Unleashed
Vungle launches global self-serve platform for advertisers
New platform gives advertisers access to its audience for video content
Fit For A King
Honor of Kings helps double Tencent profits to $3.4 billion last quarter
56 per cent of third-quarter growth came from the success of mobile titles such as Honor of Kings
Road To China
Ubisoft partners with Tencent to release games in China
Strategic partnership sees the French firm's titles move into the territory
Indie Publishing
Habby: We don’t believe in copying like other publishers
Start-up wants to help guide indies onto the global stage
Get Published
New mobile publisher Habby on the hunt for indie games
Profiling Habby - the hot new games publisher from Asia
Job News
QA and localisation firm Testronic journeys east to set up first office in Asia with new Bangkok set up
Lily Gavin-Allen to take charge of business development in the region
Playable Ads
How Synative’s streaming tech aims to fix mobile’s UA challenges through playables
How short game trials can grab new users
Good Gamee
Gamee teams up with Viber to bring social gaming to 1 billion users
The new partnership will see over 70 of Gamee’s titles brought to Viber’s 1 billion users
Glorious
Super Evil Megacorp partners with Alibaba to bring Vainglory to World Electronic Sports Games
MOBA joins the likes of Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Looking East
Flaregames sets its sights on solving China's publishing problems with Yeahmobi partnership
German publisher rebrands as it continues to expand its operations
Moving Day
Outsourcing specialist Virtuos eyes acquisitions after raising $15 million
The development studio also hopes to double in size over the next three years
Top Dogs
Mobile games spending one-third higher than on PC/Mac, handheld and console combined in 2017
Mobile gaming continues to grow thanks by and large to growth in Asia-Pacific territories
Big Moves
Lords Mobile generating up to $50 million a month
I Got Games also managed to snag $603 million in revenue for 2017
Breaking Japan
“The Japanese games market has come out from its closed-off period”
Yengage chief operating officer on the opportunities that await developers in Japan, and how to break in
Competitive Gaming
Alibaba backs non-violent video games at the Olympics
“In our communication with the Olympics committee, we’ve come to have a better understanding of their values, which is to promote peace"
Redundancies
Report: Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick lays off half its team
The number of employees laid off could push past 30 before the end of the week
Money Stream
Tencent pumps $632 million into Chinese online games streaming platform Douyu
Follows $462 million funding in rival Huya
Big Deal
Chinese games livestreaming service Huya picks up $462 million funding from Tencent ahead of IPO
Tencent has rights to up stake to controlling 50.1 per cent of shares
Copycraft
NetEase rushes to beat Epic’s Fortnite to the punch on mobile with FortCraft
This chicken dinner smells familiar
Another Milestone
Summoners War surpasses 90 million downloads
Com2us expects to hit 100 million downloads in the near future
Jobs News
FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs departs Indian developer Moonfrog Labs
Designer to return to the US and spend more time with his family
Get In
NetEase’s PUBG-like Knives Out reaps $24 million in February thanks to unexpected success in Japan
Japanese players contributed to 80 per cent of global sales outside of the Chinese Market
Tapped Out
Chinese online games portal TapTap shut down for three months as government cracks down on rule breakers
Tencent, 360, Xiaomi and more also slapped with fines
Fight Fight Fight
Mobile Legends is quietly out-grossing Arena of Valor in many countries
Tencent's MOBA mega-hit isn't winning everywhere
All The Marbles
Netmarble’s Lineage 2: Revolution generated $924 million in first 11 months
Seoul-based games publisher also looking to continue big Western push with more titles set for 2018
Quite Honorable
Tencent dangles extra Honor of Kings game time carrot to kids who get good grades
New in-game contracts will let children negotiate play time with their parents
Clash Of The Titans
Glu Mobile explores strategy genre with new soft-launched IP Titan World
Glu Mobile soft-launches new IP Titan World in the Philippines
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
The CEO of publishing giant Tencent is now the richest person in China
Tech mogul Ma Huateng also moved 23 places up the global rich list to 15th
Big Moves
Lineage 2 developer Netmarble names new CEO
South Korean-based developer Netmarble
Mobile Games Trends
Indonesia Snapshot: The largest mobile games market in Southeast Asia
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Egged On
Kirby developer HAL Laboratory’s Part Time UFO touches down in the West
New mobile-focused studio HAL Egg's debut title is out now in the west
Gold Rush
What opportunities does India hold for social casino developers in 2018?
India is proving to be a promising new mobile market with its abundance of new phone owners and cheap data with this year set to be an especially eventful one for mobile devs in the region
Big Plays
New global mobile games publisher Finger Punch sets up shop in Singapore
Company plans to partner up with developers across the globe
Match-india
Zynga targets burgeoning Indian mobile games market with Rangoli Rekha: Color Match release
Match-three title heads out of soft launch
Chart Royale
Tencent’s PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield tops the mobile battle royale stakes in February
Tencent's Playerunkown's Battlegrounds duo make top five most downloaded for February
Pocket Rumble
Sony unveils Xperia XZ2 phone with built-in rumble and 4K HDR filming
4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage and oh so much more
Mobile Game Trends
China mobile game trends in H2 2017: Tencent and NetEase claim nine of top 10 mobile revenue generators
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Iap Inspector
How does Rules of Survival monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Awards Nominees
Lineage 2, Animal Crossing, Arena of Valor and more pick up IMGA Global nominations
Winners to be announced at ceremony in San Francisco on March 20th
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Studio Sinkhole talk pitching and playing golf in space
We speak to Studio Sinkhole, who took away the third place prize at the Big Indie Pitch at G-Star 2017
Dash Downloads
Sony ForwardWorks' No Heroes Allowed! Dash! clears 500,000 downloads in three days
Players rewarded with free premium currency in-game
Together At Last
Bandai Namco and Sega partner to bring Pac-Man and Sonic together on mobile for the first time
Month-long cross-promotional event in Sonic Dash and Pac-Man starts now
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: MMZZUU on winning the first ever BIP at G-Star in Korea with arcade shooter Defenoid
We speak to MMZZUU, the winner of the first ever Big Indie Pitch at G-Star
Colopl Financials Q1 Fy18
Colopl's revenues slide despite strong launches for Disney Tsum Tsum Land and Alice Gear Aegis
White Cat Project no longer generating the overall majority of its revenues
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds mobile games are killing it on the Chinese App Store
Battle royale games have been downloaded more than 150 million times on mobile
Gree Gfr Fund
Gree rebrands its VR fund to include augmented reality and mixed reality projects
The GFR Fund is looking to start a new round of funding later in 2018
Mixi Financials Q3 Fy18
Mixi revenues slide but Monster Strike remains one of the world's top grossing mobile games
No plans for the future revealed
Crazy Defense Revenues
Animoca Brands' Crazy Kings franchise generates $1 million in revenue in a month
Crazy Defense Heroes has a very strong launch
Kakao Investment 2018
Kakao Games raises $131 million ahead of planned IPO in 2018
Tencent, Netmarble and Bluepoint all chip in
Chicken Dinner?
How well are NetEase's Playerunknown's Battlegrounds-like mobile games grossing?
Looking at Rules of Survival and Knives Out post-monetisation