Poopdiepie
Bulb Boy developer Bulbware partners with YouTuber PewDiePie for upcoming mobile game Poopdie
PewDiePie providing creative direction with Bulbware handling development
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Magic Notion's Richard Franke on learning to run a business and making inclusive games
The importance of looking after yourself and handling the expectations of a community
Glu Disney Partnership
Glu Mobile partners with Disney to use its stories and characters in upcoming mobile game
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes creative lead Mike Olsen taking the helm on the game
Bridge Constructor Portal
A bridge too far: How Headup Games persuaded Valve to license the Portal IP for a Bridge Constructor game
Game engineer Mark Aldrup on avoiding free-to-play and plans for the future
Netmarble: The Gathering
Netmarble partners with Wizards of the Coast on real-time multiplayer Magic: The Gathering mobile game
Project M is expected to launch sometime in 2018
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Italic Pig's Kevin Beimers on defining success and following butterflies
"That game you want to make? Make it."
Good Behaviour
Warner Bros partners with Fallout Shelter dev Behaviour Interactive on Westworld mobile game
It looks a lot like Fallout Shelter
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Dumpling Design's Travis Ryan on financial challenges and exploring AR
"I’m not sure there is a ‘typical’ day as an indie, is there?"
Thunderful News
Image & Form and Zoink merge studios to form "powerhouse" company Thunderful Games
Bringing together 46 staff to create bigger and better games
Dreams To Life
How developers turn their ideas into reality
Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others
Apple Buddy
Apple acquires app development platform Buddybuild
Team to join the Xcode engineering group
Nintendo Partnerships
Nintendo reportedly looking for new mobile developers to work with outside of DeNA partnership
GungHo could be in the running
Keywords At It Again
Keywords Studios picks up work-for-hire developer Sperasoft for $27 million
$21 million in cash now, the rest in shares and $1 million cash next year
Skidstorm Sale
Finnish dev Immobile sells Early Access game SkidStorm to Cheetah Mobile after pirated version goes viral in China
Publishing deal turns into an offer too good to turn down
Creator's Club
GameMaker Studio 2 launches $39 Creator tier for novice developers
Get access to the full kit for less - but you'll still need to shell out to develop on mobile
War Robots Vr
Pixonic turns to Kickstarter to fund upcoming multiplayer game War Robots VR
Aiming to launch on PC in early 2018
Power Of Nemesis
Authentic yet distinctive: How Middle-earth: Shadow of War came to mobile
Spanning worlds
Every Plane’s A Game
Twists and turns: How Glenn Corpes accidentally built the “fastest AR action game”
From Magic Carpet to ARKit
Seeking Balance
How Titanfall: Assault nudged its players’ tactical ambitions
The power of Amp Field
All Upside Down
No monetisation, just old school passion: BonusXP on making Netflix tie-in Stranger Things
CEO Dave Pottinger on a different sort of project
Perforce Acquires Hansoft
Perforce acquires agile planning tools developer Hansoft
Version control tools firm adds planning tools to its portfolio
Uk Games Funding
Review of UK's creative industries calls for £23.7 million investment for UK Games Fund
Bazalgette Review outlines ways the games industry needs to be helped
Atari Deal
Atari signs two-game publishing deal with crowdfunding platform Fig
Rebooting a classic franchise and bringing out a brand new IP
Conspext Hires Kuju
Conspexit Games hires Kuju to develop unannounced mobile AR game
Aiming to aid in bringing about social change
Amazon's Next Top Hq
Amazon begins public search for city to host its planned $5 billion second headquarters
Promises to bring 50,000 jobs to the city
Of Metal And Men
From console FPS to mobile RTS: The shaping of Titanfall: Assault
Particle City’s journey
Indie Mavens
What do indie developers think about Apple's ARKit?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Ready To Rumble
Take-Two to focus on WWE and NBA mobile games following Social Point acquisition
Might move on if these games perform well
Dena X Nintendo
DeNA dedicates 10% of staff to Nintendo mobile games
DeNA and Nintendo's partnership is going "extremely well"
Rising Costs
Mobile game development costs in Japan have risen as high as $9 million per game
Serkan Toto looks into the rising cost of making a game
Developing A Legend
"We have a plan, and we're sticking to the plan": Nordeus on the continuing development of Spellsouls
The Spellsouls team discuss how development is progressing six months after soft-launching
Unity For Everyone
"People have been using Unity for non-gaming things for years"
Product Manager Mike Wuetherick talks Timeline, Cinemachine and opening Unity to everyone
Australian Funding
Film Victoria awards $500,000 to nine Australian developers to help finish their games
Mobile titles include Joko's World: Pocket Planet and Paper House's Paperbark
Brighter Future
Silicon Studio acquires real-time global illumination tool Enlighten from ARM subsidiary Geomerics
Where does that leave Geomerics?
Merge Funding
Mobile VR manufacturer Merge VR starts $1 million Merge Developer Fund
Free dev kits for its Merge Cube also available
Efficient Teams
The lean approach to game development
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze analyses how the development framework works when it comes to making games
Into The Fold
Perforce puts Seapine Software acquisition to use with rebranded TestTrack ALM
Helix ALM now available to developers
Finnish Games Jobs
Finland's games industry growth is slowing - but a new generation of students could help boost it once again
Developers offer their thoughts on how to fix the country's internal recruitment woes
Nicalis Acquisitions
Nicalis picks up SuperVillain Studios and Cowboy Color to expand development capabilities
SuperVillain absorbed into Nicalis' internal development team
Apple China R&d
Apple investing $507 million in China as it plans to open two more R&D centres
How much R&D can one company do?
Grab A Corona
Appodeal snaps up 2D game engine developer Corona Labs
Opening up its Enterprise pricing tier for free
Rivals On Hold
Hi-Rez Studios halts development on Smite Rivals to focus on PC projects
Needs significant additional development
Corona Sparks
Corona Labs adds GameSparks plug-in to make backend servers simpler for mobile developers
Multiplayer servers set up from one tool
Github For Unity
GitHub introduces extension for Unity to allow devs easier access to code resources
Also includes storage for large binary assets
Tools Of The Trade
What tools does Candy Crush maker King use to develop its hugely successful games?
Oleg Pridiuk looks behind the curtain
Grow Your Biz
Paladin Studios on how to develop your business as an indie developer
Kay Gruenwoldt explores the different steps
Third-party Switch
EA, Ubisoft, Bandai Namco and more reveal first games to launch on Nintendo Switch
Sega, Capcom, and some indies also throw their games out
The Lives Of Devs
Finnish game developers reveal their daily lives in new YouTube series Devs
Fingersoft, Kiemura already confirmed
Remote Control
How to successfully run a development studio when your team works remotely
Radmule Labs' CEO breaks it down
Unity Certification Partners
Unity gives greenlight to external training providers to offer Unity Certification Exams
11 partners already signed up