Iap Inspector
How does Gangstar New Orleans monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
New Star On The Block
Rising Star Games makes mobile publishing debut with Natsume's Harvest Moon Lil' Farmers
It's like Harvest Moon... but for kids!
Final Fantasy Mz
Square Enix soft-launches Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire mobile game likely developed by MZ
All signs point to it being MZ's promised title
Lego Bear
TT Games hires new Global Community Manager to promote all things LEGO
Parker has previously worked on community management for Xbox and PlayStation
Star Designs
How ZeptoLab is blending industry trends with its own quirky design philosophy for UGC vehicle combat game C.A.T.S.
Misha Lyalin discusses the studio's latest game and its innovation process
Baftas 2017
Pokemon GO and Clash Royale snag Best Mobile Game and Audience eSports Award at the 2017 BAFTAs
Multiplatform title That Dragon, Cancer also wins Game Innovation
Sending A Message
MojiWorks talks Moji Bowling and going all in on games for messaging apps
The power of social, 3D games on iMessage and much more
Indie Mavens
How do indie developers measure and define success?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Falstein Leaves
Google's Chief Game Designer Noah Falstein resigns after four years
Looking into VR and neuroscience for next role
King Answers The Call
Candy Crush maker King developing Call of Duty mobile game
Casual game publisher's Stockholm studio takes the reigns
Vr Is Bad
Niantic's John Hanke thinks VR is a "problem for society" because it's too immersive
Says AR is the way forward, obviously
Tenjin Daydream
Tenjin adds Google Daydream support to its mobile marketing platform
Track installs and user behaivour in Daydream apps
Wrestlemania
Sega secures licensing deal for new mobile idle game WWE Tap Mania
US studio The Tap Lab working on title
Ball Battling
Chinese casual eSports game Battle of Balls hits 300 million users worldwide
Big plans for this year's tournaments
Quiet Giant
Why are mobile games invisible to the media?
Tribeflame's Torulf Jernström offers his reasons
The Potion Is Lava
Palringo's Magnus Alm sets up new premium strategy game developer Lavapotion
With the help of co-owner Coffee Stain Studios
Live And Kicking
Three years on: Pixonic on the evolution of War Robots
COO Igor Klyukin on the game's life so far
Appota Investment
Vietnam-based publisher Appota pushes towards $50 million valuation with series C funding round
Korea Invesment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment throw some money in
Dokkan Downloads
Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle pushes past 150 million downloads in just over two years
Celebrating with a summon event to reward older players over new ones
Huawei Banned?
Huawei could be blocked from selling its mobile phones in the UK
High court ruling may lead to injunction against the manufacturer
More, Merrier
Latest speakers from Cmune, MojiWorks, Amazon, Affiniti, IGDA, Newzoo, Scientific Revenue and Scopely join PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Make it California on June 27-28 or miss out
Jagex Financials Fy16
Jagex posts second consecutive record financial year with revenues up 28% to £74.4 million
Profits also up 21.5% year-on-year
Big Vision
New MD, new mobile games and a new strategy: How Bigpoint is evolving its business
Managing Director Brian Morrisroe discusses his plans
Roblox Customer Service
Roblox appoints new VP of Customers to oversee and improve customer service and content moderation
Remy Malan joins from a five year stint at SugarCRM
Speeding Away
From Lithuania to India: The making of Chhota Bheem Speed Racing
How a Lithuanian studio topped charts in India
Xiaomi India Investment
Xiaomi plans to invest another $500 million into its growing India presence
Targetting $2 billion in revenues for the country in 2017
Out Of The Park
How Glu Mobile became an ambassador for Major League Baseball
What value can mobile developers offer to partnering IP holders?
Big Data
MZ launches massive free open data project Satori
Developers encouraged to use new platform with big money competition
Model Strike
ASA orders Mobile Strike ad takedown following complaints that it objectifies women
Use of plus-size models not an excuse
Inmobi Up
Mobile advertising firm InMobi sees operationally profitable 2016 following big boost in China
Even a $1 million fine couldn't bring it down
Cut-price Sale
Baidu sells mobile gaming business for $173 million
Getting out of the games space?
Health Through Play
Therapeutic mobile game developer Tilak Healthcare raises $2.7 million
French digital healthcare startup get big investment
Still Switched On
Color Switch surpasses 150 million downloads in 15 months
Still going strong with 20 million downloads in last three months
Key Deals
Acquisition spree spurred Keywords revenues up 67% to €97 million in 2016
Services provider bought eight companies last year
Mobile Mavens
Why does Clash Royale have no worthy competition?
A year on, why has there been no challenger for the Clash Royale crown?
Revved Up
Creative Mobile’s Nitro Nation racks up 30 million players
Players have travelled further than the distance between the sun and Jupiter
Moving On
Apple Designer to leave after 21 years with the company
Had worked on the original iPhones and iPads
Jobs News
Romanian outsourcing studio Amber recruits former Samsung VP as CEO
Developer launches new live ops service
Disrupting The Market?
Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames
Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant
Battle Royale
Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak
Supercell's smash hit gets competition
Inkle Hires
80 Days developer Inkle hires a new Senior Artist and Concept Artist
Laura Dilloway and Anastasia Wyatt bring the headcount to six-and-a-half
Uk Games Fund
UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding
Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
New Platforms
Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support
Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Business Reality
Imagination Technologies shares plummet as Apple reveals intentions to design its own graphics chips
UK firm asks for evidence that new designs don't infringe on its own
Liquidation Proceedings
Peripheral maker Mad Catz ceases operations after filing for bankruptcy
No buyer found for peripheral maker
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Wooga's Rebecca Harwick on how to get a job as a Lead Writer
Some top tips in building a career as a game writer
Fake News Day
April Fool's round-up: The best gags from the games industry
Celebrating Fake News in style
Behind The Total
Why it matters App Annie, Newzoo and Superdata can’t agree on the size of the mobile game market
And what they should do about it