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NaturalMotion’s iOS racing game generates $12M in revenue in first month
NaturalMotion is on a tear with its latest iPhone game, CSR Racing, which is generating more than $12 million in revenue per month. It’s doing so well that the company has acquired the game’s...
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Game developers, start your Unity 3D engines (interview)
Few companies have contributed as much to the flowing of independently produced games as Unity Technologies. The maker of a 3D-graphics game development platform, Unity 3D, got its start in...
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Why your free-to-play users aren’t coming back
This story was contributed by Eric Seufert of mobile game developer Grey Area Labs. Retention is the foundation of the free-to-play model. If retention metrics don’t hold, a free-to-play title won’t...
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Zynga plans to acquire CSR Racing developer NaturalMotion for $527 million
Above: The start of a match in CSR Racing.Image Credit: NaturalMotionZynga wants to see if it can buy its way back into success on mobile. The social-gaming company that made its fortune on Facebook...
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The year of the deal? Game industry already has more than $5B in mergers and...
Above: NaturalMotion's CSR Racing is one of the big reasons Zynga acquired the developer.Image Credit: NaturalMotionDon't let cyber attacks kill your game! Join GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi for a free...
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GUEST: Jan Beckers is founder and CEO of HitFox Group. Monetization is survival. If free-to-play game publishers have made it to the top of the app stores’ grossing charts, it’s for one good reason:...
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Zynga chief operating officer Downie describes its new gameplan (interview)
Zynga pioneered social gaming on Facebook, and it has been trying for a couple of years to replicate that magic on mobile. That path has been much more difficult than anyone thought. Yesterday, it...
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Don Mattrick shows his poker hand for turning Zynga around in mobile (interview)
Seven months into his tenure as chief executive of Zynga, Don Mattrick is making some bold moves. Today, he is announcing three major mobile titles based on Zynga flagship franchises Words With...
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36 percent of gamers lost the ‘unfailable’ tutorial level in CSR Racing
Mobile gaming is different from traditional consoles in a few ways. For example, the audience on mobile can have a much wider range of skill levels. Developer Naturalmotion Games discovered just how...
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