Trailer Clash
Clash of Clans' VR short was the third-most viewed game trailer on YouTube in 2016 with 37 million views
Clash of Kings sneaks into the list too
Ok Google
Slither.io beats Agar.io to be the most Googled game of 2016
Top two games both mobile/browser
On The Up
How Fortafy Games boosted Color Switch's ad revenue by 35%
Co-founder Zeb Jaffer on monetising the viral hit
New Name, Same Company
Opera Mediaworks rebrands itself AdColony following browser sale
Chinese consortium retains rights to Opera brand, forcing change
Marketing Avenues
Mobile Games University - Indie Marketing 101: Where and how to promote your game
We take a look at the marketing avenues open to indies
Money For Something
All Caps on the lessons learned from working with a games publisher
CMO Christian Hansen recounts the dark past
Late Night Switch
Nintendo Switch launch date and price to be revealed on January 12th at 8pm PT/11pm ET
4am GMT for poor UK-based news editors
Big Valiant
Big Viking partners with indie comic publisher Valiant Entertainment on five-year HTML5 game deal
Shadowman making a comeback
Go To India
Pokemon GO to officially launch in India following Niantic partnership with Reliance Jio
No data charges on the game until the end of March
Tapping Up Line
Tapjoy partners with LINE to bring rewarded Interplay ads to 220 million chat app users
Earn stickers by playing ads
Winning Accolades
How the International Mobile Gaming Awards is changing with the industry
Founder and CEO Maarten Noyons on the final call for entries
Final Clash
Clash Royale's inaugral North American championship finishes with the Crown Duel on December 17th
$15,000 and a trip to Helsinki up for grabs
Fundtastic
Execution Labs, Agnitio, Animoca, Starting Point, Rovio, IPC and more confirmed for Show Me The Money track at PGC London 2017
Everything you've always wanted to know about funding but were too busy coding to ask
Pokemon Going
Pokemon GO adds first new batch of pokemon five months after launching
Also gives Pikachu a Santa hat
It's About Time
Google acquires smartwatch platform developer founded by ex-Google staff Cronologics
Bringing them home
Understanding Live Ops
How Space Ape grew revenues in the one-year-old Rival Kingdoms for six consecutive months
COO Simon Hade and Live Ops Lead Andrew Munden on keeping games alive
Find Funding
PG Connects London's new Investor SpeedMatch brings together investors and developers
Looking for funding or developers to invest in? Look no further
Talk The Talk
Chat app Discord releases free developer SDK GameBridge
Free SDK features custom UI
Industry Events
GDC Europe is no more
Organisers to focus on San Francisco event
Bigger Bang
Traplight Games on turning Big Bang Racing into a user-generated content focused racer
Creative Director Sami Kalliokoski talks us through it
Super Nintendo World
Universal Studios Japan to open $433 million Nintendo-themed area by 2020
Generating 1.1 million jobs in the decade after its launch
Just Fine
French stock market fines five Ubisoft execs €1.2 million for insider trading
Ubisoft appealing the decision
Money To Burn
Californian man embezzles $5 million from employer, spends $1 million in Game of War
Facing 20 years in jail for his trouble
Majesco Leaves Games
Majesco exits games industry after merging with medical firm
Plans to work in regenerative medicine
Outplay Squared
UK's largest independent mobile developer Outplay acquires Raid HQ studio Eight Pixels Square
Bumps employee count to over 190
High Noon
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios raises $1.4 million
Closing down on a Summer 2017 release for Exiles of Embermark
The Journey So Far
Jobs in Games: Unity's Aras Pranckevičius on how to get a job as a Graphics Programmer
Some top tips on building a career in programming
Everything Or Nothing
Why Samsung is giving $10,000 to every developer in the Tizen Store's top 100
Hokyu Choi on building the Tizen smartphone market and ecosystem
Crytek In Crisis?
Crytek employees going unpaid and Bulgaria studio up for sale, reports claim
Financial troubles allegedly resurface at developer and CryEngine maker
Most Read
The long road to Dawn of Titans' launch, Ubisoft making Switch games with mobile in mind, and how Miniclip hit one billion downloads
The hottest articles of last week
Thriving Indies
How indies can thrive in the modern mobile games business
Secret Exit's Jani Kahrama explains
One To Watch
Ex-InnoGames CMO and Adobe exec open new mobile ad agency MediaPlier
Volker Dressel and Josh Rinsky head up new company in LA and Hamburg
Super Abiko Run
Maliyo Games' Aboki Run becomes the first Nigeria-made game to be featured on Google Play
A big leap for a small game
Super Mario Estimates
Super Mario Run will generate $71 million in its first month of release, says Sensor Tower
7.1 million paying players is reasonable, right?
Striking Hard
Mobile Strike's Super Bowl ad is the most watched ad on YouTube in 2016 with over 100 million views
People love Arnie
Launch In China
Simplify the Chinese app publishing process and reach over a billion people with APPTUTTi
Get your game released in China
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Now Playing
Now playing: The Secret Police's Ric Moore on puzzle RPG Dungeon Link
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Iap Inspector
How does Dawn of Titans monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Indie Mavens
What are the best ways for indie game developers to market their games?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Run & Jump
Nintendo stock prices jump 3.7% after positive reaction to Super Mario Run marketing
Heading back towards post-Pokemon GO hype levels
Premium Go
Square Enix Montreal’s approach to fixing the long-term challenge of premium on mobile
How the Canadian developer thinks about monetisation design in the GO series
Remote Control
How to successfully run a development studio when your team works remotely
Radmule Labs' CEO breaks it down
Pokebucks
Niantic partners with Starbucks to turn over 7,800 stores into PokeStops for Pokemon GO
There's a new Frappuccino too
A Natural Move
Rovio COO David Byrne flies the nest to join NaturalMotion as new COO
Overseeing operations in all its studios
Story Time
Legendary Games brings StoryToys children's game to Japan's HTML5 kid's platform dkids
The Very Hungry Caterpillar proves to be a hit
Vivendi Gains Ground
Vivendi now owns a quarter of all Ubisoft shares but continues to claim no takeover is imminent
25.15% of shares and 22.92% of voting rights
Titans Dawn
Updated: Dawn of Titans launches worldwide after almost two years in soft launch
Never thought we'd see this day
Mobile Titans
A new Dawn for Zynga? NaturalMotion's CEO on the long road to the launch of Dawn of Titans
It's been years in the making, so is Dawn of Titans the turning point for Zynga?
Advancing Ai
Unity pushes on into artificial intelligence efforts with new VP of AI and Machine Learning
Dr Danny Lange joins from Uber