Week That Was
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The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
Company Profile
Playdemic
Website
www.playdemic.com
About
Playdemic is a forward thinking, innovative and passionate world leader in social games. It produces high quality, well loved games across multiple platforms.
Accolades
Articles featuring Playdemic
Stars In Their Eyes
How Playdemic's founders are following up their $1 billion Golf Clash success with new studio ForthStar
CEO Paul Gouge tells PocketGamer.biz about the lessons learned from Playdemic and why ForthStar is embracing remote working and four day work weeks
Gouge To Jones
EA appoints Gareth Jones as vice president and head of Playdemic Studios
Following departure of studio head Paul Gouge
Better Together
How $1.4 billion Playdemic deal accelerates EA's future mobile success
Jeff Karp and Paul Gouge on more games and synergies
Dark Side Of The Force
LEGO Star Wars Battles cancelled and shut down following beta
Almost two years of testing in soft launch
Grass Tacks
Golf Clash scores $780 million in lifetime revenue, tops US player spending
$185 million in 2020 alone
Rub Of The Green
EA acquires Golf Clash developer Playdemic for $1.4 billion
Warner Bros. agrees to part with UK-based studio
Tee Off
Playdemic is bringing The Ryder Cup to Golf Clash
“We’re incredibly proud and excited to be working with The Ryder Cup to bring this globally-loved tournament to our Golf Clash players"
Cool
Playdemic partners up with UFC for Golf Clash content
It costs $4.99
Lego Star Wars
TT Games Brighton developing a new LEGO Star Wars game for mobile devices
The game feature content from all nine Skywalker saga films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rogue One
Into The Swing
Playdemic CEO Paul Gouge explains how Golf Clash is getting more competitive with clans and potentially esports too
Two years on, plenty to come
Fore
Playdemic’s Golf Clash gets new clans feature
The new feature allows groups of up to 50 golf clash players to chat, share replays and work together to earn in-game rewards
Fore
Playdemic's Golf Clash drives past $225m in revenue
The sports game landed $25m in revenue last month
Awards
Gorogoa and Golf Clash score accolades at the BAFTAs
Pixel Hunt’s Bury Me, My Love was also nominated in several categories
Games Of The Year
PocketGamer.biz's Games of the Year 2017
The Editorial team picks their favourite games this year
Tiga Games Industry Awards 2017
Playdemic's Golf Clash scores Game of the Year award at TIGA Games Industry Awards
Space Ape also gets a nod
In The Hole
Playdemic launches UK TV ad for casual golfing game Golf Clash
It's rather silly
Best Of 2017
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2017
The movers, shakers and moneymakers
Iap Inspector
How does Golf Clash monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Eat Some Hay
Playdemic’s Golf Clash strikes up $1.1 million revenues in a single day
Studio targets $100 million in revenue this year
Building For Mobile
TT Games acquires Golf Clash developer Playdemic to make LEGO mobile games
UK studio snapped up after generating over $50 million in revenue
Ian Livingstone heads to Playdemic to power mobile move
Named as UK outfit's chairman
UK social studio Playdemic completes major funding round: at least $3 million
Looking to create second generation social gaming