Licence Focus
Disney CEO Bob Iger: Licensing is the best model for Disney in games
Boss calls out its partners in the space, including EA, but fails to mention Star Wars Battlefront II launch PR disaster
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Keys To The Kingdom
“We can’t wait to bring Disney stories and characters to life on mobile”: Jam City on its big new partnership
We caught up with Jam City president and COO Josh Yguado following yesterday’s partnership reveal
Jamming
Disney taps Jam City for multi-year mobile games development partnership
The Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery developer will create a slate of new games based on Disney IP
Closure
Disney Canada layoffs as Club Penguin Island closes
The web version of the social game had shut down the year prior
High Reward, Higher Risk
The dangerous allure of F2P mobile Star Wars games
Playing Russian Roulette with a poisoned chalice?
Star Wars
Zynga stock soars 11 per cent after securing a deal to create licensed Star Wars titles
Farmville creator partners with Disney for a mobile title, with potential for a second in future.
Takeover
FoxNext among assets purchased in Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox
Games division one of the “key assets” acquired by the big mouse
Shiny
Disney releases Moana production assets for public use
Cloud data and island geometry released to provide an insight into CG production techniques
Switch It Over
Nintendo and Disney team up to put Switch on the telly
Two entertainment giants collaborate to create a game show based on the popular console
Partnership
PerBlue tapped for Disney Heroes: Battle Mode mobile RPG
Title part of Disney's new mobile strategy
Mega-deal
Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox in $52 billion deal
The house that made Mickey Mouse hordes array of IP including Avatar, X-Men and The Simpsons
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Ar Awakens
Disney's new augmented reality headset lets players wield their own lightsaber
Teams up with tech outfit Lenovo to produce new hardware
Epic Accelerator
Epic Games chosen to take part in Disney's 2017 accelerator program
One of 11 companies taking part
Join The Club
Why Club Penguin needed to start from scratch on mobile to last another decade
Disney VP of Kids and Casual Games Jim Molinets discusses the game's relaunch
Jobs News
Disney’s Mobile Games GM jumps ship to NBCUniversal as its new games exec
Chris Heatherly leaves after 14 years
Job Losses
Disney cuts around 125 jobs at Marvel: Avengers Alliance developer
Game closed, staff cut
Huge Tsums
Disney swaps LINE for Mixi to publish new toy-based game Marvel Tsum Tsum
Launched first in US and Canada
Finite Disney
Disney Infinity discontinuing online services
Mobile support the first to go
An End To Infinity
Disney cuts console publishing, doubles down on mobile
Disney Infinity line killed off as 300 lose jobs
Charticle
Walk the LINE: How Disney Tsum Tsum found success in Thailand and Hong Kong
But sunk in the US
On the back of Japanese app success, Disney sells 1.6 million Tsum Tsum plushies
Cute sells