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Mobile gaming still shows promising growth in 2024 | Adjust x AppLovin

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Analytics company Adjust today released its Gaming App Insights Report, in partnership with AppLovin and SparkLabs. The new report features insights and data on the mobile gaming market, including installs and in-app […]

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Duolingo is hiring devs who can help it with language learning gamification

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Duolingo is hiring game developers and others who can help it with language learning gamification. Bob Meese, chief business officer at Duolingo, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the company will […]

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Xsolla unveils crossplay and crosspay strategy for monetizing mobile games

Xsolla, a game commerce company, has introduced Cross-Play Cross-Pay, a new combined approach to mobile game monetization. In response to the evolving platform landscape, Xsolla’s suite of solutions enables mobile game developers to seamlessly transition their games from mobile to the web, desktop, and cloud while offering diverse monetization models out-of-the-box to power profitable direct-to-consumer […]

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Digital Turbine: mobile game ads can have more impact than social ads

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Digital Turbine, in partnership with Apptopia, released a study highlighting the opportunities for brands to reach consumers via mobile games. According to the report, games account for 10.6% of time spent on […]

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Matchingham Games Web3 spinoff Ginger Joy raises $1.26M

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Ginger Joy, the Web3 spinoff of U.K.-based mobile developer Matchingham Games, has raised £1 million ($1.26 million). The company plans to develop an ecosystem of interoperable blockchain-based mobile games with these funds. […]

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro

OpenAI, the research organization behind some of the most advanced artificial intelligence models on the planet, has released a new ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro, the augmented reality headset that Apple launched last month. The new ChatGPT app for the Vision Pro allows users to chat with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model, the latest and […]

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Apple revises policies on streaming game services and apps with minigames

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Apple is revising its policy for streaming game services and apps that provide access to mini apps and games. The company said it is introducing new options for how apps globally can […]

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Microsoft Copilot app is a stealthy AI launch that you should pay attention to

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. The holidays are supposed to be a time of peace, cheer, and unplugging from work. But in the ruthless world of Big Tech, there’s no time for rest when there’s a new product to […]

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Apple highlights best games and apps for App Store Awards for 2023

Apple announced the winners of its App Store Awards for 2023, honoring the best games and apps of the year. All told there are 14 apps and games that the company called out among the 1.8 million available now on the iOS App Store. Thse apps and games empowered users to unleash their creativity, discover […]

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Mobile game mortality rate is 83% within 3 years | SuperScale

The mortality rate for mobile games is 83%, meaning that percentage of games will die off within three years, according to research by SuperScale. The company, which provides monetization for mobile games, said its study of 500 game developers also found that 43% of games perish during their development phase. Ivan Trancik, CEO and Founder […]

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SplitMetrics acquires App Radar to boost mobile app growth

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now SplitMetrics has acquired Austria’s App Radar in a seven-figure deal to boost the growth of mobile apps. App Radar is an app marketing and analytics platform. The strategic collaboration positions SplitMetrics to offer an expansive […]

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Apple reveals the finalists for the 2023 App Store Awards

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now Shortly on the heels of The Game Awards revealing the finalists for its 2023 ceremony, Apple has revealed the nominees for its own 2023 App Store Awards. Apple honors both apps and games with these […]

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A recap of Epic Games vs. Google trial day one

The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified. One thing that is clear already is that we’re going to get a bunch of insights into how the game and tech industries work behind the scenes. Sean Hollister of the Verge has […]

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Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial gets under way

Another big tech antitrust trial gets under way today as Epic Games squares off against Google over control of the app stores. Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Google as well as Apple for antitrust violations in 2020. Epic mostly lost the Apple antitrust lawsuit and has an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, […]

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How mobile game developers think about player experience from a technical perspective

Presented by Embrace Building a mobile game that keeps players engaged and store rankings high is tough. When issues arise, engineers are faced with a multitude of variables: “Was it my code? Was it an ad SDK? Was it a third party?” This VB Spotlight brings together mobile game leaders who share best practices for […]

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Playbite raises $1M to bring back the magic of arcades for mobile games

Playbite has raised $1 million to bring back the magic of arcades on mobile gaming devices. The company is making casual games that are part of an arcade-inspired hub on iOS and Android. Grishin Robotics, a tech industry investor, led the round of funding with participation from M25, Tundra Ventures, Capitalize VC, and Magic Fund. […]

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Clash of Clans and Clash Royale debut on PC via Google Play Games

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now Supercell’s globally popular mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale are now playable on the Windows PC for the first time via a beta on Google Play Games.  Helsinki, Finland-based Supercell has generated billions in […]

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Midjourney’s first mobile app is here…sort of

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Bootstrapped startup Midjourney offers a popular text-to-image AI generator from its own foundation model. Since its beta launch in the summer of 2022, it has built a thriving community of users on its official […]

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Nostra goes global with mobile game discovery platform on smartphone lockscreens

Nostra is launching its disruptive mobile game discovery platform around the globe and it will make it available to game developers worldwide. Nostra, based in San Francisco and Singapore, has become a huge game discovery platform in Asia, with more than 90 million monthly active users and 25 million livestream viewers, particularly in India and […]

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Devsisters unveils new mobile game CookieRun: Tower of Adventures

We’re thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of “Playing the Edge.” Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today! Devsisters, the […]

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