Pokemon Go Go Go
Pokemon GO back on top of the US App Store thanks to in-game Halloween event
Niantic's hit surges up charts across the globe
Indie Advice
How indies can thrive in the free-to-play mobile games space
Tilting Point's Samir El Egili shows us the way
China Rich List
Tencent and NetEase CEOs in top five of Forbes' China Rich List with combined worth of $39.7 billion
Worth $24.5 billion and $15.2 billion respectively
Iap Inspector
How does Best Fiends Forever monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Vungle Fever
Vungle helped increase rewarded ad revenues in Magic Jigsaw Puzzles from $200 to $6,000 a day
Revenues rise by 29x
Switch It Up
Nintendo keeping quiet on Switch until January 13th 2017
Plans to ship 2 million units globally in its first month
Studio Closure
King shuts down Singapore studio Nonstop Games two years after big money deal
Developer closes two years after big money acquisition
A Cut Above
Gazillion Entertainment cuts a non-Marvel path onto mobile with licensed IP Dexter: Slice
First non-Marvel title released by the studio.
Piggies Come To Uk
Taptica partners with Chinese publisher Rafo Tech to drive UK downloads of Piggy Boom
Top game in Taiwan looking for female downloads in the West
Bwhaaaat?
Ubisoft cans card-battler Rabbids Heroes five months into soft launch
Online services to shut down November 15th
Ka-ching
Why casino games work without real money
Tribeflame's Torulf Jernström looks at addiction, finding the fun and looking after your players in casino games
Facebook Transformation
Transformers: Earth Wars saw 50% cheaper CPIs using Facebook Ads
Facebook case study reveals how it helped grow the game
Samsung Financials Q3 Fy16
Samsung blames exploding Galaxy Note 7 fiasco for burning a hole in its mobile profits
Profits and sales drop across the board
Global Mario
Super Mario Run heading to 150 countries in December
Nintendo confirms game will not have any in-app purchases other than to unlock the full game
Playing Its Cards Right
How PopCap entered the collectible card game genre with Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes
Creative Director Devin Low on PopCap's strong hand
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: King CEO Riccardo Zacconi on building a mobile gaming powerhouse
Crushing it with Candy Crush Saga
Indian Mavens
Indian game developers react to Google Pixel and Daydream View VR
Will Google's new hardware have any impact on the Indian market?
Keep It Casual
The best practices for mobile ad monetisation with casual gamers
Tamalaki's Martine Spaans explains
Might And Magic On Mobile
Black Anvil's first and last game: the making of Warlords
Putting the 'core' back in midcore
Ninten-go
Nintendo profits up to $364 million as Pokemon GO and Seattle Mariners sale prop up falling revenues
Financial report doesn't mention Miitomo
Tough Apples
Apple posts first annual revenue loss in 15 years as sales fall by $18.1 billion
Sales down across the board except in Services
Ua For Indies
6 tips for mobile cross-promotion: The smart indie dev’s low-cost UA strategy
How to turn your DAUs into loyal consumers for all your mobile games
Key Players
Keywords Studios acquires user testing firm Player Research for up to $1.6 million
£700,000 in cash, 65,000 shares
Not To Bee
UA and monetisation platform Bee7 no longer available to third-party developers
Tech only available for Outfit7 and advertisers
Never Stop Never Stopping
Flaregames' Nonstop Knight rushes past seven million downloads in just under five months
Achieving around one million downloads a month
Drifting Along
Ex-HoloLens and Oculus staff form eSports VR game developer Drifter Entertainment
Currently hiring
Mobile Mavens
What's the value of a movie license for a free-to-play mobile game?
And why are such deals so popular?
Logging On
Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin office
Working closely with Twitch team there
Hi Doggy
Fireproof Games' The Room series generated $3.3 million from each game in their first 12 months of release
Barry Meade takes to Twitter to explain the infographic
Pokemon Boo
Pokemon GO aims to entice players back with more candy and scary Pokemon in Halloween event
First live event since launch
Piece Of Eden
Eden Games appoints new CMO at large as it prepares for mobile release of Gear.Club
Bolsters team ahead of first self-published effort
Top Insight
Twitch, NaturalMotion, Magmic, Curve, Gamevil, Gram and Execution Labs confirmed for PGC London 2017
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Innogames Future
InnoGames eyes mobile future and global expansion after $100 million MTG deal
The InnoGames and MTGx CEOs discuss their ambitions
Tv Ua
How The Specialist Works uses TV advertising to drive large-scale UA campaigns
Richard Downey talks us through its services
X Marks The Spot
Appnext on the "treasure map" towards successful paid user acquisition
Kobi Edelstein helps you through the dangerous waters
Get Found
How to use Apple's App Store Search Ads
Search Ads are now available, but where should you start?
Watch Out
Global smartwatch shipments halve to 2.7 million units in Q3 2016
So says market intelligence firm IDC
Analytics Mavens
How can developers use analytics to make better games?
We ask the experts what they've found to be the most effective actionable insights
Job Losses
Gameforge lays off around 90 staff as it pulls out of mobile
German publisher to focus on PC
Another Galaxy
Samsung offering half-price Galaxy Note 8 to Note 7 owners in South Korea
An apology for launching an exploding phone
Evil Run
Evil Dead runner rises from new UK mobile game publisher Boomdash
Endless Nightmare coming to iOS
My Little Clone-y
Peak Games files My Little Pony lawsuit against Hasbro for cloning Toy Blast
New My Little Pony game looks awfully familiar
Asia News
Netmarble employee jumps to his death from Seoul office building after sacking
Fired for alleged embezzlement of cyber money
Mobile Trumps Pc
Mobile growth picks up the slack from PC decline in Changyou’s games business
Number of paying mobile players up by 700,000
Learn From Experience
Jobs in Games: King's Ben Hollis on how to get a job as a Lead Game Designer
The man behind Shuffle Cats shares career insights
Data Block
Apple's new $925 million Ireland data centre could be delayed by 18 months
Local residents not happy
Seriously Good
Seriously's Best Fiends Forever surpasses 3 million downloads in 3 days
Currently has 3.39 million DAUs
Hot Five
Rovio Stockholm GM leaves, DeNA dissolves US arm, and Tencent takes $3.5 billion in loans for Supercell deal
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What A Story
Fireproof Games' The Room trilogy hits 11.6 million downloads
Detailed infographic reveals all
Mamma Mia!
The internet reacts to the Nintendo Switch reveal
The internet does what it does best...