Articles featuring Jens Begemann

Articles featuring Jens Begemann

BIG DEAL Dec 3rd, 2018

Social casino giant Playtika acquires Pearl’s Peril dev Wooga

German studio finds a buyer after self-proclaimed 'tough two years'

• M&A
• Acquisition
• Casual

BACK IN THE BLACK Jun 13th, 2018

Pearl’s Peril studio Wooga profitable again after 'two tough years'

Appoints former Miniclip chief financial officer Ross Logan as new CFO

• Berlin
• Jobs
• Revenue
• Profitability
• Hidden object

JOBS LOSSES Feb 27th, 2018

Pearl's Peril developer Wooga lays off 30 staff as it refocuses on story-driven casual games

Company restructures from in-house studio structure to one based around dev cycles

• Jobs
• Redundancies

WOOGA'S NEW FOCUS Sep 5th, 2017

Live ops and long soft-launches: Wooga's CEO Jens Begemann on its renewed focus for 2017

From casual to midcore and back again

• Gamescom
• Casual
• Germany
• Soft Launch
• Live Operations

NEW LORDS Feb 23rd, 2017

Strategy specialist InnoGames snaps up Warlords IP from Wooga

CEOs Hendrik Klindworth and Jens Begemann explain the deal

• Midcore
• Casual
• Strategy Genre
• Warlords

WOOGA INTERVIEW Feb 14th, 2017

Wooga CEO's advice to founders: Prepare to unlearn what you know

Jens Begemann talks at Casual Connect Berlin about his 30 years of making games

• Facebook
• HTML5
• Casual Connect
• Wooga
• Game Dev Story

NOW PLAYING Nov 18th, 2016

Now Playing: Wooga CEO Jens Begemann on Gardenscapes - New Acres

What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?

• Russia
• Match-3
• Now playing

THE TIME IS SOON Aug 26th, 2016

Wooga on establishing a scalable smartwatch gaming market ahead of Apple Watch 2 and watchOS 3

CEO Jens Begemann on Fish Time and experimenting with IAP

• Berlin
• Germany
• Wearables
• Apple Watch
• Smartwatch

SMART TIME? Apr 14th, 2016

Paul Virapen on why smartwatch gaming, not VR, is the big, new opportunity for Wooga

Wrist over head

• Berlin
• Push Notifications
• Germany
• Apple Watch
• Smartwatch

NEVER THE TWAIN Apr 4th, 2016

Wooga on its tactical separation of core and casual development, and why wearables will trump VR

Jens Begemann and Wilhelm Oesterberg on the casual/midcore divide

• GDC
• Berlin
• Midcore
• Casual
• Germany
• Wearables

WOOGA SPIN-OFF Mar 10th, 2016

Wooga spins off new core-focused studio, Black Anvil Games

Turn-based strategy Warlords coming soon from new studio

• Berlin
• Core Gaming
• Germany

1 WHAT’S NEXT Nov 11th, 2015

We’re ignoring VR to focus on smartwatches, says CEO of casual mobile dev Wooga

Slush’s Future of Games

• Virtual Reality
• Smartwatch
• Slush

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