Marvel Contest of Champions maker Kabam cuts jobs, closes LA office
It’s unclear how many staff are affected but the publisher has confirmed to gamedeveloper.com that it is to streamline operations and “consolidate” its LA office.
The soft launch games you need to know about from EA, Playrix, Century, Zynga and more
Take a peek at the games in testing from the mobile games industry’s top publishers.
New game digest: Pokémon, Kingdom Rush, Barbie, soft launches from Century and Miniclip, more
We've also got Deep Rock Galactic, the closure of blockchain game Pudgy Party and a couple more notable newbies in our round-up this week.
The new studio from two former King execs, Queen Digital Entertainment, has closed
LinkedIn posts suggest the studio had been running for at least three years and had hired 25 staff. It also had four titles in soft launch during that time.
On the podcast: amateur devs score hits with 38-0, WWDC reactions, May’s top games, Orna, more
This week’s inside view of the mobile game business.
Pokémon Go-like RPG Orna has defied trends and turbulence to survive for eight years
Nine-person studio Northern Forge says it has passed 4.5m downloads by staying lean and focused on delivering what its “fiercely loyal” community demands.
What Apple developers really thought of WWDC 2026
In the absence of any meaningful games features, Siri and AI were the main topics of conversation on the ground in Cupertino last week.
38-0 is the second amateur-made football drafting game to break into the UK App Store top ten
Hobbyist Josh Pavey made 38-0 in a few days just for fun. Since launch last Thursday, it has racked up over 100k downloads and broke into the UK games top ten.
May’s top grossing mobile games: Honor of Kings, Whiteout Survival, Royal Match, more
Last War plummets, Kingshot continues to grow as Brawl Stars, Free Fire Max, Love and Deepspace and Goddess of Victory: Nikke climb the rankings.
May’s top mobile game downloads: Arrows, Amaze Go, Free Fire, Block Blast and more
'Arrows' games take up three of the top ten downloads as Block Blast and Vita Mahjong tail off and Fortnite returns to iOS in Appmagic's monthly install numbers.
Jobs digest: moves at Lego, Supercell, Appcharge, Tilting Point, Scopely, Rovio, more
There's also news from Super Evil Megacorp's Segerstrale plus further recruitment news from Zynga, Play Ventures, Fortis, Wooga, Tactile Games, Dream Games, CrazyLabs and many 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.
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.
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.
