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"Games are a key driver for Europe’s app revenue"
Read More »European mobile app spending jumped almost 20% in 2019
Wargaming opens new mobile studio in Moscow
Wargaming has opened a new mobile development studio in Moscow, the company has announced. Headed up by industry veteran Andrey Zimenko (pictured below), the studio will start developing "mid-core" titles for mobile platforms as soon as it has finished the hiring process for its new team. Zimenko, who has 13 years …
Read More »OPINION: WarDucks CEO on moving from mobile to console VR
Nikki Lannen, CEO and founder of Dublin-based studio WarDucks (pictured right), speaks to MCV about her studio’s transition from mobile to console VR. Virtual reality is the future. That looks pretty certain. The hardware is evolving, and adoption will almost certainly continue to increase. I work in a virtual reality …
Read More »Iterable: how to keep mobile users active through push notifications
Keeping mobile users engaged with new apps and games is a tricky business, butrowth marketing platform Iterable has released a new report analysing how game publishers can do just that – which is important, considering 62 per cent of smartphone owners are now installing a game within a week of …
Read More »RuneScape coming to mobile this winter
Jagex has announced that its renowned MMORPGs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape will be coming to mobile and tablet devices starting later this year. Old School RuneScape will be the first title to make the jump to mobile this winter, with RuneScape to follow at a later date. What’s more, …
Read More »Paradox Interactive to open new studio dedicated to mobile game development
Paradox Interactive is to open a new studio completely dedicated to mobile game development, the publisher announced today. The new studio will open inMalm, Sweden – the home of Little Nightmares developers Tarsier Studios and Massive Entertainment – and will be populated with a small team of developers led by …
Read More »Playground Games sees benefit in mobile
Forza Horizon 3 studio Playground Games said it considered making games for mobile, but that it won’t be racing to abandon consoles any time soon. Speaking to MCV, CEO Gavin Raeburn stated that while mobile games have been fantastic” at widening the gaming population, Playground’s been hesitant to enter mobile …
Read More »Miniclip moves to console publishing with MX Nitro, but mobile’s still ‘extremely healthy’
After 15 years of publishing games on the web and mobile, Miniclip is now entering the console market. MCV speaks to CEO Rob Small (pictured) to find out more: The games industry has changed a lot since 2001. PlayStation 2 was little more than a year old; the first Xbox was …
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 »Microsoft opens door for devs to port iOS and Android apps to Windows
Microsoft has extended an open invitation to mobile developers to port iOS and Android apps to Windows and sell them via the Windows Store. Gamasutra reports on the announcement at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, currently taking place in San Francisco. The firm is introducing new software development kits designed to …
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