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Wargaming Moscow to be headed up by former Mail.Ru studio head Andrey Zimenko
Read More »Wargaming to open new Moscow office for mobile development
Mobile Games Forum rebrands to Gamesforum and hires new event director
The mobile games businness event team will hold its first event in London in January 2018
Read More »Reality Check: Will the newest generation of phones enable AR for the masses?
Rumours of VR’s death have been greatly exaggerated, argues Climax Studios’ CEO, Simon Gardner. While niche now, the technology only paves the way for the ubiquity of AR and a new iPhone could be the catalyst
Read More »New mobile games awards for Women in Games at European Women in Games conference
Endorsed by IMGA, the two awards will be awarded at the conference on September 6th. Entries are open until August 20th
Read More »Niantic postpones Pokémon Go events in Europe
Niantic has decided to push back a couple of events planned in Europe this August, following the disaster of the first Pokmon Go Fest in Chicago last week. The developer had four ‘Safari Zone’ events scheduled for August 5th in Copenhagen and Prague, and on August 12th in Stockholm and …
Read More »Zynga and MGM’s Words with Friends TV show is the ‘correct route’ for strengthening brand loyalty
Earlier this week, Zynga announced it was teaming up with MGM Television to create a new TV show based on the popular mobile hit Words with Friends. That might sound like a slightly strange concept for a TV show, but MIDiA Research’s Karol Severin has told MCV this is the …
Read More »UK based Sensible Object selected for Amazon Alexa Accelerator
The technology focused game developer is the only UK studio selected for the program
Read More »Mobile revenues overtook console and PC in 2016
The global worth of the mobile games market exceeded that of the console and PC games market for the first time in 2016. That’s according to a new report from DFC Intelligence, which says that overall mobile game revenues grew 32 per cent in 2016. Unsurprisingly the driver of this …
Read More »Riot sues alleged League of Legends clone developer
The maker behind League of Legends is taking a mobile game developer to court having accused it of appropriating from the smash hit MOBA. Slingshot reports that Riot is suing Shanghai Moontown Technology for alleged copyright infringement. Three games are specifically mentioned – Magic Rush: Heroes, Mobile Legends: 5v5 MOBA …
Read More »Tencent introduces playtime restrictions for Honour of Kings
Chinese game giant Tencent has responded to criticism about the alleged addictive nature of its mobile hit Honour of Kings by limiting the amount of time that can be spent playing it. Reuters reports that Chinese parents and teachers have voiced concerns about the number of hours being spent on …
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