Angriest Birds
Rovio soft-launches another Monster Strike-like called Angry Birds Evolution
One is never enough
Winding Back The Clock
Paid game subscriptions now live on iOS
Can subscriptions thrive in a F2P world?
Apple Crumbling
iOS device sales continue to decline in China while EU and US see more growth
More data from Kantar World Panel
Polyarc Funding
Seattle VR start-up Polyarc raises $3.5 million in seed funding
Studio co-founded by ex-Bungie staff
Meet Robot Gentleman, the team behind post-apocalyptic survival game 60 Seconds!
A fresh new studio with a genteel approach to mobile gaming
Family-owned
Guillemot family buying up another 3.5% of shares in Ubisoft to ward off Vivendi takeover
Unnamed bank backing the purchase
Something From Nothing
Opportunity to build a team from scratch as Head of Studio at "blank slate" startup Skill Nation
Power to recruit own team at Amsterdam-based skill games studio
The Hunt Is On
"My goal as the CEO is to be the dumbest guy in the company"
TreasureHunt CEO Kyle Smith talks hiring the perfect team and drawing inspiration from Pixar
Mobile Mavens
Mobile developers react to iOS 10's Limit Ad Tracking changes
Can the UA market cope?
Asia Bulletin
Japan and China have the highest ARPU, what happens when global expansion goes bad, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Flaregames partners with MyGamez to bring Nonstop Knight to Android in China
Hits six million downloads too
More More More
iPhone 7 to have 2.4GHz processor and up to 256GB storage
So says another new report
Making Of
A rich game for a casual market: The making of Mobius Final Fantasy
Producer Yoshinori Kitase talks us through the game's development
Vr Design Tricks
“Bad virtual reality games are like rotten food”
Tommy Palm shares VR design tricks to avoid nausea
Sony Go
Sony reaffirms commitment to mobile following Nintendo's success with Pokemon GO
Kaz Hirai gets all excited about AR
Crashing Head-on
Why Richard Hazenberg left Lunagames after 12 years to pursue real-time game Destruction Derby Multiplayer
Swapping casual for synchronous PvP action
Box Office Numbers
China, US and Japan drive global games industry revenues to more than double movie Box Office
China and Japan make up over 42% of mobile game revenues
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Most Read
iOS 10 Limit Ad Tracking could be the end of UA, lessons learned as a games journalist and a cautionary tale for global expansion
The hottest articles of last week
Asia Marketing
How Portable Marketing Co. can help market your mobile game in Asia
A look at the company's wide range of services
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
1010! and Six! developer Gram Games on its game-specific UA approaches
UA Manager Kerem Alemdar explains all
Wooga Job Cuts
Wooga cuts 40 jobs amid a restructuring of its casual games development
Black Anvil seemingly unaffected
Unity In Africa
Unity to hold its first Unity Certification exam in Africa at West African Gaming Expo
Taking place on 8 November 2016
Clashcon Cancelled
ClashCon 2016 cancelled as Supercell focuses on improving its games instead
Possibly a lack of interest from the community
Alliance Over
Disney shuts down Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 just six months after launch
Four-year-old original title closing too
Whale Trail
Let’s go whaling: A guide to monetisation through in-app purchases
Torulf Jernström reveals what you need to know about good IAPs
Apple Cleans Up
Apple to limit app name length to 50 characters in the App Store
Deleting broken apps too
Disconnected
If retention is the most important metric in mobile games, why are we turned away when we lose connection?
An easy way to kill momentum
Early Starters
Google Play Early Access now open to all Android developers
But devs must be given approval to participate
Seriously Obsessed
Seriously enlists actress Kate Walsh for new influencer campaign "Don't Download Best Fiends"
Millennials love irony
Canada Trends
A look at the latest trends and state of funding in Canadian mobile game development
The the Oh, Canada! panel discusses industry developments at PGC Vancouver
Gtr Accelerator
Global Top Round incubator awards 10 studios $50,000 each to develop their games
Mentorship and publisher access on offer for the selected studios
Million Vr-thur
Square Enix to collaborate with HTC to bring Million Arthur VR to Vive
Obscure card-battler gets the VR treatment
Sparking Ideas
Why you need to ask the right questions for an effective analytics approach to your game
Looking at the why, not just the when
Cash Flock
Worms developer Team17 scoops $21.8 million investment to grow business
Investment from now minority stake holder Lloyds Development Capital
Yeah!
Gram Games' tricky puzzler Six! achieves two million downloads in six days
Hits top of free charts on US App Store
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
UA expert Eric Seufert on his new challenge at marketing agency Heracles
Weighing up in-house UA vs. life at Heracles
Huge Tsums
Disney swaps LINE for Mixi to publish new toy-based game Marvel Tsum Tsum
Launched first in US and Canada
Google Games
Google recruiting game designers and engineers to build "the future of mobile entertainment"
Inexperienced candidates need not apply
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
Mana Cube on its "Player Happiness Agents" and going the extra mile with customer service
CEO Nicolas Godement-Berline on the soapbox
Indian Mavens
Is Shilpa Shetty's newly co-founded Viaan Studios set for success?
Leading Indian developers weight up the new studio's chances
Apply Now
Angry Birds Action developer Tag Games hiring Producer and Senior Game Designer
Dundee-based studio now hiring
Getting The Message
Why in-app messaging is your best brand ambassador
How mobile developers can learn from brick and mortar retail
Appsflyer In China
AppsFlyer partners with Tencent to bring tracking service to Tencent Social Ads
Track ad performance across WeChat and QQ
Get Ahead
Hothead on how game designers can stay ahead of the competition
Creative Director Mike Inglehart gives three key areas
Fuzzy Logic
Apsalar leads the charge to workaround iOS 10's Limit Ad Tracking changes
Arise effective probabilistic methods
Liquidation
French publisher Bulkypix goes into liquidation in a move that could leave devs out of pocket
Everyone left in the lurch
All About Games
10 things I've learned about becoming a better games journalist
Old fart breaks wind
Content-tastic
Less than a week to go: Everything you need to know about PG Connects Helsinki 2016
Going bigger, better, bolder for third time in Finland
Post-brexit Britain
Ukie urges UK government to allow post-Brexit free movement of talent and data through Europe
Essentially outlines reasons why we should've stayed in the EU