Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak

Supercell's smash hit gets competition

• Clash Royale

80 Days developer Inkle hires a new Senior Artist and Concept Artist

Laura Dilloway and Anastasia Wyatt bring the headcount to six-and-a-half

• Jobs
• Cambridge
• Interactive Fiction

UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding

Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded

• Funding
• England
• Government Funding

Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support

Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal

• Unity
• Metal
• Updates
• Daydream
• Nintendo Switch
• Vulkan

FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show

Will run for two months alongside the cartoon

• Second Screen
• Augmented Reality
• Television

Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups

Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers

• Finland
• Startup
• Funding
• Incubator

Imagination Technologies shares plummet as Apple reveals intentions to design its own graphics chips

UK firm asks for evidence that new designs don't infringe on its own

• Graphics

Peripheral maker Mad Catz ceases operations after filing for bankruptcy

No buyer found for peripheral maker

• Delisting
• Studio Closure

April Fool's round-up: The best gags from the games industry

Celebrating Fake News in style

Fishy consortium enables Supercell to pull-off reverse Tencent takeover

Audacious timing for ambitious move

• Acquisition

Women In Games launches Ambassador program to encourage women in Europe to join the games industry

Working with schools and industry to promote the industry

• Women in Games

China's iDreamSky establishes $30 million fund to publish indie games globally

Wants to find the next Monument Valley

• China
• Publishing
• Funding

Space Ape Games taps over 20 YouTube stars as characters in Fastlane: Road to Revenge

The kids will love it

• Influencers
• Soft Launch
• YouTube

Harmonix suffers series of layoffs affecting at least 17 staff

Seven more reported to have occurred in prior months

• Jobs
• Redundancies
• Boston

Oculus designer and co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook

It's unknown if he was kicked out or left of his own accord

• Oculus Rift
• Virtual Reality
• Gear VR