Fishlabs Senior Hires
Deep Silver Fishlabs bolsters its team with trio of senior hires
Studio now employs 92 staff
Ready To Grow
Unity relocates Brighton office to newly-built CityView tech hub
A 16,124 square foot commitment
Nexon Fy16 Q2 Financials
Nexon grows in South Korea with DomiNations and Heroes of Incredible Tales, but suffers losses overall
Takes biggest hit in North America
Testing, Testing...
Ever softer: Trends in the soft launch strategy of F2P mobile games
More countries, longer periods
Be In The Running
2016 Unity Awards now open for submissions
Categories include Best Mobile Game and Best VR Game
Charitable Acts
Palringo brings out the best in its users to raise $1 million for charity
Action Against Hunger and Islamic Relief helped enourmously
Appsflyer Insights
Facebook is the most powerful tool for acquiring quality users, says AppsFlyer
Releases latest AppsFlyer Performance Index
Thinking Big
Amazon plots its biggest Gamescom ever
Retail giant's first time on the entertainment floor
Bossa Investment
Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million for new multiplayer and VR games
London Venture Partners fronts the cash
Indie Focus
PG Connects Helsinki 2016: Traplight Games, Rovio, PlayRaven, Seriously and Secret Exit confirmed in Indie Futures track schedule
...and Next Games, Shark Punch, flaregames, Gamevil, FGL, Seepia Games, and more
Together Again
Matthieu Burleraux named Business Development Director as Playlab snaps up ex-Gumi trio
Yevgeniy Maiboroda and Charlotte Gailledreau also incoming
Power Of Brands
Why App Store Paid Search will reward developers with strong brand marketing
Priori Data and Pocket Whale crunch some numbers
All About Volume
Why 25-person Israeli studio Ilyon Dynamics releases up to 10 games a week
From army officers to casual game developers
Busy Bees
Koukoi Games to bring Crashing Season to Japan as part of Asia push
Partners with Worker Bee for localisation
Pokemon Won't Stop
Pokemon GO rakes in $200 million in its first month
Outperforms Clash Royale in every way
Time To Network
Pocket Gamer and G-STAR to team up for the best industry party at Gamescom, in association with G2A
Join us for drinks and networking on 17 August
Asia Bulletin
Chinese consortium acquires Playtika, M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion, and more
Here's your weekly Chinese summary of the top stories in mobile gaming
No Local Hero
Analyzing Pokemon GO's relative failure in Japan
Lacks sustain
Perfect Publishing
How to publish a game perfectly in China, according to CMGE
Keep your eye on the market
Spending Habits
Chinese mobile game players spend more at midnight but play more at midday
Key user habits and profiles based on 100 million players
Simple Ua
Mobile marketing platform Simplaex reaches more than 50 million players in four months
100 million expected by the end of September
Cultural Clash
Cultural clashes are still holding back Chinese developers overseas
Companies should focus on quality over quantity, panel suggests
July Ad Spend
MZ made up 40% of games industry US TV ad spend in July 2016
King, InnoGames also feature
Watch This Space
Apple Watch 2 fitted with GPS rumored for release in second half of 2016
New smartwatch to bring barometer and better battery life too
Pokemon Gone
Iran bans Pokemon GO
And other strange goings-on around the world
Mobile Mavens
Do mobile game developers actually care about Nintendo?
Does NX bridge the gap to mobile, or is it more of the same?
Rebuilding Job
Zynga kills soft launched CityVille game for failure to meet expectations
But still committed to brand
Most Read
Flaregames acquires Kopla Games, King invests in Snowprint Studios, and Pokemon GO is making $10 million a day
The hottest articles of last week
Activision Blizzard Financials
King brings in $454 million and 409 million MAUs for Activision Blizzard following acquisition
Another non-Candy Crush game due out later this year
Relentless Relents
Relentless Software to close after almost 13 years
All staff made redundant
Multiplayer Made Easy
New V-Play feature lets devs implement real-time and turn-based multiplayer for free
Multiplayer implementation with less than 100 lines of code
Long Wait
Zynga's Social Slots see 31% growth but overall the company remains loss-making
Waiting for a hero
King Crab
iCandy Interactive's Crab War gets its pincers into one million users
Most successful game for the company to date
Speaker Squad
Mark Sorrell, Traplight Games, Beatshapers, Seepia, Sisu and Dodreams join PG Connects Helsinki 2016
One month to go for final PGC of the year
Freeing Resources
Third-party Pokemon GO apps "hurt" game and delayed Latin America launch
Niantic explains why it blocked them
Taking Over
Mobile gaming bigger than ever at Gamescom 2016
Mobile industry attendance up 20% on last year, representing 1/8 of all exhibitors
Total Dominance
Apple loses ground as Android swallows up 97% of India smartphone market in Q2 2016
iOS market share for the quarter fell to 2.4%
The Longest Night
Forget CSR Racing 2: Dawn of Titans remains the defining factor in whether Zynga's $527 million acquisition of NaturalMotion will be viewed a success
The wait continues
Make It Huuuge
Huuuge Games raises $4.6 million to grow social casino games business globally
Investment led by Woori Technology Investment
Jurassic Going Premium
Why Bebopbee shifted from F2P to premium for Jurassic GO - Dinosaur Snap Adventure
CEO Rajeev Nagpal explains all
Mobile To Desktop
The top 4 reasons to play Android games on your PC
Yossi Fishler is platform agnostic
Zynga's Latest Exec
Zynga swoops for EA exec Matthew Bromberg as its new Chief Operating Officer
New exec will oversee business operations and Bangalore studio
Funding Stimulator
Job Simulator dev Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games
Studio believes VR will be as big as mobile
Get Hired
How to get a job at Avakin Life developer Lockwood Publishing
CEO Halli Bjornsson shares insights
Branching Out
Lockwood Publishing opens VR and AI-focused studio in Brighton
Ex-EA Tech Director Bruce Heather to lead the studio
Mobile Nation
iOS the most popular platform for UK games developers
Mobile leads the way
Natives Revolting
"Exorbitant" Game of War update triggers IAP boycott by some high level kingdoms
Trouble brewing
Join Us
Pocket Gamer publisher Steel Media hiring B2B Events Sales Professional
Boasts remote working, flexible hours, and incredibly good-looking colleagues
Banking Billions
App Store developers have earned more than $50 billion since 2008
July 2016 was a record breaking month for the marketplace
Instant Community
KTplay launches its instant in-game community platform for western developers
SDK already boasts 150 million active users in China