Mobile

With RuneScape Mobile passing the one year anniversary of its release, Vince Pavey took the opportunity to chat with Matt Casey and Emma Hall at Jagex about their work on the portable version of the ever-popular MMO

Before YouTube, before even MySpace and the subsequent onset of social media, there was Miniclip, the ground zero for meme culture that together with Newgrounds inspired a punk-like attitude to game development. Richie Shoemaker picks up the story from president and co-founder Rob Small as the company celebrates a 21-year journey from Flash to mobile

Opera has announced a new version of GX.games for mobile devices, which will allow developers to publish GameMaker games to the web for use on iOS and Android

Mojang has released a statement stating that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain technologies will not be supported or allowed on the game going forward

North American-based DSP StackAdapt has partnered with Anzu.io, the world’s most advanced in-game advertising platform, to leverage its in-game advertising inventory

EPIC Risk Management has released a statement about the UK Government’s decision not to regulate loot boxes with legislation

EA has filed a patent that could see personal data used to procedurally generate new experiences for its players

An independent survey by Canadian start-up Edgegap of 2,000 US and UK-based gamers set out to find to what degree issues including latency and lag impact their gaming experience, delivering the first report dedicated to understanding the state of latency in online games

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that the games industry must protect children from loot boxes, but has yet to announce any formal legislation

Playstack and Laser Dog Games have announced that they will work together to open a new micro-studio called Playstack Leeds