Jordanian Gaming Studio Wizards Productions Pivots into Mobile

2012 marks a new era for Wizards Productions, which today announced a publishing agreement with 6waves, a leading international social and...

Nina Curley • 19 June, 2012

Gaming Mobile Mobile Gaming

Wixel Studios to Return to Arabic Mobile Games with New Investment

When Wixel Studios was started by  Ziad Fehali, Reine Abbas and Karim Abi Saleh in 2007, it was one of the first companies to appear...

Fernande van Tets • 29 May, 2012

Mobile Gaming

Will Jordan's My Marbles be the next Angry Birds? TakTek Games Inks Deal with Chillingo

Amman-based TakTek Games has secured a breakthrough deal this week, signing with U.K.-based mobile publishing giant Chillingo, which...

Nina Curley • 13 April, 2012

Gaming Mobile Gaming

Livestream of Flat6Labs' Mobile Gaming Class

Want to build the next big game? Train by watching Flat6Labs's new mobile gaming classes, which will be held for the next 3 weeks, over 9...

Nina Curley • 09 April, 2012

Mobile Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming

twofour54 Abu Dhabi and Ubisoft Debut Arabic Video Game Studio

Investment vehicle twofour54 has announced the opening of the first major video game studio in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with French video...

Nina Curley • 26 October, 2011

Gaming Mobile Gaming

New social game launches in Egypt, inspired by protests in Tahrir Square [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In the midst of Egypt's current tumult, a new social game on Facebook was recently launched to let players experience the events ...

Hanan Solayman • 07 August, 2013

Egypt Gaming

Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia [Wamda TV]

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Tasneem Salim, the cofounder of GCON, a community and annual conference for female gamers a...

Wamda • 23 July, 2013

Community Mix n Mentor Mobile Gaming

How IPAL in Gaza is trying to improve childhood education through gaming [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] In order to help fill the education gap in some parts of the Arab world, three young entrepreneurs from Gaza, Mohammed Youssef,...

Mariam Hamed • 02 July, 2013

Education Gaming

Meet Palestine's pioneering female coder, who just won in an international gaming competition

Rasha Hussein is one of the Arab world's women entrepreneurs to watch. The first time I met her, she was leading a room full of tech geeks...

Nina Curley • 02 May, 2013

Coding Augmented Reality EdTech

A Tour of Wixel Studios in Lebanon: Launching Survival Race [Wamda TV]

Note: Wixel Studios has since changed the game’s name from Abou Ahmad the Arabian (AAA) to Survival Race. Today, Wixel Studios in Lebanon l...

Glen Dalakian II • 08 April, 2013

Mobile Gaming Gaming

Entrepreneur of the Week: Walid Sultan Midani of DigitalMania in Tunisia [Wamda TV]

After overcoming a lack of game development skills in Tunisia, Walid Sultan Midani, the founder of DigitalMania, is throwing a dose of...

Glen Dalakian II • 15 January, 2013

Entrepreneur of the Week Mobile Gaming Gaming

Gaza Startup Builds Creative Arabic Mobile Apps [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Palestinian entrepreneurs Abed Al Hamid Al Fioumi and Mohammed Belbol started Sanabel to build technical solutions in Palestine, i...

Mariam Hamed • 01 January, 2013

Animation Arabic Content Digital Media

Turkish Gaming Startup ArcadeMonk Turns to the Arab World [Wamda TV]

During the Webrazzi Summit, we chatted with Omer Ersoy from ArcadeMonk, a social and mobile Turkish gaming company, about their stategy...

Wamda • 03 December, 2012

Facebook Mobile Gaming Scaling

Game Minion Seeks to Level the Playing Field for Indie Game Developers

Independent developers have long competed with large publishing houses in the realm of game development, often outmatched by greater...

Glen Dalakian II • 09 September, 2012

Gaming Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming

It's the AppAttack!

If you're an app developer with a creative streak and a thirst for innovation, this competition is for you. The Global Mobile Internet...

Wamda • 08 September, 2012

Competitions Mobile Apps Mobile Gaming