Games industry roundup: why Rare revived Battletoads, DCMS report, and Zynga talks future strategy

• 1 PC game news and insights

  Here are the five hottest stories from our sister-site PCGamesInsider.biz for the last week.

  What Motion Twin learnt from making Dead Cells

  Designer Sébastien Bénard and marketing boss Steve Filby tell us more.

  Loot boxes, age ratings and gambling: Everything the UK games industry needs to know from today's DCMS report

  MPs also frustrated at lack of co-operation from some companies in the industry.

  Why Rare finally brought Battletoads back

  After years of teasing, UK indie studio Dlala Studios is at the helm of a brand new entry in the series.

  Bossa doesn't blame Improbable for Worlds Adrift's cancellation

  "There are always challenges when you work with early-stage technology, but we worked with Improbable on those".

  Why Gearbox doesn't see Borderlands 3 as a competitor to Destiny and The Division

  Creative director Paul Sage tells us how it has changed the looter shooter title and what it feels like to work on a game dominated by negative coverage upon announcement.

  
  

• 2 Mobile game news and insights

  Here are the five hottest stories from our sister-site Pocketgamer.biz for the last week.

  Playtika's scale is inspiring to us says Wooga's Jens Begemann

  A lot can change in a year. After a troublesome period that included layoffs and a company-wide restructure, hidden object games studio Wooga started to turn things around in 2017, finally returning to profitability.

  GameAnalytics: Top 25% mobile games have average Day 28 retention of 4%

  The top 25 per cent of mobile games only see an average retention of four per cent after 28 days, according to data from GameAnalytics.

  Build fast and start playing: How Ministry of Games created its Rapid Development Funnel

  According to co-founder and CEO Teppo Soininen, Ministry of Games spent five years working on two games - Spell Brawl and Trade Town - that ended up failures. So it decided to develop a radical new way of working.

  M&A, hyper-casual and chat app gaming: Zynga COO talks future strategy

  Since EA exec Frank Gibeau took over, Zynga have been the comeback kings of the game sector: from out on its knees to profitable, savvy in M&A, and aggressive in licensing new IP.

  Disney reportedly looking to offload Marvel Strike Force developer FoxNext Games

  Despite the success of games such as Marvel: Strike Force and future product such as Avatar, as reported by Bloomberg, sources have confirmed Disney is looking for buyers for FoxNext Games.