major triple-A publishers have seen share prices drop as finical results have come in. Electronic Arts (EA), which this week saw its Fortnite challenger Apex Legends enjoy a [...]

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 [...]

There are two main reasons playable ads offer a beguiling option for game developers, publishers, and marketing teams. Primarily, of course, they give a player a chance to try a game without having to spend a penny or download a kilobyte. [...]

The worldwide market for digital spending on games dipped 2% throughout December 2018. The festive period is typically a pivotal one for game downloads, as new devices arrive as Christmas presents, and gifted money is spent in app stores. But looking behind the [...]

More games are to be released in China. Under normal circumstances, that statement would be far from newsworthy. But for nine months in 2018, the world's largest games market had been significantly stifled by new Government regulation. In March last year, [...]

Apple customers across the world collectively spent USD$1.22bn (£1.7bn) in the week that ran from Christmas Day 2018 to New Years Day 2019: the company's user spending record for the period. The festive week is famously a time for peaks in [...]

China may be the world's biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation's Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South [...]

Interactive mobile ads specialist CrossInstall has secured a deal with Google that will see its Instant Playables platform offer game demos within the Google Play store. Instant Playables lets developers offer interactive demos of their games without the end-user needing to [...]

Mobile monetisation and marketing outfit ironSource has unveiled its new ROAS Optimizer platform, which offers users a means to monitor the return on advertising spend (ROAS). Only last week, we saw how advertising is increasingly valuable to casual mobile game revenues. But [...]