Mobile

Wildstar’s upcoming free-to-play re-release has entered closed beta, developer Carbine Studios has announced. All current subscribers of the game have access to the test, as well as non-subscribers who have received a closed beta key – which anyone can sign-up for by visiting Wildstar’s official website. Carbine and publisher NCSoft …

MOBA title launching in China as studio gets ready to launch new International Premier League

Rovio has announced Angry Birds 2 has amassed 20m downloads during its launch week. The milestone follows the mobile gamenetting 1m players in its first 12 hours outon the App Store and Google Play. "When we were developing and testing Angry Birds 2, we had good reason to believe we …

Charles Cecil reveals the impact of the iPhone on the Broken Sword studio

Nick Gibson reflects on how the UK games industry has changed over the past year

Rovio has announced Angry Birds 2 has already been downloaded 1m times in its first 12 hours out on mobile platforms. The studio revealed the news on Twitter, with the figure combining the very early totals of iOS and Android releases. According to Apple, the original Angry Birds has been …

Canada-based dev Icejam turns real-world data into a playable form

Six years on from the release of Angry Birds, Angry Birds 2 has at last arrived on smartphones. It’s far from the first sequel, of course. In fact, Angry Birds 2 is the 15th game in the series, following the likes of Seasons, Space, Star Wars, Rio, Stella, Transformers and …

Ubisoft’s Christian Godorr also joins as publisher continues mobile push

Super Evil Megacorp CEO Bo Daly on why he believes the start-up can make an impact in the popular and highly competitive genre with Vainglory