The number of mobile gamers in the United States has broken the 100 million mark

mobile gaming

Newzoo, an international market research firm, has released a new report that is drawing attention to the rapidly growing popularity of gaming over mobile devices. It was entitled “Mobile Games Trend Report”, and it showed that the number of people in the United States who use their smartphone, tablet computer, or iPod Touch mobile devices for playing video games is now greater than 100 million. What Newzoo found was that among the American gamers who played on their mobile devices, 69 percent used their smartphones, while 21 percent were using…

Read More

The competition among mobile games is getting bigger and cheaper

Mobile Gaming

Though it appears as though the growth rate of the online gaming marketplace in China… has started to slow over the last couple of years, several specific types of games have seen skyrocketing popularity. Social games, web games, and mobile games have been drawing a large number of users when compared with most other types of online games that operate on game client servers. Game companies are now focusing on what they are calling “light online games” which are now being identified as a part of the sector with a…

Read More

Why Google+ strategies are making Apple and Facebook sweat

Google+

Google has dipped its toe into the videogame pool, in a move that is making both the current leaders in next generation game platforms, Apple and Facebook, nervous. Moreover, they should be sweating as Google moves forward in its efforts to move beyond the current sales cut of 30 percent which has become typical with Apple and Google. Punit Soni, the product manager for Google+ Games stated in an interview that Google will begin by sharing 95 percent of its virtual goods revenues which are sold with the developers, therefore…

Read More