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Ubisoft has released Assassin’s Creed mobile spin-off game Assassin’s Creed Memories onto Apple’s App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The free-to-play title features card battles across different periods of the franchise, such as Renaissance Italy and Colonial America (along with new areas, including Feudal Japan and Imperial …
Read More »Gree profits down year-on-year as revenues slide
Net sales fall by £40m during Q2 compared to the year prior
Read More »Knights and Dragons nets $5m in 30 days
Gree succeeds in raising revenues for year-old game
Read More »Gree offers redundancy to 11% of workforce
Social gaming powerhouse Gree has revealed plans to offload 11 per cent of its 1,762-person strong global workforce. A translation from social games consultant Serkan Toto revealed that the company is to offer 200 voluntary redundancies, with applications being accepted between October 9th-28th. These losses will be in addition to …
Read More »Gree sheds 200 staff and closes Osaka office
Voluntary redundancies offered to 11 per cent of mobile firm's global workforce as it looks to boost profitability
Read More »Report: Sega representing newly-formed network of Japanese mobile devs
A host of Japanese mobile developers led by Sega have reportedly banded together to create a cross-promotional network. According to a Nikkei report spotted by Games Industry, Sega is at the forefront of an initiative involving 14 other developers (such as Capcom and Taito) to create additional exposure by combining …
Read More »Live events boosted Modern War revenues by 600%
Gree and Funzio's iOS and Android game gets $2.3m in one weekend from live event
Read More »OPINION: London studio shutdown shows grass isn’t always Gree
I couldn’t help but view the news that Japanese games giant GREE was to sharply close its UK studio as darkly ironic. Too many times in recent years have I been lectured by industry know-it-alls keen to predict the swift suffocation of consoles at the hands of fast growing firms …
Read More »Gree pulling out of UK
Mobile firm to close London office due to 'challenging economic climate'
Read More »GREE to close UK office
Japanese mobile games firm GREE will pull out of the UK as it restructures its business across Europe. According to Tech Crunch UK the firm has proposed to shut down the team it was building in central London. Last summer the firm announced formal plans to open a UK office …
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