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
Money Truck
Indian developer Nukebox Studios generates $500k revenue in 45 days from new game Food Truck Chef
Title secures three million downloads in just 10 days
Tech Update
GameMaker Studio 2 launches on MacOS
Includes same features as PC build
Rock On
Hard Rock partners with Israeli developer for match-3 mobile game
Hard Rock Puzzle Match out now on the App Store and Google Play
Pitches, Prizes, Professionals
The Very Big Indie Pitch returns to Helsinki for Pocket Gamer Connects
The Very Big Indie Pitch is back once again!
Skin In The Game
Bitter decisions Disruptor Beam hopes will sweeten The Walking Dead: March To War
Only the smart survive
Gree Global
GREE partners with Crunchyroll and Sumitomo to globally distribute games based on Japanese anime
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Memoria Freese goes first
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part three: Monetisation and the future of 4X games
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Match Me
Angry Birds Match launches worldwide after nine months in soft launch
Making use of The Angry Birds Movie characters
Pc Connects
Remedy, Housemarque and Bossa head up PC Connects Helsinki 2017
Event takes place on September 19th to 20th in, you guessed it, Helsinki
Esports Royale
$1 million Clash Royale Crown Championship attracts more than 27 million participants
Supercell's big competition attracts a big audience
Indie Festival
Google names 20 finalists for Indie Games Festival in San Francisco
Free event open to the public
Stack 'em Up
PlayStack snaps up former Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Creative Director
Another senior hire for the UK publisher
In Heaven
Influencer marketing firm Matchmade scores $1.73 million in funding to grow business
Global Founders Capital, London Venture Capital, and Reaktor Ventures all chip in
Decoding Design
A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye
Exclusive currencies and limited gachas don't stop this game from being fun
Refining Features
Back to the Features Part II: How to utilise feature data to improve mobile game revenue
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your game's design
Core Blimey
Google faces off against Apple's ARKit with ARCore for Android
Aims to target over 100 million devices by the end of its preview period
Feline Fine
ZeptoLab's C.A.T.S. smashes 60 million downloads in four months
Three trillion cars destroyed so far
The Dead Walk
The Walking Dead shuffle into real life with new location-based AR mobile title from Next Games
Launch date to be announced later this year
Guide To Analytics
9 steps to using analytics in your game
How to harness the data for your game design