The first ever Pocket Gamer Thursdays, sponsored by Papaya Mobile, took place at The Compass in Islington, London last Thursday. Two teams of mobile veterans went head-to-head in an debate over ...

Games are a business and that means one thing: money. Freemium games are one way of making money - one strategy for getting people to pay for a game. Instead of paying an upfront price like a premium ...

Mannequin (2024), the VR game that brings a unique twist to prop hunt, is going free-to-play on Quest starting today—which could point to more developers opting to go the freemium route. Launched last ...

Elder Scrolls and Fallout factory Bethesda Game Studios appears to be moving away from its tried and true retail blockbuster formula with one of its next games. It appears the studio is sticking with ...

Everywhere you look, games are going free-to-play, which sounds like a good thing. But sometimes the ways developers try to part you from your money are anything but fun. Jason Parker has been at CNET ...

The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi had some fun yesterday with Gameview Studios CEO Riz Verk, the man behind the obnoxiously popular freemium game Tapfish. Like other freemium titles, Tapfish is free to ...

In an APK teardown of the Google Play Store ( version 49.6.19-29 ), the folks at Android Authority have discovered multiple ...

This is a pretty neat spin on the freemium model: Capcom Arcade is a free title that bundles many of Capcom’s classic arcade games — including Street Fighter II, Commando and 1942 — together in a ...

Flash game developers need to move off advertising and onto sustainable revenue streams. There are many options for freemium games to make real money. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

The Simpsons have done everything (just ask Butters). Well, everything except freemium gaming. That's about to change, though, as EA is set to launch The Simpsons: Tapped Out for iOS. The game will ...

Boss Alien founder Jason Avent has predicted that the most popular free-to-play mobile games will earn as much as $10 million a day within the next few years. Speaking at the Develop Conference in ...