Raise Your Dragon
Pocket Gems to reward top War Dragons players with limited-edition 3D figurines
Play well, get a figurine
Good News Everyone
TinyCo reveals second Fox Interactive partnership with Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow
Could be a nice money-spinner for Jam City
Sparks Flying
GameSparks surpasses 35 million MAUs for its backend-as-a-service platform
Over 250 million players served
Managed By Maple
Mobile acquisition and management firm Maple Media raises $30 million
Shamrock Capital gives a healthy cash injection
Indie Support
Reach out to the world with MoGi's Localisation Initiative for indie games
The MoGi Group explains the story behind the Localisation Indie Initiative and why it can help you
Creative Leeds
Creative England grants £150,000 to Leeds-based developers
GamesLab Leeds initiative off to a great start
Pokemon Back
Pokemon GO shoots back to the top of the grossing charts following major update
New Pokemon and customisation options helping boost revenue
Growing Up
How TabTale is moving beyond kids' games and into super casual
Itai Edry explains the strategy at White Nights Prague
Rising Spending
US iPhone gamers spent an average of $27 on games in 2016
Sensor Tower breaks out some estimates
Time For Change
How Gram Games' The 22% Project is aiming to get more women in the games industry
If nearly 50% of gamers are women, then why aren't they better represented?
Swiss Speaches
Three things we learned at the Zurich Game Festival
At the end of last month, Ludicious took place in Switzerland, and here are our track highlights…
Tenjin Partnership
Tenjin partners with Looker and Chartio to make marketing data more efficient
Visualising marketing data for better growth
Something's Bugging Me
App Store bug causes top grossing ranks to drop Candy Crush Saga for driving theory test app
Or was Apple testing a new algorithm?
Ipad You Pad
Report: Apple to refresh entire iPad line with four new devices in March 2017
A new red iPhone 7 is also expected
Several Men No Dog
Everywear Games co-founder Markus Tuppurainen joins Two Men and a Dog as Executive Producer
From wearables back to mobile
Uk Team-up
How a shared culture led to Outplay acquiring Eight Pixels Square
What is the future for the UK's biggest indie mobile studio?
Tap Into London
Mobile ads firm Taptica strengthens European business with new office in London
Hoping to use established relationships in the city to grow
Mobile Mavens
Why did Take-Two buy Social Point?
What's the motivation for the $250 million deal?
Bafta Gardner
Ex-Atari CEO David Gardner joins BAFTA as VP for Games
Will be boosting the Global Games Strategy
Gram London
Gram Games to invest $5 million in its London HQ and create 30 new jobs
Developer doubles down on new home
Accelerating Scotland
New £50,000 after-hours games accelerator launches in Scotland
Beer, pizza, and lessons on international growth
Money For Something
E-commerce platform Xsolla launches $30 million royalty investment arm for indie game developers
Get some much needed funding for a cut of your revenues
Main Event
New date for PG Connects London 2018 confirmed
We'll be back on January 22nd to 23rd, people
Up In The Air
Com2uS enters deal with Activision to develop Skylanders mobile game for 2018
Activision provides the license, Com2uS does everything else
Nexus Deathmatch
Chillingo pulls Nexus Heroes and Sniper Deathmatch from App Store after three months of soft launch
Probably to focus on WarFriends
Still Room For Indies?
How Tilting Point is helping indies compete with its $12 million UA fund Game Alliance
Dan Sherman talks tilting the balance back in indies' favour
Studio Closure
100 jobs go as Taiwan developer Gamemag Interactive closes
Unable to pay staff as shareholder urges staff to seek new employment
Marketing's Millions
Mobile marketing firm Mobvista agrees $100 million loan deal with Bank of China
Chinese firm wants to expand accelerate overseas expansion plans
Amazon Spotlight
Get your game in the spotlight... the Amazon Appstore UK Developer Spotlight!
How getting yourself in the spotlight can lead to more downloads
Job Losses
Rovio may cut as many as 35 jobs as it restructures animation division
Games thought to be unaffected
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: PlayRaven's Paul Kurowski on how to get a job as a Game Lead
Spymaster Game Lead shares career insights
Expansion Warchest
Chinese mobile games developer ShineZone raises $58 million
May acquire new studios overseas
Forevergreens & Bold Beats
Why Zynga and Glu Mobile are focusing on the past for future success
Frank Gibeau and Nick Earl are singing from the same hymn sheet
Most Read
Glu's problems in one graph, Zynga on getting its mojo back, and Summoners War is getting an MMO
The hottest articles of last week
Right Partner Right Time
Take-Two CEO says Social Point "addresses all of our concerns" about mobile market
Strauss Zelnick on why the publisher made its push into free-to-play on mobile
Supercell Acquisitions
Supercell's Ilkka Paananen says "it's no secret" that the studio is looking at further acquisitions
Also talks about how Pokemon affected sales
Bearing Fruit
Crowdfunding platform Fig establishes $500,000 fund to help developers finish their games
Fig Finishing Fund to offer $20,000 to campaigns with 1,000 backers or more
Another Keywords Acquisition
Keywords continues acquisition spree with $1.5 million purchase of animation studio Spov
London-based animation studio joins the ranks
Reign Over Me
Indie hit Reigns wins big at European edition of Google Play Indie Games Contest
Takes home first place and the Unity award
Storm8 Job Losses
Storm8 cuts over half its workforce with 130 jobs lost
Streamlining business
Anvil In The Snow
Snowprint Studios taps ex-Wooga midcore staff to set up new Berlin studio
Wilhelm Österberg heads up new team
Making Tracks Together
Reuniting old partners: Snowprint Studios on opening a new site in Berlin
Alexander Ekvall and Wilhelm Österberg talk love, teamwork, and building great games
Grin And Bear It
Game developer takes plunge into icy water to speak with investors at Finland’s Polar Bear Pitching
3D Bear flies the flag for mobile, PC and VR games in education
Vive Mobile?
HTC eyes mobile VR space with new mystery device
Smartphone firm plots counterpart for PC-powered Vive
Cash Royale
Supercell’s Clash Royale grosses $1 billion in less than a year
Finnish studio's latest hasn't left US App Store top 10 grossing rankings since September 2016
Fantasy Revenue Journey
New mobile games spurred on Chinese publisher NetEase to $4 billion in revenue in 2016
A stellar year for the firm
Institutionalised
The "golden rules" for games developers looking to raise funding from institutional investors
Shum Singh goes after the big money
Coin For Krotos
Audio tech firm Krotos secures six-figure funding from former Rockstar North president
Looking to double its headcount and push into VR
Going To Rio
Plarium partners with Twentieth Century Fox to bring children's film Rio to match-3
Still waiting on Terminator Genisys
Vungle Growth
Vungle hits $300 million annual run rate after sixth consecutive year of growth
Sees 125% increase in SDK adoption rate from 2015