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Drive Ahead! developer Dodreams snags former Rovio SVP Sami Lahtinen as head of studio
Lahtinen will be involved with Drive Ahead!, audience engagement and recruitment
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Mobile Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved set to touch down on mobile as a free-to-play title this spring
Closed beta to also launching today
Chart Topper
Invite-only Fornite Mobile hits the top of iOS games chart in first 24 hours
More invites set to be sent out over the coming months
Touched Down
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile journeys West with Canada soft launch
Available for download from the Google Play store
New Studio
Avakin life developer Lockwood Publishing opens new studio in Newcastle
The new office will be headed up by Ubisoft alumni Joe Stevens
Reaching Out
Google Play reveals a slew of new mobile game advertising features
Rewarded video, playables and open bidding heading to Google Play and the company's services
Glorious
Super Evil Megacorp partners with Alibaba to bring Vainglory to World Electronic Sports Games
MOBA joins the likes of Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Cheers Guys
YoYo Games to hand out free licences for GameMaker Studio 2 during GDC
Games developers can use the suite at Train Jam, The Heart Jam and the Not Going to GDC Game Jam
1v1me
Supercell kicks off Clash Royale League Challenge to give hopeful pros a chance at the big time
Players have until March 19 to reach 20 wins to progress to the next round
Moving Day
Outsourcing specialist Virtuos eyes acquisitions after raising $15 million
The development studio also hopes to double in size over the next three years
Top Dogs
Mobile games spending one-third higher than on PC/Mac, handheld and console combined in 2017
Mobile gaming continues to grow thanks by and large to growth in Asia-Pacific territories
Zombieland
Google Maps to power upcoming location-based augmented reality game The Walking Dead: Our World
Partnership will bring famous landmarks such the Statue of Liberty and the London Eye to the game
Getting Social
Sega and GetSocial study shows that social media is the way to go to engage players
GetSocial's study looks at the 40,000 players brought into Sonic Forces: Speed Battle through non-paid social channels
Big Moves
Lords Mobile generating up to $50 million a month
I Got Games also managed to snag $603 million in revenue for 2017
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Alto’s Odyssey and the reinvention of the snowboarding genre
Team Alto’s executive producer Ryan Cash and producer Eli Cymet talk about growing as a studio, delays and capturing a feeling
Big Moves
Reboot Develop set to welcome speakers from NetEase, Ustwo, Nordeus and more in April
Over 100 talks set to be featured at Reboot Develop on April 19th to 21st in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Decked Out
Valve set to bring Source 2-powered card game Artifact to mobile in 2019
Title will be premium, not free-to-play
Redundancies
Report: Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick lays off half its team
The number of employees laid off could push past 30 before the end of the week
Reality Check
Reality Clash pulls PlayStation veteran Anthony Bray to head up its operations
The hire comes as the company are heading into the launch of a new augmented reality game
Get In
NetEase’s PUBG-like Knives Out reaps $24 million in February thanks to unexpected success in Japan
Japanese players contributed to 80 per cent of global sales outside of the Chinese Market
Simply Splendid
The Sims Mobile tops the App Store download charts as it breaks out of soft launch
EA's new Sims title was originally soft-launched last year
Trolls
“Patent trolls” threaten Clicker Heroes dev with legal action over virtual currency
PlaySaurus asked to pay $35 million licensing fee for violating a patent concerning the sale of virtual currency
Lifes A Pitch
80% of games journalists receive up to 10 review pitches per day
Big Games Machine surveyed over 200 games reviewers in it's first report
All The Marbles
Netmarble’s Lineage 2: Revolution generated $924 million in first 11 months
Seoul-based games publisher also looking to continue big Western push with more titles set for 2018
Jurassic Lark
Ludia gives new location-based AR game Jurassic World Alive the Pokemon Go treatment
New AR title expected to release ahead of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Showcasing Diversity
Google highlights games made by women as part of Change the Game initiative
Apps highlighted include 80 Days, Zen Koi 2, Race for the Galaxy and Kami 2
Quite Honorable
Tencent dangles extra Honor of Kings game time carrot to kids who get good grades
New in-game contracts will let children negotiate play time with their parents
Less And Less
Report: Gameloft to close down Madrid studio
40 employees set to be dismissed
Top Of The Leader Board
Next Games ranks as the best games studio to work at in Finland
Next Games comes out well in Great place to Work's annual survey in Finland
Good Game
Amazon officially acquires cloud development platform GameSparks
Despite being reported back in July 2017 the deal is now official
Indie Mavens
Is there any room for indie games developers to get in on the battle royale trend?
Our mobile mavens weigh in
Clash Of The Titans
Glu Mobile explores strategy genre with new soft-launched IP Titan World
Glu Mobile soft-launches new IP Titan World in the Philippines
Most Read
Zynga targets Indian mobile market, a fresh start for Glu, and big changes at Rovio
The hottest articles of the last week
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
The CEO of publishing giant Tencent is now the richest person in China
Tech mogul Ma Huateng also moved 23 places up the global rich list to 15th
Big Moves
Lineage 2 developer Netmarble names new CEO
South Korean-based developer Netmarble
Going Ape
Space Ape teams up with London universities for Varsity: Masterclass programme in March
UK developer to host a series of seminars in March in association with Universtiy College London and the University of Greenwich
Building Blocks
Unity partners up with blockchain marketplace DMarket for in-game item trading
Unity and DMarket team up to build links between gaming and blockchain trading
Crushed It
Mobile streaming outfit Mobcrush recruits ex-Studio 71 COO Phil Ranta as head of creators
Phil Ranta joins up with Mobcrush to lead their creator community
Egged On
Kirby developer HAL Laboratory’s Part Time UFO touches down in the West
New mobile-focused studio HAL Egg's debut title is out now in the west
Level Up
Video games graduates have more than doubled in the UK over the past five years
Gamer grads in fine company after 116 per cent increase over the last five years
#shetalksgames
Facebook teams up with leading industry figures for new Women in Gaming social hub
The social media giant has committed to helping women find a way into the industry
Big Plays
New global mobile games publisher Finger Punch sets up shop in Singapore
Company plans to partner up with developers across the globe
Wild
Games distributor EuroVideo taps Daedalic and others for new publishing label Wild River
Wild River teams up with German-based studios Daedalic, Independent Arts and Morphicon to release three new mobile games this year
Sweet Money
Candy Crush Soda Saga fizzes into top 10 of global grossing mobile game charts for January 2018
Two Candy Crush games in the top 10 revenue generators for January, according to SuperData
Augmented Spooks
Ghostbusters World gives iconic films the Pokemon Go treatment
South Korean publisher Four Thirty Three and partner studio NextAge on board to develop and publish
No Payne No Gain
Next Games and AMC turn to Jesus to teach gamers about The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
Actors Tom Payne and Alanna Masterson promote mobile title with series of videos
Chart Royale
Tencent’s PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield tops the mobile battle royale stakes in February
Tencent's Playerunkown's Battlegrounds duo make top five most downloaded for February
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Rules of Survival battles its way into the top 10
Rules of Survival leaps up 11 places in this week's charts