Viral football drafting game 38-0-0 is currently number one in the UK App Store charts, ahead of Fortnite. It was built by solo creator Deniz Sancar overnight, using Claude: mobilegamer.biz/the-uks-numb...
There were no mobile games at Summer Game Fest, and for good reason: there are already too many games trying to serve this relatively small hardcore audience, and mobile game marketers have already found better ways to reach the players they want to reach: mobilegamer.biz/there-were-n...
EA’s decision to remaster PC classic Command and Conquer – and later release its source code – was an attempt to win fans back after their disappointment with Command and Conquer Rivals: mobilegamer.biz/fans-were-so...
In this week’s data digest: Türkiye, US, Asia and MENA market stats, big Pokémon Go fest numbers, another round of UA funding and more: mobilegamer.biz/data-digest-...
Supercell’s US game development operation appears to be winding down - one game has been killed, and the other is MIA after most of its core staff departed: mobilegamer.biz/supercell-ha...
Update: Metacore has now confirmed that it'll close its offices in Germany and Sweden, and there will be 159 job cuts in Finland. The Supercell acquisition is still being finalised: mobilegamer.biz/supercell-to...
Here’s your latest soft launch update, featuring the most notable games in beta testing from Blizzard, Century, EA, Hoyoverse, Tencent, Playrix, Moon Active and more: mobilegamer.biz/the-soft-lau...
New Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says his first task is to rescue its console business – so growing Microsoft’s presence in mobile and PC will have to come later: mobilegamer.biz/matthew-ball...
In new game digest this week: Game of Thrones, FIFA, Pokémon, Masters of the Universe, Talking Tom, Barbie, new titles from Noodlecake and Nuverse plus a load of games participating in the Green Game Jam: mobilegamer.biz/new-game-dig...
There are already too many games trying to serve this relatively small hardcore audience. And mobile game marketers have already found better ways to reach the players they want to reach.
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“We didn’t really have permission necessarily to stray too far from what that core PC experience was,” says EA exec Laura Miele of the fan reaction to 2018 flop Command and Conquer Rivals.…
The game Steve Desilets and Matt Mocarski were working on is definitely closed, while most staff working on the other US-based game departed months ago, it seems.
UPDATE: Metacore has now confirmed that it’ll close its offices in Germany and Sweden and there will be 159 job cuts in Finland. The Supercell acquisition remains in process.
New Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says his first task is to rescue its console business – so growing Microsoft’s presence in mobile and PC will have to come later.
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There’s also new games from Noodlecake and Nuverse plus a load of games participating in the Green Game Jam in this week’s round-up.
In this week’s concise walk-and-talk podcast: why there are no mobile games at Summer Game Fest, Supercell kills US projects, yet more Xbox chat, EA’s mobile misstep, data, more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Podcast Episode · mobilegamer.biz digest · 11 June · 19min
