Component Shortages
Report: Nintendo Switch production facing delays due to Asia lockdown
"Nintendo wouldn't be able to produce enough units for the shopping season"
Chinajoy Goes Ahead
ChinaJoy 2020 is still taking place despite the coronavirus pandemic
Shanghai event still scheduled to take place from July 31st to August 3rd.
Safety First
Tokyo Games Show and Paris Games Week become latest victims of Covid-19
TGS moves to digital while PGW looks ahead to 2021
Newzoo Report
China games revenue set to exceed $46 billion in 2024
Mobile games revenue generated an estimated $18.5 billion in 2019
This Week In China
This Week In China: Mahjong Soul sees success in Japan while Love and Producer scores its own anime
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Hyper-casual Success
How to find hyper-casual success with rapid testing and development
Hyper-casual isn't just a mobile game genre—it's a very specialist process of game development
Mmorpgs Rule
South Korean mobile games market still grinding
Crunching the data with App Annie
Hells Bells
Animal Crossing: New Horizons shifts 11.77 million units in 11 days
Fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game ever
Nintendo Financials Q4 Fy19
Nintendo's mobile business grows by 11.5% year-over-year, Switch tops 55 million
Revenue up nine per cent year-on-year
Claim A Freebie
Amazon Prime members in India to get free in-game content for mobile titles
Variety of titles included
Saved By The Bells
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp clears $150 million in lifetime revenue
$7.9 million generated and seven million installs in April 2020
Learning From China
What western publishers can learn from China's Coronavirus response
Nativex's general manager of EMEA Leticia Ye takes a closer look
Open For Buisness
Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organisation reopens on May 7th
It was shut due to the coronavirus
Game Down
Honor of Kings crashes on Chinese Labor Day
Tencent blamed the AI
This Week In China
This Week In China: Wind Fantasy returns on mobile, and an Animal Crossing: New Horizons grey market is growing
The biggest stories direct from Beijing
Mamma Mia
No Nintendo E3-style Direct planned for the first time since 2013
Multiple sources suggest video presentation has been pushed until Summer
Stricer Regulations
China mobile games market update: stricter regulations on the horizon
Yodo1 shares tips on making your game China-ready
Feel The Music
Sega launches a music brand
Launching soundtracks via other labels in Japan
"leap Of Faith"
Indie Spotlight: Steet Lamp Games co-founder on the difficulties of breaking into games in India
Mahesh Athirala details how he started the award-winning studio.
New Partnership
Tencent partners up with Gameye for new digital conference
Takes place on May 6th
Huawei Developer Day
Be quick: Sign ups for Huawei's Developer Day For Games end tomorrow!
Grab your ticket to this free event - but you better be quick
Big Indie Pitch
Show us your indie games in the new monthly Digital Big Indie Pitches
Following the success of the online Big Indie Pitch during Pocket Gamer Connects Digital, we're inviting you to even more digital pitch sessions
Acquisition
Tencent acquires majority share of Huya
It owns at least 50.1 per cent
This Week In China
This Week In China: Princess Connect! Re:Dive and Revelation see huge numbers for beta tests
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Round The Track
Nexon's KartRider Rush+ races through three million pre-registrations in one week
Due to launch in Q2 2020
Setting Up Shop
Riot Games opens new studio in Singapore
Headed up by Nathan Beemer, who also established the company's Hong Kong outfit
Market Differences
The latest differences in casual games between the global and Chinese mobile game market
TopOn VP of marketing monetisation Harry Yang compares two high-performing games
All In The Wrist
Sony is developing a live action One Punch Man movie
It will be penned by Venom writers
Black Desert Mobile
100 days on: How Black Desert Mobile is drawing in new players while keeping its hardcore fans happy
Black Desert Mobile lead producer Yongmin Jo on what the new update means for the game
Doubled Revenue
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp downloads have risen by nearly 800% since New Horizons' launch
An estimated 42.3 million downloads to date
Party Bullet
Spike Chunsoft celebrating Danganronpa's 10th anniversary with mobile ports and Identity V crossover
New site launched for the celebrations
Rise Of The Bots
The shortage in Switch consoles can partly be blamed on bots
Nintendo wants to increase production by 10 per cent
My Nintendo
Nintendo launches My Nintendo app in Japan
Offers services across Switch, Wii U and 3DS
Brawling Abroad
Supercell's Brawl Stars arrives in China this June
Multiplayer mobile shooter was approved in March by Chinese game regulator
Openmediation For All
AdTiming on why it's made its OpenMediation platform completely open source
Chief product officer Yobo Zhang on what the platform can do for you
This Week In China
This Week In China: Female-focused games are on the rise in China, while Code Dragon Blood is making waves in Japan
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Ride Or Die
Monster Hunter Riders surpasses five million downloads
It launched in February
Entering India
The next frontier in gaming: Entering India
Orange Rock CEO Kasturi Rangan and PTW senior manager of marketing and PR Kaley Hurst explore the opportunities that esports are bringing to India
Global Expansion
Tencent launches hugely popular MOBA Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
200 million players worldwide to date
Interview
Why Tencent thinks now is the right time to launch Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
Arena of Valor executive producer Ray Ning and TiMi Studios director Vincent Gao discuss the move
Cook Out
Office Create is "evaluating all legal action" against Planet Entertainment over unauthorised Cooking Mama title
"The quality of the game builds failed to meet the standards that our customers expect and deserve"
Shut Down
Pokemon Rumble Rush is shutting down just over a year after launching
The servers close on July 22nd
Hypercasual Help
Supersonic Studios partners with ITI to help publish Japanese games internationally
"We are excited to help other Japanese developers see their games achieve international success"
Investment
Sony invests $400 million in streaming platform Bilibili
It owns 4.98 per cent of the Chinese firm
Shifting Units
Apple shipped 2.5 million iPhones in China last month
Five times more than February
China Isbn
What does China’s tightened ISBN policy mean for developers entering the market?
Nativex Europe's general manager Leticia Ye digs in
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: How China convinced Yodo1 business manager Marina Espin to join the industry
"When I was little, I never even thought about the existence of a whole industry, not to mention actual jobs there"
This Week In China
This Week In China: Minecraft adds epidemic prevention content and 37Games plans to raise money for cloud gaming
A look back at the biggest stories direct from China
Welcome Aboard
Double Eleven hires Ian Ng as Malaysian studio head
Used to work for Ubisoft Singapore
Aso In China
ASO for China: Intro to localisation practices
Yodo1 breaks down some best practices