Posts Tagged ‘Mobile Gaming’
Business Plans for Mobile Gaming Companies
Mobile gaming, casual gaming and social gaming are definitely buzz words in the news. We’ve all seen the barrage of Facebook updates from friends playing Mafia Wars, Farmville and others. Then, there is the stream of requests to add Foursquare or Gowalla. Followed by increasing talk from friends and coworkers about the latest game they bought on [...]
U.S. Spent More Than $25 Billion On Video Games In 2009
Many people think of video games as “kids stuff”. They do not realize the true size of the market and opportunity across all age levels. How big do you think total revenues for the video game industry in the U.S. is annually? Newzoo, a Dutch research firm, estimates that 183.5 million gamers spent $25.29 billion in the US last year [...]
What do VCs think of the mobile games industry?
VCs are hot for gaming right now, and for iPhone. But are they hot for iPhone gaming, and indeed gaming on other mobile platforms? A panel assembled at Mobile Games Forum today, with three VCs and a couple of games business analysts to chew the fat over where and when VCs might invest in mobile games. "Mobile has been a graveyard for venture [...]
Location: the Proper Identity of Mobile Gaming?
GPS Business News recently had a conversation about location-based gaming with Maarten Noyons, founder of the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) and Pia Vuohelainen, partner manager at NAVTEQ. ... We should rename this category, this is much wider than typically understood. We haven’t really found a name yet even if “real world [...]
MGF 2010: The future for mobile games
Mobile Games Forum's interviews an industry panel at MGF on their thoughts about 2009 and the trends we will see in 2010. Read more at the Mobile Entertainmen website.
