Happy Face
Neon Play seals Emoji Movie deal with Sony Pictures for new game Traffic Panic Boom Town
Emoji Movie characters set to star in 10-day in-game event
Live And Kicking
Five years on: InnoGames on the evolution of Forge of Empires
Senior Product Manager Stefan Walter on the game's life so far
Job Losses
AdColony cuts 100 jobs as it shifts to automated ad sales
Company shifting toward reward-based advertising
Acquisition Of Dragons
Chinese developer NetDragon buys LA educational games studio JumpStart
Plans to utilise IP and partnership with Dreamworks
Eye On Asia
Thailand mobile game trends: Garena dominates through licensed games
Niki Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
From Pc To Mobile
Breaking out: The making of Prison Architect: Mobile
How Tag Games brought a PC favourite to mobile
Expanding Footprint
Smartphone manufacturer Foxconn plots $5 billion investment in India
Move will help companies get around new taxes and import duty
Education Funds
Supercell grants over $280,000 to Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Studio wants to turn Finland into a "Hollywood for gaming"
Unrestricted Revenues
Tencent says Honor of Kings gameplay restrictions won’t impact bottom line
Under 12s make up just a small proportion of paying user base
Indian Mavens
Is Reliance Jio's affordable 4G benefiting Indian mobile game developers?
And does greater engagement lead to greater profits?
United Front
First ever Unite India to run alongside NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in November 2017
Events will run alongside each other at the same venue
Mighty Start-up
Ex-Nonstop Games devs open new studio Mighty Bear Games in Singapore
Start-up working on an MMORPG for mobile
First Contact
Star Trek actor George Takei boldly goes into mobile gaming
Named as Creative Director of Fifth Journey
Business News
Razer aims to raise $600 million from Hong Kong IPO
Date and valuation of flotation undisclosed
Taking The Bait
Resolution Games' Tommy Palm on generating two million downloads for Bait! and the potential of mobile VR
Reflecting on two million downloads on a young platform
Tv Structure, Mobile Platform
"We think about hooks and cliffhangers a lot": MegaZebra on episodic mobile game storytelling in Desperate Housewives
CEO Mark Gazecki on the making of Desperate Housewives
Catch Of The Day
Steam founder Rick Ellis raises $1.25 million for new studio Sharkbite Games
Eight-person team's first casual mobile game to be released this year
Pc Games Insider
Steel Media launches into the PC games business with new website and conference series
Former MCV deputy editor Alex Calvin to oversee editorial content
Swooping
UK developer Sumo acquires design studio Atomhawk
Art company to remain independent following deal
Jetting Off
Mech Mocha on creating a new benchmark for Indian localisation with Jetpack Joyride
CEO Arpita Kapoor sets out the studio's ambitions
Jobs News
PlayStack appoints new Head of Developer Partnerships
Rob Crossley to seek out developer deals for publisher
Restricted Access
Tencent limits gameplay sessions for kids playing Honor of Kings in China
Users under 12 can only play for one hour a day
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Glu Mobile's Mark Van Ryswyk on how to get a job as a Studio Head
Glu's Senior VP of Studios shares career insights
Raining Money
Line's mobile puzzler Disney Tsum Tsum racks up $1 billion in lifetime revenue
Surpasses 70 million downloads
Going Viral
Former Gaikai boss David Perry named CEO of Instagram influencer marketing start-up
GoVyrl aims to connect influencers and companies for marketing campaigns
Influential Marketing
Reinventing PC game influencer marketing
PlayCom details its PlaySales service
Hot Five
Scopely's meteoric rise, Wargaming opens new mobile division, and what the experts think of Brawl Stars
The hottest articles of the last week
Run For Your Money
Millionaire's Run has players competing for a real-world $1 million cash prize
Launches July 13th, now in beta
5 Years And Out
IGDA looking for new Executive Director as Kate Edwards steps down
Beamdog CEO Trent Oster will take an interim role
N-gaging
LA startup Wonder raises $14 million to build smartphone-console hybrid
Shakira and Kevin Spacey among the investors
Mobile Mavens
The iPhone turns 10: how can Apple shake up mobile gaming in the next decade?
Our Mobile Mavens ponder the next 10 years for Apple and mobile gaming
Feel Old Yet?
iPhone celebrates 10th birthday
The iconic smartphone was launched a decade ago
Super Space Ape
“I’ve always struggled to imagine ourselves anywhere else”: Space Ape CEO on Supercell deal
John Earner discusses why the London studio turned down other offers to partner with the most successful mobile games developer in the world
Now Playing
Now playing: Galaxy of Heroes Creative Director Justin Jones on Kingdom: New Lands
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Business Tips
10 reasons your game studio will never get funding
Execution Labs co-founder Jason Della Rocca shares some sage advice
Uncertainty Principle
What went wrong with Breaking Bad: Empire Business?
Canned after 18 months testing
Big Awards
Brazil's Independent Games Festival Awards 2017 winners revealed
13 winners revealed
Very Big Indie Pitch
Space colonisation game TerraGenesis wins Very Big Indie Pitch at PGC San Francisco
We round up the top three games at everyone's favourite indie dev contest
10 Years On
67% of all iPhones ever sold are still being used
Newzoo report celebrates 10 years of iPhone
Southeast Asian Intent
Nexon completes iDCC acquisition to establish Nexon Thailand
Builds upon 49% stake and established Southeast Asian presence
Unite Europe 2017 Lessons
Five things we learned at Unite Europe 2017
From a bigger focus on mobile to a push away from games altogether
A Major Slice
China makes up 25% of the world's spending on games
Chinese games market expected to hit $29 billion in 2017
Unreal Offer
Epic Games teams up with Wargaming Mobile to support mobile developers using Unreal Engine 4
Pushing for mobile developers to use Unreal
Champagne Or Success?
Why (I hope) the experts are wrong about Brawl Stars
Something completely different
Exclamation Marks!
Gram Games launches first IAP-driven title Merge Dragons!
First release from London studio
Kapow
Team attack: The making of Chroma Squad
From Kickstarter to mobile with Mark Venturelli
View The Future
View-to-play pioneer Futureplay Games looking beyond clickers to match-3 and more
Soft-launching two new games soon
Cuddly Assassins
Ubisoft teams up with Behaviour Interactive for F2P mobile RPG Assassin's Creed Rebellion
Can Behaviour replicate Fallout Shelter success?
Opt In
Facebook Audience Network introduces rewarded video ads for mobile games
Playrix reports 80% CPM increase
Mobile Focus
Wargaming opens mobile division to develop and publish mobile games
Wargaming Mobile opens its doors