Failure To Engage
Forget revenue, it’s Super Mario Run’s retention that proves Free-to-Start is DOA
Nintendo's mobile debut demonstrates dated thinking
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Most Read
Flaregames soft-launches Nonstop Chuck Norris, trend predictions for 2017, and which games turned a corner in 2016?
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Show Me The Money
Discover how to get funding for your games at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
Learn who to approach and get tips on investment
Smaller Apples
Apple execs see bonuses cut following sales slump in 2016
Tim Cook will probably be OK
Mocha Money
China-based Shunwei Capital to invest $2 million in Indian developer Mech Mocha
Studio hoping to raise $4 million overall
King Of Kings
Tencent's Honor of Kings surpasses 50 million DAUs in 14 months
Almost entirely China-based players
Iap Inspector
How does Nicki Minaj: The Empire monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Mobile Games University
15 videos that will teach you the key things you need to know about making and selling mobile games
It's the Mobile Games University
Marmalade Saved
GMO Cloud acquires exclusive rights to Marmalade SDK and plans further development
Not dead yet
Charitable Messenger
Mystic Messenger dev gives $100,000 of game's profits to charity
Word-of-mouth sensation helps out
Money Makers
App Store developers earned $20 billion in 2016
Apple rounds up its 2016 with some big numbers
Older Is Better
Older iPhones outperformed latest iPhone 7 across the world during Christmas 2016
Samsung dominates Android sales
Survive And Thrive
Learn how to survive as an indie in 2017 at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
Head to the Indie Adventures track for all the tips and lessons
Touch It
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius celebrates nine million downloads with Ariana Grande remix
Collaboration starts to make more sense
Tiga Survey 2017
Majority of UK games studios expect to increase investment and employment in 2017
Everyone's fairly optimistic
New Advice
New Year, New Job: Offer up some career advice in our jobs in games special
Contributors wanted
Top Gear
Samsung has sold over five million Gear VR headsets
10 million hours of 360-degree video viewed on devices
Xiaomi In India
Xiaomi surpassed $1 billion in revenue in India during 2016
Sold two million devices in Q3
The Real-time Is Now
Netmarble talks real-time multiplayer on mobile and its FPS Final Shot
Final Shot Game Director Jung Ho Lee reveals all
Digital Leash
UK digital games sales topped £2 billion and had a 74% market share in 2016
Physical sales tumble down
Coming Soon
Why Piloteer developer Fixpoint swapped premium for free-to-play in Remedy Rush
Whitaker Trebella on going it alone in the F2P space
Dun-deal
Abertay University partners with Perfect World to promote game dev education in China
Sets up a five month course to prepare students for a full degree
Not Giving Up
Candy Crush dev King hiring for a midcore shooter at its Stockholm studio
Swedish arm on the hunt for artists and designers
Everything Changes
How the development of mobile devices changed the way we play
Oscar Clark talks to Jami Laes
Ux Evolution
From Stardom to The Empire: How Glu has evolved the UX in its celebrity games
A brief look through 7 games
Moving And Shaking
Gamevil Europe hires former Kabam exec Chinh Vu as new Head of Marketing
Moves into new offices too
Cpms November 2016
CPMs on iOS and Android dropped below $6 in November 2016
Fiksu looks at the surprising shift
Taipei Game Show
Taipei Game Show 2017 celebrates 15th anniversary in January with developers and publishers from 25 countries
A look ahead to the Asia-Pacific games industry event
Slowing Down
Super Mario Run player engagement may have peaked just three days after launch
Verto Analytics sizes it up alongside Pokemon GO
Sneaking In
How indies can get into Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017 for free
Sneak into the biggest mobile games business conference in Europe
Lording It Over
IGG and Boostinsider partner for massive influencer campaign to promote Lords Mobile through January
Started with a Times Square screen takeover
Twang
Angry Birds Action meets Korean RPG: The making of Knight Slinger
Behind the scenes with Gamevil's Danny Park
'tis The Season
In-app spending generated $500 million in revenue during Christmas 2016
Two days, a lot of sales
Not All Bad
5 free-to-play mobile games that turned a corner in 2016
The games that finished 2016 better than they started it
Fad Or Trend?
What were the mobile gaming fads and trends of 2016?
Oscar Clark finds out
Super Mario Jog
Super Mario Run has generated $30 million from 90 million downloads
Lower than expected but not hugely surprising
My Exvius
Ariana Grande to join Final Fantasy Brave Exvius parties with Square Enix partnership
A natural fit
Nonstop Roundhouse Kick
Flaregames soft-launches new Nonstop Knight title Nonstop Chuck Norris
The kids do love their memes
One And Only
Mysterious mobile tech company Wonder plans to launch "one device to rule them all" in 2017
For the gamers but also everyone else
Branded Trends
Brands and games: It takes two to tango
Game developers need to get on board with the trend and focus their efforts on making their games appealing for brands
Clash Of Bans
Iran bans Clash of Clans over violence and "tribal conflict" concerns
Clash Royale seems to be unaffected
Super Android
Nintendo prepares Super Mario Run for jump to Android
Big download numbers expected
From Movies To Mobile
How Episode uses TV and Hollywood partnerships to grow its mobile audience
Head of Studio Michael Dawson explains the strategy
Top 50 Survey
PocketGamer.biz Top 50 developers: How successful was your 2016?
Fill in our survey to tell us about your year in games
New Year, New Job
6 things you should do to get a job in games
Gabriel Stürmer offers advice that could land you a new career in 2017
Pgc London 2017
18 practical game dev tips to learn at the Mobile Games University track at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
An education in mobile games development
New Year's Resolutions
Mobile games industry experts tell us their New Year's resolutions for 2017
Ambitious plans for the year
Most Read 2016
Is Machine Zone worth $9 billion, why did Clash Royale run out of steam, and how one man made mega-hit Color Switch
The hottest articles of the year
India Review 2016
Reflecting on the evolving jigsaw puzzle of India's mobile games industry in 2016
We speak to Nazara Technologies CEO Manish Agarwal about the industry's latest developments this year and look ahead to the future