Homegrown Talent
Whatever happened to Fire Emblem Heroes?
How has Nintendo’s first F2P mobile game launched?
Whodunnit?
Marmalade Game Studio continues relationship with Hasbro by launching mobile Cluedo game
Fourth game to come from the partnership
Codeless Playable Ads
JustAd launches drag-and-drop playable ad building tool Game Zone
Everyone can have playable ads without a single line of code
Know Your Ltv
Quantifying lifetime value - A metrics-based approach to growth
Pollen CEO Martin Macmillan on how the top companies plan UA budgets and spend
Roblox Funding
Roblox closes $92 million funding round to support its 48 million MAUs
Players making up to $50,000 a month from creations in the game
Gdc 2017 Wraps Up
GDC 2017 attracts 26,000 attendees and 570 exhibiting companies
GDC 2018 dates are already set
London (and Brighton) Calling
How to get a job at Mediatonic
Recruitment Manager Jake Kimber shares insights
Tagging In
Tag Games kicks off live ops business by collaborating with Flaregames on Nonstop Knight
Moving away from development to look after other studios' games
Cygames-verse
Cygames on why the West requires an entirely different UA and marketing strategy than its native Japan
Executive Director Yuito Kimura discusses promotional activities, new games and its vision for 2017
Back From San Francisco
Mobile Mavens reflect on their GDC 2017 trends and highlights
What sticks in the memory?
Zynga Solitaire
Zynga acquires four Solitaire games from little-known developer for $42.5 million
Harpan LLC just made a killing
Pick Mi
Xiaomi sets India sales record with one million Redmi Note 4s sold in 45 days
Sold 250,000 in its first ten minutes of sale
Switch Sales
Nintendo's Switch sells 1.5 million units worldwide
So says SuperData Research
February Tv Ad Spend
Top Games Inc trumps Machine Zone for TV advertising spend in February 2017
Relative newcomer to the TV ad scene spends $13.1 million in a month
New Studio
Gram Games officially launches London studio with opening night party
Developer Murat Gurel also hosts talk on the studio's prototype Fridays
In The Mix
Harmonix partners with Hasbro for mobile and card game DropMix
Playing cards in the real world to mix beats in an app
Crazy Demiurge
Demiurge Studios tapped to develop soft-launched clicker Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire
Second game with Sega will hopefully do better than the first
Worthalot
MAG Interactive revenues rose to record $29.5 million in 2016
Profits increase to $5.8 million
Double Dna
DeltaDNA doubles monthly active users to 100 million in six months
Processing 25 billion data events a month
Same Philosophy
Pixonic on maintaining its quality-first ethos after Mail.Ru's $30 million acquisition
Don't treat your players like the enemy, says COO Igor Klyukin
Asian Dominance
Tencent world’s top earning mobile games publisher in 2016
Asia-Pacific companies dominate App Annie’s rankings
Funding News
Animoca Brands raises $5 million to expand into mobile VR and eBooks
Total funding to date nears $16 million
China Regulations
MyGamez Talks China: What new Government regulations on games mean for mobile publishers
Owen Soh breaks down the new hoops developers must jump through
Indie Mavens
How useful was GDC 2017 to an indie mobile developer?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Most Read
Madfinger experimenting with monetisation, Contest of Champions players threaten boycott, and China blocks South Korean games
The hottest articles of last week
Clash With Friends
Supercell shaking up Clash Royale's competitive scene with new 2v2 mode
Clan Battles could add a new dimension to tournaments
Out-spending China
Why mobile developers shouldn't ignore the high-spending Middle East
Tamatem CEO Hussam Hammo on the challenges and opportunities in MENA
Gdc Trends
5 key mobile trends from GDC 2017
VR, Eastern influence, engines and live ops - but are things really changing?
We Heart Indies
Apple celebrates indies with launch of 12 new games on the App Store between March 9th and 20th
A new title released and featured every day, even at the weekend
Make Games
YoYo Games launches latest edition of drag-and-drop engine GameMaker Studio 2
Pricing starts at $99
Nonstop Walker
Flaregames officially reveals brand-powered idle-RPG Nonstop Chuck Norris
Roundhouse kicking people in the face from late April
Kabam Boycott
Why Marvel: Contest of Champions' top players are threatening to walk away
Kabam could be set to lose a substantial source of their revenue from the game
Point Proven
Vainglory ignored casual players "to a fault" in pursuit of eSport legitimacy, says Super Evil Megacorp
But now it's redressing the balance
Corona Sparks
Corona Labs adds GameSparks plug-in to make backend servers simpler for mobile developers
Multiplayer servers set up from one tool
Status Quo
The ascendance of hyper-casual part one: Drawing the lines between the different gaming genres
Part one of three: Status quo
Video Ads Rule
93% of all mobile gaming ad spend went on video ads in Q4 2016
AppLovin and AppsFlyer work together for the data
At The Baftas
Pokemon GO picks up three nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards
Up for Mobile, Family, and Innovation
Going Turbo
"We're still learning": Dumpling Design on revamping its first game as Dashy Crashy Turbo
Travis Ryan talks feature creep, experimental monetisation and getting Apple's attention
Gree San Francisco
Gree International cuts staff at San Francisco office to focus on marketing and publishing
Yet more jobs lost at the company
More Than Fun
What's the potential for eSports in India?
And does mobile have a part to play?
Small Giant Investment
Small Giant Games closes $5.7 million funding round to grow new game Empires & Puzzles
Brings total funding raised to around $9.5 million
Brexit Blows
40% of UK-based games companies are considering relocating to another country post-Brexit
Ukie surveys games studios on their Brexit thoughts
Unity Without Borders
Unity opens Unity Without Borders program to support developers affected by US travel ban
A free trip to Unite Europe and help with visa applications on offer
New Vision
Softbank to sell 25% stake in recently acquired ARM
Goes into Saudi-backed investment fund
Plug In Publishing
Plug In Digital launches indie publishing label Playdius for all platforms including Switch
Six games signed, four coming to Nintendo's new console already
First-timer
3 lessons from an indie developer's first GDC
Frank DiCola discusses scheduling, sessions and not taking no for an answer
Thinking Long-term
Why ZeptoLab is moving into midcore publishing
Head of Publishing Mike Sviblov explains all
Flew The Coop
Rovio sells TV animation studio to former CEO Mikael Hed
Will remain as partners on future books and animation
China Bans Korea
Updated: China bans all new games developed in South Korea from launching in the country
Existing games unaffected
Engaging Users
Why does Flurry say mobile game engagement is down?
Rovio's Wilhelm Taht dives into the stats