GamesIndustry International sat down with Neil Young, CEO of ngmoco, at GDC for an indepth discussion of their business, the competition, cross-cultural games, and the next big disruption.
“One key characteristic of ngmoco is their Mobage platform for the Android, a social gaming platform that boasts over 25 million users.”
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What we’re trying […] to build [is] the biggest audience of gamers in mobile. We want to be able to put the very best games in front of that audience, and allow them to play together with other people who share their same interests.
Though the talk was about the “death” of consoles, Cousins did clarify: “By ‘die’, I mean talk about something that has significantly smaller market share with no sign of return.”
This happens when “customers move to a new solution” or “a new product comes into your category and massively expands the overall market.” He sees both happening as mobile devices — tablets and smartphones — disrupt consoles.
ngmoco discusses how game developers are finding more money in ‘free’ in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Skyfall is almost here! Check out our new developer diary video with Executive Producer Chris Plummer. He talks about how ngmoco:) went about making this awesome new RPG.
Watch it here.
TechCrunch recently posted about our new partnership with Glu Mobile to bring Gun Bros to Mobage on Android.
The social gaming platform now serves over 35 million users with more than 1,800 game titles for smartphones, feature phones and PC’s. DeNA is now working to expand Mobage globally by building up a presence in the U.S., European and Asian markets.
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Last month, the folks behind NGENUITY, the ngmoco:) engineering blog, posted a video introducing one of our engineers. Meet Eli Delventhal, one of the many folks here working on Skyfall.
If you didn’t catch it, check it out here.
The folks from Gamasutra recently took a look at ngmoco:)’s new studio in Sweden, lead by Ben Cousins.
Gamasutra recently took a trip to the studio — or at least its temporary work space near Stockholm — and spoke to Cousins, who is its general manager, and his staff about why they had joined the company, and what their plans are.
“I would love us to be one of the icebreaking teams that creates something that’s successful in its own right, but also leads the way and creates the whole market as well,” said Cousins.
Read the rest of the story here.