Taking Flight
EA adds ship-based battles to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes to boost already huge retention rates
Also adding Rogue One characters
'ow Much?
Creative England launches £300,000 fund for Yorkshire-based developers
Grants of up to £30,000 offered for prototype development
Hungry Shark In Your Face
Hungry Shark VR developer expects mass market breakthrough for virtual reality soon
FGOL MD Ian Harper on the possibilities VR presents for games developers
Go East
Unity’s Xiaomi deal will offer developers “unparalleled access” to China’s mobile games market
Partnership kicks off next year
Slow Burner
FunPlus' King of Avalon surges to the summit of the US App Store top grossing charts
Aggressive marketing the key?
Easy-peasy
China’s NetEase is now the world's top-grossing mobile games company
Onmyoji, Fantasy Westward Journey and Ghost top 10 grossing games
Early Opportunities
India's mobile games market is like the US in 2008, but it's growing rapidly
Boss Fight Entertainment's Bill Jackson on the opportunities in India
Funding News
Mobile market intelligence firm Apptopia raises $2.7 million in funding round led by Ashton Kutcher's VC firm
US firm aims to make app economy more transparent
Favouring Favro
Keep your game’s development on track with Agile project management tool Favro
Why Team Hansoft’s new app can help improve team collaboration
Flying The Nest
Will Luton joins Rovio Stockholm as Senior Product Manager
Will lead product management on Angry Birds 2
Top Tips
The seven rules of monetisation design
Oscar Clark espouses his expertise on the psychology of game monetisation
Money-makers
Mobile Games University - Monetisation Design: The different monetisation types in games
Learn about IAPs, ads, subscriptions, premium, gachas and more
King Of Latam
An overview of the LATAM market in 2016 and the keywords you need to know about it
King's Sabrina Carmona tells all
Mediating India
IronSource opens office in Bangalore to bring ad mediation platform to India
Opens new office in Bangalore
37 + 2
Chinese publisher 37 Interactive snaps up one of China's most recently successful developers Mokun Technology
Pushing mobile after finding success on browser
Looking Forward
Sony's mobile studio ForwardWorks preparing to unveil its first games on December 7th
The Last Guardian could be heading to mobile
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Super Mario Run's premium $9.99 price?
Is Nintendo jumping too high with the cost?
Track Your Events
Tenjin launches free self-service mobile marketing tool for small developers to track their data
Prices increase as your needs do
Shared Dream
Motorola the first third-party Android manufacturer to make Google Daydream available on its phones
Android Nougat 7.0 coming some time this week to Moto Z and Moto Z Force
Ar Trumps Vr
Pokemon GO named Mobile Game of the Year 2016 at The Golden Joystick Awards
Also wins Innovation of the Year over Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Indie Contest
Google set to launch a new Google Play Indie Games Contest for European developers
Winners stand to win a YouTube influencer campaign worth up to €100,000
Casual Esports
Amazon Appstore gets in on eSports with first ever tournament for casual mobile games
Winner stands to win grand prize of $30,000
Sleeping Giant
An overview of India's games market in 2016 and why it's a sleeping giant for mobile games
Nazara CEO Manish Agarwal discusses why developers around the world should release their games in India
Simple Funding
Ex-Zynga devs raise $4 million for new Indian studio PlaySimple Games
Mobile studio aims to double number of staff by the end of 2017
Moving On
Bala brothers leave Vicarious Visions after 25 years to form new company Velan Studios
Duo plans to get prototyping games with small teams
Pining For Seapine
Perforce acquires application lifecycle management tool provider Seapine Software
Fruther integrates itself into the games industry with tool used by SCEE, 2K Games, Epic, Motiga and NCSoft
Quality Over Quantity
How real-money skill gaming platform Sparcade is bringing competitive gaming to the masses
Greg Canessa on providing something for everyone
Hot Five
The story behind India's first games company, Critical Ops hits 10 million downloads, and keeping games alive
The hottest articles of last week
Learning Bonanza
Black Friday: Udemy is offering cut price deals on game development courses starting at £12
Sales end at midnight on Friday, November 25th
Almost There
Netmarble soft-launches new mobile MOBA Star Wars: Force Arena
Chewie get us out of here!
Games For Good
Sea Hero Quest mobile game recruits 2.4 million players in fight against dementia
Dementia forecast to affect 135 million people across the world by 2050
Driving Installs
Meta games yield best ROI for cross-selling promotions in mobile games
Rewarded video also remains a highly effective tactic
Investment Realities
HTC backs $1.5 billion VR investment fund in China
Vive manufacturer will also help set up a new research initiative to grow the local market
Now Playing
Now Playing: Wooga CEO Jens Begemann on Gardenscapes - New Acres
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
East To West
5 marketing tips for launching Chinese games in Western markets
Increase your chances of a successful Western game launch
Play For Cash
GSN Games' real-money skill gaming platform Sparcade signs up Centipede and Two Dots
Covering the old-school and the contemporary
Very Hush Hush
How to make the most of the MENA mobile games market
Palringo's Magnus Alm breaks it down
Unity Certification Partners
Unity gives greenlight to external training providers to offer Unity Certification Exams
11 partners already signed up
Flocks Of Angry Birds
Angry Birds 2 soars to lofty heights with 130 million downloads
Rovio games downloaded 3.5 billion times
App Uninstall Rates
Android users are more likely to uninstall apps than iOS users
AppsFlyer sets the cat among the pigeons
Live And Kicking
One year on: Rovio Stockholm on the evolution of Angry Birds 2
Lead Designer Måns Wide on the game's life so far
Ea Switches
EA plans to bring one of its "bigger games" to Nintendo Switch but questions broad appeal of device
Probably still hurting from the Wii U
On Target
Hothead Games' Kill Shot franchise achieves 65 million downloads in two years
33 billion minutes spent by players in-game
Back In The Office
Indian game developers reflect on NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016
Highlights and learnings from the Hyderabad conference
Tell Me Straight
EA introduces tighter transparency rules on its influencer campaigns
Setting the standard for other developers
Expansion Is Key
Keywords Studios continues acquisition streak by snapping up Enzyme Testings Labs for $3.65 million
Will fit nicely with fellow recent acquisition Player Research
State Of Play
Android users play Unity games longer than iOS players
Unity breaks down the state of play in Q3 2016
Leaps And Bounds
The story behind India’s first games company and the industry’s rapid rise
From 1997 to 2016, how has the Indian games industry progressed?
Game Of Clones
Fragmented app stores and complex publishing are the causes of copycat games in China
Chartboost explores the world of clones
Russian Ua
The secret sauce to mobile UA in the Russian market
Rebound Mobile spills the secrets