Mobile Game News

Android, iOS, live-game, esports, and handheld coverage from the mobile gaming desk.

The Gameforce Mobile news desk publishes compact daily reports on new mobile game releases, live-service updates, redeem codes, soft launches, hardware, and the mobile games industry, with sources named in every story.

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150 million players later, Rec Room calls it: the Roblox-style hangout is closing

Industry / Mar 31, 2026

150 million players later, Rec Room calls it: the Roblox-style hangout is closing

Rec Room announced it will shut down on June 1, 2026, admitting the blunt reality that kills many social platforms: popularity alone doesn’t guarantee sustainable profit. In its own post, the company said it never found a model where revenue reliably outpaced operating costs, even with millions of people showing up monthly and a cumulative player base cited around 150 million. When a project like that closes, it’s a reminder that metaverse-style worlds have huge infrastructure costs.
TEPPEN’s farewell is unusually kind: offline update lets you keep the card museum after EOS

Industry / Mar 30, 2026

TEPPEN’s farewell is unusually kind: offline update lets you keep the card museum after EOS

March 30 is TEPPEN’s official end-of-service moment: the Capcom / GungHo mobile card battler stops online service at 20:00 PT, but it isn’t going quietly into uninstall oblivion. The official plan is an offline-version app update so players can keep their collections and play offline modes. As mobile game goodbyes go, this is unusually respectful: the devs are trying to preserve the “card museum” instead of leaving players with nothing but regret and a dead icon.
Duel Links adds Character Deck Duel—PvP with training wheels (but make it anime)

Mobile Games / Mar 30, 2026

Duel Links adds Character Deck Duel—PvP with training wheels (but make it anime)

Konami announced a new PvP mode for Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS called “Character Deck Duel,” where the game hands you a prebuilt personality and says, “Play like the anime, you coward.” Duelists can earn nine Character Decks for free and earn “Respect Orbs” to trade for rewards. For newer or returning players, this is a great on-ramp: less deckbuilding paralysis, more guided learning, and still enough flexibility to feel clever.
Blades is getting sunsetted: store goes ‘everything for 1’ before servers go dark

Industry / Mar 28, 2026

Blades is getting sunsetted: store goes ‘everything for 1’ before servers go dark

Bethesda’s free-to-play dungeon-crawler spinoff The Elder Scrolls: Blades is heading for a hard stop: the game will permanently shut down on June 30, 2026. Until shutdown day, the in-game store is effectively “everything must go,” with items priced at one unit of currency. It's a rare moment of generosity in mobile gaming, almost like the game is apologizing for the years you spent staring at timers.