Games Industry Africa

Apple Puts Maliyo Games in the Spotlight with Stunning Africa Day Feature

by vbassey

2 min read – May 23, 2025

Pan-African game development studio Maliyo Games is in the global spotlight as San Francisco based Apple features three of its titles in this year’s Africa Day App Store celebration, recognizing the studio’s standout role in shaping culturally relevant gaming experiences from the continent. As part of Apple’s annual editorial celebrating African innovation across apps, games, […]

Nigerian Developer Among 2025 Unity for Humanity Grant Recipients

by vbassey

1 min read – May 21, 2025

Nigerian developer, Dopay Films Ltd is one of the recipients of the 2025 Unity for Humanity Grant. The studio which has existed for over five years and is the brainchild of Peace Olatunji, who beat off stiff competition to be one of 10 winners. Sands of Time VR is a VR experience exposing the devastating effects […]

South Africa Welcomes A New Studio

by vbassey

1 min read – May 19, 2025

BopZilla Studios is the newest addition to the vibrant South African gaming scene. Founded by alumni from the University of the Witwatersrand, they join the brand of creative powerhouses that includes Free Lives, Team Lazerbeam, Nyamakop, The Brotherhood, YellowLab and many more. Za’ yaanah Albertyn and Brendan Jackson helm the new outfit and revealed the […]

Devolver Digital to Publish Shroom and Gloom

by vbassey

2 min read – May 16, 2025

South African developers, Team Lazerbeam have finally revealed that their deck building roguelike – Shroom and Gloom will be ublished by acclaimed indie publisher – Devolver Digital. Revealing the news on social media, the Cape Town studio said, “After the initial explosion of interest in the Shroom and Gloom prototype we took every meeting request […]

GARA Secures EU Funding

by vbassey

3 min read – May 12, 2025

Gara – the budding platform for African made mobile games and comics has announced it has received a sizeable European grant to accelerate its distribution ambitions. Gara is an Android marketplace dedicated to promoting and making creative content from Africa available for purchase. Gara allows anyone based in Africa to buy this digital content using […]

Terra Nil Launches Game-Changing Initiative for African Penguins

by GIA

2 min read – May 9, 2025

Free Lives, creators of the award-winning environmental strategy game Terra Nil, have launched Terra Nil – Waddle, a conservation initiative dedicated to adopting and protecting critically endangered African penguins, in partnership with SANCCOB. Cape Town, the home base of Free Lives, is also home to some of the world’s largest African penguin colonies. When the […]

Call of Duty®: Mobile Returns to Carry1st Cup

by GIA

4 min read – May 5, 2025

For the first time, African players can qualify for the Call of Duty®: Mobile tournament to be represented on the global stage through the Carry1st Africa Cup. Carry1st, Africa’s leading games publisher, announces the return of its flagship Call of Duty®: Mobile tournament as part of the Carry1st Africa Cup 2025. With 200+ teams and over 1,000 players, this […]

Amilcar Technologies Reveals Forgebound

by vbassey

1 min read – April 29, 2025

Tunisian game developer, Amilcar Technologies has teased their latest project which will be a PC medieval survival game called Forgebound. Founded by Mohamed Ala Elbehi, the North African start up focuses on providing high-quality games across a multitude of platforms. Speaking on the reveal, Ala Elbehi said, “Super excited to finally share this — Forgebound […]

African Representation in MENA Awards Nominations

by vbassey

1 min read – April 28, 2025

MENA Hero Project which was launched by Sony in 2024 as well as Pay1st by Carry1st have been recognized by earning nominations for the 2025 MENA Games Industry Awards. The MENA Hero Project which is an incubator program that supports North African developers was nominated in the Best Game Innovation Hub category. Whilst Pay1st by […]

B-Team Productions Presents: Sex with Friends

by vbassey

3 min read – April 23, 2025

A multiplayer physics-based fuck-em-up from the studio that created Broforce and Genital Jousting. We are the studio that developed Broforce, Gential Jousting and Gorn (among other games). We have been making comedy games for 12 years, and this we think is our funniest one yet. It is certainly our most divisive game – you have […]

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Apple Puts Maliyo Games in the Spotlight with Stunning Africa Day Feature

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GARA Secures EU Funding

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Call of Duty®: Mobile Returns to Carry1st Cup

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African Representation in MENA Awards Nominations

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