Bigger And Cheaper
Mobile games will be bigger than PC in Southeast Asia by 2018
Niko Partners report tells all
Amazon Iap
Amazon ordered to pay parents up to $86 million for unauthorised IAPs made by children
Federal judge orders year-long claims process
Tiga Awards 2016
Space Ape’s Transformers: Earth Wars wins Game of the Year 2016 at TIGA Awards
Voted for by a record 60,000 people
Learn Localisation
How to smartly localise your game for the global market
OneSky's Patrick Yip details the steps
Wake Up
Google Daydream View launches in 5 countries for $79
Available in Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and US
Deltadna Ad Survey
Mobile developers are becoming more cautious about showing too many ads in game
DeltaDNA says interstitial ads are much less popular too
Still In Season
Koukoi Games pushing Crashing Season into Middle East and North Africa markets
Working with Maysalward to make the move
String In Your Rakuten
Rakuten launching browser-based mobile gaming platform in Japan
Working with Blackstorm Labs to develop it
Unite Under Cook
Tim Cook tells Apple employees "the only way to move forward is to move forward together" after Trump election win
Apple CEO tries to unite company following US election
End Of Empires
UPDATE: Age of Empires: World Domination canned after 11 months in soft launch
KLab not offering bonuses to its players
Pocker Gamer Stars
Meet the Pocket Gamer team in South Korea at G-Star 2016
Join Pocket Gamer for meetings and drinks
Mixi Financials Q2 Fy17
Mixi profits tumble by 31% as it begins to test Monster Strike in Western markets
Marvel Tsum Tsum gets a brief mention
Influencing Influencers
7 influencer marketing tips for mobile games publishers
How to deal with influencers to market your game
Kings And Vp's
King hires ex-GSN VP of Creative Steven Meretzky as VP of Design
Industry veteran to work on secret project
Tsum More
Marvel Tsum Tsum amasses six million downloads in nine months of release
A whole lot of stacking
Live And Kicking
One year on: Pixel Toys on the evolution of Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade
CEO Andy Wafer reflects on the game's life so far
Assuring Quality
Mobile QA event open(London) returns in February 2017
TIGA and GameBench issue call for speakers
Global Trends
5 key trends that are shaping the global mobile gaming market
Newzoo's Jelle Kooistra tells all
Office Closure
Wooga closes Japan office as it moves localisation efforts back to Berlin
Berlin developer moves localisation efforts back to Germany
'tis The Season
Mobile gamers buy more IAPs the week after Christmas
Nanigans breaks down the holiday data
War Child Armistice
Game developers team up to raise money for War Child charity
Democracy 3 and 1979 Revolution: Black Friday donate portion of sales to cause
Cheap Iphones
Apple begins selling refurbished iPhones to make up for drop in smartphone sales
iPhone 6S now available for $80 less
Feel The Churn
How first session length impacts gamer performance in F2P
Hitting the magic 10 minute mark
Player Personas
30% of a social game's revenue is generated by 1% of its players
75% of a game's revenue will be brought in by 10% of users
A Game Of Four Turns
The beautiful game simplified: the making of FIFA Mobile
Behind the scenes with Senior Producer Todd Batty
Trumped-up
Is Donald Trump a winner for games developers?
Did Donald Trump make mobile games great again?
East Meets West
10 videos that teach you about the global mobile gaming markets
The key sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Get Them Cheap
High quality users are cheaper to acquire on iPhone than Android
According to Verto Analytics
Mo' Money Mo' Adverts
Mobile Strike and Game of War were the most advertised games on Google in Q3 2016
Instagram still underused as a market
Android Adoption
Android Nougat garners a 0.3% adoption rate in first two months of release
0.2% better than Android Froyo
Mobile Mavens
Mobile developers debate the importance of in-game events
Just how significant are they?
Upping The Stakes
Vivendi increases stake in Ubisoft to 24%
Now has 21% of the voting rights
Bandai Namco Financials Q2 Fy17
Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle helps push Bandai Namco sales to $2.82 billion
Profits up 32.5% year-on-year
Talking Seriously
How to get a job at Best Fiends developer Seriously
Chief Creative Officer Petri Jarvilehto shares insights
Square Enix Financials Q2 Fy17
Square Enix sales hit $1 billion off the back of mobile successes Mobius Final Fantasy and Brave Exvius
Games released this fiscal year have "underperformed"
Asia Bulletin
Unity signs China publishing deal with Xiaomi, GungHo switches to global development approach, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Final Strike
Mobile Strike dev MZ partners with Square Enix for Final Fantasy XV mobile MMO
A Game of War reskin or something wholly new?
Educating Unity
Free Unity Licence Grant programme now available to all educators
Primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities can now use game engine in lessons
Two Games, One Kingdom
NCsoft files lawsuit against Netmarble over alleged Lineage IP infringement
MMORPG Aden stood to benefit from Lineage likeness
Five Years On
Backflip Studios on releasing DragonVale World five years after the original
Adapting to the new world
Cut Off
Samsung to cut off phone call and messaging services for Galaxy Note 7 in New Zealand
South Korean company takes further lengths to get users to exchange phones
Jobs News
Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham returns after 12 years out of the games industry
Adham to help ensure new projects get off the ground
Dena Financials
DeNA to double down on Nintendo partnership into next year and beyond
Publisher also plans to release five games of its own in Japan and China
Hot Five
How Best Fiends Forever and PvZ: Heroes performed, the human cost of a cancelled F2P game, and Next Games’ customer support approach
The hottest articles of last week
Brand Marketing
“Mobile games have a chance today to do Hollywood in reverse”
Our panel of experts discusses the importance of creating a brand around your game
Subscription Play
With subscriptions the fastest growing business model on Google Play, devs can now implement introductory discounts
Timed lower pricing aimed at helping devs attract more users
Moshi Monsters Reboot
Mind Candy’s last chance? London studio rolls the dice on Moshi Monsters relaunch
London studio pins hope on mobile game and animated show
Iap Inspector
How does Peter Molyneux's The Trail monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Sweet For Success
King records three top 20 grossing mobile games for nearly three years straight
MAUs fall slightly to a still impressive 394 million
Asia Dash
Sega eyes other Asia markets as Japanese mobile market saturates and game dev costs rise
Predominance of leading publishers raising the stakes in mobile games industry