Modern Combat Versus Esports
Gameloft partners with smartphone brand Honor for $12,000 Modern Combat Versus esports tournament
Teams from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and Malaysia battle it out for $12,000 and a new phone
Glu Disney Partnership
Glu Mobile partners with Disney to use its stories and characters in upcoming mobile game
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes creative lead Mike Olsen taking the helm on the game
Activision Blizzard Financials Q4 Fy17
Candy Crush franchise growth nudges King's 2017 revenues to a sweet $1.99 billion
Despite consistently falling MAUs across the company overall
Iap Inspector
How does Roblox monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Calculated Adjustments
CrossInstall launches new ad spend insights tool for user acquisition campaigns
Opportunity Forecast Tool helps predict how changes in CPI bid rates will affect user acquisition
Tencent Invests In Shanda
Updated: Tencent invests $476 million in previous China market leader Shanda Games
Size of stake still unknown
Financial Report
DeNA fails to hit holiday expectations despite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launch
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp pinpointed as a highly for the quarter
Rewarding Competition
Indian publisher BigCode partners with RewardMob for competitive mobile game competitions
Players will get the chance to compete for real money, prizes and cryptocurrency
Job Losses
Redundancies at narrative games developer Failbetter as Sunless Skies falters
Fallen London mobile app to close in Q2 2018
Critical Growth
Critical Ops clears one million DAUs and 34 million downloads
Critical Force is excited for the year to come
To Where The Puck’s Going
New games, new tech and more M&A: Frank Gibeau on making the right bets for Zynga’s future
Building on success
Mobile Esports Future
Clash Royale scored a combined 1.3 million viewership hours from its 2017 esports tournaments
Newzoo peers into the future of esports on mobile
Jobs News
Former Zynga, Naturalmotion and Multiplay vets head to Runescape developer Jagex
Three hires as the MMO firm preps for mobile launch
Take-two Financials Q3 Fy18
WWE Supercard and Dragon City keep Take-Two's revenues flat for Q3 FY18
Social Point continues to be largely ignored in the company's financials
Developer Support
Stugan games accelerator open for applications
Program returns to Sweden for a fourth time to support games development
Zynga Financials Q4 Fy17
Zynga posts first profitable year since 2010 following successful launch of Words With Friends 2
CSR2 and Zynga Poker also continuing to grow
Bridge Constructor Portal
A bridge too far: How Headup Games persuaded Valve to license the Portal IP for a Bridge Constructor game
Game engineer Mark Aldrup on avoiding free-to-play and plans for the future
Netease Financials Q4 Fy17
Knives Out and Rules of Survival boost NetEase's 2017 revenues to $8.3 billion
Onymyoji declines, but a global launch and new MOBA should help
Mario Kart Dena
Mario Kart Tour's 'free-to-start' model might not mean what you think
Nintendo has been more liberal with the phrase following Super Mario Run's under-performance
State Of Play
Mobile tones: The audio tool and service providers pushing the sound of smartphone gaming
We speak to the top audio companies about creating engaging sounds and music for the small screen
Final Countdown
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
Entry to May 14th to 15th conference won't get any cheaper
Indie Showcase
Google Play Indie Games Contest heads to London next week
Takes place at Saatchi Gallery on February 13th
Riposte Furnace Partnership
Mini Guns developer Riposte Games signs two-game publishing deal with Furnace Games
First game to come from the partnership will be called Dungeon Stars
Netmarble: The Gathering
Netmarble partners with Wizards of the Coast on real-time multiplayer Magic: The Gathering mobile game
Project M is expected to launch sometime in 2018
Fuelled By Rmob
RewardMob partners with Waves to launch blockchain-based mobile gaming platform
From rewards to esports
Iap Inspector
How does Coin Master monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Eddie Birds
Nodding Frog brings Angry Birds Evolution character to Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast
Eddie the Bird joins the real Eddie and co
New Direction?
Webzen moves into social casino gaming with Hit the 5 Casino - Free Slots
MMORPG specialist diversifies portfolio
Lightseekers Tcg Goes Digital
PlayFusion plots ambitious 2018 with digital edition of physical Lightseekers trading card game
Also working on pushing the competitive side of the game across the UK
Narrative Of Decline
$6 billion on from Puzzle & Dragons’ launch, whatever happened to Gungho Online?
Fumbling the golden egg
Ncsoft Financials Q4 Fy17
Lineage M's huge success pushes NCSoft's revenues to a record $1.6 billion in 2017
Sales are beginning to die down following the launch
Com2us Financials Q4 Fy17
Com2us scores revenues of over $450 million for the second year in a row
Summoners War to be its main focus of 2018, but it has plenty of other games to launch
Hot Purchase
Hong Kong publisher Animoca Brands acquires Finnish studio Tribeflame
Deal worth up to $433,000
Investment News
Tech start-up 8th Wall raises $8 million to make augmented reality dev tools
Brings total investment in company to date to $10.4 million
Love Produces Revenue
China-only dating sim Love and Producer generated $32 million in January 2018
From the developer of Love Nikki - Dress UP Queen
The Importance Of Being Idle
View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games rebrands Farm Away! as Idle Farming Empire
Rebrand affects every game on Android, just Farm Away! on iOS
Ace Attorney
European law firm Fieldfisher hires video games lawyer Brian Chadwick
Plans to expand games industry-related services
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Italic Pig's Kevin Beimers on defining success and following butterflies
"That game you want to make? Make it."
Square Enix Financials Q3 Fy18
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius and Hoshi no Dragon Quest help grow Square Enix profits to $204 million
Dragon Quest Rivals goes unmentioned despite initial success
Chat App Revolution
"Playing games on messaging platforms will definitely become as ubiquitous as playing downloadable apps"
Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten on developing HTML5 titles for chat apps
Sega Financials Q3 Fy18
Sega revenues fall despite continued success of Hortensia Saga and Puyopuyo!! Quest
Hoping new games released next year will push revenues up again
Magnifying Glass
Are hidden object games still finding success?
Old formula, renewed interest?
Capcom Vancouver Layoffs
Capcom Vancouver lays off around 30% of its staff due to restructuring
Still working on mobile release Puzzle Fighter
Netmarble Financials Q4 Fy17
Netmarble's latest game Tera M helps push revenues to $567 million
Lineage 2 Revolution still generating the most revenue
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fireproof's The Room: Old Sins launches straight to the top of the paid iPad charts
Rankings from January 22nd to 28th
Island Blast
Rovio soft-launches casual puzzle sequel Angry Birds Blast Island
Available on Android, but we're not sure exactly where
Gamevil Com2us Usa Merger
Gamevil and Com2us merge US offices to form Gamevil Com2us USA
Now have merged offices in the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia
Walking Dead Our World
Next Games soft-launches location-based AR game The Walking Dead: Our World
Now available on Android in the Philippines
Destination Finland
How to get a job at Wargaming Helsinki
GM Antti Sten tells us about the company, its culture and jobs hiring process
Funding News
Jordanian mobile games publisher Tamatem raises $2.5 million
Plans to extend operations in the MENA markets