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Nearly 90 people could be affected as Gameforge changes strategy
Read More »Gameforge quits mobile development and lays off around 90 staff
German publisher Gameforge has laid off a fifth of its employees and is pulling out of the mobile games market. Gameforge CEO Alexander Rsner told MediaBiz that mobile development had not been as lucrative or successful as the company had expected. He said that the PC free to play market, …
Read More »Cheezburger CTO joins Gameforge
Free-to-play outlet founded a new Games arm last year
Read More »Angry Birds devs’ new studio raises £0.5m from Gameforge and Flaregames founder
Kopla Games financed by angel investor Klaas Kersting, who also funded Supercell as a startup
Read More »Gameforge uses Graylog to reduce performance issues
Runes of Magic firm chooses open source log management platform for its MMOs
Read More »Gameforge appoints Tim Campbell to lead new divison
German studio Gameforge has appointed Tim Campbell to head up a new division meant to increase the company’s focus on the North American market. Games Industryreports Campbell will lead Gameforge’s Games Division to streamline internal and external development. The studio currently owns AION and HEX: Shards of Fate intellectual properties, …
Read More »Gameforge creates games division to double-down on US market
Former THQ, Sega and Atari vet Timothy Campbell to lead arm as senior VP for games
Read More »INTERVIEW: Gameforge’s future
Gameforge CEO Carsten van Husen tells MCV about the publisher’s new mobile titles and why browser gaming is far from over. Analysts say browser games are in decline. Why continue to support them? The mobile revolution obviously changed entertainment behavior in the sense of partially substituting the PC with mobile …
Read More »What does free-to-play mean for retail?
There’s no hiding the impact that digital games is having on retail. The sales decline seen this year may be driven by the aging console cycle and the economic downturn. But the fact that more games are coming out digitally and fewer are released physically is having an effect. Games …
Read More »Gameforge Berlin suffers 20 layoffs
Germany-based publisher axes product development and communications staff
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