We’re hiring!

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We’re looking for an iOS/Mobile developer  and a Web/UX Designer with the following requirements:   iOS development experience with Objective-C (RubyMotion considered) Cocoa Touch, iPhone/iPad Apple SDK Web service client development experience Management of the iOS submission process Practices safe coding, agile with tests Experienced with Git version control Proven experience of delivering published applications [...]

Playmob smashes some targets!

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  Playmob enables gamers to do good within their favorite games using in-app purchases such as turkey hats, infinity trees and fantasy armour. Our most recent campaign with The Sims social saw us raising money for WWF with a panda pet, a campaign which managed to raise a whopping $43,7154 and sell over 25,000 Pandas [...]

The Impact of Giving – The effect on everyone!

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If you haven’t seen the giant red noses, heads being shaved, mountains being climbed or people lying in baths of meal-worm  then where have you been? It’s of course Red Nose Day, one of the largest charity events in the UK, raising millions of pounds for charities globally. So it felt like a good time to [...]

Wonga Future 50, Launch Conference, Develop and Red Magazine!

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  Last week was a blur for PlayMob not only were we featured in Develop and Red Magazine we won two awards! We were lucky enough to be nominated in the LAUNCH 2012: Future Gaming & Digital Conference, after journeying to the event in Birmingham last Tuesday we were overjoyed to find out we had won the [...]

Turkey Hats, Thanksgiving and RPG’s

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PerBlue and PlayMob partner during the holiday season for the second annual ‘Give Food to Give Thanks’ campaign benefiting HELP USA. Players of the popular massively multiplayer online role playing game  (MMORPG) Parallel Kingdom can purchase the Thanksgiving Turkey Hat, an avatar enhancement, with Food, a purchasable and tradable in-game commodity. Each Hat purchased will result in a cash [...]

Saving the World – The Natural (Model) Way

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First off, thank you to the great team here at Playmob for allowing me my soapbox today. However, I have some bad news. We, as a society, have taken a bit of a wrong turn. I’m not saying we need to completely turn around, but a few of us should probably start off on the [...]

Gamescom 2012, Get Networking Now! #GC2012

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PlayMob will be at Gamescom 2012 with UKIE and we have also set up a LinkedIn Group for Games2012 dedicated to networking before, during and after the huge event. The group within a week already has over 100 members (and counting) from all around the world including the UK, Germany, Israel and America! Within a [...]

Are Indie Game Devs Missing an Opportunity in Windows Phone?

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When indie game developers consider which platforms to produce a mobile game for the majority will decide on iOS unreservedly, whilst the rest pledge to produce for Android. Very few (if any) consider producing a mobile game on the Windows Phone platform. Are they missing an opportunity, or am I seeing an opportunity where one [...]

Dogs Saved, Cats Fed, Hats Bought! And the winner is..

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Thanks to the fantastic players of Parallel Kingdom dogs will be saved, cats shall be fed and hats most certainly were bought! Just a week ago we launched the Save a dog, Feed a cat, Buy a hat campaign which enabled players of PerBlue’s game to purchase premium virtual objects to raise money for either the [...]