North America

• Free-to-Play EA Sports Mobile Titles Generate £763m in Revenue

  3 weeks ago News

  

  According to a new report, the EA Sports division of EA has seen its free-to-play mobile games bank revenues of USD$1bn (£763m) to date. That’s according to research by mobile data outfit Sensor Tower. The estimate – which reflects spending across both the Apple and Google Play stores – totals revenues from EA’s releases across the Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer, NBA Live, and EA Sports UFC mobile franchises. Remarkably, it does not include money generated by EA Sports titles licensed to and [...]

• 'Tis the Season... to Get Your Game Ready for Christmas 2019

  3 months ago News

  

  It’s easy to be ambitious when Christmas is a few months away. You tell yourself that you’ll get all the Christmas shopping done by mid-November, and have the decorations up on the first day of Advent. Then suddenly it’s December 24th and you’re scouring an all-night garage for passable gifts, low-quality wrapping paper, and spare bulbs for the fairy lights. TheGamingEconomy can’t help you make your own Christmas a meticulously organised triumph, but we are here to share insights on making a [...]

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• How the California Consumer Privacy Act Aims to Put an End to the Data Wild West

  6 months ago News

  

  Despite a monumental build up, the EU GDPR may not have made quite the splash the industry expected – it rather depends on who you ask. However, what it has done, is set the wheels in motion for other countries, such as Brazil, to adopt similar legislation. One in particular, which is starting to take data privacy very seriously, is the US. Multiple states have started updating their consumer privacy acts, and the state of California, the home of ad [...]