Jobs News
Romanian outsourcing studio Amber recruits former Samsung VP as CEO
Developer launches new live ops service
Disrupting The Market?
Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames
Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant
Battle Royale
Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak
Supercell's smash hit gets competition
Inkle Hires
80 Days developer Inkle hires a new Senior Artist and Concept Artist
Laura Dilloway and Anastasia Wyatt bring the headcount to six-and-a-half
Uk Games Fund
UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding
Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
New Platforms
Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support
Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Business Reality
Imagination Technologies shares plummet as Apple reveals intentions to design its own graphics chips
UK firm asks for evidence that new designs don't infringe on its own
Liquidation Proceedings
Peripheral maker Mad Catz ceases operations after filing for bankruptcy
No buyer found for peripheral maker
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Wooga's Rebecca Harwick on how to get a job as a Lead Writer
Some top tips in building a career as a game writer
Fake News Day
April Fool's round-up: The best gags from the games industry
Celebrating Fake News in style
Behind The Total
Why it matters App Annie, Newzoo and Superdata can’t agree on the size of the mobile game market
And what they should do about it
Most Read
G5 Entertainment suing MyTona, Gameloft goes free-to-play with Gangstar, and how Supercell grew Boom Beach
The hottest articles of last week
Return To Sender
Fishy consortium enables Supercell to pull-off reverse Tencent takeover
Audacious timing for ambitious move
Women In Games
Women In Games launches Ambassador program to encourage women in Europe to join the games industry
Working with schools and industry to promote the industry
Big Dreams
China's iDreamSky establishes $30 million fund to publish indie games globally
Wants to find the next Monument Valley
Fastlane To Youtube
Space Ape Games taps over 20 YouTube stars as characters in Fastlane: Road to Revenge
The kids will love it
Harmonix Layoffs
Harmonix suffers series of layoffs affecting at least 17 staff
Seven more reported to have occurred in prior months
Future Today
Are we already in the HTML5 games Plateau of Productivity?
WiMi5 CEO Raul Otaolea analyses the history of HTML5, and where it sits today
Not So Luckey
Oculus designer and co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
It's unknown if he was kicked out or left of his own accord
Glu Job Cuts
Glu Mobile reportedly cuts 25 jobs and closes Portland studio
Was working on a new celebrity game
Iap Inspector
How does The Elder Scrolls: Legends monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Last Chance
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Tick tock, tick tock
Midas Touch
Koei Tecmo establishes mobile-specific brand Midas
Wants its games to "shine like gold"
Seriously Profitable
Best Fiends franchise generates more than $65 million in revenue
Seriously making $100,000 a day
Switch Japan
Nintendo's Switch has sold 500,000 units in Japan
Sales are up week-on-week to 78,441 units
Vasco Who?
Little-known developer Vasco Games surpasses one billion downloads on mobile since 2013
62 million downloads in its first year from 130 games
Bullish Future
Finnish developer Koukoi seals partnership with Fox to develop Ferdinand mobile game
Studio eyes up further licensing deals
To The Future
Global Android app store spend will overtake iOS in 2017
App Annie takes a look at the markets of the future
Mobile First
iOS the most popular platform for UK games developers in 2016
Arcade the go-to genre for mobile studios
Oceans & Pirates
South Korean dev Joycity bags license for Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War
Looks a lot like Oceans & Empires
Live And Kicking
Two years on: Seriously on the evolution of Best Fiends
CCO Petri Järvilehto on the game's life so far
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games
Up To Scratch
Does your user acquisition tool make the grade? Use this expert checklist to find out
A comprehensive list to help you make the best choices for your game and company
Compete In Shadows
Cygames partners with Next Generation Esports for first North American Shadowverse tournament
$10,000 prize for the overall winner
Indian Mavens
Is access to funding for Indian games companies improving?
How should Indian developers approach investment?
Crossy Mouse
Disney Crossy Road celebrates one year anniversary and 31 million downloads with new toy line
Get a blocky Mickey for $2.99
Blast Off
Shane McCafferty and Jim Squires team up to launch new Canadian studio Rocketship Park
Already working on first game Block Droppin'
Gamee Investment
Social gaming platform Gamee raises $2.15 million
Initial Capital and Credo Ventures lead the way
Not For Your Eyes
From game jam to indie hit: The making of A Normal Lost Phone
Accidental Queens' Diane Landais on the smartphone as a setting
Free To Roam
Gameloft on designing an open-world F2P mobile game with no limits in Gangstar New Orleans
The Gameloft Montreal team discuss a project two years in the making
The Monetisation Experience
Publishers – it’s time to get with the game
Woobi's Shai Sasson shares best practices on getting your game "brand ready"
Of Swords And Ltv
MMO Logres of Swords and Sorcery gears up for Western launch after eight million downloads in Japan
Not huge player numbers, but an enormous LTV
Down With The Sickness
Ndemic Creations hires ex-PocketGamer.biz writer Matt Gilman as Project and Community Manager
Makes the jump from journalism to community management
Get Updated
Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3
Smoother, faster, better
Packing A Perfect Plan
Still a booming beach: Three years on, how Supercell nurtured its runt
Considering Boom Beach
Free No More
Apple now rejecting any app or game that references its own price on the App Store
No more releasing free versions of the same game
Casual Evolution
The ascendance of hyper-casual part two: What defines the genre?
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze continues his detailed analysis of a new genre
Estonia Event
Tallinn GameDev Days Conference returns in April 2017
Includes two tracks based around the motto of 'Back to the Future'