Mobile

Sony Interactive Entertainment has formally announced the acquisition of mobile games developer Savage Game Studios. In a PlayStation Blog post, PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst confirms that the German studio is joining the family. "Today, we announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Savage Game Studios, a hugely talented team of creatives...

According to a blog post, Activision is planning to release its ongoing battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone on mobile devices. The company is actively hiring talent to help in this initiative. Written by a member of the Call of Duty staff, the blog post states that the company is “creating an all-new, AAA mobile […]

According to new insights that were shared by PayPal Canada and SuperData Research, gamers in Canada are spending about 52 hours per month playing games and more than half of them are women. Gamers in Canada are on average eight years younger than their counterparts in the United States. More than 45 percent of Canadian...

According to a new interview by VentureBeat with the head of Square Enix Montreal Patrick Naud, the company will be abandoning its Go franchises. Naud said: “I have to say no [we’re not working on other ‘Go’ games], I’m sorry.” “Lara Croft Go,” “Deus Ex Go,” and “Hitman Go” are all turn-based mobile games that are...

Netflix has announced that they will be bringing video previews to its mobile app starting this April. The company's VP of Product Todd Yellin announced the new feature at a press event in Los Gatos on Wednesday. The new feature will allow users to sample content with 30-second video previews that are displayed as vertical...

HonkMobile has launched their mobile parking solution across 20 Canadian universities and colleges just in time for the 2017 back-to-school season. Here is a full list of the 20 universities and colleges that the company has expanded into for the 2017 school year: Western U of Windsor Algonquin College Conestoga College Wilfrid Laurier MacEwan Lakehead UBC UBC...

If you live in the City of Windsor, you may no longer need to worry about finding a parking meter. The city is considering an agreement with a new phone payment app for parking called PassportParking, which already operates in cities including Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, Victoria, and Buffalo. Fahd Mikhael, manager of traffic operations, is...

According to a new report from TechCrunch, Facebook is rolling out a new "Trending News" section to the Facebook app on iOS and Android devices. The new feature allows users to easily access current and trending news stories. Trending News aggregates news stories from a wide variety of sources and ranks them based on the...

Starting today, Instagram users will no longer need the mobile app to upload photos. The company is rolling out the ability to upload photos through its mobile website. The mobile website does not yet support uploading videos, adding filters, uploading to Stories, or sending a direct message. The photo editing features are also very limited,...

YouTube is now letting creators with at least 10,000 subscribers live-stream mobile video, and it promises that "the rest of you will have it soon." The company has supported live streaming on its website since 2011 but began a small beta test of mobile live streaming on iOS devices last summer. The live streaming features are...

Facebook has been pushing people to download the Messenger app for a while now, but it looks like the social network is getting even more aggressive. According to a new report from TechCrunch, the company is making it difficult to use Messenger on its mobile website and likely plans to kill that feature entirely pretty...

Today, PayPal and TransferTo announced that they are bringing Mobile Airtime Top-Up to Canada. TransferTo is a company that operates a platform that allows people to transfer prepaid mobile credits across the border. As a result of the partnership, Canadians can now use their PayPal accounts to top-up their prepaid mobile phones while in a...