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Gameloft
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www.gameloft.com
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Gameloft is a video game developer and publisher headquartered in Paris, France. The company also has subsidiaries in 28 countries around the world.
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Accolades
Articles featuring Gameloft
Best Of 2017
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017
The movers, shakers and moneymakers
Close Collaboration
Vivendi touts internal collaboration as it reveals Gameloft’s latest mobile game Paddington Run
The official game for the new Paddington movie
Country Head
Gameloft hires former Arena Azure Head of AV as new Country Manager for UK and Ireland
John-Paul Burke to grow the company in the region and lead Gameloft Advertising Solutions team
The Charticle
Are Clash Royale clones making any money?
Can developers feed off the crumbs from Supercell's table?
Gameloft Financials Q1 Fy17
Gameloft revenues fall to $73.9 million but DAUs and MAUs are growing
N.O.V.A. Legacy hits 12 million downloads to boot
No Brakes
Asphalt 8: Airborne races past 300 million downloads
Still life in Gameloft's racer as it approaches fourth birthday
Live And Kicking
Four years on: Gameloft on the evolution of Asphalt 8: Airborne
Senior Game Producer Ignacio Marin on the game's life so far
Rebooting
Is Gameloft on the road to recovery?
Ranking the start of the Vivendi era
Iap Inspector
How does Gangstar New Orleans monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Battle Royale
Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak
Supercell's smash hit gets competition
Free To Roam
Gameloft on designing an open-world F2P mobile game with no limits in Gangstar New Orleans
The Gameloft Montreal team discuss a project two years in the making
Start Your Engines
Gameloft pits itself against CSR Racing with recently soft-launched Asphalt Street Storm Racing
Drag racing is the new black
Going Bananas
Gameloft's Despicable Me: Minion Rush runs past 800 million downloads
More bananas collected than there are people on Earth
A F2p Gta?
Gameloft soft launches open-world title Gangstar New Orleans in the Philippines
Four years after previous entry
Serving Ads
Gameloft’s mobile ad network partners with AerServ for rewarded video ads
"We think the future is bright for all of mobile video," says AerServ CEO Josh Speyer
Gameloft's Next Four
Gameloft outlines its first four game releases following Vivendi's hostile takeover
Three sequels and one original IP
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
New Boss
Vivendi COO Stephane Roussel is Gameloft's new CEO
Vivendi instates own board following mass exodus
Clash Of Visions
Gameloft appoints Alexandre de Rochefort as temporary CEO
Board rejects "strategic vision and managerial values it does not share"
Fait Accompli
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Bitterness of takeover sweetened as Vivendi pays Guillemot family $170 million for its shares
Consolidation
Mobile Mavens discuss Vivendi's risky Gameloft acquisition
And will it be a good thing for either party?
Ads The Way To Do It
Gameloft Advertising Solutions generated $1.3 million in April 2016
Growth sector
French Fancy
Has Vivendi just bought an over-staffed, under-skilled company, which is failing to compete in a rapidly maturing market?
Buyer beware
Gallic Quest
Vivendi promises Gameloft staff a "great collective adventure" as its takeover bid gains majority
Bid has gained 56% of voting rights
Loft Conversion
Vivendi gains backing of Gameloft shareholders for takeover bid
Paying €8 a share
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
Big Boots
How to get a job at one of Gameloft's 21 global studios
HR Manager Romain Delebecque shares insights
Jam Tomorrow
Gameloft attempts to fight off Vivendi, announcing 2018 sales target of $390 million
The plan for 2016-2018
2000
A Brief History of Mobile Games: 2000 - A brave new world
Even for the mobile games veteran, the millennium started here
French Fancies
Vivendi makes a formal takeover offer for troubled Gameloft
30% shareholding triggers move
Going Down, Going Under
160 lose jobs as Gameloft closes Auckland studio
New Zealand's biggest studio is no more
Sharing
Does the Vivendi-proposed Gameloft-Ubisoft merger make sense?
Our Mavens talk triple French
Tricolore Triforce
Boosting shareholdings to over 10%, Vivendi reveals plans to force operational convergence with Ubisoft and Gameloft
More to come
Number Crunching
Ranking King, Zynga, EA, Gameloft and Glu in terms of their revenue and player reach
Graphing success and failure
French Fancies
Is Vivendi's move the first step in a Ubisoft-Gameloft merger?
Corporate stalking horse
Freebies
Gameloft joins the Amazon Underground experiment
Drops 4 games into play
Movie Magic
The Transporter Refuelled piggybacks off Asphalt 8 brand
Hollywood wants a bit of mobile's brand
Slip Sliding
FY15 Q2 sales drop 5% to $69 million as Gameloft hit by a 17% decline in DAUs
Sales don't match downloads
Iap Inspector
Mainly the same but a bit different: The monetisation of Siegefall
IAPs from the players' perspective
Qualified Success
Dungeon Hunter 5 launch underlines Gameloft's relative F2P success
How good is best?
Rebound
With Dungeon Hunter 5 leading the charge, Gameloft sees FY15 Q1 sales up 17% to $71 million
New year, new hope
Simply The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015
The shakers, makers and movers
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Ad This Up
Gameloft combats ineffective ad placements by opening up inventory
UK marketers can delve directly into portfolio
Change Of Direction
Gameloft looks to in-game advertising in 2015
Publisher has set up internal agency
Slight Decline
Gameloft's 2014 revenues drop 3% as 2014 line-up flops
Looks to ads and better games for rebound
Making Of
Duck and cover: The making of Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War
The balance between movement and cover
Moving west for talent, Gameloft opens a studio in Seattle
Going midcore
Gameloft brings Twitch streaming to iOS versions of Heroes of Order & Chaos
Third game from the publisher to support streaming platform