29 Oct
Citing an anonymous source, Inside Mobile Apps recently reported that Zombie Farm developer Playforge had laid off its entire staff and was going to shut down the studio entirely. Playforge president Jack Sorensen has since confirmed to Inside Mobile Apps that while a number of the studio’s staff had been let go, the studio was […]
25 Oct
Zynga has revealed that Clive Downie will become the company’s chief operating officer effective November 4th. Downie has previously served as CEO of mobile game company DeNA, and before that served as vice president of marketing at Electronic Arts for more than 15 years. While at EA, Downie managed several major franchises including FIFA, Need […]
24 Oct
Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock and Civilization V developers: Dan Baker, Marc Meyer, Brian Wade and Tim Kipp have formed a new studio called Oxide Games. The studio is working on a new 64-bit engine called Nitrous and it is being built for use on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Stardock provided the […]
23 Oct
Mobile developer TinyCo has laid off 27 employees this week, TechCrunch reports. According to an anonymous source, employees have been laid off in both San Francisco and Argentina. “We’ve moved 10 steps forward on executing a specific strategy around how we build games and what games we build. To execute against this strategy, we decided […]