Mobile

Former Mobile Pie creative director, author, and Develop columnist joins American mobile company

Crytek’s free-to-play PC browser FPS Warface is now available in Europe and America. Also going live in said regions today is Crytek’s equally as colourfully named GFACE network, which users will be signed up to if they play Warface. "Our goal with Warface has always been to show that free-to-play …

PC gamers are all too familiar with high-value indie game bundles, but for the first time, there’s now an indie games bundle for iOS games, and Hashstash Games’ Circulets is part of it. The Thumb Arcade Indie Games Bundle has been organised by Selfpubd, and features ten games that carry …

Indie converting interactive TV titles for smartphones and tablets

With a dark cloud of uncertainty hanging over it, Blackberry has released an open letter in which it has tried to reassure the world that everything will be fine. You can continue to count on BlackBerry,” it insists. How do we know? We have substantial cash on hand and a …

'The shift to free-to-play is real and happening'

GhungHo Entertainment Online and parent company Softbank have purchased a 51 per cent stake in Clash of Clans developer Supercell for $1.5bn. The deal, reported byTechCrunch, see’s the coming together of two of the industry’s biggest free-to-play developers, and values Supercell at $3 billion. Supercell is said to make around …

Microsoft’s Major Nelson has released a new video detailing the Xbox One’s friends app. It reveals that as well as conventional friends functionality, Xbox One will also introduce the ability to ‘follow’ people – this effectively allows you to track their Xbox activity without the need for them to accept …

Developers also able to implement gamepad API in older versions of iPhone and iPad OS

PLA Studios's Tom Page offers advice for indies on how to market and sell their games