Strategy
PlayRaven leaves Eve: War of Ascension to CCP after joining Rovio’s flock
CCP London will take over the development of the galactic MMO tie-in
Close The Gates
Mobile RTS Age of Empires: Castle Siege will go offline in May 2019
Developer Smoking Gun will use the Castle Siege technology to develop a new, unannounced RTS
To Boldly Go
Scopely taps Star Trek IP for 4X strategy game Fleet Command
Set for global release on November 29th
First Strike
Tropico dev Kalypso acquires classic Commandos IP
Plans to develop new games in the franchise, remaster old titles for new hardware
Grand Strategy
Paradox expects 10 per cent of sales to come from mobile by 2020
Tencent-backed PC strategy giant has eyes set on mobile development and more acquisitions
Having A Blast
Following its $500m takeover Plarium expands into the casual games space with Lost Island: Blast Adventure
Director of game design Dima Karger discusses the studio's adventure into a new genre
Strategic Development
Exploring the links between 4X games and mobile monetisation
Tappx's Kinga Kruzmanowska analyses what makes these titles so successful
Sweet Deal
Jam City acquires Colombian World War Doh developer Brainz
Publisher expanding into real-time strategy development
Featured Features
The hottest strategy features in the US, China and Japan
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your strategy game's design and its chances for global success
Iap Inspector
How does War Dragons monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Stillfront Acquires Goodgame
Stillfront acquires Hamburg-based strategy game developer Goodgame Studios for $318 million
Goodgame's owners now become majority shareholders in Stillfront
Two Tribes
NetEase reveals Nerds vs Veterans battle in Immortal Conquest to raise $15,000 for charity
Dan Bull and Stephen Machuga lead the charge
Seeking Balance
How Titanfall: Assault nudged its players’ tactical ambitions
The power of Amp Field
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part one: The history
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Of Metal And Men
From console FPS to mobile RTS: The shaping of Titanfall: Assault
Particle City’s journey
Fulfilling The Vision
InnoGames on finishing what Wooga started with Warlords
Studio Director Philip Bang on the project so far
Coming To Mobile
How Elvenar became InnoGames' second biggest game with a 50% female player base
Ulrike Kunkel on bringing Elvenar to mobile
Bridging The Gap
Swedish mobile developer FunRock opens new studio in Egypt
MENA-focused team physically moves into the region
From The Ashes
Kabam spin-off Phoenix One decloaks to reveal hardcore real-time strategy game Guardian Kingdoms
Developed as Kabam was considering selling its business
King Of The World
80% of Gamevil's War of Crown's one million downloads came from outside South Korea
Surprising turnout for a particularly Korean game
The Hardcore Mobile Paradox
Paradox Interactive on expanding its game universes on mobile and avoiding dumbed-down versions
How Kim Nordström is targeting hardcore PC players for mobile games
Paradox On Mobile
Paradox Interactive opens new mobile games development studio in Malmö
Prison Architect: Mobile is just the beginning
Ready For Titanfall
Particle City ditches CCG for RTS in next mobile game Titanfall Assault
More likely to capture the series' "action-packed gameplay"
Strategy And Insight
Mobile strategy games on Android have a D30 retention rate of 3% and generate an ARPU of $2.23
AppsFlyer digs deep into the state of strategy titles on mobile
Tactical Victory
Why DomiNations’ $100 million LTV is as good as it gets
Deconstructing the ceiling of success
The Potion Is Lava
Palringo's Magnus Alm sets up new premium strategy game developer Lavapotion
With the help of co-owner Coffee Stain Studios
New Lords
Strategy specialist InnoGames snaps up Warlords IP from Wooga
CEOs Hendrik Klindworth and Jens Begemann explain the deal
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: PlayRaven's Paul Kurowski on how to get a job as a Game Lead
Spymaster Game Lead shares career insights
Metagame Over Gameplay
Why PlayRaven is ditching second-to-second gameplay in favour of rich metagame
CEO Lasse Seppanen on Winterstate and Spymaster
F2p Td
Outplay on why free-to-play tower defence games can still be successful
Stefan Wittelsburger and Ross Stephens on state of play for TD
On The Offensive
Where have all the tower defence games gone?
With developers looking elsewhere, we take a look at whether the genre is dying off
Beyond Build-and-battle
Space Ape's next games will look "radically different," says Simon Hade
But will use the experience from build-and-battle to grow
Live And Kicking
One year on: Space Ape Games on the evolution of Rival Kingdoms
COO Simon Hade on the game's life so far
Slow Burner
FunPlus' King of Avalon surges to the summit of the US App Store top grossing charts
Aggressive marketing the key?
Might And Magic On Mobile
Black Anvil's first and last game: the making of Warlords
Putting the 'core' back in midcore
Playraven Profile
How PlayRaven is embracing Finland's sharing culture to reboot Spymaster
CEO Lasse Seppanen on the journey so far
Iap Inspector
How does Wooga's midcore debut Warlords monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Walking Disruptor
Disruptor Beam reveals new story-driven mulitplayer game The Walking Dead: March to War
Story-driven competitive multiplayer strategy based on the comics
Back To Grind
Plarium looks to fight another battle with the launch of mobile MMOG Throne: Kingdom at War
Medieval strategy hits app stores
Be The Baddies
Why Turbine wants you to see yourself become the villain in Batman: Arkham Underworld
Behind the scenes with Executive Producer Athena Peters
War Theory Meets Supercell
Plarium on the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical levels of war in Clash Royale
Guy Ulmer on the games disrupting the flow
Strategy And Celebrity Titles Incoming
Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty sets up new Indian game developer Viaan Studios
Indian handset manufacturer Viaan Industries diversifies
Mechanical Marvels
More than meets the eye: the making of Transformers: Earth Wars
Space Ape CEO Simon Hade on a subtle transformation
Coming Soon?
Is Sega working on a mobile strategy RPG called Sega Blast Heroes?
Facebook ad suggests so
King Of Kings
Turn-based strategy Rise of Tyrants is King's other soft-launched midcore title
Has been in development for 21 months
Developing Strategy
Helsinki strategy experts PlayRaven hiring Senior Game Designer
Spymaster and Winterstate seeks experienced F2P design pro
This Year's Model
NetEase's mobile RTS Evercraft debuted at E3 2016
Mobile RTS is going global
Riding The Wave
How moving to free-to-play saved Stronghold developer Firefly Studios
And why mobile is next on the studio's agenda
A New Strategy
How Space Ape's next games take an either/or approach to market trends and passion for gameplay
COO Simon Hade on playing with new genres
Dos And Dont's
The cost of bad UX: why Star Wars: Commander hasn't reached Supercell-level success
Player Research CEO Graham McAllister on UX cardinal sins