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
Free To Pray
The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design
Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play
Living With Live Operations
12 lessons from the trenches of a mobile game live operations team
Hothead Games offers best practice advice
Talktastic
Space Ape, NaturalMotion, Twitter, Wooga, Verve, Fox, Icejam, Jam City and more speakers confirmed for PG Connects London 2017
The names keep coming for Europe's largest mobile games industry conference
Analytics For Everyone
New indie developer-focused analytics tool comes to drag-and-drop game engine Stencyl
Install the extension, drop in some code, get retention data
Touch The Rift
Oculus opens pre-orders for $199 Oculus Touch VR controllers
Shipping December 6th
Big Pond
How to get a job at Deep Silver Fishlabs
Senior HR Manager Christoph Hillermann shares insights
Second Mass Recall
UPDATE: Samsung permanently halts production of Galaxy Note 7 and issues second mass recall
Recommends users get an S7 instead
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Mobile Mavens
Mobile games industry experts react to Google Pixel and Daydream View VR
Mobile Mavens react to Google's announcements
Vungle X Kakao
Vungle partners with Kakao to launch rewarded video ad service Kakao Game Ad+
Brings expertise to fledgling platform
Real-money Arcade
GSN Games launches real-money arcade platform Sparcade
Make money playing Pac-Man and more
Too Big To Fail
Pokemon GO may be losing millions of users, but its retention rate is on par with Clash of Clans
Niantic Labs has nothing to fear if SurveyMonkey is right
Getting In Early
Zynga, MZ, and King are already blocking App Store Search Ads on their own games
Bigger brands leave space wide open
Uk's Biggest
Outplay Entertainment becomes the UK's largest independent mobile studio, employing over 150
New title lined up for November
Blazes
Sales of Galaxy Note 7 halted as Samsung investigates five exploding phones
Stops production and shipments of replacement phones
Most Read
Kiloo opens a publishing arm, how to monetise, retain, and acquire users, and why did Ubisoft buy Ketchapp?
The hottest articles of last week
Jam-packed
Ex-EA EVP and Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble joins Jam City
And Robert Zakari joins as General Counsel and EVP of Corporate Development
Blimey
Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi sells 500,000 units in India in 3 days
A new record for India
Heating Up
Samsung profits increase by $3.6 million despite exploding phone fiasco
Other arms of the business still performing well
Iap Inspector
How does Wooga's midcore debut Warlords monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective