Rumour Mill
Report: Microsoft considers EA acquisition
Deals for Valve and PUBG Corp also rumoured to be on the cards
Understanding Others
Manage your emotions, get better at your job
Rovio London's Will Luton on working
Up In The Clouds
Microsoft acquires backend services provider PlayFab
Technology to complement computing giant's own Azure platform
Gallery
In pictures: The Mobile Games Awards 2018
Remembering a great night for the industry
Top Of The World
How to get to the top of the App Store
The power of ASO and Search Ads
All Together Now
German games industry trade bodies BIU and GAME merge
MD Felix Falk hails news as "historic day" for country's industry
Talk Torque
Call for speakers: The finest games industry insight sought for PG Connects San Francisco 2018 on May 14th to 15th
Influencer marketing, cryptocurrency, development knowhow, trends, monetisation... all and more welcome
Funding Opportunities
Social casino firm Playtika establishes Israel-focused $400 million investment arm
Aims to support growth of Israel-based companies
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: FIFA shoots into top grossing top 10
Rankings from January 15th to 21st
Jobs News
MZ eyes 70 new staff in big recruitment drive
Openings in areas including art, analytics, design, engineering, marketing and data science
Iap Inspector
How does Battlejack monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Most Read
Mobile Games Awards winners, effective user acquisition, and Aristocrat acquires Big Fish
The hottest articles of last week
Fired Up
Eight Pixel Square’s Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 1.5 million downloads in two months
100 million PvP battles completed
Helping Hand
Ubisoft launches personal gaming assistant Sam
Chat bot offer tips and information to users about the publisher's games
Mobile Grossing Charts December 2017
Honor of Kings remained the highest grossing mobile game in the world in December 2017
SuperData Research shares its monthly grossing charts
The Room In Asia
Fireproof Games partners with NetEase to bring The Room Three and Old Sins to Asia
Previous partnership with Chrous Worldwide appears to be over
Time To Reflect
6 things we learned at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018
What the show tells us about the big upcoming mobile games industry trends
Tale's End
Bandai Namco to shut down Tales of Link four years after first launching
Everything ends on March 27th
All-new Stats
PGC London 2018 breaks all Connects conference records and shares the games industry love!
More speaker, more people, more meetings and more hugs than ever before
Three’s A Charm
Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal
Crazy Defense Heroes also a big hit
Funding For All
UK Games Fund opens up fourth round of grants up to $36,000 for eligible developers
Also launches Pitch Development Programme for newer developers
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Rovio's Michail Katkoff shares insights on the role of a product manager
Advice on the skills you need to be a success in the role
A Very Special Day
UK charity SpecialEffect's One Special Day event raised $635,000 for gamers with disabilities
Mobile developers and more come through
Iap Inspector
How does Onmyoji monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
All In
Social casino dev KamaGames partners with Yoozoo to launch Poker Champions in India
Game is first since two companies announced deal last year
More Minecraft
Minecraft cleared 144 million copies sold and 74 million MAUs in December 2017
Unclear how many sales come from mobile
Everyone's Invited
Sony ForwardWorks launches pre-registration campaign for third game No Heroes Allowed! Dash!
Already cleared 300,000 registrations after nine days
On Yer Oji
NetEase finally launches English-language version of China hit Onmyoji on iOS
Android players have to wait another week
Beyond Episodes And Choices
Why Ludia thinks What’s Your Story? can turn a new page in the competitive interactive fiction sector
Telling new tales
Sweet Incubator
Flaregames unveils Sweet Nitro as first partner from $21 million accelerator program
Flaregames CEO Klaas Kersting discusses its how its new publishing strategy is helping mobile developers get to market
Thunderful News
Image & Form and Zoink merge studios to form "powerhouse" company Thunderful Games
Bringing together 46 staff to create bigger and better games
Force Multiplier
How Glu Mobile and G5 made big UA investments and grew bigger (but Rovio didn’t)
Counting more than the cost
Harrison At Google
Ex-Microsoft exec Phil Harrison joins Google as vice president and general manager
Will report to Rick Osterloh, and that's all we know
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Fat Fish Games' David Lane on failing fast and prototyping faster
The Tiny Striker developer's CEO talks future partnerships and average days at the office
Miitomo Closure
Nintendo to shut down social app Miitomo two years after first launching
First ever attempt at mobile closes on May 5th
Big Deal
Aristocrat closes $990 million Big Fish acquisition
Company has spent $1.5 billion since August on mobile game purchases
Up In The Cloud
Epic Games acquires cloud computing firm Cloudgine
Tech known for powering Oculus title Toy Box and the upcoming Crackdown 3
In It To Win It
Indian games publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in esports outfit Nodwin Gaming
Picks up 55 per cent stake in local company
Mobile Games Awards
First ever Mobile Games Awards winners revealed
Supercell, Playdemic, Playrix, Flaregames and more pick up top accolades
Accelerating Funding
VC firm Atomico doubles down on games industry investment with Alexis Bonte appointment
Bonte will advise on new investments in France, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe
Mobile Esports
The current state of mobile esports according to the ESL
James Dean defines an esport and talks about the challenges facing mobile
Dreams To Life
How developers turn their ideas into reality
Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others
Build A Brand
Curve Digital and Identity Spark on how indies can build their own brand
Alex Moyet and Nat Griffith on tone and time
Live Ops Power Panel
Live ops experts on the best practices for keeping your mobile game alive
PlayFab Europe GM Mark Val leads a panel in a live ops discussion
Taking Flight
Mobile games-on-demand service Hatch extends beta to UK and Ireland
Streaming platform attracts over 100 games
Touchdown
Angry Birds developer Rovio partners with the NFL for special in-game events
New characters, costumes and levels in Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Evolutions
Mixed Audience
SuperAwesome on building apps and games for a "mixed audience" of adults and kids
Paul Nunn on how his company is working to monetise kids within COPPA's rules
By The Numbers
An overview of the mobile games market and the growth of VR and AR
Nick Parker breaks out a bunch of big numbers
Surf's Up
Sybo Games on where it's taking Subway Surfers after hitting 1.8 billion downloads
Launching animation and licensing arms while continuing to develop its flagship game
Superstars By The Fire
Peter Vesterbacka and David Helgason discuss the future of the games industry
China, VR, AR, and the film industry all get talked about