October 28, 2024 Pocket Premium Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete goes premium on December 3rd The premium replacement will allow players to transfer their data up until June 2nd, 2025
September 30, 2024 Closure Merge Games set to close as it integrates with Maximum Entertainment Merge Games initially shared a social media statement about its closure but later removed the post
September 27, 2024 Tapped Out EA shutting down The Simpsons: Tapped Out after more than 12 years Successful partnership ends after 12 years as EA focuses on owned-IP
September 18, 2024 Game Closure Kabam to shut down Disney Mirrorverse after making $34m in mobile revenue Action RPG no longer available for download and in-app purchases have been disabled
September 9, 2024 Closure Imminent Dutch Game Garden is closing after 17 years "In the coming months, several regular activities, such as the successful Network Lunches, will continue as planned," said managing director JP van Seventer
September 3, 2024 Final Call Square Enix to shut down Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius after $900m in revenue “It would be difficult to continue maintaining the app experience”
July 19, 2024 Week That Was Monopoly GO! comes full circle, hot takes, Lilith Games' secret sauce and more job losses | Week in Views The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
July 16, 2024 Job Losses 160 jobs axed as Scottish animation firm Axis Studios goes into administration Decline in new projects and increasing labour costs led to "severe cash flow problems" before collapse
May 3, 2024 Studio Closure Paladin Studios closes its doors after 19 years Over the years, co-developer Paladin has collaborated with giants such as Nintendo, Apple Arcade, Netflix, Zeptolab, and Bandai Namco
April 4, 2024 Closure Announcement French games developer Mi-Clos shuts down operations "After 14 years, this is the end of the adventure Mi-Clos Studio"
January 25, 2024 Nierly Over Square Enix to shut down Nier Reincarnation in April The third entry in the Nier series is approaching end of service, coming just after the third anniversary in Japan
January 23, 2024 Closure Announcement One Player Mission recruitment agency to shut down Managing director Kim Parker Adcock: 'I cannot see how OPM can remain profitable and overcome the difficulties that have arisen in the games industry'
January 18, 2024 Studio Closure Co-developer THREAKS to close after 15 years Game development at the company is to cease, but work with their Super Crowd Entertainment events brand continues
January 4, 2024 Kardashian Closure Kim Kardashian: Hollywood removed from app stores with end of service in April After almost a decade and millions successfully banked, Kim Kardashian’s mobile game is reaching the end of the road
December 20, 2023 Kaiju Closure Tencent’s Team Kaiju closes Team Kaiju is believed to have secretly closed this June, with most staff reassigned to other projects
December 6, 2023 Twitch Pullback Twitch is pulling out of Korea after "significant" losses with "no pathway forward" Twitch’s costs in Korea are too high, so the platform is leaving the country next February
November 27, 2023 Not So Monkey Dory One Piece: Thousand Storm is the latest Japanese mobile game reaching end of service Bandai Namco and DeNA first released the IP adaptation in 2016
November 20, 2023 Studio Shuttering Supercell-backed studio Papukaya is closing down after three years The Helsinki-based studio aimed to reach non-gamers with experimental titles
August 25, 2023 Helsinki Gaming Finnish Focus: Supercell's pursuit of perfection With Floodrush getting the chop after less than three months of release, we take a look at the company that's never afraid to fail
June 15, 2023 Closures Co-developers of Subway Surfers, Kiloo, to shut its doors The studio’s staff were served a notice of termination to take effect at the end of June
January 3, 2023 Game Closure Bravely Default: Brilliant Lights to shut down in February The Square Enix spin-off launched in January 2022
December 25, 2022 2022 Highlights 2022 In Review – March’s Best Bits As the year draws to a close, we take a look back with our pick of the stories that shaped the last twelve months. Time for some March action
November 28, 2022 Life’s A Beach Boom Beach: Frontlines to shut down its servers in January, just six months after soft launch The game has failed to meet Space Ape Games’ standards
November 2, 2022 Studio Closure Embracer Group shutters the newly acquired Studio Onoma The studio, formerly Square Enix Montreal, was acquired earlier this year