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Playtika acquires German casual studio Wooga

Deal is worth a reported $100 million, with no layoffs to Wooga's 180-strong team

What's the story at Wooga?

CEO Jens Begemann explains the reasoning for the casual games studio's plan to focus on story-driven games

Layoffs at Wooga as studio refocuses on story-driven games

Casual games firm plans restructure as it seeks to become market leader in its field

Why casual games need a narrative

Mobile studios discuss how they use serialised storylines to drive player retention far beyond launch

Wooga appoints new chief financial officer

New CFO Hermione McKee joined the company as head of finance in January 2016

InnoGames picks up Warlords from Wooga

Sale of mobile strategy title indicative of Wooga's renewed focus on casual games

Wooga restructuring continues with Tokyo office closure

Update: Follows closure of Black Anvil Games

Wooga launches new indie studio

Black Anvil Games will focus on core gaming audience

Risk, reward and the road ahead for mobile games

Agent Alice marks a new level of ambition in production and marketing for Wooga, but did that extra investment lead to a larger return?

Wooga created 100 concepts in 2014

CEO Jens Begemann reveals exhaustive creative process, Downton Abbey's importance

Wooga hires new head of finance

Dr. Marion Trautbeck-Kim replaces outgoing Sebastian Kopp

Wooga opens Tokyo office, hires Line veteran

Jun Otsuka will lead Wooga's first office outside of its native Berlin

Wooga opening new internal studio

Jelly Splash developer looking for new head of studio

Wooga now profitable, sees 50/50 revenue split on mobile and web

Successful transition only 14 months after first mobile release

Wooga hits 200 employees

Half the team at social gaming company working on new games

Wooga makes Pocket Island open source

Says HTML5 could be a game changer, but the technology isn't ready

Google+ losing key game developers

PopCap and Wooga are shutting down Google+ versions of their games

Wooga's Diamond Dash hits 11m iOS downloads

German developer reveals 64 per cent of all players using Facebook Connect

Wooga's Games For Everyone

Wooga CEO Jens Begemann on Facebook, the future of social gaming, and why it's not all about shooting aliens anymore

Wooga CEO defends Facebook

Jens Begemann says while Google+ offers a better revenue share, Facebook is "an amazing platform"