We’re Five Games (Totally Reliable Delivery Service); Hungry Couch (Black Skylands) and Moon Moose (Cartel Tycoon) boost the publisher to seven internal teams
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EA to acquire Glu Mobile for $2.1bn – move is a huge boost to EA’s mobile segment
Glu Mobile is home to Design Home, MLB Tap Sports Baseball, Covet Fashion, Kim Kardashian Hollywood...
Read More »Are city-builders having a renaissance?
Surviving Mars and the long-running Cities Skylines are both selling faster than a new-build semi in the southeast, so is the city-building genre having a renaissance?
Read More »Denuvo on fighting the war against piracy
The start of 2016 was rather positive for anti-piracy specialists Denuvo. The firm’s anti-tampering technology, which had been used on the likes of Just Cause 3, Lords of the Fallen and recent FIFA titles, was deemed so potent that in January, notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM said that in two …
Read More »Rollercoaster Tycoon vs Planet Coaster vs Parkitect
When 2013’s SimCity came out, it was broken. It didn’t work. The servers fell over and the critics and fans did what they do when a game doesn’t work: they crucified it. Even when the game did get up-and-running, eventually, there were a few dissatisfied customers. The game’s developer had …
Read More »The top 20 mobile development tools for 2016
Develop rounds up some of the best tools and tech, from beautiful engines and rigid infrastructure to sumptuous audio and eye-watering art, designed to get your smartphone or tablet game on the road to success
Read More »There’s a better solution to piracy than ‘crippling’ DRM, argues TinyBuild CEO
'We are going to look at regional pricing and more aggressive deals in lower wealth regions,' says Alex Nichiporchik after Punch Club struck by 1.6m illegal downloads
Read More »TinyBuild: We should not ‘cripple’ games with DRM to fight piracy
TinyBuild has condemned the use of DRM to stop illegal downloading, despite its latest game being heavily pirated. Punch Club on smartphones and PC was purchased by 300,000 people, but downloaded illegally by another 1.6 million – that’s 81 per cent of the total players. But TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik …
Read More »EA: We want to regain the trust of PC gamers
Games giant EA says it ison a targeted mission to fix its PC reputation. The firm has frustrated PC fans in recent years, following the poor launch performances of titles such as SimCity and Battlefield 4, plus perceived missing features from The Sims 4. The publisher has since introduced a …
Read More »Clash of Clans generated the most UK mobile revenue in 2015
Research company App Annie has released its mobile market report for 2015. The firm’s data shows that Supercell’s Clash of Clans generated the most games revenue on iOS and Google Play for the year, ahead of Candy Crush Saga from King and Game of War – Fire Age by Machine …
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