Grand Strategy
Paradox expects 10 per cent of sales to come from mobile by 2020
Tencent-backed PC strategy giant has eyes set on mobile development and more acquisitions
Feast On This
Dead Island: Survivors gets worldwide release after two-years in soft launch
The zombie action game soft-launched on iOS in November 2016 with an Android beta following soon after
Love Better
Failbetter Games sets up Love Indies Week to celebrate developers and communities
The week-long event looks to highlight the importance of reviews on indie games
Gotta Dash
Diner Dash inspired title Mak Cun’s Adventure serves up 100k downloads in 10 days
The game puts a Malaysian twist on the diner management game
Going East
Ad sales house Venatus expands east with new Seoul office
Venatus provides ad sales services to studios including Rovio, EA and Spil Games.
What A Steel
Casual action game Hills of Steel rolls past 10 million downloads
The publishing label Round Zero was formed by Fingersoft last year
Excellent
Oasis Games heads up $3 million investment in Austrian indie developer Iron Mountain
Beijing publisher set to snag a minority stake in the company along with publishing rights to an unannounced title
I Want To Be The Very Best
Pokemon Quest catches $3million in revenues during first week on mobile
The cubed up adventure also snagged 3.5 million downloads
Catch Of The Day
Big Fish appoints 15 year industry veteran Jeff Karp as new managing director and president
Karp brings aboard executive experience from some of the industry’s biggest players
Quizzed
Indian publisher Nazara acquires minority stake in quiz studio Crimzoncode
Partnership will see Nazara publish the studio’s flagship quiz title in emerging markets
Skip, Jump
Super Mario Run leaps past $60 million worldwide revenue
American players account for nearly half of the revenue brought in since launching in 2016
Event
This week: The Big Indie Fest @ ReVersed
Vienna’s four-day celebration of gaming opens this Thursday to Sunday
Drop
Drastic drop in Google Play downloads rocks indie devs after discovery algorithm fiasco
Devs started noticing the abnormal behaviour on Thursday, June 21st
Growing Up
How Finnish studio Koukoi Games is leveraging Hollywood licenses and its own original IP to find success
CEO discusses the studio's history and where it's headed
10 Years
App Store users have spent over $4 billion on Supercell’s Clash of Clans
Supercell is just behind majority owner Tencent in terms of consumer revenue made per company
Indie Spotlight
How a brush with closure led to Broken Rules' hit Old Man’s Journey
CEO Felix Bohatsch on regaining confidence and striking the balance between work and family
Click
Nintendo Switch is played docked about as often as undocked
Individual games more likely to skew one way or the other
Chicken Dinner
Say hello to China’s biggest mobile gaming export so far - battle royale
Goodbye matching coloured candy, hello machine guns, silly hats and shrinking maps
Loot Boxes
French regulator concerned about loot boxes but concedes it isn't gambling
Paris proves less hostile to the practice than its Dutch and Belgian counterparts
Show Me The Money
VIDEO: Games industry investment power panel
Six experts deal out advice on raising money and offer their thoughts on initial coin offerings
Pgc Videos
5 Superstar Sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the big talks at our even bigger event
Pgc Videos
9 videos on mobile monetisation, retention and user acquisition from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Monetise, Retain, Acquire track
Sneak Peek
Niantic opens up preview of its AR Real World Platform
Pokemon Go developer looks to collaborate with third parties to advance augmented reality
Pgc Videos
8 videos on mobile games industry trends from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the InduTrends track
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Love Island: The Game pips Pokemon Go to be the third highest grossing game
Rankings from June 18th to 24th
Pgc Videos
5 videos all about the world of mobile esports from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Esports Academy track
Korean Event
Early Bird registration opens for South Korea’s G-STAR 2018
10% off tickets to the major Asian show taking place November 15th to 18th in Busan
Pgc Videos
4 videos on how to work with influencers from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Influencer Insight track
Roundup
Games industry roundup: The hottest stories across the PC, blockchain and influencer sectors
15 articles from PCGamesInsider.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockhainGamer.biz
Event
First speakers revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018
September conference features Unity, Epic Games, King, Gameloft and many more sharing their expertise on games for mobile, PC, VR, AR and Nintendo Switch
Pgc Videos
6 videos on indie strategies and business advice from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Indie Strategies track
Goodnite
PUBG Corp ends Epic Games lawsuit over PUBG and Fortnite copyright infringement claims
Brings end to battle royale spat
The Milestone Is Passed
Edmund McMillen's The End is Nigh sells more than 100,000 copies
Indie games maker reckons it could have performed better had he done more press, however
Pgc Videos
8 videos that offer practical tips and game development insight from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Developer Toolkit track
Hot Five
Brawl Stars comes to Android, King enters the social casino space, and why Gabe Leydon swapped mobile for blockchain
Last weeks hottest articles
Addition
Social casino dev KamaGames signs exclusive Unity Ads partnership
Irish social casino games company agrees to only provide in-app video monetisation through Unity Ads platform
The Weekly
The Weekly: The secrets behind the most successful F2P games, inside Tencent's new $600m HQ, and gaming addiction
Rounding up the week's games industry analysis and news from around the internet
Ruled Out
Judge halves Facebook’s Zenimax payout to $250 million in Oculus dispute
Headset sales won’t be blocked either, Judge rules
Accelerate
Google opens applications for its Indie Games Accelerator in Asia
Four-month program open for Indian and Southeast Asian games developers
Job News
Resolution Games brings Mogi creator Mathieu Castelli aboard as chief creative officer
Stockholm studio also expands with Mojang and Paradox alumni
Fallout
Warner Bros labels Bethesda lawsuit over Westworld mobile game "baseless"
Skyrim developer accused Warner Bros and Behaviour Interactive of snagging code from Fallout Shelter
Pgc Helsinki
Hatch headlines first ever Cloud Gaming track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018
CEO Juhani Honkala and co-founder Vesa Jutila set to speak at event
Googled
Report: Google eyes game dev acquisitions to work on new streaming service
The internet behemoth is said to have met with devs at E3
Job Klaxon
Animoca Brands signs up former Rovio EVP of games Wilhelm Taht for strategic advisor role
Taht also holds positions at Nitro Games, Dodreams and Remedy
Still Going Strong
Four years on: The rise, fall and rise again of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
The tribulations of Glu’s most successful game ever
Pocket Gamer Connects
Today only: Double discount for Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018
Midsummer madness joins Super Early Bird prices for up to $600 saving on September tickets!
Oh Mymy
After early struggles French dev Oh BiBi has its eyes on the big time with $21m investment
Studio set to launch multiplayer shooter FRAG
Acquisition
Pokemon Go developer Niantic acquires London-based machine learning outfit Matrix Mill
AI research outfit join the augmented reality giant
Pgc Sf Video Interviews
18 exclusive fireside chats from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
HyprMX interviews the industry's leading lights at the show
Watch Out
Yo-Kai Watch World hopes to capture Pokemon Go-like success with Japan launch
GungHo works with Level-5 to location-based AR title