'CoolGames' Tag
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LINE Messenger’s HTML5 Quick Games
October 7, 2018Our portfolio company CoolGames launched Daily Sudoku on LINE Messenger’s new Quick Games section the other day. The game is a fun little distraction, so I encourage LINE users to give it a try. These HTML5 games are monetized via interstitial ads. Curiously, my first time playing triggered an ad from Facebook: So I suppose […]
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Messaging platforms: a game-changer or a mobile distraction ?
September 12, 2018Here are two relevant extracts from my portfolio company CoolGames’ presentation at the PocketGamer conference in Helsinki yesterday. On the potential for games on messaging platforms worldwide: On today’s key challenge for games publishers on these platforms: Here’s a fun little 1-minute video which highlights the flow of gameplay:
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Angry Birds Flock to FB Messenger
May 8, 2018It’s the VE Day holiday in much of Europe today, and today also marks the global launch of Angry Birds on Facebook Messenger. In a pan-European alliance, Finnish creator of the original Angry Birds game, Rovio, partnered with our Dutch portfolio company CoolGames to produce an HTML5 version of Angry Birds for release on the […]
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FB Messenger Instant Games Infographic
June 23, 2017As I’ve said before, I believe that Facebook Messenger’s Instant Games platform has the potential to disrupt the App Store distribution model of mobile games, at least pertaining to casual games. Playing a snackable, casual game inside a messenger chat feed is far more seamless, in my opinion, then going to the App Store, hunting […]
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Mobile messengers and the post-app world
May 17, 2017It’s no secret that I’ve been a believer in the inevitability of a swing back toward centralized architectures in mobile. Although I probably mis-timed my call of the HTML5 inflection point, I remain convinced that it is approaching, and I believe Facebook is leading the way. Facebook has now almost completed its initial worldwide rollout […]
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This week’s conferences on Mobile and Gaming trigger a nostalgic trip down memory lane
March 3, 2017[Note: this is the English version of yesterday’s piece I wrote for Japan’s publication, The Bridge. The Japanese version can be found here.] This week we have the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Both major technology conferences; both happening at the same time. So difficult to choose… […]