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Game Developer InnoGames releases its annual financial figures today, which illustrates the company’s healthy growth of 25% in 2015- and revenue of 100 million euros. Much of this success is due to the company’s budding mobile focus, which has expanded in revenue by 100% over 2014 – with the cross-platform title Forge of Empires making up the major portion of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITLG8k8GYM

InnoGames attracted 160 game makers to its Hamburg offices this past weekend to take part in the Global Game Jam – making it the largest of its kind in Germany. The international crowd consisted of developers, artists, game designers and those simply wanting to learn how games are made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ska8e5DjshE

Starting today, Dr. Andreas-Michael Giesa takes over as Director of Human Resources for the German game developer, InnoGames. In this role, he is responsible for the overall strategy and management of the company’s HR department.

InnoGames just released the first episode of InnoGames TV for 2016 with exclusive information: the release of a new feature in its fantasy city builder Elvenar. The approximately 11-minute video explains the ins and outs of Spells (Elvenar’s recent game mechanic) and sums up the most recent news for Forge of Empires, Grepolis and Tribal Wars 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riO8zmPeUks

InnoGames just completed an in-depth player survey, which confirmed its projected success: women are flocking to its most recent title Elvenar, and paying big too. Near half of the online game’s player-base are now women, which is a stark contrast to the rest of InnoGames’ male-targeted portfolio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdr0QONWz2I

Forge of Empires captured more British hearts than ever before in 2015, and reached the 1.5 million registered player milestone. With its shiny-new Android app named ‘Best of’ in the Google Play Store, 36% of players flocked to their mobile devices for a chance to build cities and battle foes on the go. The 25% of players now using the iOS app further decreased browser usage, demonstrating an overarching demand for mobile entertainment this past year.

Forge of Empires begins its year of celebrating history today with its first of six special quest-lines: The Martin Luther King Event. In 2016, the cross-platform title plans to recognize past figures who made interesting contributions to our world, including lesser knowns such as Isadora Duncan, the famous American dancer who flouted social norms in the early 20th century, and Pope Gregory XIII for his introduction of the Gregorian calendar that includes our modern day leap year.

InnoGames´ cross platform title Forge of Empires just put another trophy on the shelf: Google awarded the game a “Best of 2015” star in strategy apps for Germany, France and the UK. Interested players can check out the list directly in the Google Play Store.

InnoGames’ strategy game Tribal Wars 2 just released a new balancing update which adjusts building and recruiting times. The improvement speeds up the first phase of the game and brings new quests, rewards and goals to achieve. The online-games developer has also released a video highlighting the changes. The balancing update is available in France from today on. Depending on the player feedback and testing outcome, other markets will follow soon. https://youtu.be/2nkBmZPo5N8

InnoGames TV starts the Holidays early with the release of their December Episode today. The approximately 13 minute long video reveals the winner of the Kindle Tablet Competition, sums up the upcoming ingame events and gives you a special teaser of Forge of Empires’ Winter Event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG7Q8QHxY

After much anticipation, online games developer InnoGames releases a new age in their popular city builder: Forge of Empires: The Future. From today on, aspiring city rulers can unlock new technologies, units and buildings. The German company has also released a video with the game designer explaining all the new features. https://youtu.be/MXvL6efqVa0

Today, InnoGames released a major content update to its strategic fantasy-game Elvenar: The Ancient Wonders. From now on, every guest race will reward the player’s efforts with up to two unique buildings. Humans, Elves and Dwarves have their own Ancient Wonders in the research menu, the rare landmarks vary in looks and effects. To construct them, players will need to collect so called rune chards. InnoGames also released a video, explaining the feature in detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp-ctux-l8E&feature=youtu.be

As we all heard last week, we finally made it back to the future – and InnoGames TV shows you how that looks in Forge of Empires. The November episode of InnoGames’ monthly video podcast premieres exclusive gameplay material and graphics, as well as an outlook of Elvenar’s next gameplay updates. The approximately 14 minute video also presents ingame events and company news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWh-PGOLfg

Today the online games developer InnoGames released the popular mobile and browser strategy game Forge of Empires on Kindle Fire Devices of all sizes - from the first Fire HD to the upcoming 4th generation. The app can be simply downloaded via Amazon’s Kindle App store.

Today, InnoGames released a major content update to its strategic fantasy-game Elvenar: The Dwarves.From now on, players can unlock the Dwarven Portal in their tech tree, allowing them to bring back the mystical and ancient race to their city and make use of their near-lost knowledge and technologies. InnoGames also released a video, explaining the feature in detail.

Today, online games developer InnoGames launched the new Tribe Skills for its strategy game Tribal Wars 2. From now on, players can strengthen their Tribe’s Power and unlock new skills by donating resources. InnoGames released a Video, explaining the feature. Tribal Wars 2 is the successor of the legendary browser game Tribal Wars, which has 55 million registered players worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdSqv_wv6x4

Starting October 5, Markus Lipp will join game developer InnoGames as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In his role he will be responsible for the department’s accounting, controlling, analytics and payment. The 41-year-old follows Armin Busen, who took over the position of Chief Product Officer (CPO) in January and acted as provisional CFO until now. Markus Lipp was active in several leading positions at the ProSiebenSat1 Media group since 2004 – including managerial roles at ProSiebenSat1 Games and Seven Games. Until recently, he was the CFO at the 7travel GmbH and the wetter.com GmbH.

The countdown to Halloween has started at InnoGames today - with the release of InnoGames TV. This month, the October episode shows exclusive gameplay material and graphics from Elvenar’s first “guest race”: The Dwarves! The approximately 11-minute video also shows players the latest ingame events and company news.

Today InnoGames’ classic strategy MMO, Tribal Wars, starts the month off with the start of their new event - Castle Assault. For two weeks, players will join forces with one purpose: to defeat castles for rewards. InnoGames also released a video with the game’s Lead Community Manager Thomas explaining the event’s mechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_oQSrr23U