How bad is the fight to get more users in mobile apps?
Tough enough that TinyCo, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile gaming company, is doing a revenue share with developers that successfully drive them traffic.
The company, which has raised $18 million, says it will give developers a 50 percent split or more if they send them customers that ultimately end up spending inside of their games.
MoMinis, an Android game publisher headquartered in Tel Aviv, has raised $6 million in new funding.
In addition to providing free development tools and financing development for some premium partners, MoMinis also runs PlayScape, a virtual environment where gamers can check out different titles and developers can promote their games.
Rovio today took one more step to grow the ubiquity of its games worldwide: it is launching mobile apps for of Angry Birds Friends, a social version of the game, created for Facebook that has picked up 60 million installs and 15 million monthly active users on Facebook’s desktop platform in the year since launch, according to Facebook.
Fans of the Shadowrun roleplaying game may find themselves spending some considerable time over the next few days watching and watching again a new video of gameplay for the upcoming Shadowrun Returns game. The game combines free form roleplaying with a turn-based combat system to bring the pen and paper game to the digital world.
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Storm8, a bootstrapped mobile game maker co-founded by early Facebook engineers, said it just crossed 10 million daily active users — which would put it among the top handful of mobile app makers in terms of reach. Zynga most recently said it had 33 million daily active users in July.
“We’re not a one-hit wonder.
Y Combinator-backed Kamcord got off to a strong start last year — it locked up $1.5 million in seed funding just a few months after its official debut — and now co-founder/CEO Matt Zitzmann says the team has its sights set on hitting some lofty usage goals.
For the uninitiated, Kamcord is an SDK for iOS that allows mobile game developers using a handful of popular game engines (think Unity, cocos2
Joining the array of Linux game console attempts is GCW Zero, an open-source game hand-held console.
GREE, the $4.7 billion mobile gaming giant from Japan that’s trying to break into Western markets, just bought another American studio to bolster its first-party game development.
The company acquired App Ant Studios for an undisclosed amount after working with the company on Android games.
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