Sticky Situation
Glu Mobile grows sales 8% to a record $107 million but still fails to make a profit
Net loss of $5.1 million sees shares drop
Dropping Numbers
Microtransactions down for console, steady for PC, only rising for mobile games
Superdata's data
Ups And Downs
Mobile and DLC maintained US game spending despite a 23% decline in hardware sales
2019 to-date up 1% to $28 billion
Bullseye
PUBG Mobile generated $154 million during October 2019
Honor of Kings in second place
Learn More
5 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong’s Developer Toolkit track
Everything a growing developer needs: essential, practical advice about all aspects of making games.
Unite We Play
Why casual games like Homescapes are adding midcore Guild community features
Play together, spend more
Investment
Niantic launches $10 million Creator Program for new location-based AR games
Also opens Pokemon Go sponsored location program for small businesses
Negotiations
US and China agree to roll back tariffs that were set to affect console and mobile
A new deal is pending
Magical Mena
Pocket Gamer Connects launches into MENA with 700+ delegates at PGC Jordan in association with the King Abdullah II Fund for Development
First event in the Middle East and North Africa region
No Deal
Playtika considers international IPO after Chinese deal fails again
Giant Network gives up the attempt
Block By Block
Mobile AR game Minecraft Earth enters early access in the UK
Phased rollout
Crossing The Beams
Rogue Games takes Vainglory as Super Evil raises $10.5 million for cloud game Project Spellfire
Funding was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Full House
Former Rovio EVP Wilhelm Taht appointed to head GSN Games' Bingo studios
From Angry Birds to Two Fat Ladies
Let Them Clash
$400,000 Clash Royale League World Finals 2019 to take place in LA on 7 December
Event will be presented by Google Play
Money For Not Much
Google's Play Points reward program launches in US
Reward system already live in Japan and Korea
Freebies
Here’s how you can get into Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 - free!
Four ways to get involved with B2B expo in January 2020 without spending.
Spoilsports
Chinese games regulator halves playtime for under 16s to 90 minutes a day
Also limits spending to $60 a month
Indie Spotlight
Exospecies creator Eric Zinda on the move from Xbox to mobile
Finding the right way
All Fired Up
Guns of Boom dev Game Insight announced as Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards headline sponsor
Prestigious industry event returns on January 21st evening
Hey Little Spender
The hard data behind Supercell’s decision to can Rush Wars
Sensor Tower spills the beans
Delta Force
Call of Duty: Mobile gains top grossing momentum, while Mario Kart Tour’s downloads fall away
Crunching the data with App Annie
Solid Base
G5 Games sees average monthly revenue per payer at $45.80
Hidden objects still paying off
Another One Bites The Dust
Supercell cans Rush Wars
Servers shut down 30 November
Job News
PS Vita advocate Gio Corsi leaves PlayStation
He was with the company for over six years
Learn Coding
GameMaker Studio 2 gets a new educational tool for preteens
The programme is aimed at 11-to-14 years olds
Girl Power
BlizzCon 2019 sees first major female Hearthstone champion
VKLiooon roars
Roster-rific
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now the best-selling fighting game of all time
Move over Street Fighter II
Shot Down
17-year-old Fortnite esports pro Jarvis Kaye permanently banned for using aimbot
Bad mistake
Scary Numbers
How Keplerians saved time and bagged more money with Yodo1's managed ad service
Making more of Mr. Meat
Huge Suck-cess
Luigi’s Mansion 3 hoovers up the competition to become Switch’s biggest launch of 2019
Places second in overall charts to Call of Duty
Well Earned
Supercell co-founders top Finland’s highest-earners list
Ilkka Paananen and Mikko Kodisoja top
Event Recap
4 Things We Learned at Gamesforum Seattle 2019
Co-development, China, LiveOps and more: last month we were at the multi-format industry conference
Indie Mavens
Will subscription services be good for indie game developers?
The Indie Mavens share their thoughts
New Game
Overwatch 2 officially announced at BlizzCon 2019
Players from the original game can compete in PVP with sequel players
Killzone
Social Point's Legend at War, Nexon's MapleStory Blitz, and Space Ape's Rumble League all canned
Soft launch games don't make it
Acquisitioon
Unity Technologies snaps up Furioos cloud engine firm Obvioos
Building out the stack
Coming Soon
Fantasy Westward Journey 3D gets approval in China
One of 22 games to get licences
Switching Up
Switch Lite is already shaping up to be 3DS' worthy successor
Console and handheld strategy
Blizzcon 2019
Blizzard unleashes new Diablo Immortal video
Including all the things you know and love about Diablo
Read 5 Now
Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell
The hottest stories
New Channels
What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers
Erick Fang discusses
What's Next
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 conference tracks revealed
24 tracks covering mobile, PC, Console, XR & blockchain games
Data
Preteens start with tablets and move to console
87 per cent of parents think games are educational
Download Drivers
Say Games, Voodoo and Good Job Games the most downloaded gamecos
Sensor Tower's Q3 2019 data
Complementary
Switch Lite not cannibalising Switch sales, says Nintendo
Shuntaro Furukawa was speaking to analysts
Big Guns
World of Tanks Blitz's global championship to offer $100,000 prize pool
Winners take home $50,000
Fortnight Battle
Two weeks left to nominate for the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2020
Lobby for the best of the past 12 months across 22 categories
Strap In
Mario Kart Tour multiplayer beta launching this December for Gold Pass subscribers
$4.99 per month subscription fee will give users access to new mode
Video
8 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong’s West Meets East track
The latest news about the world's hottest markets
Game On
DevGAMM lands in Minsk on 21-22 November
The two-day games industry conference heads to the capital of Belarus