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EA Quietly Announces A Nearly Decade-Old Sims Game Is Shutting Down Soon
20.10.2025
The Sims Mobile will be removed from stores on October 21 and officially shut down in January
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Two Incredible Star Wars Games Are Free On Mobile If You Ignore Google's Malware Warning
21.2.2025
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 are currently available to download for free on mobile, with just a few catches. The first is you have to have an Android smartphone. The second is you have to ignore Google’s warning that you might be downloading “harmful” files. Pass both of these...
Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles
10.2.2025
If you, like most people on Earth, a frequent mobile gamer, you’ll be all-too aware of the bane of in-game ads. Because the freemium model proves by far the most successful way to release games on telephones, you pay by sitting through agonizing ads with fake countdown timers, ‘x’ buttons that...
Get Through Insufferable Family Time This Thanksgiving With These Mobile Games
24.11.2024
If you’ve got a big family but very little to talk to them about, the holidays can see you go from happy to helpless real quick. What are you to do when Thanksgiving dinner is two hours late and you’ve run out of small talk with that one uncle from out of town who may or may not have voted for...
A Surprise Mobile Version Of Final Fantasy XIV Raises A Ton Of Questions
20.11.2024
After more than a decade on PC and console, Final Fantasy XIV is coming to smartphones. Square Enix’s hit MMO revealed a mobile version this week that has the potential to bring millions of new players into the rich RPG world of Hydaelyn. It also raises a lot of questions about just how exactly...
Flappy Bird will ‘never have’ NFTs but will have a crypto ‘option’
24.9.2024
The revived Flappy Bird mobile game has the “option to use Web3,” but a spokesperson says it will “never have NFTs.”
Flappy Bird creator disavows revived game that hints crypto ties
16.9.2024
The new owners of the trademark Flappy Bird trademark say it’s coming back, and deleted web pages suggest it could have something to do with crypto
Hamster Kombat teases new details about ‘largest airdrop in crypto history’
8.8.2024
The update comes a week after Hamster Kombat surpassed 300 million players and teased the launch of the "largest airdrop in crypto history."
Hamster Kombat teases new details about ‘largest airdrop in crypto history’
8.8.2024
The update comes a week after Hamster Kombat surpassed 300 million players and teased the launch of the “largest airdrop in crypto history.”
Monopoly Go Spent Almost $500 Million On Marketing, More Than Spider-Man 2's Dev Budget
19.3.2024
Monopoly Go, a single-player mobile board game, launched on April 11, 2023. Since then it has made over 2 billion dollars, been downloaded 100+ million times, and become one of the most popular digital games on the planet. But to reach this point, Scopely, the studio behind the hit game, has spent...
As Apple Threatens Pulling Games, Devs Explain Why Forced Updates Are A Preservation Nightmare
25.4.2022
Although the mobile gaming ecosystem is known for hosting live-service games that monetize more aggressively than standalone console games, there’s no shortage of creators making mobile games that don’t call for constant updates. Now, some indie developers are finding out what can happen when...
Wordle Creator Doesn't Want His Popular Game To Take Over Your Life
6.1.2022
The creator behind Wordle, a free browser-based puzzle game, has no plans to include ads into his suddenly super-popular game, explaining in a recent interview that he doesn’t understand why some things can’t just be fun. Creator Josh Wardle also seems uninterested in converting Wordle into...
Looks Like The Steam Deck Might Get Some Competition
2.12.2021
Five months after Valve announced the Steam Deck, a new challenger enters the handheld console market. The chip manufacturer Qualcomm partnered with gaming hardware company Razer to produce the Snapdragon G3x, a streamer-friendly console that can play games across PC, mobile, consoles, and...
Augmented Reality-Based Dogemon Go Mobile Game Allows Players to Earn Dogecoin
12.8.2021
Following this year’s hype toward the meme-based digital currency dogecoin, a team of developers revealed the launch of an augmented reality (AR) mobile game called “Dogemon Go.” Similar to the AR game Pokémon Go, players catch virtual characters dubbed “Dogemons”...
Netflix's Video Game Service Is Saying All The Right Things
21.7.2021
As part of the company’s latest earnings report, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters jumped on an investor phone call to talk about loads of things related to the future of the company. While discussing one of those things, their impending detour into video games, things...