Not A Forever Franchise
Zynga shuts down mobile Mafia Wars after three months
Another one bites the dust
Ar Awakens
Disney's new augmented reality headset lets players wield their own lightsaber
Teams up with tech outfit Lenovo to produce new hardware
Mobile Siege
Outplay’s Castle Creeps TD surpasses five million downloads
Tower defence title reaches milestone in just over six months
Jobs News
Subway Surfers dev Sybo Games hires ex-PopCap Creative Director Amy Kalson
Kalson brings expertise in game design and AI
Mobilescape
Why Jagex is finally bringing RuneScape to mobile with cross-platform play
Neil McClarty offers up the details MMO's big jump to smartphones and tablets
Eat Some Hay
Playdemic’s Golf Clash strikes up $1.1 million revenues in a single day
Studio targets $100 million in revenue this year
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Golf Clash, Dragon Ball Z and Contest of Champions surge into top 10 grossing
Rankings from July 3rd to July 9th
Flying High
How Angry Birds 2 significantly increased its revenues within a year
Michail Katkoff deconstructs the changes that breathed new life into the game
Chat.com
Fun, outgoing PG Connects London 2018 is looking for expert, insightful speakers
January 22nd to 23rd event poised to again set a new standard for mobile gaming industry's leading conference series
The Weekly
The Weekly: Hitman GO postmortem, mobile game publishing relationships, and AR for the masses
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
Amazon buys GameSparks, King doubles down on midcore, and Riot sues Moonton
The hottest articles of the week
Scaled Down
Autodesk kills off game middleware products
Scaleform, Beast, Human IK and Navigation all given the chop
Mobile Is King
Mobile games revenues surpassed PC and console revenues in 2016 for the first time
DFC Intelligence tells us more
Master Plan
British Games Institute unveils proposals for £8 million a year programme on funding, culture and skills
Could go up to £12 million after three years
Esl New Hires
ESL hires new CMO and CRO to push into next stage of global growth
Rodrigo Samwell and Martin Hubert join the team
Mobile Mavens
Mobile Mavens: Is there an opportunity for smartphones to build on the Nintendo Switch model?
Following recent investments, we ask the experts for their view
Force Field Funding
Term1nal developer Force Field raises $1.14 million to finish its next six games
Working on "high-end location based VR"
Ar Next
Next Games pushes into AR and location-based games with Lume Games acquisition
Also sees revenues up 52% to $22.6 million
Apple China Data Centre
Apple to build first data centre in China to comply with stricter data storage laws
Partners with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data on new centre
Big Deal
Brazil’s Independent Games Festival 2017 attracts 20,000 visitors
3,200 professionals head to event
Country Head
Gameloft hires former Arena Azure Head of AV as new Country Manager for UK and Ireland
John-Paul Burke to grow the company in the region and lead Gameloft Advertising Solutions team
Out Of This World
Space Krieg blasts away competition at the Big Indie Pitch at Develop:Brighton 2017
Narrative-driven titles The Almost gone and Lost Words take second and third spot
Dreams To Reality
VR developer NDreams secures $3.5 million investment in second stage of funding round
Mercia Technologies continues to pour money into the studio
Games In Leeds
GamesLab Leeds grants $200,000 to nine Yorkshire devs in latest round of funding
40 jobs created or safeguarded by funding
Tasty
Candy Crush TV show has sweet premiere with 4.1 million viewers
Scores a 1.1 Nielsen rating, whatever that means
Play Business
Motorsport Manager’s Christian West on why business planning as an indie made his life much easier
The Playsport Games Director discusses his love for spreadsheets
Time To Experiment
Experimental games company Velan Studios secures $7 million series A funding round
Round led by Velan Ventures
Pokemon Galore
Pokemon GO players in Japan spent an average of $26 on IAPs in the game's first year
Sensor Tower ranks the top spenders in Niantic's megahit
Epic Accelerator
Epic Games chosen to take part in Disney's 2017 accelerator program
One of 11 companies taking part
Battle Of Legends
Riot Games sues Mobile Legends developer Shanghai Moonton Technology for copyright infringement
Mobile MOBA developer alleged to have ripped design and art from League of Legends
V-art
Ex-ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge staff launch mobile-focused VR studio Virtual Arts
Using triple-A knowledge to develop mobile VR experiences
We Are Family
Jagex and Riot Games join Ukie's ever-growing network of developers
Jagex cementing relationship, Riot Games leading eSports
Going On Up
Unity’s Andy Brammall leaves after seven years to join middleware firm Spirit AI
Takes up role of Director of Sales and Consulting
Women In Games
Anita Sarkeesian and Brie Code to keynote European Women in Games Conference on September 5th-6th
Over 40 speakers and panellists across the conference's two days
From The Sky
Cloud-based PC game streaming service LiquidSky launches service on Android
Play your PC games on your Android phone or tablet - for a price
Unity 2017
Unity 2017.1 launches with Timeline, Cinemachine, improved analytics, and more
New year-based numbering system finally in effect
Developing A Legend
"We have a plan, and we're sticking to the plan": Nordeus on the continuing development of Spellsouls
The Spellsouls team discuss how development is progressing six months after soft-launching
Defining Reality
Magic Leap’s Chief Games Wizard on what defines mixed reality and the 'everyday adventure' killer app
Graeme Devine delves into design concepts for MR
Fulfilling The Vision
InnoGames on finishing what Wooga started with Warlords
Studio Director Philip Bang on the project so far
Spoils Of War
Summoners War hits lifetime revenues of $890 million as it surpasses 80 million downloads
Currently a top five grossing game in the US and Canada
Next In Line
Line launches games publishing division after NextFloor acquisition
NextFloor CEO Min Kyu Kim to head up new unit
Monster Match
GungHo teams up with Capcom for Puzzle & Dragons and Monster Hunter crossover event
New multiplayer dungeon lets three players battle cooperatively
Business News
Private equity firms invest in Chinese mobile game developer Since Times
Company previously backed by Tencent
Outdone Itself
UK developer Outplay more than doubled revenues in 2016 to $20 million
Most of its earnings came through IAPs and work-for-hire
King In Space
King doubles down on midcore with soft-launched space-based Stellar: Galaxy Commander
Mixes match-3 and turn-based strategy
Vaulting Ambition
What happens when global expansion goes bad: A cautionary tale from Japan
What GungHo and Mixi learned from GREE and DeNA
Influencer Marketing
Why influencers are a key part of games marketing and how to work with them
An overview of the space and how to harness these social media stars in your marketing campaigns
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Ketchapp takes over the iPhone download rankings with three games
Rankings from June 26th to July 2nd
Influential Tech
New technology delivers three million mobile game installs with a single YouTuber campaign
Playcom details the benefits of its new PlayClips technology
Falling Back
Gree closes three studios as it ends Western operations
Japanese publisher retreats after struggling to replicate its native success