Mobile Development

XBox Wire says Microsoft Casual Games has launched Microsoft Jewel on iOS and Android, its first new mobile release in seven years. The match-3 game adds Xbox Achievements on mobile,...

Godot Engine says 4.8 dev 7 is the last feature snapshot before freeze, shifting the branch to bugfixes and regressions ahead of beta. For teams tracking engine upgrades, this one adds symbol...

Unity has announced External Dependency Manager, an official UPM package for Android and iOS native library resolution. The move gives mobile teams a maintained replacement for Google’s EDM4U, with...

Unity details how Scritchy Scratchy was adapted from PC to mobile and Nintendo Switch 2 without splitting into separate branches. The team rebuilt touch-first scratching for controllers, added mobile...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that Trophy Games has bought Playrion from Paradox Interactive for €2.25 million upfront plus a three-year earn-out. The 30-person studio behind Airport Simulator: First...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that Meta is pushing AI-assisted creation and new VR hardware in the same week. Horizon Create and Horizon Studio can generate playable 2D and 3D games from text prompts on...

Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges and free gifts for participants. Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the jam, with...

Unity details how Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor was reworked for mobile, where thousands of enemies, projectiles, and UI events had to fit inside a 3 GB iPad and a wildly fragmented Android landscape....

Godot 4.8 dev 6 lands sooner than usual after macOS startup crashes and Android Play Store upload failures were fixed. The snapshot also adds screen-space contact shadows for directional lights, a...

GamesIndustry.biz reports Valve has opened a waiting list for Steam Frame, its new wireless VR headset, with prices starting at $1,059. The ARM64, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-based device ships with...

Hi everyone, I'm preparing a closed Google Play test for Last Rank, a turn-based strategy game made for Android. The test is not open yet, so I'm putting together a small list of interested players...

I’m Eren from Fyronto Games, looking for genuine Android closed-test players for Crown or Curse, a portrait first-person dark-fantasy roguelite. Attacks continue automatically while you choose...

USC ICT has put its Virtual Human Toolkit on GitHub, opening a full stack for embodied conversational agents to researchers and developers. The toolkit runs on web, iPhone, Android, and Quest 3, with...

Hi everyone. I'm Niklas, the developer behind Bitrealms Studio. I've been returning to Digging Deep, an Android game first released in 2014. It's a tap-to-dig arcade game built around short runs. You...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that China’s games market topped $50.0 billion in 2025, reaching $51.8 billion after 5.4% year-over-year growth. Niko Partners expects another 4% gain in 2026, with...

A new mobile application is now available on Google Play. The app is designed to provide a useful, engaging, and easy-to-use experience for Android users, with ongoing improvements and updates based...

GamesIndustry.biz reports that Apple now faces a £2 billion UK class action over App Tracking Transparency, the iOS privacy framework that reshaped mobile user acquisition in 2021. The claim says...

SDL 3.4.16 is a stable bugfix release focused on platform-specific fixes across graphics, input, and windowing. It corrects GPU sample-count checks, Apple fence return values, macOS quit behavior,...

I've been working on a multiplayer browser game where the player is literally a mouse cursor. It has factions, real-time combat, health, kills, chat and a minimap. The project is still evolving, so...

GamesIndustry.biz reports Supercell's acquisition of Metacore is on track to close at the end of September 2026. Merge Mansion will join Supercell's live portfolio, while both teams say the game and...