Popcap Layoffs
Plants vs. Zombies developer PopCap lays off staff at Seattle studio
Studio aims to refocus on key titles and new projects
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Early Bird ending for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Final hours to save up to 20%
Sending A Message
Facebook Instant Games for Messenger rolls out worldwide with new features
Words With Friends to offer turn-based play and spectating
Mad Skillz
Skillz doubles revenue run-rate to $100 million in eight months as mobile eSports scene gains steam
Increased users by 32% in the same period
Time To Duel
Supercell kicks off year-long global Clash Royale Crown Championship
Promising $1 million in prizes throughout the first year
Huuuge Signing
Nonstop Games co-founder Henric Suuronen joins Huuuge Games' Board of Directors
Has been an investor since early 2015
The Charticle
Worldwide top grosser but never in the US top 100: Why Mixi canned Monster Strike
Is the chasm between Japanese and American tastes a bridge too far?
App Store Price Increase
Apple increase App Store prices in Denmark, Mexico, Taiwan and EU countries
Appears to be introducing alternate pricing tiers to affected countries
Mtg Takes Over
MTG spends $90 million to increase InnoGames stake to 51% majority
Entire acquisition has so far cost MTG over €130 million
Jobs News
PlayRaven recruits Eero Pöyry as new Development Director
Has experience at betting agency Veikkaus and THQ Wireless
The Deluxe Package
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe becomes fastest-selling game of the franchise with 459,000 units sold in the US
Tops the UK sales charts for last week in just one day of sales
We're Hiring
Join our growing biz dev team: Steel Media is expanding into new areas!
Pocket Gamer publisher hiring two BizDev pros
Deeper Underground
Amazon's "actually free" Underground service to be shut down in 2019
Access taken away in summer 2017
Feeling The Crunch
Controversy over Icarus Mobile development crunch
Developer Wemadeio for long working hours and treatment of staff
Strike No More
Mixi to shut down Monster Strike's English-language version on August 1st
No refunds, no transfers
Winning Team
"Everyone told us we were idiots!": CEO Branko Milutinović on the rise of Nordeus
The Top Eleven developer discusses the challenge of repeating their early success
Going Meta
The democratisation of location-powered AR for developers and marketers is underway
Verve's Mark Ollila discusses augmented reality tech with GoMeta's Dmitry Shapiro
Super Fire Emblem
Deconstructing Nintendo’s $300 million mobile game success
The start of something bigger?
Most Read
C.A.T.S. scores 8 million downloads, Dragon Ball Z tops grossing charts, and 7 reasons why you love Clash Royale
The hottest articles of last week
New Studio
DICE veterans form new developer Fall Damage
Swedish Games Industry CEO Maria Tjärnlund named as Chairman of the Board
Mobair In China
Mobile marketing firm MobAir pushes into China with Shanghai office
Wants to offer personalised services to its local clients
Digital Games Market March 2017
Lineage 2 Revolution dropped from the top of the worldwide mobile grossing ranks to 10th in March 2017
Clash Royale takes the top spot instead
Eye For Fashion
Ex-Rovio and Digital Chocolate staff score pre-seed funding round for new Finnish mobile studio Polka Dot
Developer's ambition to become the leader in fashion games
2017 Finnish Game Awards
Clash Royale picks up two Game of the Year accolades at 2017 Finnish Game Awards
Kopla Games scores a win as Best Rookie
Instant Storm
Blackstorm Labs on how game bots and rich gameplay features are evolving Facebook Instant Games
Co-founder Ernestine Fu reflects on F8
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Nonstop Knight rushes past 12 million downloads in 10 months
Players have spent 56 million hours in-game collectively
50 Million Fighters
Netmarble's Marvel Future Fight hits 50 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
20 million downloads alone in Asia
Hyper-casual
The ascendance of hyper-casual part three: The opportunity
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze continues his detailed analysis of a new genre
Making India Play
Indian mobile game studio Mech Mocha raises $5 million series A funding
Shunwei Capital, Accel Partners and Blume Ventures invest
Still Running
Super Mario Run approaches 150 million downloads
Number of paid players said to be gradually increasing too
Cyberagent Financials
CyberAgent sales grow to $1.62 billion but profits fall sharply in H1 FY17
Profits are way, way down
Iap Inspector
How does ZeptoLab's C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Turbo Stars monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Gree Financials Q3 Fy17
GREE's release blitz scores sales of $142.4 million thanks to three top 50 grossing games
Has plenty more where that came from
Strategy And Insight
Mobile strategy games on Android have a D30 retention rate of 3% and generate an ARPU of $2.23
AppsFlyer digs deep into the state of strategy titles on mobile
No Trojans Here
Eric Seufert's Heracles launches mobile user acquisition tool Agamemnon
Work out when your UA campaigns will generate money
Next Big Thing?
Spil CEO on Facebook Instant Games: “We think it has the potential to be a massively significant gaming platform”
Tung Nguyen-Khac talks up the platform's potential
Capcom Financials Fy17
Capcom sales up to $782.5 million as it eyes stronger mobile performance
Hoping to "break through the current situation" with big IPs
Critical Training
Critical Force wants to fix Finland's game dev shortage with new academy
20 students at Kajaani University will get specialist coaching and feedback
Jobs News
GSN CEO David Goldhill steps down after 10 years
Search for a replacement already underway
Live And Kicking
Three years on: Madfinger on the evolution of Dead Trigger 2
CEO Marek Rabas on the game's life so far
Nintendo Financials Fy17
Nintendo profits soar to $921 million as Switch sells 2.74 million units
Goes awfully quiet on its mobile games
More Insight
King, East Side Games, Sega, ESL, Skillz, Rebound and more to speak at PGC San Francisco 2017
Oh, also: Early Bird rate is ending soon
Newzoo Global Mobile Market
Global app store revenues expected to hit $56 billion in 2017
Newzoo peers into its crystal ball
Facebook Ad Spend Q1 2017
CPMs and CPCs rise for advertisers on Facebook due to shift to mobile video ads
Nanigans takes a closer look at Q1 ad spends
Mobile Mavens
Will medals for eSports at the 2022 Asian Games accelerate mainstream acceptance?
Full medals, full recognition?
Vainglory Advisers
Vainglory experts join British eSports Association's board of 23 game advisers
MrKcool and Citrus Empire to keep the association up to date on the scene
Fully Licensed
How Glu Mobile designed MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2017 for accessibility and depth
Behind the scenes with Jerome Collin
Search Ads Roll Out
App Store Search Ads roll out to the UK, Australia and New Zealand
Four territories now have access to cheap ad space
Retention Royale
7 reasons why you can't stop playing Supercell's Clash Royale
Michail Katkoff analyses why the hit mobile game is so addictive
Affiliates Affected
Apple to cut commission rates for app affiliate links to 2.5%
Every other type of content remains at 7%