Big Deal
Ubisoft acquires prolific mobile games publisher Ketchapp
French publisher expands mobile operations with key deal
Cloud Gaming
Cloud gaming platform LiquidSky secures $4 million to bring PC games to Android smartphones
Service streams games to numerous devices
Dreaming Of Vr
Google Daydream VR SDK out of beta
Comes with Unity and Unreal Engine support
End Of The Road
Roadhouse Interactive's CEO opens up on the studio's cash flow problems and closure
Key client pulled out of apps business
New Blood
Hutch bolsters its team with ex-Lionhead and Codemasters staff
And Peter Hansen-Chambers joins as Commercial Director
Zynga Hiring Spree
Zynga hires ex-DeNA VP Doug Scott as its new CMO
Yet another senior hire for Zynga
The Race Is On
Western devs must get better at F2P before Chinese giants steal their players, says NetEase's Tom van Dam
Great game design can't overcome F2P naivety
Blizzard In China
Blizzard and NetEase extend mainland China games partnership to January 2020
Happy to keep working together
Take Note
Samsung's "improved" Galaxy Note 7 is still overheating in South Korea
Sales delayed until October 1st
Philanthropic, Or Just For Profit?
What do mobile developers think of King's game engine Defold?
Mobile Mavens debate the engine and its motivations
Lovin' It
Chinese investor splashes $1.4 billion on mobile marketing platform AppLovin
US ad firm gets Chinese ownership
White Nights
What the White Nights Moscow conference offers games developers and publishers and how to get a discount
Enter PG.biz to get 15% off
Best Of 2016
BAFTA Games Awards 2017 now open for entry
Event to be held on April 7th
Clawing It Back
Ubisoft fights Vivendi's request for greater control by buying back $137.5 million in stock
Bringing 3.2% back under control
User Acquisition
Cinema trailer springs Chinese MMO into top 10 grossing chart
Offline user acquisition campaign gets strong results
Social Unity
Social casino developer KamaGames moves all of its games to Unity 5
Making the jump from native apps
Leading The Pack
Supercell made up 80% of all Finnish game revenues in 2015, report claims
Powering Finland to Nordic dominance
The Saga Concludes
From paperbacks to touchscreens: the making of Sorcery!
Creative Director Jon Ingold reflects on the four-part epic
Most Read
Roadhouse Interactive closes, King on why it's offering the DeFold game engine for free and Supercell's Ilkka Paananen on company culture
The hottest articles of last week
No Uprising
Kabam shutting down Star Wars: Uprising mobile game
Servers to be taken offline on November 17th 2016
In Preview
Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 goes live with new Asset Builder SDK
Lumberyard strengthens its feature set
On The Map
New UK Games Map shows country's 2,000 games companies
Showing the true scale of the British games industry
Facebook Streaming
Why BlueStacks is investing big in bringing Facebook Live app streaming to its 150 million users
BlueStacks Senior Director of Marketing Yuriy Yarovoy on the future of streaming
East To West
Popular China MMORPG MU Origin hits one million downloads in Europe, US and South America
Strong start for Webzen-published mobile hit
Gearing Up For Nx
Nintendo NX production estimated at up to 10 million units per year
Console giant prepares for planned Nintendo NX March 2017 release date
Portable Nx
Pokemon CEO hints Nintendo NX will be home console and handheld hybrid
The Pokemon Company making games for Nintendo NX
Fame Land
Hall of Fame: Delving into the mind of Badland developer Johannes Vuorinen
Making it big in premium
More Monsters
Rovio's Pet Monsters expands soft launch to India, Ireland, and the UK
Flat out fails in the UK
Ua In Asia
How to adapt your UA campaign for China, Japan and South Korea
They key cultural differences between the top Asian countries for mobile games
Fraud Or Flight
Apps marketers will lose up to $100 million from fraud in 2016
AppsFlyer introduces DeviceRank to combat it
Player Personalities
The four MMO player types you can target for your UA campaign
Achievers, explorers, socialisers and killers
Get Into The Jam
SGN Games rebrands as Jam City as it bolsters branded IP roster with Peanuts license
All in the name of growth
Party Hats And Streamers
BlueStacks integrates Facebook Live streaming into its Android-to-PC platform
Making streaming even easier
We Jammin'
XX+ Games Jam to host jam for women in UK and Canada on October 14th
24 hours to make a game
Battle's End
Blizzard dropping Battle.net name after almost 20 years of service
Technology will continue to be used
Creative Crossley
Creative England appoints ex-GameSpot editor Rob Crossley as Head of Games
Informing future strategies and decisions
Key Frames
NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title
Real-time inverse kinematics, they call it
Studio Closure
Update: Vancouver studio Roadhouse Interactive closes and lays off around 100 staff
A Thinking Ape hosts hiring party for affected employees
Driving Vr Adoption
AR has Pokemon GO, but what is virtual reality's killer app going to look like?
VR experts discuss how to drive adoption of headsets
Indie Game Funding
Consultancy Games Co. London raises $782,000 to invest in new indie games
Three new games to receive funding
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
'allo 'allo
Google releases iOS 10 Messages rival app Allo
Stickers, font sizes, and Google Assistant
Free To Paid
AlphaPit developer on going premium after $240 lifetime revenue from ad-supported free-to-play
Shane McCafferty on ditching F2P for premium
Going To China
Pokemon GO aiming for release in China, says Pokemon Company's CEO
New features still on their way
A Good Note
Improved Galaxy Note 7's are already being sold by US mobile carriers
Only 25% of owners have returned their exploding phones
Going, Going, Gone
Pokemon GO falls from the top of the US App Store grossing charts for first time in 74 days
Still floundering in Japan
Real-money Gaming
Swedish real-money eSports company Gumbler raises €5 million from tennis and football stars
Robin Söderling, Andreas Granqvist and Martin Dahlin bet on real-money gaming company
Have A Corona
Perk sells Corona Labs to its own CEO as competition in the game engine space heats up
Paying him back for his shares
Denial Of Service
Hearthstone and other Blizzard games suffer DDoS attacks
Servers go offline
Games Are Art
A day in the life of a Game Art Director
Ilyon Dynamics Art Director Erez Kramer on dazzling players with game art