Today's landmark goes some way to explain why Japanese
mobile games giants DeNA and GREE — two billion dollar companies in their own right — have both jumped into the mobile messaging space.
Not exact matches
The gaming
giant took the wraps off Super Mario Run, a
game that marks the first time the beloved Italian plumber has appeared on
mobile devices.
Still, making
mobile games for
mobile's sake doesn't seem to be the priority for most of the gaming
giants.
Another social fantasy
game, with a narrative involving
giants and time travel, Glitch raised $ 17 million from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, but the timing was again bad: They were building a desktop
game at a time when users were migrating over to
mobile devices.
• Small
Giant Games, a Finland - based
mobile game developer, raised $ 41 million in funding.
Last year, the Chinese Internet
giant Tencent bought Supercell, the Finnish maker of the popular
mobile game «Clash of Clans» for $ 10.2 billion from the Japanese group SoftBank.
The next iteration in the Skylanders franchise, Skylanders
Giants, is coming to
mobile platforms in addition to the Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, and Wii, publisher Activision has confirmed at E3, according to a Pocket
Gamer post...
The
game was followed up in 2010 with a sequel that features a loosely similar plot; this time, Bowser uses the Power Stars to become a
giant, and Mario navigates through the galaxies and eventually to Bowser's lair using a «Starship», or
mobile planet, in the shape of his head.
VM gets XP Entertainment
giant Virgin Media has announced it is carrying the Sony Ericsson «PlayStation» Xperia Play
mobile phone which has the ability to play PSP
games, on a contract starting from # 40.85 a month.
Seattle based software
giant Microsoft has announced a range of
games arriving on the Windows Phone 7
mobile operating system, along with handsets running that platform.
Congratulations are also in order for Unfinished Swan developers
Giant Sparrow winning Best Downloadable
Game and Sound Shapes» Queasy Games for Best Handheld /
Mobile Game.
Yes Rocket League, the
giant - soccer - played - with - cars
game which feels like it's on every single platform BUT
mobile, is a bonafide smash hit.
I'm pretty sure Small
Giant just Googled «what type of
mobile games make money?»
While
mobile gaming
giant Zynga acquired «Draw Something» publishers OMGPOP in 2012, they decided to shutter the online
game creator just a year later.
The video
game giant announced today that they have released NBA Live
Mobile for the App Store and Google play.
Nintendo has announced an official partnership with Japanese
mobile and online specialists DeNA, a tech
giant that rose to its prominence on the strength of its smartphone
games.
Miitomo is one of five smartphone
games that Nintendo is developing in partnership with DeNA, a
giant in the Japanese
mobile game market.
So, in March, when Nintendo announced it's partnering with
mobile gaming
giant DeNA to bring its first
mobile games to market, fans of Mario & Co. were positively excited.
The summit features 4 hours of lectures about predicting the future of
mobile by HandyGames, how to turn viewers into players by
Game Insight and about India — the slightly unknown
mobile giant — done by Nazara Technologies.
In an effort to expand its indie
game catalog, social and
mobile gaming
giant Gree has just launched a brand new program that promises to help independent developers finish, promote, and launch their latest
games.
Continuing Nintendo's ongoing
mobile endeavors, the company has teamed up with Japanese
mobile gaming
giant Cygames to produce a new action role - playing
game called Dragalia Lost.
A new survey commissioned by casual
giant PopCap
Games has revealed that a third of UK adults regularly play
games on their
mobile phones, and that smartphones are surpassing consoles and PC in terms of market penetration.
The video
game giant announced today that the Sims
Mobile is now available on iOS and Android.
In this post, we look at how that compares to the first two
mobile game releases from the Kyoto - based gaming
giant, along with which countries» players are spending the most in -
game.
Back in August 2015, MobileSyrup senior editor Patrick O'Rourke wrote about how the Japanese gaming
giant was successfully porting its classic
games to
mobile devices, such as Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.
Don't feel too bad for the fallen
games giant, though, as Draw Something was just a
mobile version of the classic party
game Pictionary.