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The AppLovin software company has made an offer to buy Unity Software Inc. for $17.54 billion in company stock
Read More »AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $17.5 billion
Indielab’s South Yorkshire games accelerator programme opens for applications
Indielab Games has announced that the Indielab South Yorkshire Games Accelerators application process is open as of today
Read More »Belgium isn’t enforcing loot box ban, claims research study
A new report from researcher Leon Y. Xiao has said that Belgium has not been enforcing it’s ban on loot boxes
Read More »When We Made… Runescape Mobile
With RuneScape Mobile passing the one year anniversary of its release, Vince Pavey took the opportunity to chat with Matt Casey and Emma Hall at Jagex about their work on the portable version of the ever-popular MMO
Read More »From Meme Machine to Mobile: 21 Years of Miniclip
Before YouTube, before even MySpace and the subsequent onset of social media, there was Miniclip, the ground zero for meme culture that together with Newgrounds inspired a punk-like attitude to game development. Richie Shoemaker picks up the story from president and co-founder Rob Small as the company celebrates a 21-year journey from Flash to mobile
Read More »Opera announces GX.games for mobile, a new way to create and publish mobile games for free
Opera has announced a new version of GX.games for mobile devices, which will allow developers to publish GameMaker games to the web for use on iOS and Android
Read More »Mojang says “integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally not something we will support or allow”
Mojang has released a statement stating that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and blockchain technologies will not be supported or allowed on the game going forward
Read More »[From the industry] StackAdapt Enables In-Game Inventory Through Global Leader Anzu
North American-based DSP StackAdapt has partnered with Anzu.io, the world’s most advanced in-game advertising platform, to leverage its in-game advertising inventory
Read More »EPIC Risk Management wants to educate audiences on loot boxes after UK Government inaction
EPIC Risk Management has released a statement about the UK Government’s decision not to regulate loot boxes with legislation
Read More »EA patents using player data to generate in-game content
EA has filed a patent that could see personal data used to procedurally generate new experiences for its players
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