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Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo De Masi has detailed his company’s superstar-focused strategy, explaining that celebrity partnerships work as permanent marketing assets for their respective games. Games Industry reports on De Masi’s appearance at GamesBeat 2015, where the executive touched on the value a celebrity can bring to a casual-focused studio …
Read More »This year Movember has a smartphone game
Growing a fabulous moustache isn’t going to be the only way to contribute to Movember this year. GameSpot reports that The Movember Foundation has today launched a game on iOS called Run Mo Run! It’s also on the way to Android, although that version doesn’t seem to have appeared yet. …
Read More »NHL Supercard launches on iOS and Android
2K Games has announced a follow-up to its free-to-play mobile trading card game property Supercard, launching NHL Supercard for iOS and Android platforms. The hockey game features more than 450 cards, which can be trained in playmaking, stick handling, focus, and skating. Players can participate in quick games to earn …
Read More »‘More tactical than Clash of Clans’: How Age of Empires fights back on mobile
Smoking Gun tells us how fully controllable armies and proprietary tech helps Castle Siege stand out
Read More »Bethesda ‘has concerns’ about the quality of free-to-play shooter Battlecry
It seems that things aren’t going completely as planned for Bethesda’s upcoming free-to-play third-person shooter Battlecry. After a big reveal in May of last year, the multiplayer-focused title has remained primarily out of the spotlight. There were plans for a closed beta (which eventually failed to take place) and a …
Read More »Now Telltale’s games have been pulled from the Apple App Store
Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands are currently the only Telltale Games available to purchase from the Apple App Store. Eurogamer reports that The Walking Dead, Back to the Future, The Wolf Among Us, Jurassic Park and Sam and Max have all vanished. And not only are they …
Read More »Do developers even need Apple TV?
Developers discuss whether Apple’s device can avoid the same fate as past struggling microconsoles and set-top boxes
Read More »Features-as-a-Service: The next frontier in mobile games
Fuel Powered's CTO and co-founder Alan Price discusses
Read More »New Chromecast improves game-streaming function
Users can now stream Android and iOS titles to their TV
Read More »No iOS 9 compatibility planned for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Owners of Capcom’s Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on iOS are not able to play the game if they have updated to the latest version of Apple’s OS. The game, a port of the PSP title of the same name, is not compatible with iOS 9. And it looks as if …
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