Equal Opportunities
15-year old becomes Supercell CEO for a day as part of #GirlsTakeover campaign
Ilkka Paananen steps aside as part of scheme to promote equal opportunities across the world
Office Closure
Zynga to close NaturalMotion Oxford office
Staff to be either laid off or moved to London and Brighton offices
Stranger Things Have Happened
Second screen: How successful are free-to-play mobile game TV tie-ins?
How are Star Trek, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones grossing on mobile?
Honor Of Kings
Chinese woman allegedly loses sight in one eye after marathon Honor of Kings session
Doctors still trying to save vision
Jobs News
Ex-Tune Head of Sales joins AdColony as VP of Performance Advertising for North America
Tim O'Neil will be responsible for leading company's app install business in the region
Staff Layoffs
Job losses at Star Trek Timelines developer Disruptor Beam
Studio to focus on character-collection and war games
Jobs News
AR developer HitPoint Studios appoints Legacy Games CEO as new President
Follows multi-year development partnership between two companies
Windows Phone Is Dead
Microsoft halts further development of Windows Phone features and hardware
Looks like the end of the line for OS and handsets for Windows 10 Mobile
Event Cancellation
Critical Force pulls out of Amazon Mobile Masters after Las Vegas shooting
Tournament for FPS Critical Ops cancelled
Big Huge Hires
DomiNations developer Big Huge Games recruits ex-Zynga and Epic staff in senior roles
Steve Superville and Judith Hoffman named Creative Director and Chief Operating Officer
Big Indie Pitch
Digital Melody's Runventure runs to victory at the Big Indie Pitch at GIC in Poland 2017
TinyTomb and ARcade Plane take second place
Hans-on
Perforce's Hansoft acquisition: What does the technological coming together mean for mobile devs?
Perforce Chief Product Officer Tim Russell shares the reasons for the buyout
Warhammer Blitz
Wargaming partners with Games Workshop for World of Tanks Blitz in-game event
Warhammer 40,000-themed event taking place over Halloween
Eye For Funds
3rd Eye Studios secures $1m investment for VR development tools
Finnish developer aims to release tools in 2018
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: CoolGames' Ard Bonewald on getting a job as a Head of Studio
An insight in how to bag that career
Eve On-mobile
How PlayRaven's Project Aurora is bringing CCP's Eve Online universe to mobile
CCP Producer Sam Barton discusses developing a mobile title for one of PC gaming's most avid fanbases
Special Day
Games industry raises over £300,000 for charity during One Special Day event
Triple the initial target of £100,000
Scope For Expansion
The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely opening new studio in Barcelona
Developer reportedly set to invest between €2 million to €3 million in the new office
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Playrix's Homescapes jumps into the top 10 grossing rankings
Rankings from September 25th to October 1st
Iap Inspector
How does Gameloft's Modern Combat Versus monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Android At Home
How 18th Parallel is putting mobile Android games onto Indian set-top boxes
Your phone becomes a smart software gamepad
Hot Five
How Supercell's Brawl Stars monetises, Mike DeLaet on sharing his smarts, and evolving from rinse-and-repeat
The hottest articles of the last week
All Aboard
"Our community of engaged players will count in the dozens of millions": The rise of digital board games
Philippe Dao of Asmodee Digital has a Ticket To Ride (and Catan and Mysterium and more...)
Mobile Eve
Finnish developer PlayRaven partners with CCP for Eve mobile game Project Aurora
MMO set for full launch in 2018
Indie Heaven
Casual Connect Kyiv: tickets, speakers and Indie Prize details
The international conference is in Ukraine 24-26 October – and tickets are available at 30% discount (prices go up 16 October!)
Suck It Up
Why producers suck and what they can do to be better
Anshar Studios CEO Lukasz Hacura on the wide range of producer stereotypes
Countdown Clock
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for PG Connects London 2018
Don't miss the cheapest price entry to our grandest conference yet
Crusaders Of Rpgs
NetEase designer Stan Wang on crafting mobile MMORPGs for the West
Stan Wang discusses how the genre is evolving
New Arenas
How is Tencent's massive hit Honor of Kings performing outside of China?
Out now in Europe and Southeast Asia, but how's it grossing?
London Continuum
Microsoft will deliver Windows Mixed Reality keynote at Develop:VR
Pete Daukintis and Mike Taulty to close the one-day conference and expo taking place on 9 November at Olympia
Kongregate Acquisition
Kongregate acquires Animation Throwdown and Spellstone developer Synpase Games
Will continue to operate as an indepdent studio
Blowing Up
Riposte Games' Mini Guns shoots past one million downloads in a month
Cross-platform strategy title has also added new leagues and levels
All Upside Down
No monetisation, just old school passion: BonusXP on making Netflix tie-in Stranger Things
CEO Dave Pottinger on a different sort of project
Comedy Gold
Funny-to-play: Having the last laugh with a successful mobile comedy game
Developers share how they make comedy gold
Google Event
AR, VR and the Pixel 2: Google's Live Launch
The biggest announcements from Google’s Pixel event in San Francisco
Stranger Adaptations
Hit Netflix show Stranger Things gets new mobile game ahead of season two
US developer BonusXP grabs rights to develop title
Ar Toys
Toys R Us tries to win back customers with new augmented reality mobile game
Will AR prove to be a magical place for the beleaguered company?
Business Expansion
Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle developer Akatsuki opens US film and TV branch
Developer branches out into new mediums
Partner Up
Dutch developer Sticky Studios tapped for mobile game based on disaster movie Geostorm
Title launched two weeks ahead of film's release
One Billion Downloads Later
From Kabam SVP to DOD Media CEO: Mike DeLaet on sharing his smarts
One door shuts, open another
Modern Combat Or Bust
One year on: Whatever happened to Gameloft?
Vivendi’s revival on hold
Ar Ads
IronSource unveils first set of AR-enabled ads for mobile games
First campaign due to run in November 2017
Fresh Perspective
Executive production: A fresh set of eyes
Oscar Clark touts the benefits for indie projects
Expansion Of War
Nitro Games partners with Netmarble EMEA to bring Medals of War to Turkish and Arabic-speaking countries
Netmarble EMEA already has 50 million registered players
Imga Mena
International Mobile Gaming Awards reveals nominees for second Middle East and North Africa competition
52 games nominated, lots of them from Iran
Recalibrating Success
Can mobile gaming move from rinse-and-repeat to more meaningful moments?
Meta matters
Changing Rooms
Football Manager developer Sports Interactive relocates its studio to Olympia Park tech hub Here East
Closer to previous partner BT Sport
Puzzle & Downloads
Puzzle & Dragons clears 12 million downloads in North America
Up to 62 million downloads worldwide
House Move
Andrew House steps down as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment after 27 years with the company
Replaced by Deputy President John Kodera
New Realities
VR and AR special: Have your say on the exciting world of virtual and augmented reality on mobile
Contributors wanted