It's Party Time
Pocket Gamer’s ultimate GDC 2018 party guide
Stay busy during the evenings at GDC
Jobs News
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli steps down
His two brothers and co-founders take the top job
#shetalksgames
Facebook teams up with leading industry figures for new Women in Gaming social hub
The social media giant has committed to helping women find a way into the industry
Big Plays
New global mobile games publisher Finger Punch sets up shop in Singapore
Company plans to partner up with developers across the globe
New Speakers
Super Evil Megacorp, ESL, Reality Clash, FunPlus and Seriously confirmed for PG Connects San Francisco 2018
May 14th to 15th mobile games industry conference set to be biggest US outing to date
Big Moves
Two new staff writers for PocketGamer.biz as Ric Cowley is named editor of PocketGamer.com
New hires, a promotion and a new top secret website incoming!
Early Testing
Breaking down the key elements of a mobile game soft launch
The marketing firm and Medals of War developer break down the key elements for a successful soft launch
Wild
Games distributor EuroVideo taps Daedalic and others for new publishing label Wild River
Wild River teams up with German-based studios Daedalic, Independent Arts and Morphicon to release three new mobile games this year
Parallel Bidding
Ad mediation platform Appodeal introduces in-app header bidding
Parallel Bidding currently in alpha testing
Match-india
Zynga targets burgeoning Indian mobile games market with Rangoli Rekha: Color Match release
Match-three title heads out of soft launch
Sweet Money
Candy Crush Soda Saga fizzes into top 10 of global grossing mobile game charts for January 2018
Two Candy Crush games in the top 10 revenue generators for January, according to SuperData
Augmented Spooks
Ghostbusters World gives iconic films the Pokemon Go treatment
South Korean publisher Four Thirty Three and partner studio NextAge on board to develop and publish
Mapping Reality
Softbank-backed Mapbox launches location-based augmented reality platform
Toolset designed to enable developers to create Pokemon-Go like experiences
Ka-ching?
KamaGames eyes hotly competed slots games market on mobile
Integrates slots into flagship title Pokerist
No Payne No Gain
Next Games and AMC turn to Jesus to teach gamers about The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
Actors Tom Payne and Alanna Masterson promote mobile title with series of videos
Jobs Losses
Pearl's Peril developer Wooga lays off 30 staff as it refocuses on story-driven casual games
Company restructures from in-house studio structure to one based around dev cycles
Another Direction
The slow, casual transformation of Gameloft
Supertanker turning
Chart Royale
Tencent’s PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield tops the mobile battle royale stakes in February
Tencent's Playerunkown's Battlegrounds duo make top five most downloaded for February
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Wee Door talks striking OIL at The Big Indie Pitch
We speak to Wee Door, who came third at The Big Indie Pitch at Abertay University in Dundee 2017
Job News
Football Manager firm Sports Interactive hires Disney vet Matt Carroll as first chief operating officer
"A COO is something that Sega has been telling me that I've needed for a few years now," studio chief Jacobson says
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Rules of Survival battles its way into the top 10
Rules of Survival leaps up 11 places in this week's charts
Pocket Rumble
Sony unveils Xperia XZ2 phone with built-in rumble and 4K HDR filming
4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage and oh so much more
Ready To Ignite
How PlayIgnite's £100 million warchest aims to jumpstart new games through UA
We speak to MD Matt Frenchman about how it plans to jumpstart games that show big potential
Arcore In The Wild
Google launches its augmented reality SDK ARCore on Android
Available now on 13 different devices
New Nokia Phones
HMD Global unveils five new Nokia phones including relaunched 8810 feature phone
Four new smartphones for high-end, mid-range and low-end devices
Take Your Pick
The interactive narrative games taking over the App Store
Why are story-based games on the rise?
Most Read
Mobile PUBG games are killing it, Small Giant raises $41 million, and the irony of Supercell's financials
The hottest articles of last week
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Ant Workshop talks micro studios and twin stick shooters
We speak to Ant Workshop, who won the Big Indie Pitch at Abertay University in Dundee 2017
The Week In Jobs
Mobile game jobs weekly: New studio Playrmakr hires chief design officer, InnoGames' new PR team, Jam City recruitment drive
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming
Big Indie Pitch
Nood Climbrs grasps first place at the Big Indie Pitch at the White Nights conference in Prague
FINIFUGU && friends becomes the first ever back-to-back winner
Mobile Game Trends
China mobile game trends in H2 2017: Tencent and NetEase claim nine of top 10 mobile revenue generators
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Iap Inspector
How does Rules of Survival monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Competitive Gaming
Vision Esports raises $38 million to power competitive gaming investment
Plans to fund more companies in the space
Say What?
Trump says US needs video games ratings after blaming them for gun crime
Commander-in-chief rambles about system its games industry has had since 1994
Boom!
My.com partners with Pushkin Games Studio to bring Armored Warfare to mobile
PvP title has players duke it out in 3v3 and 8v8 matches.
Awards Nominees
Lineage 2, Animal Crossing, Arena of Valor and more pick up IMGA Global nominations
Winners to be announced at ceremony in San Francisco on March 20th
Business News
Rovio issues profit warning as company plots big Hatch investment and UA costs rise
Revenues also anticipated to be well down from forecasts
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Studio Sinkhole talk pitching and playing golf in space
We speak to Studio Sinkhole, who took away the third place prize at the Big Indie Pitch at G-Star 2017
Most Wanted
Our top 10 most anticipated mobile games: from Assassin's Creed: Rebellion and Exiles of Embermark to The Sims Mobile and Brawl Stars
The biggest games we can't wait to play
Keep Your Receipts
Norwegian Consumer Council claims Nintendo's "no refunds" policy on Switch eShop is not compliant with EU law
Nintendo says that it is fully compliant
Ultra Educational
New educational mobile games studio Ultra Creative Games sets up shop in Vancouver
Headed up by former IGG senior game designer Matthew Tomporowski
Performance Index H2 2017
Apple's Search Ads fall in rank in latest AppsFlyer Performance Index due to higher costs and lower ROI
Facebook and Google still on top
Poopdiepie
Bulb Boy developer Bulbware partners with YouTuber PewDiePie for upcoming mobile game Poopdie
PewDiePie providing creative direction with Bulbware handling development
New Fyber
Fyber absorbs Heyzap and Inneractive as part of its rebranding efforts
Also launches new product FairBid
International Expansion
Mobile esports platform RewardMob opens new European office
Start-up wants closer ties with developers in the region
Making Of
The making of Nekki's mobile brawler Shadow Fight 3
Nekki's Dmitry Terekhin and Nikita Korzhavin break down how the game's development
New Ipad Rumours
Report: Apple to refresh its line of iPad products in March 2018
Filings with the Eurasian Economic Commission suggest new models are coming
Improved Recipe
Save the date: Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 is set for January 21st to 22nd return
Europe's largest mobile games industry confirms sixth appearance in UK capital
Dash Downloads
Sony ForwardWorks' No Heroes Allowed! Dash! clears 500,000 downloads in three days
Players rewarded with free premium currency in-game
Together At Last
Bandai Namco and Sega partner to bring Pac-Man and Sonic together on mobile for the first time
Month-long cross-promotional event in Sonic Dash and Pac-Man starts now