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
Get Into Sea
CloudMoolah offers up its top tips for publishing your mobile game in Southeast Asia
COO Jonathon Sze talks publishing, partners, and payments
Taking The Bait
Bait! hits two million downloads and adds Gear VR controller support
Resolution Games' fishing title surpasses two million downloads
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Supercell's new game Brawl Stars?
Mobile Mavens on Supercell's eSports effort
Coming Soon
Asian top grosser Lineage 2 Revolution set for US launch in 2017
Further Asian launches successful
Critical Force Seoul
Critical Ops developer opens South Korean office and targets Asia after hitting 22 million downloads
The mobile FPS lines up a new target
Summoning A Crowd
Broadcast of Summoners War eSport tournament hits top five on Twitch
M2: Mobile Masters Invitational 2017 racked up 35,000 concurrent views
Award Nomination
MoGi Group at the 2017 Develop Awards
MoGi Group breaks down its year in games
The Hottest Talks
PocketGamer.biz’s top Develop:Brighton 2017 session picks
Don't miss these key talks at this year's conference
Ua Simplified
New user acquisition tool Acquired.io launches with $2 million in funding
Aims to streamline UA management
Coming Together
Singular merges with Apsalar to offer a more nuanced marketing analytics platform
Will operate under the Singular brand
Feeding The Fire
The explosive rise of Scopely
US publisher just can’t stop raising cash
Fully On Board
Former Yahoo VP Glen Drury joins board of blind accessibility tech outfit Conspexit
Aiming for a more accessible world for the partially sighted
How Long Is Forever?
Sega responds to criticism over handling of retro Sega Forever scheme
Mike Evans blames fragmentation, promises improvements
Augmented History
Report: 70 laid off as augmented reality firm CastAR closes
A core group trying to sell tech
Time To Reflect
From hobby development to 150 million players: CEO Hendrik Klindworth on 10 years of InnoGames
Dropping out of university to build a 400-strong company
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Ketchapp's The Floor Is Lava knocks Floor Is Lava Challenge off the top spot
Rankings from June 12th to 18th June
Mobile Esports
The West’s emerging mobile gamer-first market that will power an eSports revolution
Space Ape's Tony Yang offers his opinion on the state of mobile eSports and where it's headed
Mobile Games Revenues 2020
Global mobile game revenues expected to hit $64.9 billion in 2020
Newzoo and AppLift partner to share the details
Closing Shop
Scopely pulls Breaking Bad: Empire Business from app stores after 19 months in soft-launch
Looks like no one will be knocking
Potential Legend
King takes another stab at midcore RPGs with soft-launched Legend of Solgard
Will this one survive the soft-launch?