Crushing It
There is going to be a Candy Crush TV show
New game show will have contestants competing on enormous interactive game boards
Take A Bow
Tiny Archers shoots past one million downloads in three months
Hit game gets localisations for Russian, Spanish, French and Chinese speaking territories
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile games industry pros think of App Store Search Ads?
Mobile Mavens debate the latest app discovery tool
Key Keywords
Why keywords are crucial for your app store optimization strategy
The ASO Project co-founder Todd Dunham offers his top tips
Spil The Beans
How to get a job at fast-growing mobile publisher Spil Games
CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac shares insights
Iconic Design
Mobile Games University - ASO 101: Perfecting your app icon design
How the right app icon can increase visits and conversion
Fantastic Licence
UK developer Mediatonic working on Fantastic Beasts mobile game
Cases from the Wizarding World will be a hidden object title
Ludia Enters The Underworld
Montreal studio Ludia nabs rights for Underworld mobile game
Releases collectible card game
Download Fever
Food Court Fever publisher cooks up five million downloads
Vancouver studio donates 1% of game proceeds to charity
Samsung Grounded
US issues emergency order to ban Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on all flights
Commercial airlines across the globe follow suit
Learn From Experience
Jobs in Games: Gram Games' Kerem Alemdar on how to get a job as a user acquisition manager
The man behind Six! and 1010!'s UA campaigns shares career insights
Double Deal
Final hours of PG & VR Connects London 2017 Early Bird tickets - 1 ticket, 2 events
Grab a discount AND get two conferences for the price of one
Mobile Games University
Mobile Games University teaches industry professionals everything they need to know about the mobile business
Learn about the business of mobile games
Driving Downloads
8 essential steps to make your app discoverable
App Annie offers insights into the top ASO techniques to drive app installs
Key Keywords
Mobile Games University - ASO 101: How to make the most out of your app store keywords
Improve your discoverability with keyword optimization
Most Read
10 commandments of free-to-play, Mobile Mavens talk Pixel and Daydream View VR, and publishers are already buying up App Store Search Ads
The hottest articles of last week
Smarten Up
How does intelligent ad monetisation work?
Appodeal talks us through it
Loan Royale
Report: Tencent taking $3.5 billion loan for Supercell deal
Chinese firm seeks bank support for big money deal
Company Closure
UPDATE: Game engine start-up MaxPlay lays off most of its 70 staff as funding dries up
Former employee suggests start-up is no more
History Of Game Engines
A messy history of game engines and a race to the bottom offers a warning for the future
We take a look at the recent, messy past of game engines
Super Pre-registration
Super Mario Run hits 20 million pre-registrations on the App Store
Tim Cook talks Nintendo and AR
Pushing Forward
Sony ForwardWorks to release up to six games across the next 18 months
Only in Asia
Cheap And Cheerful
App Store Search Ad campaigns have a 49.4% conversion rate with $0.40 CPA
Mobile Action breaks down the stats
Fun In Finland
4 things we learned about Finland, Asia and war games at the Northern Game Summit
Fresh from Kajaani: top tips for making serious gaming experiences and succeeding in South East Asia
Note Worthy
Samsung to lose $3 billion in next six months following catastrophic Galaxy Note 7 launch
Will fall back on its Galaxy S7 instead
Growing App
How do the top mobile game publishers grow their app economies?
AdColony's Thorbjörn Warin talks us through it
Gameloft's Next Four
Gameloft outlines its first four game releases following Vivendi's hostile takeover
Three sequels and one original IP
Live And Kicking
Postmortem: Dawn of Steel one year on
Former Superweapon President Amer Ajami reflects on an eventful year
Gotta Go Fast
GameFounders opens submissions for Janaury 2017 round of acceleration
Deadline on November 15th
New Nougat
Google to bring App Shortcuts and Image Keyboards to Android 7.1 Developer Preview later this month
Get a sneaky look and make sure your apps still work
Iap Inspector
How FIFA Mobile finally nails free-to-play football
IAPs from the players' perspective
Limited Limiting
18 million US iOS users have explicitly opted out of targeted advertising through Limit Ad Tracking
Less uptake in Asia than in the West
Acquisition News
ESL owner acquires 35% stake in German developer InnoGames valuing studio at €260 million
MTG coulc increase stake to majority 51%
Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
Breaking Out
How we improved monetisation and retention in Castle Breakout - Escape! and what this meant for the game's gender split
Cloudburst Room Escape's Ron Packard Jr. breaks down the changes
Vr For The Masses
Two million people in the UK will own a VR headset by the end of 2016
Will grow slowly across the next six years
Retention Retention Retention
3 retention strategies for mobile game devs to keep players coming back
Chartboost's Pepe Agell offers his advice
Asia Bulletin
NCSoft signs $10 million China publishing deal, Finnish start-up wants to bring Moomin games to Asia, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Trending In 2016
What are the mobile game monetisation trends of 2016?
Scientific Revenue CEO William Grosso tells all
Ios Uptake
Over 50% of Apple devices now have iOS 10 installed
Slower uptake than iOS 9
Doubling Up
Apple opening second China R&D centre in Shenzhen
Strengthening bonds even more
Life Thru A Hololens
HoloLens pre-orders open in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and UK
Prices starting at £2,719
'tis The Season
Halloween and Thanksgiving are just as important for mobile game marketers as Christmas
So says AppsFlyer
Minute To Win It
Three people, 30,000 sales in the first month, and played by PewDiePie: the making of 60 Seconds!
Robot Gentleman reflect on the post-apocalyptic indie hit
Valerian Mobile
Spil Games bags mobile game licence for upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Mobile strategy game tie-in launching in 2017
Samsung Sales
Samsung slashes sales forecasts and predicts $2 billion loss in wake Galaxy Note 7 woes
Sales figures affected, but not so much
Prodding The Sleeping Giant
Flixy Games on breaking the barriers to mobile gaming success in India
CEO Felix Manojh on waking a sleeping giant
Nexon Push
Nexon to bring Maple Story, Dungeon & Fighters and five other games to mobile by the end of 2016
Only reveals six
Suns Out Thumbs Out
Average cost per paying mobile game player falls by 47% in first half of 2016
iOS users are more likely to spend though
Play And Chat
Mobile messaging app Telegram adds bot-powered gaming platform for in-chat gaming
Developers can add their own games to the platform right now