The Weekly
The Weekly: How games companies avoid income tax, NetEase's Western expansion, and how Game Freak designs pokemon
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
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Catharina Lavers Mallet joins Talla, what makes MZ so successful, and Subway Surfers devs face class-action lawsuit
The hottest articles of the week
War Robots
Pixonic takes aim at VR as it expands War Robots IP from mobile roots
Studio releases War Robots VR: The Skirmish completely free for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Mobile Game Heroes
DeNA games business profits up on back of Nintendo partnership as overall revenues fall
Fire Emblem Heroes sales "satisfactory" for Japanese publisher
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Tracks revealed for PC Connects Helsinki 2017
Talks covering the state of the market, how to get your game noticed, the making of iconic games and development workshops next month
Netmarble Financials Q2 Fy17
Netmarble's revenues slide to $472.3 million as Lineage 2 Revolution loses business in South Korea
Lineage 2 Revolution makes up 37% of all Netmarble's revenues
Two Become One
Gamevil and Com2uS combine to create a new European joint venture
Sister companies make it formal
Valiant
Tencent's massive mobile MOBA Honor of Kings launches as Arena of Valor in Europe
Now available in all European countries
Iap Inspector
How does $1 billion hit Summoners War monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Nexon Financials Q2 Fy17
Nexon revenues grow to $431.7 million due to continued success of Heroes of Incredible Tales
Dynasty Warriors Unleashed finds a home in Southeast Asia
Retention Tool
How Summoners War’s unexpected success disrupts conventional wisdom about mobile eSports
Audience comes first
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Essential Phone?
Mobile start-up Essential confirms $300 million funding round
Tencent, Amazon and Foxconn invest in new company from Android co-creator
Join The Club
Millennial Esports buys majority stake in Gear.Club developer Eden Games for $10.5 million
Deal could rise based on the studio's performance
Play Nyc
New York video games convention Play NYC set to welcome over 100 developers
Event for gamers and creators takes place on August 19th to 20th
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now
Charging Ahead
Rodeo Stampede smashes 80 million downloads 13 months after launch
Still gets one million DAUs
Fuelling Design Home
Glu Mobile’s great user acquisition experiment
Investing for the future
Netease Financials Q2 Fy17
NetEase clears $2 billion in revenues as Onmyoji gets off to a strong start in South Korea
Already a top ten grossing game in the region
The Charticle
The games powering Zynga's profitability
Zynga's latest financials paint a rosy picture, but how has it got here?
Summoners War Billionaire
Summoners War clears $1 billion in lifetime revenues three years after launch
Com2uS hosting a worldwide tournament for the game too
Big Deal
Casino firm Aristocrat buys Plarium for $500 million
All-cash deal also includes earnouts for shareholders
Quick To Profitability
QuickByte Games generates one million downloads in first week for Laps – Fuse
Title already profitable
Tapped Up
Mobile ads firm Taptica acquires Tremor Video’s demand-side platform for $50 million
Tremor Video DSP will operate as independent division of Taptica
Zynga India
Zynga makes push for India with localised match-3 game Rangoli Rekha: Color Match
Presumably being developed by Bangalore studio
Making Of
Feline fighters: The making of ZeptoLab's C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Turbo Stars
Chief Product Officer Max Petrov spills the beans on the game's development
Get Creative
Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support
Also includes other new tools and enhancements
Ar Future
iPhone augmented reality camera details leak
Apple internal software update for HomePod goes public, reveals clues about iPhone’s AR future
Made In Japan
Self-taught 82-year-old Japanese coder develops and releases mobile game
"I thought I should make a game app designed for old people to have fun"
Inspirational
#VisibleWomen: Check out this great artwork on Twitter
Artists share their work for all to see
Pc Games Insider
Steel Media launches B2B PC gaming site PC Games Insider and industry event PC Connects
Covering everything PC related from the lowest indie to the highest AAA dev
Mixi Financials Q1 Fy18
Mixi revenues grow to $437.1 million as Monster Strike nudges 40 million downloads
New game Fight League also has a solid opening week
Something's Brewing
Singapore-based mobile developer BattleBrew closes angel investment round
Using the money to work on its first game
Even More Evil
Super Evil Megacorp raises $19 million to bring 5v5 battles and engine improvements to Vainglory
Looking for new staff to help bolster its mobile MOBA
Go Unlimited
Eden Games partners with Microids to bring Gear.Club to Nintendo Switch
Racing onto the console as Gear.Club Unlimited in Q4 2017
Subway Surfers Lawsuit
Subway Surfers devs face lawsuit for exporting children's personal information to advertisers
Kiloo and Sybo hit with lawsuit along with all the game's advertising networks
Com2us Financials Q2 Fy17
Com2uS revenues hit $114.8 million as Summoners War clears $890 million lifetime overseas revenues
Work continues on Summoners War MMO and Skylanders game
Learn Something New
King General Manager and Studio Head Catharina Lavers Mallet joins AI start-up Talla as COO
Leaves London and mobile games for Boston and AI
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Space Frontier and War Wings fly into the top 10
Rankings from July 24th to July 30th
Gungho Signals
GungHo partners with Toy Soldiers developer Signal Studios on upcoming AAA mobile game
No other details available at this time
Monkey Business
One-man indie developer Part Time Monkey surpasses five million downloads in under two years
Breakout Ninja is the breakout success
Zplay Buys Noodlecake
ZPlay acquires indie game developer and publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million
Helps the Candian developer push further into Asia with no changes to the business
War On Tv
War Wings scores top three download spots on iOS and Android in the UK during first week of launch
Miniclip pushes the game with UK TV ad campaign
Diy Development
"Engines encourage creativity and risk-taking": the GameMaker Studio 2 boss on the rise and rise of indie games
YoYo Games' James Cox explains why the 2D game creation tool was rebooted this year
Ncsoft Financials Q2 Fy17
NCSoft's mobile sales jump 300% to $83 million thanks to Lineage M
Mobile take on PC MMO is cannibalising other games with its name
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part one: The history
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
No Joy For Korea
ChinaJoy organisers demanded removal of any mention of 'Korea' from country's B2B pavilion, source claims
Tensions between South Korean and Chinese governments continues to have impact on Korean games industry
The Weekly
The Weekly: Discord's rapid growth, Monster Strike's Western troubles, and why King may have hit its peak
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
Grand Cru partners with Nexon, King soft launches Brick Wizard, and Clash of Clans' fifth anniversary
The hottest articles of the last week
Pg On Tour
Pocket Gamer on tour: Come meet us as we visit the Nordic countries this August!
We're heading to Copenhagen for a party, and then onto Stockholm, Helsinki and Kotka to meet the industry