Games In An Instant
Why KamaGames is the latest developer to launch on Facebook Instant Games
KamaGames MD Andrey Kuznetsov discusses the potential of the platform and its flagship title Pokerist
Google Play Winner
Bury me, my Love scoops top prize at the second Google Play Indie Games in Europe
Old Man's Journey and Yellow take second and third
Thq Nordic Buys Koch Media
THQ Nordic snaps up Deep Silver owner Koch Media in deal worth $196 million
No changes to happen at either company
Game Dev Tycoon Reviews
Greenheart Games loses 2,000 positive reviews for Game Dev Tycoon on Google Play under mysterious circumstances
Developer blames Google's algorithm, but Google claims it removed the reviews on purpose
Key Figures
The key user numbers behind the rapidly growing chat app games market
Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten offers the big stats showing off the opportunity of messaging apps
Glispa New Cco
Mobile advertising tech firm Glispa hires Jon Hook as its new chief commercial officer
Formerly the VP of brands and agencies at AdColony
Paradox Ceo Steps Down
Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester to step down after nine years
Replaced by member of the board Ebba Ljungerud
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Magic Notion's Richard Franke on learning to run a business and making inclusive games
The importance of looking after yourself and handling the expectations of a community
Money Makers
950 mobile games generated more than $5 million in consumer spend in 2017
App Annie's Silvia Buermann shares insights into the growing mobile market
Conference Evolves
Develop:Brighton extends all tracks across three days
The first day will now have expanded schedule
Pit Crew
Hutch bolsters its London studio with four new team members
Adds a programmer, artst, producer and technical designer to the fold
Chicken Dinner?
How well are NetEase's Playerunknown's Battlegrounds-like mobile games grossing?
Looking at Rules of Survival and Knives Out post-monetisation
Ubisoft Financials Q3 Fy18
Ubisoft's China-only mobile game Might & Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos generates over $120 million in revenues
Avoids specifics on the rest of its mobile endeavours
More Funding For Scopely
Report: The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely looking to raise another $125 million
New funding round could value the company at $795 million
Up Where We Belong
Peter Vesterbacka leads first PG Connects San Francisco 2018 speakers announcement
Flaregames, Scientific Revenue, MoPub, Facebook, Epic Games and more confirmed for May 14th to 15th conference
Behaviour Of Thrones
Behaviour Interactive partners with HBO and Gaea on new Game of Thrones mobile strategy game
Co-developing with Gaea to make it more appealing for a global audience
Igda Exec Director
IGDA appoints Jen MacLean as its new permanent executive director
Emily Greer and Zoe Bell join board of directors
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Ketchapp's Knife Hit sticks to first place on the iPhone free download charts
Rankings from January 29th to February 4th
Switch And Beyond
Nintendo talks "critical" second year for its Switch and looking beyond a six-year lifecycle
Also discusses China, Super Mario movie, and Switch Online
Thnks Fr Th Bmw
Gameloft partners with Island Records to bring emo legends Fall Out Boy to Asphalt 8: Airborne
Listen to some new tracks from the new album and hang out with the band
Influencing People
Pixonic CMO on how influencer marketing stacks up to UA campaigns through Facebook and Google
But it's still not a simple replacement
All Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco plots "full-blown" push into China and aggressive development of new IP
Posts revenues of $4.45 billion for the first three quarters of its FY18
Indian Esports Push
ESL takes minority stake in Indian games publisher Nazara
Also agrees mutli-year licence agreement with esports company Nodwin Gaming
Investment News
HQ Trivia dev eyes $15 million funding round
Investment would value company behind popular mobile app at $100 million
Most Read
Next Games soft-launches The Walking Dead: Our World, Rovio soft-launches Angry Birds Blast Island, and RewardMob partners with Waves
The hottest articles of last week
Nexon Financials Q4 Fy17
Nexon's Pixelberry acquisition provides immediate boost to US revenues
Some growth in Korea too thanks to old games
Glu Financials Q4 Fy17
Glu's Design Home and Covet Fashion lead revenue growth for "historic" 2017
Still making a loss, but it's making bigger revenues too
Take No Prisoners
Twitch tightens community guidelines to combat hateful conduct
The platform has revealed a 'zero tolerance' policy on hateful behaviour
Gameloft New Orleans Closed
Report: Gameloft shuts down New Orleans studio and lets go of 50 staff at Madrid studio
Gameloft yet to provide an official statement
Modern Combat Versus Esports
Gameloft partners with smartphone brand Honor for $12,000 Modern Combat Versus esports tournament
Teams from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India and Malaysia battle it out for $12,000 and a new phone
Glu Disney Partnership
Glu Mobile partners with Disney to use its stories and characters in upcoming mobile game
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes creative lead Mike Olsen taking the helm on the game
Activision Blizzard Financials Q4 Fy17
Candy Crush franchise growth nudges King's 2017 revenues to a sweet $1.99 billion
Despite consistently falling MAUs across the company overall
Iap Inspector
How does Roblox monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Calculated Adjustments
CrossInstall launches new ad spend insights tool for user acquisition campaigns
Opportunity Forecast Tool helps predict how changes in CPI bid rates will affect user acquisition
Tencent Invests In Shanda
Updated: Tencent invests $476 million in previous China market leader Shanda Games
Size of stake still unknown
Financial Report
DeNA fails to hit holiday expectations despite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launch
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp pinpointed as a highly for the quarter
Rewarding Competition
Indian publisher BigCode partners with RewardMob for competitive mobile game competitions
Players will get the chance to compete for real money, prizes and cryptocurrency
Job Losses
Redundancies at narrative games developer Failbetter as Sunless Skies falters
Fallen London mobile app to close in Q2 2018
Critical Growth
Critical Ops clears one million DAUs and 34 million downloads
Critical Force is excited for the year to come
To Where The Puck’s Going
New games, new tech and more M&A: Frank Gibeau on making the right bets for Zynga’s future
Building on success
Mobile Esports Future
Clash Royale scored a combined 1.3 million viewership hours from its 2017 esports tournaments
Newzoo peers into the future of esports on mobile
Jobs News
Former Zynga, Naturalmotion and Multiplay vets head to Runescape developer Jagex
Three hires as the MMO firm preps for mobile launch
Take-two Financials Q3 Fy18
WWE Supercard and Dragon City keep Take-Two's revenues flat for Q3 FY18
Social Point continues to be largely ignored in the company's financials
Developer Support
Stugan games accelerator open for applications
Program returns to Sweden for a fourth time to support games development
Zynga Financials Q4 Fy17
Zynga posts first profitable year since 2010 following successful launch of Words With Friends 2
CSR2 and Zynga Poker also continuing to grow
Bridge Constructor Portal
A bridge too far: How Headup Games persuaded Valve to license the Portal IP for a Bridge Constructor game
Game engineer Mark Aldrup on avoiding free-to-play and plans for the future
Netease Financials Q4 Fy17
Knives Out and Rules of Survival boost NetEase's 2017 revenues to $8.3 billion
Onymyoji declines, but a global launch and new MOBA should help
Mario Kart Dena
Mario Kart Tour's 'free-to-start' model might not mean what you think
Nintendo has been more liberal with the phrase following Super Mario Run's under-performance
State Of Play
Mobile tones: The audio tool and service providers pushing the sound of smartphone gaming
We speak to the top audio companies about creating engaging sounds and music for the small screen
Final Countdown
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
Entry to May 14th to 15th conference won't get any cheaper