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
That Is Unreal
Epic Games dishes out $1 million in grants for Unreal Engine 4 devs
The games publisher handed out grants to 37 teams
Keep It Clean
Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime reinforces his commitment to storefront curation for Switch
“Their games are selling best on Switch because of that environment we're creating”
Switch Up
Nintendo Europe names new CEO as Shibata leaves role after 18 years
Satoru Shibata will head back to Japan to take up a new position
Oh Snap
Report: Snapchat games platform to land later this year
One games publisher is said to be lined up already
Beyond Games
5 things we learned about influencers, hyper-casual and esports at the Beyond Games Mini-Summit
Leading industry experts deal out their knowledge and advice
Why Not
Rovio opens Angry Birds World amusement park in Qatar
It’s called Angry Birds World, of course
Critical Hit
World of Tanks Blitz hits 100 million downloads in celebration of it’s fourth birthday
Wargaming attributes success to loyal community, major tournaments and a successful Chinese launch
It's A Hit
How a move into the hyper-casual games market provided MAG Interactive with a spring in its step
"Our teams make tonnes of prototypes and are in the habit of testing them early in the development process, which is the reason we realised that we had a real gem here"
Squared Away
Pokemon Quest lands on the iOS App Store and Google Play
The adventure RPG game has already caught 2.5 million downloads on the Nintendo Switch
Mobile Masters
Amazon names the winners of its $100,000 Mobile Masters Seattle esports event
Participants competed in World of Tanks: Blitz, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Critical Ops and Survival Arena
Adjusted
Adjust launches open-source performance benchmarking tool for mobile apps
Free tool should help publishers track app performance
Free No More
The Sims: Freeplay banned in seven countries due to “regional standards”
The Sims: Freeplay will be banned in China, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt come July 5th.
Worldwide
GungHo banks on colourful chaos to go big with Nintendo Switch release Ninjala
Japanese developer hopes the wider appeal will help the game land on a global scale
Royalties
PUBG Mobile raking in $700k a day thanks to the new Royale Pass
Revenues boosted by 365 per cent in one week
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Love Island: The Game debuts at top spot in iPhone free chart and is a top grosser
Rankings from June 11th to 17th
On The Go
Pokemon Go racks up $104 million as player base reaches its highest level since 2016
The game has surged 174 per cent year-on-year in time for summer
Grass Is Greener
Why MZ CEO Gabe Leydon has left mobile games for blockchain data outfit Satori
One example of a wider trend
Pay To Play
Mobile is the most popular platform for gaming, but the least for paying customers
Newzoo study finds the platform has a lower player-to-payer ratio than console or PC
Employed
Ukraine plays host to over 80 games development companies
82 per cent of them are working on mobile games titles
Digital Sports
Chinese esports market set to reach 350 million users by 2020
Experts also expect the scene to value at $1.5 billion
Job News
Kabam co-founder Holly Liu joins the Animoca Brands board of directors
Leading games entrepreneur sees potential in Animoca’s AI and blockchain endeavours
Indie Spotlight
“The stories that they told us were so moving": The making of My Child Lebensborn
Teknopilot’s co-founder Elin Festøy on balancing messages
Cloned
Indie dev lambasts recently flush publisher Voodoo for ‘clone’ Hole.io
Hole.io is currently sitting at the top of the free-to-play charts on iOS