Pokemon Awards
Pokemon GO scoops Best Mobile/Handheld Game at 17th GDC Awards
Loses its three other nominations
Puff Out Now
How a non-gamer found App Store success with single-mechanic "digital toys"
The story of The Frosty Pop Corps
Slow To Switch
Nintendo's Switch predicted to sell 5 million units by the end of 2017
SuperData Research has a crack at the numbers
Giant Plans
Why Finnish developer Small Giant is ditching casual comforts with Empires & Puzzles
CEO Timo Soininen discusses the thinking behind its latest game
Global Lineage
Netmarble reveals plans to launch Lineage 2: Revolution worldwide after huge South Korea success
Specially designed versions for China, Japan, and the West
Making Waves
How 6waves is helping Chinese developers find a Western audience
And bringing Western games Eastward
Making A Hit
How Onmyoji’s aim to bring players closer to art, culture and emotion quickly led to 10 million DAUs
NetEase producer Jin Tao reveals the design goals behind the hit game
Partner Strategy
Toys-to-life developer PlayFusion enters strategic partnership with Nexon Korea
Nexon Korea is getting around a bit
Supporting Players
How The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely approaches customer support
Director of Player Care David Tamayo deals out his top tips and KPIs
Moving Fast
Cheetah Mobile rebrands Cheetah Ad Platform as Cheetah Ads
Sleek and simple
Admob Improvements
Google brings playable ads and auto-flipping video ads to AdMob
Opens up video inventory by adding AdWords video ads
Even More Pokemon
Three "major" updates planned for Pokemon GO by the end of 2017
Could PvP finally be on its way?
China M&a
China's Zhaomi Group and Kee establish $360 million video game M&A fund
Bringing value to companies through merging and acquiring
Imga Global 13
Pokemon GO takes home the Grand Jury prize at the 13th IMGA Global
Dawn of Titans snags two awards
Progressive Unity
Unity 5.6 to add native Vulkan API support when it launches on March 31st
Xiaomi partnership now in effect too
It's All Relative
What if Kabam’s breakup is actually a success story?
May we all experience such failure
Deal Tracker
Deal Tracker 2017: All the biggest M&A activity and deals in the mobile games industry
Monthly breakdowns of the big games industry deals and what they mean
Insert Coin
Retro style, modern medium: the making of Evil Factory
Lawrence Koh and Jaeho Hwang on updating the shmup for F2P
It’s Mobile Time
Power Rangers stars battle it out in mobile game on stage at GDC 2017
nWay's Power Rangers: Legacy Wars set for March 23rd release
Big Numbers
Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016
Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
Happy Birds
Rovio revenues shot up 34% in 2016 as games business had best year ever
Games business revenues increase to €159 million
Cardboard Foundations
10 million Google Cardboard VR viewers have been shipped since 2014
And Google Cardboard apps have racked up 160 million downloads
Safe For Kids
Kid-friendly ad platform TotallyAwesome raises $2 million
Set to launch PopJam in Australia and Southeast Asia
Fiksu Cpms January 2017
CPMs are falling on Android and iOS but users aren't sticking to new apps for long
Fiksu digs into the data
Portable Only
Some Nintendo Switch games can only be played in portable mode
VOEZ is the first
Chart Topper
Chhota Bheem Speed Racing racks up 1 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs in India
Nazara Games and Tiny Lab Productions team up
Keyword Appointment
Keywords Studios appoints new Audio Manager at LA studio
Ed Lima brings his expertise to expand the studio's services
Mine All Mine
Minecraft surpasses 122 million sales across all platforms
But how many on mobile?
Back Of The Net
EA's Peter Moore leaving company to become CEO of Liverpool Football Club
An obvious move, really
The Long View
Five years on, have the first billionaire F2P mobile games survived or thrived?
Checking out Puzzle & Dragons, Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga
Raven's Call
PlayRaven brings in ex-EA exec Juha Sadeharju as COO
Overseeing studio operations and recruitment
Breaking Out
Epic reveals new UE4-powered mobile game Battle Breakers
Tactical role-playing title to support cross-play with PC
Critical Hit
Pokemon GO racks up 650 million downloads
Players walk a combined 8.7 billion km
Unity Gdc Keynote
Unity's GDC keynote to show off new and unnanounced games alongside advancements in AR and VR
Streaming worldwide from 4:30pm GMT on February 28th
Discover And Play
Google Play improves discovery to focus on engagement over downloads
Also lets developers run their own sales
Vungle V5
Vungle adds ten new Dynamic Templates alongside SDK v5
More choices for showing mobile video ads
King Clash
Clash Royale tops global mobile digital sales market in January 2017
SuperData Research breaks out the top ten
Next To Ipo
Next Games looking to $30 million IPO to boost development and global competitiveness
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land also hits 16 million downloads
Wield Control
Samsung unveils new Gear VR controller at Mobile World Congress
Catching up with Daydream
Nexon Investment
Nexon Korea makes strategic investment in Tree of Savior developer IMC Games
Helping developer on mobile adaptation of MMORPG
Most Read
Why Zynga and Glu are focusing on their past, Ilkka Paananen talks further acquisitions, and Armada Interactive gets $10 million in seed funding
The hottest articles of last week
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Nordeus' Aleksandar Aleksic on how to get a job as a Producer
Top Eleven Producer shares career insights
Virtual Future
How Gumi is recovering from Western studio closures with VR investment
Masaru Ohnogi explains all at White Nights Prague
More Gaming Summit
Free to attend Mobile Retention and Engagement Gaming Summit kicks off March 1st in San Francisco
Event is free to attend
Gdc Tips
Tips and tricks on how to survive and make the most out of GDC 2017
The mobile mavens offer their advice from years of experience at the event
Office Closure
Report: King closes South Korea office
Publisher shuts down local operations after struggling to make a significant impact
Job Losses
Dash Galactic developer Kiz Studios struck by layoffs
Number of job losses not specified
A New Challenger
Silicon Studio to release new mobile and VR game engine Xenko in April
Free Beta version already available for download
Still For Sale
Remaining Kabam studios spun-off into new company Aftershock following Netmarble sale
Discussions already underway with prospective buyers to sell new company
F2p Design
6 tips to boost your free-to-play game retention
Mike Herron offers his game design advice