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...
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...
In the podcast this week: Supercell, King and Sybo slam EU plan, Atari buys Hipster Whale, Zynga's Mark Pincus on copycats and plenty more: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
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-...
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Hit Nintendo Switch game Pokémon Champions is coming to iOS and Android on June 17: mobilegamer.biz/pokemon-cham...
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...
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...
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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.
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.
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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.…
Preregistration is live now on iOS and Android after the arena battler’s Nintendo-first launch in April.
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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.
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.