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More Zynga Hires
Zynga recruits another EA exec as its new Chief Financial Officer
Gerard Griffin leaves EA after 10 years
Apple In China
Apple's new hardware-focused R&D centre in China to cost $45 million
Will employ 500 people
To War!
Wooga spin-off Black Anvil launches first game Warlords after a year in soft launch
Definitely unaffected by Wooga cuts
Pew Pew Pew
YouTube sensation PewDiePie signs multi-game deal with Goat Simulator designer's new studio
Working together on comedy games
Warner Slots
Warner Bros enters the social casino market with Extra Slots Stars
Still a tie-in production, but more casual than usual
Pokemon No
Outraged Pokemon GO players have been filing complaints with the Federal Trade Commission
Users ticked off with bans and trespassers
Fix Up Look Sharp
Ubisoft launches new casual title Face Up, its first mobile game following the Ketchapp acquisition
Maybe looking into the casual market a little more intently?
New Apple Campus
Apple to set up enormous new campus at Battersea Power Station
Moving most of its London staff there
Heart Of China
New Chinese games company and Jagex owner Zhongji Holding eyes acquisitions
Looking to acquire more developers
Peak Smartphone
UK to hit "peak smartphone" as market saturates, but replacement market will thrive
Almost everyone has one, but there's always a new model
Bit Of A Jam
BlackBerry ceases smartphone manufacturing as company reports $372 million net loss
CFO James Yersh set to leave
Strong Tactics
Israeli hardcore strategy developer Tacticsoft raises $1 million to work on ambitious new game
London Venture Partners and Gigi Levy-Weiss invest
Flixy Funding
Indian publisher Flixy Games raises $425,000 in seed funding from Japanese VC
Launches first game, Avatars Clash: Comet on Mahaar
Crushing It
Candy Crush Saga users have played more than one trillion games in last four years
18 billion games played every month
Samsung Under Fire
Samsung comes under fire once again as a Galaxy Note 7 explodes in China
Not having the best month
Hit Me
KamaGames brings its social casino games to messaging app Viber
Makes it easier to talk to friends while playing Blackjack
Making A Mark
How a vibrant community is helping shape the future of 60-second RPG Exiles of Embermark
Tim Harris talks us through the latest in Exiles' development
End Of The Road
Roadhouse Interactive's CEO opens up on the studio's cash flow problems and closure
Key client pulled out of apps business
Zynga Hiring Spree
Zynga hires ex-DeNA VP Doug Scott as its new CMO
Yet another senior hire for Zynga
Blizzard In China
Blizzard and NetEase extend mainland China games partnership to January 2020
Happy to keep working together
Take Note
Samsung's "improved" Galaxy Note 7 is still overheating in South Korea
Sales delayed until October 1st
More Monsters
Rovio's Pet Monsters expands soft launch to India, Ireland, and the UK
Flat out fails in the UK
Fraud Or Flight
Apps marketers will lose up to $100 million from fraud in 2016
AppsFlyer introduces DeviceRank to combat it
Get Into The Jam
SGN Games rebrands as Jam City as it bolsters branded IP roster with Peanuts license
All in the name of growth
Party Hats And Streamers
BlueStacks integrates Facebook Live streaming into its Android-to-PC platform
Making streaming even easier
We Jammin'
XX+ Games Jam to host jam for women in UK and Canada on October 14th
24 hours to make a game
Battle's End
Blizzard dropping Battle.net name after almost 20 years of service
Technology will continue to be used
Creative Crossley
Creative England appoints ex-GameSpot editor Rob Crossley as Head of Games
Informing future strategies and decisions
Key Frames
NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title
Real-time inverse kinematics, they call it
Indie Game Funding
Consultancy Games Co. London raises $782,000 to invest in new indie games
Three new games to receive funding
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
'allo 'allo
Google releases iOS 10 Messages rival app Allo
Stickers, font sizes, and Google Assistant
Going To China
Pokemon GO aiming for release in China, says Pokemon Company's CEO
New features still on their way
A Good Note
Improved Galaxy Note 7's are already being sold by US mobile carriers
Only 25% of owners have returned their exploding phones
Going, Going, Gone
Pokemon GO falls from the top of the US App Store grossing charts for first time in 74 days
Still floundering in Japan
Have A Corona
Perk sells Corona Labs to its own CEO as competition in the game engine space heats up
Paying him back for his shares
Nexus No More?
Google teases new smartphone announcement at October 4th event
Maybe we'll see Google Daydream too?
Less Life
Samsung limits Galaxy Note 7 battery life to stop them from exploding
Adds an alert to phones telling users to turn them off
Tanks For The Memories
Wargaming's Tank 100 app lets users see 100 tanks in 100 UK locations through AR and VR
See them in the real world, watch a film about them in VR
Match-third
One-third of Japan's 127 million population has downloaded Puzzle & Dragons
So says Serkan Toto
Pick 'n' Mix
MoPub helps devs reduce app size and pick select ad formats with new modular SDK
Pick and choose which ads you want to implement
Samsung Lawsuit
Galaxy Note 7 owner sues Samsung after phone explodes in their pocket
Amount of damages undisclosed
Very Much Alive
Warner Bros. Suicide Squad: Special Ops achieves 10 million downloads
70% of downloads on Google Play
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It's A Hit
Trophit and Adways join forces to boost Prelaunch.me's pre-registration campaigns
More gifts equals more pre-registrations
The Dead Rise Revenues
Scopely scores big as Walking Dead: Road To Survival reaches $5 ARPDAU and 25 million downloads
Impressive numbers across the board
China Esports Deal
Huyai Brothers invests $288 million in major Chinese eSports developer Hero Entertainment
Good deal for both sides
Cast Iron Team
CastAR snaps up ex-Avalanche staff to bolster new Salt Lake City studio
From toys-to-life to mixed reality
Super Mavens Run
What impact will Super Mario Run have on mobile indie game developers?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in