mobile games

Mobile Games Sales Slipping for First Time in a Decade
Mobile Games Sales Slipping for First Time in a Decade
December 15, 2022  |  Mobile Applications

Sales of mobile games are projected to hit a 10-year low. Boosted to prominence by the rise of smartphones and then app stores beginning around...

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Gaming Surge Helps China’s Tencent Beat Q1 Earnings Forecasts
Gaming Surge Helps China’s Tencent Beat Q1 Earnings Forecasts
May 13, 2020  |  Earnings

China’s multinational conglomerate Tencent beat earnings forecasts in the first quarter of 2020 with total net revenues of $15.2 billion, up 26 percent from the...

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App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Those Without Mobile Focus
App Annie: Mobile Companies Valued 6X Higher Than Those Without Mobile Focus
January 15, 2020  |  Mobile

Mobile data and analytics company App Annie released its annual report The State of Mobile in 2020, offering a deep dive into the mobile ecosystem...

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Deep Dive: Online Gaming Struggles With Subscription Competition
Deep Dive: Online Gaming Struggles With Subscription Competition
August 02, 2019  |  Subscription Commerce

The video game market was one of the first to move into the subscription economy, even before gaming went online. Companies like GameFly cropped up...

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How Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits
How Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits
January 05, 2019  |  Retail

Until extremely recently, the word “fortnight” was a fancy way to say “two weeks” – and it wasn’t likely to come up unless one happened...

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WeChat App Growth Comes Amid Other App Market Changes
WeChat App Growth Comes Amid Other App Market Changes
November 07, 2018  |  Mobile Applications

App store rising — that’s the story from China this week, where Tencent’s WeChat keeps expanding its digital ecosystem of mini programs, which are basically smaller versions...

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Tiggly On Smart Toys That Don’t Make Kids Dumb
Tiggly On Smart Toys That Don’t Make Kids Dumb
November 02, 2018  |  Retail

Kids and screens, we are often told these days, is a dangerous combination. While the world of screens was once touted as a great educational...

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Tencent To Increase Investments In Payments
Tencent To Increase Investments In Payments
August 17, 2017  |  International

Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and artificial intelligence. According...

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Unity Buy SDK From Shopify Allows Game Developers To Sell Real Goods
Unity Buy SDK From Shopify Allows Game Developers To Sell Real Goods
April 21, 2017  |  eCommerce

The launch of the Unity Buy SDK from Shopify will make it easier for developers to build a store with real items right inside a game....

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