Job News
Ex-Glixel GM joins mobile games developer N3twork to lead media products and content
John Davison has previously worked at the likes of GameSpot, Zynga and Red Robot Labs
Full House
The lessons learned from making a virtual reality casino
Alea Co-founder Alexandre Tomic shares some of the lessons learned while bringing SlotsMillion to market
Tencent Financials Q2 Fy17
Tencent revenues grow to $8.56 billion as mobile games sales beat PC for the first time
Honor of Kings by far the biggest driver of revenue
Be The Builder
Supercell partners with Facebook on Clash of Clans AR experience to celebrate the games' five-year anniversary
Become the Builder, or just drop him in the world somewhere
East Meets West
There's been a radical market shift for foreign games in China
Pascal Clarysse on why Western publishers now need Chinese distributors more than China needs them
Explosive Start
Lightneer secures $5 million seed funding round to prep for launch of Big Bang Legends
Invisible-learning game now due to launch in January 2018
Stats Rule
Tel Aviv-based eSports tech firm Overwolf acquires Clash Royale statistics site StatsRoyale
Over 20 million MAUs checking all the latest card stats and more
Making Of
Aiming high: The making of Guns of Boom
Game Insight CEO Anatoly Ropotov tells the story behind the hit mobile shooter
Mobile Game Trends
China mobile game trends in H1 2017: Tencent and NetEase dominate iOS charts
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Rovio Financials Q2 Fy17
Rovio revenues soar past $100 million as Battle Bay and Angry Birds Evolution score strong launches
The Angry Birds Movie continues to bring in the cash
User Bans
Discord shuts down alt-right server and accounts associated with hate groups
Company will "continue to take action against white supremacy, nazi ideology and all forms of hate"
Stacking Up
UK games publisher PlayStack recruits new COO and Director
Mads Jensen to drive company's technology plans
Global Expansion
UK developer Hutch opens new studio in Canada
Company aims to extend development capabilities across various time zones
Critical Hit
Mobile shooter Critical Ops marches past 25 million downloads
860,000 daily active users
Job News
Unity names first independent board members
Robynne Sisco and Max Levchin offer their business experience
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Playgendary's Bowmasters shoots into top 10
Rankings from July 31st to August 6th 2017
Investment News
Indian publisher Nazara invests in mobile cricket games developer Moong Labs
Money to fund game engine development and new cricket-based titles
Bigger Better
King, Rovio, Gram Games, Twitter and Unity part of final 'big speaker reveal' for PG Connects Helsinki 2017
September 19th to 20th conference shaping up to be unmissable, business boosting affair
Ok Korea
Steel Media and G-STAR announce international partnership
Western media company partners with South Korea’s leading game show G-STAR with series of collaborative events starting at Gamescom
Flying High
Report: Angry Birds developer Rovio plots IPO
Listing could raise $400 million for the company
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part two: The game design
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Chill Time
PocketGamer.biz's Gamescom 2017 party and networking guide
Here we go again...
Monetise, Retain, Acquire
19 talks on mobile game monetisation, retention and user acquisition from PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Learn all you need to know
The Weekly
The Weekly: How games companies avoid income tax, NetEase's Western expansion, and how Game Freak designs pokemon
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
Catharina Lavers Mallet joins Talla, what makes MZ so successful, and Subway Surfers devs face class-action lawsuit
The hottest articles of the week
War Robots
Pixonic takes aim at VR as it expands War Robots IP from mobile roots
Studio releases War Robots VR: The Skirmish completely free for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Mobile Game Heroes
DeNA games business profits up on back of Nintendo partnership as overall revenues fall
Fire Emblem Heroes sales "satisfactory" for Japanese publisher
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Tracks revealed for PC Connects Helsinki 2017
Talks covering the state of the market, how to get your game noticed, the making of iconic games and development workshops next month
Netmarble Financials Q2 Fy17
Netmarble's revenues slide to $472.3 million as Lineage 2 Revolution loses business in South Korea
Lineage 2 Revolution makes up 37% of all Netmarble's revenues
Two Become One
Gamevil and Com2uS combine to create a new European joint venture
Sister companies make it formal
Valiant
Tencent's massive mobile MOBA Honor of Kings launches as Arena of Valor in Europe
Now available in all European countries
Iap Inspector
How does $1 billion hit Summoners War monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Nexon Financials Q2 Fy17
Nexon revenues grow to $431.7 million due to continued success of Heroes of Incredible Tales
Dynasty Warriors Unleashed finds a home in Southeast Asia
Retention Tool
How Summoners War’s unexpected success disrupts conventional wisdom about mobile eSports
Audience comes first
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Essential Phone?
Mobile start-up Essential confirms $300 million funding round
Tencent, Amazon and Foxconn invest in new company from Android co-creator
Join The Club
Millennial Esports buys majority stake in Gear.Club developer Eden Games for $10.5 million
Deal could rise based on the studio's performance
Play Nyc
New York video games convention Play NYC set to welcome over 100 developers
Event for gamers and creators takes place on August 19th to 20th
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now
Charging Ahead
Rodeo Stampede smashes 80 million downloads 13 months after launch
Still gets one million DAUs
Fuelling Design Home
Glu Mobile’s great user acquisition experiment
Investing for the future
Netease Financials Q2 Fy17
NetEase clears $2 billion in revenues as Onmyoji gets off to a strong start in South Korea
Already a top ten grossing game in the region
The Charticle
The games powering Zynga's profitability
Zynga's latest financials paint a rosy picture, but how has it got here?
Summoners War Billionaire
Summoners War clears $1 billion in lifetime revenues three years after launch
Com2uS hosting a worldwide tournament for the game too
Big Deal
Casino firm Aristocrat buys Plarium for $500 million
All-cash deal also includes earnouts for shareholders
Quick To Profitability
QuickByte Games generates one million downloads in first week for Laps – Fuse
Title already profitable
Tapped Up
Mobile ads firm Taptica acquires Tremor Video’s demand-side platform for $50 million
Tremor Video DSP will operate as independent division of Taptica
Zynga India
Zynga makes push for India with localised match-3 game Rangoli Rekha: Color Match
Presumably being developed by Bangalore studio
Making Of
Feline fighters: The making of ZeptoLab's C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Turbo Stars
Chief Product Officer Max Petrov spills the beans on the game's development
Get Creative
Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support
Also includes other new tools and enhancements