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Read More »Super Mario Run passes $60m revenue mark
Racing to the top: How Top Drives dev Hutch Games combines rapid growth with a healthy work environment
We talk to Hutch Games' commercial director Peter Hansen-Chambers about the mobile studio's company culture
Read More »Ukie’s Twist slams Telegraph’s Fortnite story for ‘crass link’
Highly contrived story is typical of mainstream press attitude to popular games
Read More »Google Play under FTC investigation in South Korea with links to Lineage M and Lineage 2 Revolution
Investigation started after major mobile RPGs weren't released on all platforms simultaneously
Read More »Can Runescape Mobile mark the big-time comeback of the western MMO?
The original live game genre is making a comeback and Jagex feels its 17 years of experience puts it in the driving seat when it comes to the next generation of ‘living games’
Read More »Supercell profits drop 20% on back of ageing portfolio
Mobile company had no full new releases in the last year
Read More »BBC launches its first-ever AR app
Accompanies the launch of new arts and culture series Civilisations
Read More »GF18: Supercell and Space Ape bring Game First conference to London
SuperCell is moving its mobile developer conference to London in January. It’s putting on the event with the London-based Space Ape Games, which SuperCell acquired back in May. Game First has been run in Supercell’s Helsinki since 2014 and welcomes ‘game developers only’ to talk about current issues in development. …
Read More »PlayRaven developing first mobile game to use Improbable’s SpatialOS
New partnership means the Finnish studio’s upcoming mobile MMO will take full advantage of Improbable’s tech
Read More »Tencent is making two PUBG mobile games
It turns out that Chinese gaming giant Tencent has bigger plans for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile than we first thought. Analyst Daniel Ahmad says that the company has not one but two PUBG games in development. The first is called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Army Attack and is being developed by Timi …
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