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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Second Dinner’s Marvel Snap and Moonton’s Mobile Legends have gone offline in the US after they became collateral damage in the TikTok ban. Marvel Snap is published by ByteDance-owned Nuverse, while ...

WeChat is the main ecosystem app in China, pretty much replacing all of the usual Silicon Valley staples in just one app. The latest statistics show that in 2024, there were 845.4 million WeChat users ...

Craig Chapple, Paige Cook and Aaron Astle from the PocketGamer.biz team discuss the latest mobile games industry news from the past week. On this week's episode the team breaks down the recent ruling ...

It’s been almost 20 years since the original Unity game engine opened up to developers, kickstarting a mission to democratise game development. The industry has come a long way since then, from ...

The European Commission has fined Apple €500 million ($570m) for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple was found to have breached anti-steering rules following an investigation into its business ...

As a result, Apple has dodged the injunction and saved billions of dollars from its revenue stream. The court said that such dodging of the injunction is a violation of the law. Apple was immediately ...