April 20, 2022

Mga 2022 Best Indie Developer

Mobile is a "really punishing format" for indies, says inkle's Jon Ingold

inkle talks about its return to mobile, changes to the App Store and interactive fiction audiences, and the need for cross-platform Steam or Switch releases

March 17, 2022

Into Android

Scuti expands marketplace to Android with solitaire game Mahjong Deluxe

Cross-platform rewards

February 23, 2022

Backbone Backed

Backbone raises $40 million to bring console and PC games to mobile

Back by Kevin Hart, Post Malone, The Weeknd, and more

February 15, 2022

Studio Shares

Krafton acquires Smash Legends dev 5minlab for $19.9 million

100 per cent of shares acquired

January 26, 2022

Out Of Hiding

Social First launches with $2.5 million backing to create cross-platform, social games

Founded by industry veterans Kim Soares and Mikko Kähärä

January 25, 2022

Cross-platform Compatible

Tilting Point to bring mobile games to PC, Mac, and Browser

Starting with Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest and Operation: New Earth

November 15, 2021

Speaker Spotlight

What will the mobile space look like as we head into 2022?

Anzu's director of mobile games, Lev Kommisarchik looks to the future at PG Connects Digital NEXT

June 17, 2021

Everywhere

RuneScape goes cross-platform with mobile release

Hit 1.8 million pre-registrations

May 10, 2021

Epic V Apple

Master the Meta: Fortnite’s cross-platform strategy

Fortnite’s multi-platform presence revealed as the full legal drama unfolds

April 8, 2021

Walking Dead

PUBG Mobile studio working on cross-platform zombie survival game Undawn

Coming to mobile and PC later this year

March 3, 2021

Welcome To The Family

Zynga snaps up cross-platform studio Echtra Games

It will work on a multi-platform RPG with NaturalMotion

February 19, 2021

Xplatform Play

Zynga’s plan to accelerate growth in 2021

COO Matt Bromberg on the road ahead

February 9, 2021

Pgc Digital

PGC Digital: Xsolla's Miikka Luotio on the benefits of going cross-platform

"In 10 years, you won't even think about a platform"

March 22, 2019

Xbox Live

GDC 2019: 4.28 billion game hours played over Xbox Live across platforms every month

64 million monthly active users

March 18, 2019

Communication

GDC 2019: Cross-platform social app Evasyst offering early access

20 people can stream simultaneously

February 27, 2019

Funding Reality

Helsinki start-up Hipfire Games raises $205k for debut VR and mobile cross-platform title Fail Space

Studio focused on creating multiplayer experiences in virtual reality

February 21, 2019

Come Together

Report: Apple wants to combine Mac, iPad and iPhone development with new SDK

Codenamed Marzipan, could be about to make life much easier for software creators

February 6, 2019

Change Of Name

Microsoft Studios renames to Xbox Game Studios

"2019 is going to be a great year for Xbox gamers everywhere"

February 6, 2019

Clash Of The Titans

Apex Legends battle royale could get mobile cross-play

One million players in eight hours

February 5, 2019

Cross-platform Xbox

Microsoft readying SDK for Xbox Live cross-play on mobile and Nintendo Switch

In part thanks to the Big M's acquisition of PlayFab in January 2018

December 12, 2018

Huge!

Epic is sharing Fortnite's cross-platform system with developers for free

"We have put huge efforts into building services for Fortnite that reach 200 million players across seven platforms"

November 1, 2018

Best Of Both Worlds

How Super Bit Machine hopes Armajet will ride Fortnite’s coat-tails to cross-platform success

Fighting on both fronts

September 26, 2018

Cross-platform Royale

Sony relents to enable PS4 cross-play with rival platforms

Starting with an open beta for Fortnite players

June 22, 2018

Beef

Nintendo and Microsoft dunk Sony on Twitter over Minecraft cross-play

Sony’s cross-play policy has been under public scrutiny since Fortnite launched on Switch

June 15, 2018

Storm Closing In

Nintendo and Xbox go on the attack as Sony flounders on Fortnite cross-play controversy

Crackdown on cross-platform play continues to rile up players

June 13, 2018

Fortifying Ps4

Sony blocks Fortnite cross-play between PS4 and Nintendo Switch

The battle royale hit can still be played between mobile, PC, Mac and Xbox One though

March 9, 2018

Small-screen Dinner

Epic’s Fortnite Battle Royale is coming to mobile with PC and PS4 cross-play

Developer claims title will have same gameplay, map, content and weekly updates

October 30, 2017

Power Of Nemesis

Authentic yet distinctive: How Middle-earth: Shadow of War came to mobile

Spanning worlds

July 17, 2017

Mobilescape

Why Jagex is finally bringing RuneScape to mobile with cross-platform play

Neil McClarty offers up the details MMO's big jump to smartphones and tablets

June 12, 2017

Minecraft Everywhere

Minecraft adds cross-platform play between mobile, PC and consoles

DLC will also transfer between consoles

August 5, 2016

Mobile To Desktop

The top 4 reasons to play Android games on your PC

Yossi Fishler is platform agnostic

June 6, 2016

Number Crunch

650 million people play Facebook-connected games each month

So says global games partnerships director Leo Olebe

May 17, 2016

New Audiences

How web portal Poki is helping Color Switch reach 150 million downloads

And how it can help other developers to reach a wider audience

March 30, 2016

Trump That

GameDuell switches focus from casual to cross-platform card and board games

Shuts down internal studio

March 22, 2016

Open Your Horizon

5 tips for launching your mobile game on Windows 10

Jae Chan Shin on going cross-platform

September 22, 2015

How He Dunnit

Her Story dev Sam Barlow on how the innovative detective game found an audience

Sam Barlow interviewed

September 7, 2015

Everything's Hard

The grass is not always greener on PC and console, warns Rami Ismail

Sage advice from PGC Helsinki

July 3, 2015

Volte Face

Mobile game developers need to value their work and increasingly that starts with price

Carter Dotson wants to pay upfront

July 2, 2015

Moba On The Move

As it goes cross-platform with Android support, Vainglory announces 1.5 million MAUs

Also moving into eSports

June 2, 2015

Go Faster

MetalGL brings Metal API support from within OpenGL ES 2.0

iOS graphics bought back cross-platform

May 22, 2015

Fighting On Your Strengths

Can indies compete in mobile with the likes of Nintendo, Konami and Square Enix?

Indie Mavens talk agility and going cross-platform

April 21, 2015

Only Apple

Apple is now rejecting iOS games which contain adverts that mention other platforms

Another banhammer falls

January 20, 2015

Competition

[Updated] Find success on Windows Phone with Marmalade and Microsoft's developer offer

Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions

November 19, 2014

Investment

Disruptor Beam raises $3.2 million for Star Trek Timelines and other projects

Midverse Studios and GrandBanks Capital boldly go

November 7, 2014

Outfit7 makes its Bee7 discovery and monetisation tool open to all Android devs

Cross-promo or generate revenue

November 3, 2014

Microsoft joins the wearable battle with its notification and fitness-friendly Band

Takes a cross-platform approach

October 8, 2014

Multiplayer and more: Google ups cross-platform support for Android developers

New tools and services enable smarter link up with iOS

September 8, 2014

Mobile Mavens

Our Indie Mavens discuss whether it's a case of mobile-only, mobile-first or mobile-last?

Launch question for our latest expert group

August 29, 2014

Synergetic, not cannabalistic: How Facebook is becoming gaming's glue

Gaming partnerships guru Bob Slinn talks cross platform

August 11, 2014

Tools

GameMaker: Studio beefs up support for Microsoft hardware, adding Xbox One

More cross-platform than ever