Eye On Asia
China mobile game trends: Tencent dominates mobile market, new titles enter the charts
Niki Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Hit It For Six
Sony's mobile studio ForwardWorks preps debut game harnessing Everybody's Golf IP
Drecom Inc acting as developer on the studio's first game
Special Indie Offer
PG Connects San Francisco’s tasty offer for indies
How does 50% off the cost of a table in the exhibition area at June’s big mobile, VR, AR and MR event sound? Don’t miss out on this strictly limited offer...
Mobile Boost
Women make up 62% of the mobile games market in the US
New report claims some mobile games attract a bigger audience than the biggest US ad-supported TV networks
Honor 8 Pro
We interviewed Honor to find out what the new Honor 8 Pro brings to VR
How the Honor 8 Pro packs a punch for mobile VR
Log This
Mobile RPG Logres heads to UK and US after racking up eight million downloads in Japan
Can it maintain its enormous LTV outside of its home country?
Profitable Partnerships
Niantic charges up to $0.50 for every visitor to a sponsored PokeStop or Gym in Pokemon GO
May have generated between $900,000 to $3 million a day from McDonalds Japan at its peak
Boom There It Is
Game Insight's Guns of Boom shoots past five million downloads in two weeks
Over 100,000 five-star reviews on Google Play
Sporting Knowledge
Mobile eSports special: Have your say on competitive gaming
Contributors wanted
Ready To Play
Mobile marketers are most excited about playable ads in 2017 but video reigns supreme
AdColony surveys top developers about their preferences
The Big Bucks
Mobile developers generate over $70 billion in App Store revenues
Number of downloads increased by 70% in last 12 months
King Of The World
80% of Gamevil's War of Crown's one million downloads came from outside South Korea
Surprising turnout for a particularly Korean game
Live And Kicking
Two years on: ZeptoLab on the evolution of King of Thieves
Chief Product Officer Max Petrov on the game's life so far
Bound For Exile
Award-winning writer Andrew Saxsma to write series of stories based on mobile game Exiles of Embermark
Publishing a series on fiction platform Bound starting in June 2017
Amazon Refunds
Amazon begins $70 million refund process over unauthorised IAPs made by children
Get your applications in before May 28th 2018
All About The Money
Naive, greedy or both: Why can’t games companies IPO properly?
The uncertain pricing of uncertainty
Going Up
The Pokemon Company's profits shoot up to $143.3 million after success of Pokemon GO
Up 26x on its previous yearly profits
Get Ready To Rumble
The Pokemon Company continues mobile push with new 3D brawler Pokéland
10,000 participants joining in on a first come, first served basis
Daring Developers
Abertay University picks first six teams for new Dare Academy prototyping competition
Students given less than a month to finish prototypes on a £1,000 budget
Selfie Time
Futurefly doubles down on augmented reality with Miso Happy app
Released on iOS and coming later this year to Android
Lu Bu Approved
Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed surpasses six million downloads
Players spending an average of 72 minutes a day in-game
Attractable Attachables
Gamevice raises $12.5 million to bring Nintendo Switch-like controllers to regular smartphones and tablets
Gamevice CEO Phillip Hyun on the mass market potential for attachable gamepads
California Pitching
The Big Indie Pitch arrives in California for two very important events
Two times the pitching fun
Last Chance
Grab a double discount to PG Connects San Francisco before the Mid Term rate runs out
But be quick – we're into the final hours
Efficient Teams
The lean approach to game development
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze analyses how the development framework works when it comes to making games
Mine, All Mine
Mobile game subscription service GameMine raises $20 million to expand its platform
Currently has 3.5 million users with access to 100 games
Snak Attack
Berlin-based Playsnak snags $1.2 million investment from Gumi as it pushes further into VR development
Secures $1.2 million from Gumi
Indian Mavens
How to break into the Indian games industry
Career advice from local industry figures
Fortune Of Empires
Innogames' Forge of Empires hits $279 million in lifetime revenues
Mobile now its main driver of revenue
The Battles Ahead
The mobile augmented reality platform war
Digi-Capital's Tim Merel offers his thoughts on the big players and what's to come
Jobs News
GDC General Manager Meggan Scavio to leave
Last day on June 30th 2017
Business News
Stillfront swoops for Dublin developer eRepublik Labs for €7.5 million
Deal could cost a further €13 million in earn outs
Fidget Spinners
Fidget spinner winners: How the latest playground craze has got the App Store all in a spin
How are the games performing, and how long can it last?
Into The Fold
Perforce puts Seapine Software acquisition to use with rebranded TestTrack ALM
Helix ALM now available to developers
Moving On?
Square Enix may let Hitman series go with IO Interactive sale
Future likely away from publisher with sale or licensing deal
Soaring Ahead
Zombie Gunship Survival shoots past two million downloads five days after launch
Raking in the downloads across the globe
Licensing Deal
Anguilla publisher Shoal Games picks up licensing rights for games based on Moomin brand
Titles to be released on its educational games platform Rooplay
East To West
Vietnamese mobile and online games publisher VNG considers US IPO
Exploring opportunity with Nasdaq
Switched On
Report: Nintendo targets production of 18 million Switch consoles by March 2018
Stepping up production to keep up with demand
Leaving Games
IQU co-founder and MD to leave digital media agency for new venture outside of games
Current CFO Brian Spaans to take on the role from August 1st 2017
Accessible Programming
Raspberry Pi merges with CoderDojo to get more children coding
Aims to quadruple number of CoderDojo clubs around the world to 5,000 by the end of 2020
Because It's Batman
Tencent seals licensing deal for DC Comics characters in Strike of Kings
Batman, The Joker and Superman have already entered the fray
Working Conditions
Blanket wage system is embroiled in controversy in Korean game industry
A look at the current working conditions of South Korean developers and how they are paid
Refining Features
Back to the Features: Why mobile game features matter
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your game's design
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Fidget spinner games continue to dominate with Ketchapp's latest
Rankings from May 15th to May 21st
Ipo Imminent
Nitro Games on how going public can support its real-time mobile multiplayer ambitions
CEO Jussi Tähtinen on the studio's strategy
The Weekly
The Weekly: Augmented reality wars, Unity's $2.6 billion valuation, and why App Store revenues trump Google Play
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
Finger Spinner tops the charts, Skullgirls' leap to mobile, and how Supercell's Richard Bangs became a programmer
The hottest articles of last week
Big Saving
Mid Term ending for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Last few days to save up to 25%
Mobile Mavens
Can mobile games still launch successful multimedia IP?
Will there be another Angry Birds?