China To Japan
Nexon snaps up Japan publishing rights for Kunlun’s Elsword Mobile
RPG already a top grosser in China
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How Seriously won a YouTube award, did Dawn of Titans launch too late, and why Fire Emblem Heroes is going Japan-first
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Customer First
Mana Cube on how to delight players with amazing customer service
Mana Cube's CEO and COO talk personality and speed
Deal Me In
Digital CCGs set to generate $1.4 billion worldwide in 2017
SuperData Research looks at how the genre will perform
Talking Smack
MAG Interactive expands to iMessage games with trash-talking rock-paper-scissors title SmackChat
Chat smack get banged
Mobile Mavens
Why is Nintendo making Fire Emblem Heroes free-to-play?
And can it be a global success?
Mansell Takes Up Mantle
Jagex's Phil Mansell becomes acting CEO as Rod Cousens departs
No word on why Cousens has left
Break Into Games
Getting into games through the back door
Rovio London Head of Studio Mark Sorrell offers his advice
Now Playing
Now playing: Jon Hare on Word Chums
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Gsn Job Cuts
GSN Games cuts up to 20 jobs as it restructures into five distinct studios
Cross-functional teams, QA and creative affected
Influence The Future
Space Ape Games to host Indie Dev Influencers Junket on January 30th
Bringing devs and influencers together
Follow The Leader
The importance of leadership and business know-how when creating a successful games company
Walid El Cheikh explains all
The People's Download
Scopely releases licensed match-3 RPG WWE Champions after 13 months in soft launch
Time to smell what Scopely's been cooking
Reel It In
Gear VR fishing sim Bait! reels in one million downloads as it launches on Google Daydream
Around 20% of all Gear VR devices have game installed
Crazy Money
Sega turns Crazy Taxi into an idle clicker for soft-launched Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire
All the crazy without the driving
Surf's Up
Subway Surfers still achieving 30 million downloads a month nearly five years after release
One billion wasn't enough
Line Financials Q4 Fy16
LINE grows revenues to $1.2 billion despite global MAUs falling by three million
Revenues going up, users going down
Confirmed Deal
King buys analytics company Omniata
Terms not disclosed
Funding Uk Games
UK games industry leaders back call for new British Games Institute
Organisation would support funding, culture and education
Making Games
How YoYo Games aims to make GameMaker Studio 2 more accessible than ever
A peek under the hood of the new game engine
Running Up That Hill
Fingersoft's Hill Climb Racing 2 speeds past 40 million downloads in first two months
A long way to go to catch up to its predecessor
A Kind Of Magic
Bubble Witch 3 Saga flies past 10 million downloads in first two weeks
So says Sensor Tower
Work Hard
How to get a job at Sega Hardlight
Operations Director Harinder Sangha shares insights
2017 And Beyond
How Indian mobile game studio Gamecubator Labs is aiming to become a local leader
Priyanka Barathwaj on the studio's local and domestic plans
London Calling
Super Early Bird tickets for Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018 are live
Save the date: it's all happening on January 15th to 16th
App Store Data
Priori Data on what market trends and app store evolution means for indies
Anders Lykke breaks it down by the numbers
Automatic Trade
Game changer: Woobi’s in-game programmatic platform
Woobi CEO Chaya Soggot discusses why brands can be big business in games
Pokemon Go Korea
Pokemon GO launches in South Korea and shoots straight to second in iOS top grossing chart
Jumps to 2nd place on top grossing charts
Fyber Line Partnership
LINE adds rewarded video ads to messaging app through Fyber partnership
Watch a video, earn some coins
Rate And Review
Apple to allow users to rate and review games without leaving the app in iOS 10.3
Also adding developer replies and hard limits to rating notifications
Just A Myth
Kabam cans original IP Legacy of Zeus after seven months of soft launch
Transformers: Forged to Fight still going strong
Where Now?
How XFLAG plans to increase spending from Monster Strike's core Japanese players
Langer Lee talks strengthening Japanese dominance and approaching new territories strategically
Work And Sleep
New £15.5m Dundee ‘studiotel’ aims to offer work and accomodation space for game devs
Backers claim facility could contribute £70 million to local economy
Jobs News
Good Catch Games nets new Head of Development
Mark Oxenham to lead dev team and technical development
Job Cuts
Goodgame axes 200 staff in latest round of layoffs
600 employees have left the company in the last year
Just Do It
Were the 21 months Dawn of Titans spent in soft launch a waste of time?
As the game cooked, the market moved on
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Etermax's Mariano Fragulia on how to get a job as a Chief Product Officer
From student to CPO in seven years
All About Export
A history of South Korea's tough anti-gambling laws and why devs are looking to crack overseas markets
Byung Hyuk Kim shares a legal history of social casino in South Korea
Don't Read This Article
How Seriously won YouTube Ad of the Year with 'Don't Download Best Fiends' campaign
Philip Hickey talks creative marketing
Home Grown
Why Nintendo has taken a Japan-first approach with Fire Emblem Heroes
Aiming for success in the highest ARPU market in the world
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Nordeus soft-launches Spellsouls, Twitch says "don't make a mobile eSports game", and Outfit7 is sold for $1 billion
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Ludicious 2017
Discover how to Kickstart an indie game at the Zurich Game Festival this week
Friday afternoon at Ludicious 2017 features multiple case studies from the crowdfunding world
Right People, Right Job
Rovio on games performance management and career models
VP of HR Marjo Kuosmanen breaks it down
Pgc Lessons
5 things we learned at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
The key trends discussed at Europe's biggest mobile business event
Smoking Phone
Samsung to officially blame exploding Galaxy Note 7s on irregularly sized batteries
Report to go out on January 23rd
Money To Burn
Chinese chemical firm acquires Talking Tom developer Outfit7 for €1 billion
Developer put up for sale in late 2016
South Korea Vr
YJM Games becomes first South Korea developer to invest in Venture Reality Fund
Hopes to expand further into AR and VR
Game Design Contest
Why you should consider entering the Defold GDC Competition 2017
King Evangelist Oleg Pridiuk offers up the details
Hi-rez Interview
Hi-Rez talks its biggest mobile game yet in SMITE Rivals, eSports and building a community
We chat to the game's Lead Designer Brian Grayson
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: MobilityWare's Yelena Grant on how to get a job as a Product Marketing Manager
MobilityWare's Marketing pro shares career insights