Flaregames New Hire
Flaregames hires former Rovio Marketing Director Marja Konttinen as Head of Brand Management
Taking over all brand marketing for the whole company
Call Of The Ocean
FDG Entertainment's Oceanhorn has sold more copies on Switch than all other consoles combined
Unclear if that means it's outsold its mobile editions
Sneaky Investment
Sneaky Bears VR developer WarDucks raises $1.5 million
Dublin studio plans to open launch Oculus, PSVR and Vive versions of its flagship game
Staying Competitive
Building a mobile eSports giant: Super Evil Megacorp reflects on creating Vainglory
CEO Kristian Segerstrale on what it takes to make a competitive game
Tiga Accreditation
TIGA awards 17 game development courses around the UK its University Accreditation
Recognising courses that will actually get graudates jobs in the industry
Hyper-casual
From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas
The Codemasters Co-founder and Kwalee CEO on how design and development in the mobile space brings back memories and lessons from his days coding in the 80s
No Great Loss
Removing 32-bit apps from the App Store will affect less than 1% of the store's overall revenue
Sensor Tower digs into the data
Honour Of Kids
New parents name their child Honour of Kings after Tencent's hugely popular mobile MOBA
At least they didn't call the kid Strike of Kings
X Gon' Give It To Ya
Rumour: Apple to unveil three new iPhones at its special event keynote including the iPhone X
According to some code in the iOS 11 firmware
Apple Keynote
How and when to watch Apple's special event keynote on Tuesday September 12th
Tune in at 10am PDT/1pm ET/6pm BST for all the latest reveals
Nazara Ipo
Report: Indian games publisher Nazara eyes IPO that could value it as high as $550 million
Would be the first gaming company to IPO in India
Text Jam
Jam City pushes into interactive fiction with soft-launched choose-your-own-adventure game Twist
Taking a leaf out of Episode's book
About Fun
Recruits wanted: Join WarFriends developer About Fun
Would you like to know more?
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Flip Master, Merge Town! and Top Drives rush the top 10 download rankings
Rankings from August 28th to September 3rd
Post-launch Advice
5 tips for running effective live operations
Tag Games' Robin Smith offers useful advice on maximising post-launch performance of your game
Iap Inspector
How does The Walking Dead: March to War monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Most Read
Wooga on live ops and soft launch, King goes social casino, and why is Jon still playing Galaxy of Heroes?
The hottest articles of the last week
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