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GungHo's flagship title amasses 20 million users

One of the most successful video games of recent times is finally available on iOS in the UK. Puzzle & Dragons, from Japanese developer GungHo Entertainment, quietly slipped onto the Apple App Store on Wednesday night to surprisingly little furore. Indeed, there’s a chance you’ve never heard of it despite …

Clash of Clans developer eyes the same sort of player engagement and reach as World of Warcraft

Crowdfunding site hosting four events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to field developer questions

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 …

Clash of Clans developer valued at $3bn in purchase

Puzzle & Dragons creator GungHo saw operating profit climb 4,331.2 per cent per cent year-on-year for the six months ending June 2013. Serkantoto.com reports that operating profit totalled $460m for the period. Sales climbed 945.5 per cent to $763 with net income growing 2,609.2 per cent to $287m. For the …

Puzzle & Dragons developer sees nearly 1,000 per cent growth in first half of the year

Japanese localisation pays off for leading mobile developer

Hit mobile game attracting just under one million users a month on average