Gamesauce says: "Spil Games is known for its social games geared toward girls, teens, and families. Now it stands to become equally recognized for its faith in the future of HTML5. The company has announced a commitment of $5 million for developers to create HTML5 games in 2014. These funds will provide the support necessary to create new games and game elements as well as to port existing games to HTML5."
T1 - Breaking news has emerged that Spil Games, the largest games publisher in the Netherlands, is shifting the company’s strategy from desktop to mobile gaming and will be making 90 full time employees redundant as a result.
That sucks for those employees. :/
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Spil Games has been busy analysing the behaviour of its rapidly growing global user base, as well as industry-wide trends, and is currently putting the finishing touches to its annual ‘State of Gaming’ review. The Electronic Theatre Image review – a broad analysis of key behavioural trends in the online gaming community – will be published shortly
The popularity of online gaming was also evident on Spil Games’ platforms. The amount of people playing in 2011 soared to 170 million, up by 40 million year-on-year. These impressive numbers scored Spil Games the number one slot as the most-visited online gaming property in the world, according to comScore Dec 2011. Online gamers have increased their online playing time from 38 to 85 minutes per month. In the UK, the most popular game last year was Family Barn, whereas globally Bubble Shooter takes the top spot.
I remember people saying that Guild Wars was stupid for offering F2P when hardly anyone was doing it while others were touting NCsoft as being innovative...well who's laughing now. Guild Wars is still leading the way now with their triple AAA title GW2 coming out they will make a gazillion dollars.
