Warlords is a turn-based strategy game coming on mobile.
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Wooga announces new studio Black Anvil Games to make hardcore mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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 studio is working on a turn-based fantasy strategy game dubbed Warlords, GamesBeat has learned.

The move will help Berlin-based Wooga diversify into a new part of the $34 billion mobile games market, even as the main company continues to focus on its casual games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.