Microsoft has enacted widespread layoffs across its games division that includes around 200 job losses at King. As reported by Bloomberg, people “familiar with the plans” claimed the Candy Crush Saga ...

EA has soft-launched a mobile app for its messaging platform EA Connect in Canada. Its available across platforms and is typically accessible in-game. Players can search for friends using their EA ID ...

Media conglomerate Perfect World is conducting an internal anti-corruption investigation into alleged violations of company policies and labour contracts by multiple employees. According to local ...

Lebanon-based developer and publisher Yayy has ceased operations. The former hypercasual mobile games studio had employed 25 staff, including the founding team. The company was known for several ...

India's mobile games market reached 8.45 billion installs in FY 2024-25 more than doubling Indonesia’s 3.34 billion and far ahead of the Philippines at 1.5bn. That's according to a new report from ...

Gameplay involves strategically selecting a squad of mechs from over 500 units and deploying them tactfully into the field of war. The roster has continued to expand since release with Gundam ...

Since 2003, the Taipei Game Show, organized by the Taipei Computer Association, has grown from a few thousand visitors to hundreds of thousands of players at home and abroad every year. Witnessing the ...

Former Netflix Games VP Mike Verdu has formed a new AI startup called Playful.AI with Zynga founder Mark Pincus. Pincus and Verdu will act as co-CEOs, with a registry filing seen by PocketGamer.biz ...

Record installs last year could also result in greater revenue for the genre overall as many solitaire games feature ads - meaning opportunities to earn outside of player spending. Speaking with game ...

Of course, there was some risk in all this. We weren’t sure if the shift in focus would go over well with our target audience. But looking back now, we can safely say it worked. Players are diving ...

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Moshi Monsters’ comeback Kickstarter campaign has been targeted by a "malicious actor" who submitted multiple fake pledges. Mind Candy launched its campaign to revive Moshi Monsters as a mobile game ...