New game digest: Dave The Diver, One Piece, FIFA World Cup, Soccer Clash, Don’t Starve, Subway Surfers(?), more
We've also got new soft launches from Rollic and Popcore, Aniimo, this summer's Apple Arcade games and a load of major game updates for the likes of Fortnite, Zenless Zone Zero and more.
The UK’s number one iOS game 38-0-0 was built overnight by an amateur using Claude
The viral football drafting game is currently beating Fortnite to the top spot on iOS in the UK. Here’s a quick chat with its creator, Deniz Sancar.
On the podcast: Summer Game Fest thoughts, Supercell kills US games, Xbox chat, EA’s mobile misstep, more
This week’s inside view of the mobile game business.
Fans were so unhappy with Command & Conquer Rivals that EA remastered the original and released its source code
“We didn't really have permission, necessarily, to stray too far from what that core PC experience was,” says EA exec Laura Miele of the fan reaction to 2018 flop Command and Conquer Rivals.
Data digest: Türkiye, US, Asia and MENA market stats, Pokémon Go, UA funding and more
This week's need-to-know numbers all in one place.
There were no mobile games at Summer Game Fest, and for good reason
There are already too many games trying to serve this relatively small hardcore audience. And mobile game marketers have already found better ways to reach the players they want to reach.
Matthew Ball knows mobile has the most players and revenue – but he’s got to fix Xbox’s console business first
New Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball says his first task is to rescue its console business – so growing Microsoft’s presence in mobile and PC will have to come later.
Supercell has killed one of its US game projects, and the other is MIA
The game Steve Desilets and Matt Mocarski were working on is definitely closed, while most staff working on the other US-based game departed months ago, it seems.
The soft launch games you need to know about from Playrix, Century, Zynga and more
Take a peek at the games in testing from the mobile games industry’s top publishers.
Supercell to fully acquire Merge Mansion maker Metacore amid restructure, with 160 jobs at risk
UPDATE: Metacore has now confirmed that it'll close its offices in Germany and Sweden and there will be 159 job cuts in Finland. The Supercell acquisition remains in process.
New game digest: Game of Thrones, FIFA, Pokémon, Masters of the Universe, Talking Tom, Barbie, more
There's also new games from Noodlecake and Nuverse plus a load of games participating in the Green Game Jam in this week's round-up.
Pokémon Champions is coming to mobile on June 17
Preregistration is live now on iOS and Android after the arena battler’s Nintendo-first launch in April.
Liftoff’s IPO is back on – and values the adtech firm at $3.83bn
The performance marketing and monetisation firm has offered 19m shares of common stock at $23 per share, raising $437m at the second time of asking.
Supercell, King and Sybo bosses hit out at “scary” EU proposals
Ilkka Paananen, Todd Green and Mathias Gredal Nørvig told the Financial Times that incoming EU proposals could make free to play games “unplayable in Europe”.
Apple nominates Inkle, Devolver, FuturLab, Toppluva and more in annual design awards
UPDATE: Apple has revealed the winners, which include Is This Seat Taken?, Pine Hearts, Jinja's Garden and Consume Me.
Mattel’s debut firstparty game is Masters of the Universe tie-in Skeletor: Until Next Time
The runner was developed with outsourcing firm Amber and is out now, just ahead of the film’s release on June 5.
