Like most people who play games, I took several months of indoor isolation as an opportunity to play a lot more of them. I went through the biggies: Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal, the much-appreciated PC ...

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 ...

Gilad Bechar is the Founder & CEO of Moburst, a global mobile marketing agency helping first tier startups and brands grow their mobile business. Gilad serves as a mentor to rising startups at ...

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 ...

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the brightest minds of the gaming industry? Consider getting a custom GamesBeat sponsorship. Learn more. Here’s an interesting way to turn a ...

The video games industry is worth more than movies and music combined, with more than 2.5 billion players around the world. Freemium games have driven much of the success, ever since titles like Angry ...

The NPD Group's latest report on the growing free-to-play games space, Insights into the Freemium Games Market, shows that 4 out of 10 players of freemium titles have reported paying for in-game ...

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 ...

ACCAN has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate mobile games that aggressively promote in-app purchasing. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

Games have been the top app category since the App Store’s inception. They’re so popular that, in iOS 11, Apple actually split Games off into its own tab, separate from other apps. But, with few ...

Freemium games have seemingly come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion around mobile games. Yet, we've been through similar fits of excited prospecting before. Many said massively multiplayer ...