Party Time
PG Connects Advent Day Ten: All work and no play wouldn't be PGC anyway
Free drinks, dancing, and discourse for delegates at Global Connects post-conference bash
Key Connections
PG Connects Advent Day Nine: Developers get to meet publishers, guaranteed
Scheduled SpeedMatch session for one-to-one meetings adds to the networking prowess of PGC London 2018
Money Money Money
PG Connects Advent Day Eight: Discover the way to financial success
Let Sisu Game Ventures, Agnitio, Nitro Games, FunPlus, LVP and friends show you the way in reworked PGC London 2018 track
Discovering Publishing
Digital trading card specialist VirtTrade signs three year partnership with Discovery Channel
Expands into independent publishing
Another Ipo
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive launches IPO with $137 million valuation
Share prices at around $5
Reflecting On Data
Breaking down the download numbers required to get your game in the App Store’s top rankings
We use Reflection’s data to gain an insight into the average daily downloads per country and subcategory
What's The Target?
Can PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Call of Duty raise the bar for mobile shooters?
And if they can't, what will?
Big Indie Pitch
Arcade shooter Defenoid shoots down the competition to win the Big Indie Pitch at G-Star 2017
Dead 2048 and GWARP take second and third spots
Even More Insight
PG Connects Advent Day Seven: A speakavalanche from Rovio, Bandai Namco, NaturalMotion, Seriously, Nitro Games, PlayRaven, Gfinity, Lima Sky
Latest unveiling of confirmed speakers for 2018 London Connects conference rolls in
Crazy Ad Experiments
Animoca gets revenue boost for Crazy Kings with AppOnboard's Rewarded Demo zones
Developer trial new playable ad format
Super Evil Razer
Super Evil Megacorp forms strategic partnership with Razer to advance mobile eSports
Razer's going to sponsor a bunch of Vainglory tournaments
Spatialos Goes Mobile
PlayRaven becomes first mobile game developer to use SpatialOS through partnership with Improbable
Project Metro will be the first mobile game using SpatialOS, but there's no info until next year
To The Top
Big Indie Pitch winners Splitter Critters and Hidden Folks named Apple's Games of the Year 2017
Splitter Critters takes the iPhone crown, while Hidden Folks is the best game on iPad
I Want To Believe
FoxNext partners with Creative Mobile on mobile game The X-Files: Deep State
FoxNext can't be stopped
Level Up
King, Ironhide, Cartoon Network and more kick off Uruguay’s Level UY conference talks
Event also hosts Indie Showroom, workshops and CONAVI Awards for local developers
Pole Position
Hutch's CCG Top Drives races past three million downloads in two months
Adds over 80 new Porsches to its ever-growing list of car cards
Stillfront Acquires Goodgame
Stillfront acquires Hamburg-based strategy game developer Goodgame Studios for $318 million
Goodgame's owners now become majority shareholders in Stillfront
New Track
PG Connects Advent Day Six: ZPLAY, Snap, DeltaDNA, Exit Games, Outfit7, Google confirmed for new Developer Toolkit track
Latest addition for 2018 conference content focuses on core aspects of successfully making mobile games
Happy Birthday Finland
Rovio, Supercell, RedLynx, and more celebrate Finland's 100th birthday
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää Suomi!
Bridge Constructor Portal
Valve licenses Portal IP to Headup Games for branded Bridge Constructor game
Bridge Constructor Portal is not the game we expected, but exactly the one we deserve
Blockchainization
Spells of Genesis developer EverdreamSoft adds ability to "blockchainize" cards for full ownership
Turn your digital cards into an item that can be sold for real money
Android Market Share
Android's US market share grew 8.2% in October 2017 while iOS faltered
Kantar Worldpanel blames November launch of the iPhone X
The Next Generation
Code.org raises $12 million to provide more computer science education for children
22 million users of its platform, 10 million of which are girls
Search Ads Basic
Apple launches stripped-back pay-per-install Search Ads Basic service in the US
Designed for smaller developers with small budgets
Free Entry, Big Win
PG Connects Advent Day Five: Time to enter our Very Big Indie Pitch Competition
Shortlisted entries for flagship pitching event get free access to PGC London, underpinning conference's devotion to helping indies
Champion Of Fire
Amazon's 2017 Champions of Fire casual eSports tournament wraps up in New York
Twitch streamer Yassuo wins $10,000
Xiaomi Ipo
Report: Xiaomi exploring a potential IPO in Hong Kong with a $50 billion valuation
Could raise $5 billion to help its expansion in India
Connect The Dots
Dots CEO Paul Murphy to step down at the end of 2017
COO Patrick Moberg to take over
Turn To Ad 67
IronSource launches choose your own adventure-style "4D" interactive ads
Make ads even more personalised
Investment Window
Underworld Football Manager dev Stanga Games raises $500,000
CEO Adam Jaffe on turning the bootstrapped indie house of part-time devs into a full-time games business
Mtg Investment
Modern Times Group launches $30 million investment fund for eSports and online gaming
Looking for minority investments in US and European companies
Bad To The Bone
Badland developer Frogmind pushes into free-to-play with soft-launched brawler Badland Brawl
Slingshots and brawling in the Badland universe
Snagging Influencers
5 ways to snag a top gaming influencer
YPSocial CEO Yogin Patel lets us in on his secrets to bagging a top influencer
Ingress Prime Time
Niantic to reboot its first location-based game Ingress with major update and anime series in 2018
Ingress Prime introduces a new narrative and some serious redesign
Ubisoft Station F
Ubisoft looking for mobile AR and blockchain start-ups for second season of its Station F program
Working with developers to build new tech for the future
Clash Royale World Champion
16-year-old Clash Royale player Sergioramos:) wins first place and $150,000 at Crown Championship World Finals
$400,000 in prizes given out across the competition
All Aboard
Unity co-founder David Helgason joins Lockwood Publishing board
Avakin Life developer opens Leamington Spa studio
Funding Quest
Ex-King staff raise $2.2 million for new Swedish studio Strange Quest
Developer to focus on multiplayer games for mobile
Roll The Dice
NHN Entertainment partners with Sony Pictures on soft-launched Jumanji mobile game tie-in
Jumanji: The Mobile Game due to launch on December 14th
Second Agenda
Developing beyond the second screen: How Supermassive created crime thriller Hidden Agenda for Sony's PlayLink
Senior Producer Jez Harris on accessibility and the opportunity to innovate
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp heads straight to the top
Rankings from November 20th to 26th
Grow Up Time
PG Connects Advent Day Four: Indie Strategies track powered by Hello Games, Curve, Tricky Tribe, White Wolf, Imperia Online and chums
The indie apocalypse is done. Indie survival has been overcome. What's next for the 'little' guys looking to go big?
The Charticle
How does the launch of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp compare to past Nintendo games?
Charting the game's trajectory
Most Read
Mobile Games Awards 2018 finalists, what's happening at MZ, and two PUBG games are coming to mobile
The hottest articles of last week
Battle Royale
How Supercell's Clash Royale Crown Championship World Finals is channelling the Olympic spirit
The developer's eSports man Tim Ebner on taking the games for all philosophy to eSports
Hotels.con
PG Connects Advent Day Three: How to beat the London conference accommodation conundrum
Finding where to stay on January 22nd-23rd a little pricey? Allow us to help…
Special Space
PG Connects Advent Day Two: Why The Brewery is PGC delegates' venue of choice
Second return to celebrated central London Connects conference spot will push space to its limits
Sizzling Speakers
PG Connects Advent Day One: Snapchat, FunPlus, Cherry Pick Talent, MojiWorks and Supercell lead 20-strong 'new speaker' unveiling
From influencer marketing to eSports to funding to monetisation to indie development and beyond
Top Mario
Super Mario Run was the most downloaded new game on Google Play in 2017
Bubble Witch 3 Saga takes second, some dispute over the final three
Skidstorm Sale
Finnish dev Immobile sells Early Access game SkidStorm to Cheetah Mobile after pirated version goes viral in China
Publishing deal turns into an offer too good to turn down