GameDynamo - As processors and display technology advance, mobile gaming has become less of a niche market for gamers looking to kill time and more of a platform with its own marquee titles. The mobile market has become saturated with devices packing more than enough digital horsepower to support games that are just as good as anything in the handheld arena. Developers have taken note, making this a great time to be a mobile gamer. And in any burgeoning market, you'll inevitably find stiff competition. So it goes with Goodgame Studios' Shadow Kings: The Dark Ages, the latest entrant into the crowded mobile RTS MMO field.
Online games company Goodgame Studios has revealed that it will be laying off 200 employees in order to focus on its core business.
NoobFeed writes: "Developer Goodgame Studios has announced a sizable milestone in its company. It’s now officially employing a thousand people, spread across its various locations."
It’s not hard to find games that follow the multiplayer city/empire-building formula – offensive and defensive battles, recruiting soldiers and building resource farms, waiting for cool downs and timers. Shadow Kings: Dark Ages, a multiplayer town builder by Goodgame Studios, highly resembles other familiar games that share this formula. It took a few hours of gameplay before I realized that it wasn’t simply a copy-and-paste from other games of the same genre, however. There are some things that Shadow Kings does that I haven’t seen before, only I wish they would have capitalized on these differences to make them more meaningful.
