Handheld
Report: Tencent may be set to launch its own gaming phone
Mobile gaming giant could create the perfect hardware for its overwhelmingly popular mobile games
Grow
Global mobile gaming revenue hit $14.6 billion in Q1 2019
Gaming accounted for 76 per cent of all app revenue last quarter
Gearing Up
Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on his vision to become the ‘Epic of live ops’
Disruptor Engine will create stronger businesses
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Panzerdog on making Tacticool a $1 million a month hit
“It has never been better for indies"
Eastern Growth
Plug In Digital continues expansion by opening office in China
Publisher and distributor expands Eastward following $2.25m funding round
Mobile Star
Supercell’s Brawl Stars is making $50 million a month
Sales pass $200 million to date
Big Indie Pitch
Dark Chess takes a classic game and reinvents it to win The Big Indie Pitch at Game Dev Days 19
Local talent takes The Big Indie Pitch by storm in Tallinn
Regional Report
The state of the Finland’s €2 billion-plus games industry
Supercell's influence is waning as company sales decline and other studios grow
Interview
Speaker Spotlight: Masquerade Media president Dayan Paul thinks the female gaming audience is still underserved
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th.
Wingardium Leviosa
Niantic soft-launches Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in New Zealand
Can be downloaded through the App Store and Google play in the region
East Meets West
Save the date! Free London mini-summit and mixer this May
Join us for East Meets West In Association With Mintegral
Event
Come learn from the games industry's leading experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019’s Mentor Lounges
CGX brings its international series of mentor networking sessions to the USA for its Seattle debut
Develop Reboot
China and South Korea are driving Eve Online into the future
"I have Eve Echoes in my pocket. It is like an artefact from the future"
Birdie
Rovio to launch Angry Birds Adventure Golf across UK shopping centres
Metrocentre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear will be the first to feature the attraction
Augmented Oculus
Oculus staffing up for new augmented reality glasses
"In the future, our AR glasses will merge the physical and digital worlds"
To Infinity And Beyond
PepsiCo planned space campaign against "unjustified prejudices" towards gamers
Part of a push to promote new Russian energy drink
Brawl Tv
Brawl Stars TV lets users watch top player matches in real-time
New fighter Rosa joins the battle
Twitch Sings
Twitch karaoke game Twitch Sings is now available to everyone
The company has been trialing a beta version of the game among partnered streamers
Blockchain Go
Tencent launches its own take on Pokemon Go and CryptoKitties in China
Said to be a hybrid of Pokemon Go and CryptoKitties, Tencent’s ‘Let’s Hunt Monsters’ makes use of an interesting blockchain ecosystem
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio
"When we started Eight Pixels Square six years ago, the shooter genre on mobile was hugely under-represented"
Electric Turn
Electric Square’s Forza Street takes franchise free-to-play and to mobile
Released on PC, coming to iOS and Android
Competition
Win Indie Showcase space at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle - new closing date
You could demo your game to the global games industry FREE this May, worth $650
End Of An Era
5 best and funniest Reggie Fils-Aime moments Nintendo fans will remember
My name is Reggie. I’m about kicking ass. I’m about taking names and we’re about making games
Strange
Brawl With The Stars brings Stranger Things to Supercell's arena fighter
Brawl Stars bets on fan favourites in a new show hosted by mobile esports influencer Chief Pat
Funding
Mobile tools provider Game of Whales raises $2 million
The esports and gaming firm has made the investment as part of a $2 million funding
Mutiny
HQ Trivia host Scott Rogowsky leaves show amid trouble at studio
Host departs amid a failed mutiny that saw over half of the firm’s staff try to oust CEO Rus Yusupov
Event
Last chance to save on tickets to Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle
Mid-term offer ends midnight this Thursday. Grab your tickets now!
Apple Arcade
Will Apple successfully capture the midcore gamer market with Apple Arcade?
AdColony APAC MD Vikas Gulati expresses his doubts about Apple's subscription service for games
Not Fortnite
NetEase renames FortCraft to BuildTopia as it bags one million pre-registrations
Battle royale copycat edges closer to launch
Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: Clash of Clans the US top grosser thanks to new Gold Pass
Charts from April 1st to 7th
Roundup
Games industry roundup: The big Tim Sweeney interview, Animoca Brands' $12m warchest, and the cost of influencer marketing
15 articles from PCGamesInsider.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockhainGamer.biz
Apple Arcade
Apple investing $500 million in Apple Arcade games
Tech giant pulls out the cheque book for its new subscription service
East Meets West
Kabam partners with NetEase for Marvel Contest of Champions China launch, and Black Desert picks up $1 billion
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Hot Five
Inside Kolibri's strategy for success, Zynga soft-launches Game of Thrones Slots Casino, and Clash of Clans gets Gold Pass
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Event
How to get into Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle - free!
Four ways students, indies and the media can attend the leading B2B event for the mobile, PC and blockchain games industry this May without spending a buck
Company Roundup
Meet 31 of the top most exciting Washington state games companies
Get a chance to meet with the state's finest at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle on May 13th to 14th
Hack Blocker
Defending against the dark arts of mobile game hacking with AppSealing
AppSealing delves into the problems at hand and its solution
Two Bans Two Months
PUBG banned in Nepal over addiction concerns in young children
“We have ordered the ban on PUBG because it is addictive to children and teenagers”
Reach For The Sky
Animoca Brands picks up majority stake in CCG developer Skytree for $606k
Developer could work on F1, MLB, Bundesliga or Bayern Munich IPs
One Billion Dollars
Mobile accounts for nearly a third of Black Desert franchise's $1 billion sales
Series began in 2015
Stadia Versus Xbox
Microsoft: Google has technology and community, but Stadia needs content to succeed
Xbox marketing boss Nichols is first Big M exec to weigh in on the platform
Why Was Six Scared?
Bandai Namco dreams up Very Little Nightmares for iOS
Players can pre-register for the game now
Blood And Truth
Google Play home to numerous inappropriate games aimed at kids
36 games submitted to Google for violent or inappropriate content
Event
Top 20 reasons why you need to be at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle this May
From 13 conference tracks by 125 expert speakers to networking, pitching and the Global Connects Party. You can’t afford to miss this one!
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Future Games of London’s Elizabeth Sampat on being a creative director and the truth about the 'Idea Guy'
"Make games. Even if you can't do everything you need to do - find other people and make games with them"
Ads Partnership
Gameloft partners with PubMatic for in-game ads
French publisher has an audience of 114 million monthly users across its portfolio
Crime Does Pay
Games2win partners with Sony Pictures to launch mobile games based off iconic Indian show CID
“It’s an all-time epic”
Sign Up
The Elder Scrolls: Blades made available to anyone with a Bethesda account
Fantasy action RPG has already amassed one million downloads
Live Ops
Disruptor Beam unveils live ops platform for mobile games developers
New chief product officer and first chief financial officer appointed
Redundancies
13 jobs lost at NantG Mobile as Z1 Battle Royale development returns to Daybreak
Unclear if NantG-developed mobile editions are still in the works