To brand or not to brand your next video game
To brand or not to brand is one of the oldest discussions in video games. Adding a popular brand like Harry Potter could be...
Wooga’s June’s Journey hidden-object game features ambitious weekly updates
German mobile social game company Wooga is unveiling June’s Journey, a new hidden-object game with an ambitious weekly update schedule. Berlin-based Wooga has become...
InnoGames acquires Wooga’s strategy game Warlords
InnoGames has acquired Wooga’s strategy game Warlords. Hamburg, Germany-based InnoGames will pick up ownership of Warlords and continue to operate the game, but it...
Data-driven versus intuition-driven game design
When it comes to game design, we’ll find out one of these days if artificial intelligence can beat a human being at creativity. But...
Former Wooga developers launch mobile game studio in Berlin
Former Wooga game developers have joined Sweden’s Snowprint Studios and opened a new mobile game studio in Berlin. Wilhelm Österberg, formerly the head of...
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...
Berlin’s Wooga lays off 40 as it zeroes in on casual mobile games
Berlin-based Wooga, the maker of casual games such as Pearl’s Peril, has laid off 40 people out of its 300 employees. Jens Begemann, CEO...
Wooga announces new studio Black Anvil Games to make hardcore mobile games
Casual game publisher Wooga is branching out into hardcore mobile games with the creation of a new studio, Black Anvil Games. The new Wooga-owned...
Kendall & Kylie game takes Glu Mobile to the top 10 again after poor Katy Perry launch
Glu Mobile has seen ups and downs with its celebrity mobile games, and now it’s on the ups again thanks to its release of...
Wooga and Fox team up to make Futurama mobile game
The Simpsons: Tapped Out has been one of the most successful mobile games in recent years. So it’s no surprise to learn that Futurama,...