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Another week, another story of Twitch doing something pretty cool. The video streaming giant has teamed up with mobile developer Gameloft to allow gamers to livestream footage from new iOS game Asphalt 8: Airborne. Twitch says it is the first time this has happened and is being promoted via a …
Read More »Smartphone games drive Gameloft sales to €233m
Games on smart devices account for more than 75 per cent of the company's revenue
Read More »Gameloft’s record Q3 revenues up 17%
European publisher's mobile business marks 31 percent growth
Read More »Despicable Me: Minion Rush hits 100m smartphone downloads
And to think you thought the movie game tie-in as dead! Gameloft has announced that Despicable Me: Minion Rush, its iOS and Android game tie-in with recent movie release Despicable Me 2, has been downloaded over 100 million times in under three months. We’ve been lucky to work with such …
Read More »200 jobs lost as Gameloft closes Indian studio
In a surprise move, Gameloft has shut down its Hyderabad studio, resulting in a loss of around 200 jobs. An inside source has told MCV that employees were informed of the closure on Tuesday. They were then asked to pack up and vacate the office and not report to work …
Read More »Gameloft closes India studio
250 out of work as company boasts of revenue growth
Read More »New Nissan car debuts in video games before showrooms
Petrolheads itching to get a glimpse of the new Nissan Juke Nismo (we’re sure this applies to someone somewhere) need only turn to their smartphones. The car manufacturer has teamed up with mobile publisher Gameloft to recreate the new model in iOS and Android racer Asphalt 7: Heat. Players will …
Read More »Is free-to-play the future of gaming or just a cheap fad?
People don’t want to pay for games. That’s what MCV was told repeatedly at E3. And indeed many of this year’s high-growth or most controversial games – World of Tanks, League of Legends, CSR Racing amongst others – were absolutely free. Of course anyone that has followed this market as …
Read More »MCV digital edition goes free-to-play
This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it is absolutely free. The issue is dedicated to the free-to-play games market and features the biggest names in freemium, including Wargaming, Nexon, Ubisoft, CCP, Crytek, InComm, Qinqo, Disney, EA, Gameloft, GREE, GameForge, Jagex, Trion Worlds, Square Enix, MarvelousAQL, Perfect …
Read More »Gameloft announces Bluetooth iOS joypad
Yet another Bluetooth iOS controller is on the way courtesy of leading developer Gameloft. What differentiates the Duo Gamer, however, is that it’s the first of its kind to be officially certified by Apple. Existing peripherals, such as the arcade-emulating iCade, work by tricking iOS into thinking they are a …
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