Videogame companies are increasing their financial bets on mobile games as pandemic restrictions ease and people ditch their PC and TV screens to go outside.
Publishers such as Electronic Arts Inc., Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and Zynga Inc. are snatching up mobile-gaming studios and creating new mobile titles, some of which are adaptations of popular games already playable on consoles and personal computers.
“Before, you could avoid [mobile] if you wanted to make certain games,” said Nicolo Laurent, chief executive of “League of Legends” developer Riot Games, part of Tencent Holdings Ltd. “Now the platform is relevant for any type of game. So it is a big deal for everybody.”
Game makers are jockeying to expand their user bases by reaching billions of people on the device they tend to use most, a smartphone, according to…
