Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

With all that immense popularity, its perhaps unsurprising to note that anime has crept into the mobile market, too. Some titles, such as Umamusume: Pretty Derby, have taken things one step further by taking a multimedia approach, with mobile games, anime, and manga series all coexisting and building an ever-expanding universe.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 9, 2025

The company will use the cash to bolster its team and scale into global markets.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 22, 2023

The new studio will deliver networking, UI, mobile, and optimization solutions.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2021, we started building one of Saudi Arabia’s first-ever dedicated games studios, aiming to create ground-breaking titles for PC, console, and mobile that the region could call its own.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Miniclip will become Easybrain's new owner when the deal concludes in early 2025.

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Game Developer

JUNE 10, 2024

The mobile and web3 game maker said it must downsize to achieve 'sustainable growth.'

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Game Developer

JULY 18, 2024

Former employees claim the studio's mobile team has essentially been dismantled.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Hitseeker's new Arabic-language version was launched to support MENA studios and position Kwalee as a 'reliable partner' for developers in the region.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The three-year-old studio is working on a puzzle title its investors say 'has the type of commercial mindset required to succeed in a demanding mobile market.'

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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For mobile game development projects in particular, working with an experienced [.] The post How Game Co-Development Benefits Mobile Game Development Studios appeared first on Starloop Studios. Co-dev can help projects that seem insurmountable feel more realistic and doable thanks to the extra resources and experience.

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Game Developer

MAY 25, 2023

The mobile studio said the cuts were made in pursuit of "greater financial flexibility."

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Dynamis One was established by a group of former Nexon employees who worked on mobile RPG Blue Archive.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2024

Series Entertainment has acquired story-driven, episodic mobile game studio Pixelberry. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Playtika has acquired Innplay Labs, the mobile studio behind games such as Tiles of Fortune and Animals & Coins. As reported by GamesBeat , Playtika will pay an upfront fee of $80 million to acquire the Israel-based studio, which could increase up to $300 million. Read more

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Game Developer

MARCH 26, 2025

The Polish studio has partnered with the mobile specialist to create a game set within one of CD Projekt's IPs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 10, 2025

Trkiye has rapidly established itself as one of the world's most dynamic mobile gaming hubs. Today, Istanbul holds the undisputed crown of the world's mobile gaming capital. Gram Games $250 million Zynga deal reinforced the idea that Turkish studios werent just successfulthey were acquisition targets. Will we crown the new king?

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A new studio has revived the once-popular mobile game Flappy Bird, which was pulled offline by its creator less than a year after launch.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nrhi previously served as chief exec at the mobile studio from 2014 to 2019.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Kwalee has announced that it's taken a stake in French mobile studio 8SEC following a €1.5 Kwalee's CFO Matthew Farrow and its VP of mobile publishing John Wright will also be joining 8SEC's board. The company will remain independent and continue operating from its two studios, in Paris and Lyon. million investment.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hutch revealed it saw a lower turnover of staff and higher job offer acceptance rates during the trial.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Midoki has worked on titles like Knighthood and Crazy Taxi City Rush.

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Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

The new studio is aiming to make a 4X strategy game for the mobile market that can stand with similar titles from Chinese developers.

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Game Developer

JUNE 15, 2023

The competitive real-time-strategy title recently eclipsed 1.5 million downloads.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 21, 2023

User acquisition has become increasingly challenging for mobile marketers ever since Apple introduced its App Tracking Transpency (ATT) policy in April 2021. With that in mind, mobile marketers should focus on identifying better ways to push monetization opportunities to their existing audiences.

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Game Developer

JULY 24, 2023

Closing Theory co-founder Nitin Rajinikanth says games from his new studio will target the most casual of casual video game players.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ever-changing nature of the mobile market means that new monetization mechanics are constantly emerging and evolving. Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature.

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Game Developer

MARCH 7, 2023

Gameloft will still make mobile games, but it sounds like it wants to continue pursuing the PC and console crowd after the success of Disney Dreamlight Valley.

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Big Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

The gaming world is changing fast, and mobile phones are leading the charge. Mobile gaming becomes more impressive with every new smartphone release, making traditional gaming methods out of vogue. Nowadays, with the introduction of mobile 3D games in the market, many game enthusiasts will eventually surpass it.

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Game Developer

MARCH 28, 2024

Loya's near-20 years at Activision Blizzard will now go towards helping Scopely secure deals with third-party mobile studios.

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Starloop Studios

MARCH 20, 2025

Mobile games have changed significantly since their early years. Now, mobile games are complex titles that can sometimes rival what console and PC games have to offer in terms of their immersion, complexity, and game features. More than ever, the features of a mobile game are critical to its place in the market, its [.]

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 20, 2024

Tripledot Studios has acquired fellow mobile game company Zephyr Mobile for an undisclosed sum. The studio is known for a variety of casual titles and apps. Developer and publisher Tripledot is mainly known for mobile title Woodoku.

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Game Developer

APRIL 25, 2023

The studio was quietly formed in 2022 by a group of former King, Seriously, and Next Games developers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 2, 2024

Mobile and indie game developer Paladin Studios has ceased its operations. Paladin's announcement attributed the decision to the studio's lack of work. "We We unfortunately failed to land enough work to cover our burn-rate. Yesterday we hit an inflection point for our financial security," it said. Read more

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. However, as we wrote last year , many top-grossing mobile games have found that minigames are the best way to boost UA and player retention.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 19, 2023

PlayStation has lost its head of mobile, as MobileGamer.biz has reported that Nicola Sebastiani has left the company to "pursue a new, undisclosed opportunity." Sebastiani joined PlayStation as the VP and head of mobile in July of 2021. Prior to that, he had spent seven years at Apple where he was head of content for Apple Arcade.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 25, 2024

Since then, the historical real-time strategy series has had multiple releases on platforms such as home consoles and mobile devices. With Age of Empires 4 pleasing fans on PC and Xbox, Microsoft is making another attempt to attract smartphone audiences with the upcoming Age of Empires Mobile. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy 14 is being developed for mobile by Lightspeed Studios. Read more

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