Slipping Down
Apple's revenues tank in China
Halved in 6 months
Staff
Borja Vilar Martos
About Jammy since birth, but not so much playing video games, Borja will rant if you let him. His two hobbies, games and travelling, are only compatible through mobile gaming.
Articles by Borja Vilar Martos
Still Rolling
Pokemon GO hits 75 million download mark
Fastest ever
Virgin Ground
Fallout Shelter comes to Chinese App Store thanks to Shanda Games
Shanda Games take publishing role
Watch This Space
ColorTV raises $1.5 million for its connected TV marketing platform
Seeded by Foxconn
Catching Records
Pokémon GO hits 10 million downloads in record seven days
Over 30 million players to date
Poke-day In Tokyo
Servers braced and Giga Big Macs primed as Pokemon GO preps to go live in Japan
Coming home
Fansourcing
Updated: My.com sets up new studio to crack mobile MOBAs
Planet of Heroes will be Fast Forward's debut
Connected
Mobile game spenders are more social
Facebook research
New Channel
Flexion gains $2 million for its new Gamesmondo distribution and affiliate platform
Horizon 2020 gives grant
Trio Up
Deep Silver Fishlabs hires new three senior development staff
Technical edge
Pots Of Gold
Pokemon GO to add sponsored locations
Second revenue stream
He's Back
Plarium to release Terminator Genisys mobile strategy game in early 2017
Robot Wars
Second Channel
Over half of Facebook advertisers now also spending on Instagram
Nanigans crunches the numbers
Too Cute
LINE's Disney Tsum Tsum hits 60 million downloads mark
Matching success
Different Strokes
Nexon to release international and China-only mobile versions of hit PC game Dungeon&Fighter
Know your audience
Xp Doubler
Amazon offers iOS developers double-rate eCPMs during August
Time-limited offer
Better Together
Tapjoy partners with IronSource to gain more, better rewarded video inventory
More ads
Another Step
Mobcrush's iOS app goes live while Windows client goes alpha
Watch here
Value Of Something
SoftBank and Tencent negotiations rumoured to value Supercell at $9 billion
So says the rumourmill
Cash In
Valued at $5.5 billion, LINE to IPO in New York and Tokyo on mid-July
Joint listing in New York and Tokyo
Strap On
Gamevice iOS controller now available in Apple Stores
Seal of approval
Switch Off
Retention of Apple TV apps half that of the same apps on iPhone
Adjust runs the numbers
Force Multipler
PreLaunch.Me signs up 100 YouTubers to promote unreleased F2P mobile games
On screen now
Talk Talk
Palringo launches 2016's charity campaign with Hero Squad
Going for a $1 million
In The Flow
Why you need to be using personalised, behaviour-based push notifications
Leanplum on relationship marketing
Keep On Crawling
Nonstop Knight is Flaregames' most successful launch ever with 2 million downloads in 4 days
Everyone loves a dungeon
Cash Out
To reduce debt, SoftBank is selling back $685 million shares to GungHo Online
Sprint deal forces hand
Great Wall
Chinese government stamps down on mobile games, requiring state clearance for all games and some updates
Barriers to entry
Cash In
NetEase leads $2.5 million round in integrated analytics, attribution and aggregation outfit Tenjin
Integrated approach
All For One
As Solitaire reaches 200 million downloads, MobilityWare looks to expand
New hands
On The Market
Tencent acquires 5% as Paradox Interactive goes public
Initial offering of $4 per share
Incentive And Opportunity
GameFounders Malaysia extends deadline to 20 June, increases investment to $25,000
More to play for, more time to apply
Ads The Way To Do It
Gameloft Advertising Solutions generated $1.3 million in April 2016
Growth sector
On The Road
LINE expected to announce its long-awaited IPO plans next week
Off-on move now backed on
Time To Play
Puzzle & Dragons kicks of a pre-registration campaign for Chinese launch
Published by Tencent
A Level A Day
How Nitrome committed to retention, promising a new level every day for Leap Day
Mat Annal on keeping the customer satisfied
New Signing
Cybird signs up Maradona as the face and boots of its forthcoming BFB Champions: Global Kick-Off
Off the bench
Tencell?
Tencent might be looking to buy SoftBank's stake in Supercell
The biggest to get bigger?
Trumping The Donald
What's the moral of Trump's Wall: Build it Huuge?
Build him up or tear him down?
Good Causes
IGG Canada donates $100,000 to Fort McMurray fire relief fund
I Got Good
Testing Testing
Stratosphere Games one of the first to launch a game through the new Google Play Early Access program
Importance of feedback
Older Female Payers
G5 Entertainment announces it's generated $100 million from mobile hidden object games
Can you spot the difference?
Resurrection?
As Microsoft gives up, a Finnish startup attempts to reboot Nokia
Mobile business sold for $350 million
What's Next?
King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016
Group synergies
Local Heroes
Why the Japanese mobile games market remains the world's most lucrative and competitive
App Annie and Dentsu reveal all
Iap Inspector
Apex predator: the monetisation of Hungry Shark World
How FGOL added F2P meta-game to Hungry Shark
Play To Win
First China Mobile eSports Games competition kicks off with Vainglory, CrossFire and King of Glory
It's already happening