Ex-Sims chief Rod Humble gets his third life at Jam City
Jam City (previously known as SGN) has hired Rod Humble, the ex-CEO of Second Life developer Linden Lab and former head of The Sims...
Pop ’til you drop with Wooga’s Bubble Island 2: World Tour
Wooga likes to handcraft its mobile games. So it’s a relatively rare event when it launches a new one. Today the Berlin-based company is...
Ex-Runescape devs announce Lightseekers, an ambitious-but-risky take on Skylanders (update)
Former designer who worked on the popular Runescape game have created a new startup PlayFusion and a new game Lightseekers that it hopes will represent...
Newzoo: Mobile games will make 82% of global app revenues this year
The global mobile app market will generate $44.8 billion in gross revenues in 2016, and 82 percent of that comes from mobile games, according...
NYU students take you into a clockmaker’s workshop with mobile game Cognition
If you ever feel like a cog in a wheel, then you might relate to Cognition, the first game from a student-led team called...
Israeli game pioneer Tacticsoft raises $1 million for hardcore mobile games
Battle Dawn maker Tacticsoft has raised a round of $1 million in funding from venture capital firm London Venture Partners and Israeli angel investor...
Etermax launches Trivia Crack X with personalized trivia quizes
Trivia Crack has been a huge mobile game hit with more than 200 million users. And now Etermax, the Buenos Aires company that created...
Supercell buys 51% of Badland game developer Frogmind for $7.8 million
Supercell has acquired a 51 percent stake in fellow Finnish mobile game developer Frogmind, the creator of the Badland series of mobile games. Supercell...
Canada’s mobile game studio Roadhouse Interactive shuts down
Canadian mobile studio Roadhouse Interactive has apparently closed down. The developer was making Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, and it employed more than 140...
The Walking Dead mobile game hits 25 million downloads in first year
The Walking Dead: Road to Survival has been downloaded more than 25 million times in the past year on mobile devices. That’s a big...