Htc To Google
Report: HTC looking to sell its smartphone business to Google
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer said to be in final stages of negotiation
Big Indie Award
The makers of Pocket Gamer launch The Big Indie Awards 2017 in association with IndieSky
A massive celebration of indie talent kicks off with cash prizes and a ceremony in Shenzhen, China
Hello La
Goodbye Kansas Studios opens new Los Angeles office led by former DICE staff
Fredrik Löving and Tobias Dahl head up the new operation
The Search Is On
Aardvark Swift and Grads in Games launch 2018 edition of student dev competition Search for a Star
Prove yourself, get an interview for a job or placement
Ad Play
3 reasons you should outsource production of your playable ad
IronSource's Daniel Herman discusses the benefits
Blizzard Arena
Blizzard opens dedicated eSports arena in Los Angeles to host its own Hearthstone tournaments
Bring the viewers in, sell them merch on the way out
Live And Kicking
Three years on: Indian developer 99Games on the evolution of Star Chef
99Games VP of Games Shilpa Bhat on the game's life so far
Amazon's Next Top Hq
Amazon begins public search for city to host its planned $5 billion second headquarters
Promises to bring 50,000 jobs to the city
Switch Noire
Rockstar Games tests the Nintendo Switch waters with an L.A. Noire port
Not the most obvious choice for a port
Pokemon Long Way To Go
Pokemon CEO claims it has only accomplished 10% of what it wants to do with Pokemon GO
Tsunekazu Ishihara talks design philosophies and Switch releases
Iap By The Gram
Settling in and exploring new avenues: Gram Games on moving from a small studio to a mid-size company
Culture Developer Erin O'Brien talks IAP and settling down after a year of expansion
Mumjam 2017
Rovio reveals first ever MumJam to take place November 11th-12th
Designed to bring mothers into the games industry, but all are welcome
Nfts Scotland
National Film and Television School to open new location in Scotland in January 2018
It offers game design courses too
Funding Advice
Tips on securing funding for your gaming start up
Gamee CEO Bozena Rezab offers advice based on her own experiences pitching for investment
A Princely Sum
Is Plarium worth $500 million?
What's Aristocrat getting for its money?
Party On
Two conferences, one trip: visit 4C straight after Pocket Gamer Connects
Russia's Wargaming-backed event promises first-class talks just a short hop from Helsinki
That's The Spirit
Middleware firm Spirit AI hires Peter Alau as its new Business Development Manager
First hire the company has made in San Francisco
Who Thinks Of This
Jump from a plane and pitch to investors at Slush's Skydive Pitching event in San Francisco
Can you sell your idea and remember to deploy your parachute?
App Annie Hires
App Annie shuffles senior management with new President and Chief Financial Officer
CRO Ted Krantz gets promoted, Sujain Jain joins
Ahead Of The Pack
Hutch's car-focused CCG Top Drives races past one million downloads in its first week
Tops downloads charts for Racing and Card genres
Imga Sea Finalists
International Mobile Games Awards unveils nominees for second SEA competition
Public Choice awards open for voting
Managing Risk
The risk business
Managing risk is key to success in the mobile games business, says Spil Games CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac
Marketplace Millions
Minecraft Marketplace creators have generated over $1 million in revenue since June 2017
Microsoft still looking to expand its creator roster
Insert Credit
Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design?
A look at whether mobile developers could embrace arcade-like monetisation
A Wonderful Partnership
Steel Media and G-STAR celebrate successful Gamescom and look ahead to next Big Indie Pitch
The Pocket Gamer company continues its partnership with South Korea’s flagship game show G-STAR
Switch Boost
Nintendo Switch surpasses 1.5 million units sold in Japan thanks to boost from Splatoon 2
500,000 units sold in the region since its last financials
All 4 One
All 4 Games spins off from Channel 4 into independent mobile game publishing label
Business as usual, but with more creative control
To The Moon
Gamee partners with NASA for Voyager game following successful Mars Rover title
Previous game had over 50 million plays
On The Warpath
Wargaming Mobile acquires Copenhagen-based casual mobile game developer Hapti.co
Former Square Enix studio rebranded as Wargaming Copenhagen
Wooga's New Focus
Live ops and long soft-launches: Wooga's CEO Jens Begemann on its renewed focus for 2017
From casual to midcore and back again
A Growing Business
Swedish games industry generated revenues of $1.7 billion in 2016
Swedish Game Developer Index spills the beans
Market Tips
How to launch your mobile game in India
Jitesh Bisht, Head of Tappx India, dishes out some sage advice
Rovio Ipo
Rovio officially unveils plans for an IPO on Nasdaq Helsinki
The rumours were true
Romanian Return
Dev.Play 2017 kicks off in Bucharest next week
And PocketGamer.biz readers get 20% off all tickets to the popular Eastern Europe games conference
Free Bus To Pgc Helsinki
Developers in Finland: sign up for your free bus to PG Connects Helsinki now!
And there’s 30% off tickets to the 19-20 September games conference available to all IGDA Finland members
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Cut the Rope and Angry Birds make a sudden return
Rankings from August 21st to August 27th 2017
Casual Sale
Animoca Brands sells 13 of its casual games to Maple Media for up to $2.9 million
TicBits gets its non-core components sold on
Seeing What Sticks
Glu Mobile licenses Deer Hunter for console game developed by GameMill
First time the developer has explored outside of mobile
Social King
King enters social casino space with soft-launched game Royal House Slots
Partnership with PlayStudios kicks off
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Esports Blitz
Why Wargaming is doubling down on mobile eSports with World of Tanks Blitz
This years Blitz Twister Cup triples prize pool
Most Read
New studio Chatterbox, 27 million people take part in Clash Royale contest, and MZ hires Alexis Ren for ad campaign
The hottest articles of the last week
Mix It Up
Microsoft’s Mixer Create mobile app lets players stream games from their phones
Co-streaming also available across PC and console
Servers Up
Why Heroic Labs built its Nakama real-time server technology for an open source future
Product VP Alim Jaffer offers his thoughts on open-sourcing and games-as-a-service
Job News
Oculus hires new Chief Marketing Officer
Rebecca Van Dyck steps in after Liz Hamren's departure to Microsoft
Women In Games
Nominees revealed for inaugral Women in Games Mobile Awards to be held on September 6th
A Normal Lost Phone and South Park Phone Destroyer among the nominated
Iap Inspector
How does Glu Mobile's hit game Design Home monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Keywords Board
Keywords Studios appoints two new Non-Executive Directors to its board
Charlotta Ginman and Georges Fornay join the team
Exercise Machine
"The fitness ecosystem offers new, unique ways to monetise": Inside the Fitness Village
A Finnish gym has released its own mobile game which is part fitness tracker, part patented customer reward scheme, part location-based explore-'em-up
Humble Promotion
Jam City promotes former EA exec Rod Humble to CEO of TinyCo
Suleman Ali leaves, Matt Gaiser takes over San Francisco office