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
High Rollers
US casino operator splashes up to $170 million on developer Rocket Games
Management could earn extra $110m from acquisition
Iap Inspector
From guns to girls and gacha: The monetization of Rival Fire
Frontline Commando goes meta
Long Players
Are Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes players really averaging 2.5 hours of gameplay every day?
Strong engagement
Levelling Up
Stellar performance from Star War: Galaxy of Heroes boosts EA Mobile's sales to a record $165 million
Global top 20 grosser
20x20 Fun
Join Rovio's Wilhelm Taht for the PechaKucha Sessions at PG Connects Helsinki 2016
Oscar Clark ended up losing his trousers at the last one...
Making Of
Multiplayer Mario on acid: The making of ReRunners
How Klang Games brought the MMO-platformer to life
Blowing Up
Big Bang Racing hits one million downloads in its first week
100,000 user-generated levels already available
Taking Its Time
Netmarble and nWay partner once again to bring ChronoBlade to North America
Previously brought it to South Korea
Not In My Backyard
Nintendo and Niantic facing lawsuit over Pokemon GO trespassers
Is Pokemon GO encouraging trespass, and is it profiting from it?
Finite Disney
Disney Infinity discontinuing online services
Mobile support the first to go
M&a For Days
Games industry M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion in July 2016
Playtika, King, and Supercell deals lead the way
Reality Strikes
In Pictures: The Global VR Challenge
Visions of China
Great Winners Of China
The Global VR Challenge goes out with a bang
From West to East
New York To Montreal
Jesse Divnich leaves Tilting Point to join Hibernum as VP of Product
Former Tilting Point and EEDAR man confident for Hibernum's future
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Toronto studio Get Set Games hiring Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint Scripter
Full listing available on PocketGamer.biz
Reunited
King invests big in Swedish developer Snowprint Studios
Bringing old friends back into the fold
Pawapuro Power
Konami's game sales rise 6% on the back of 25 million Power Pro downloads
Hitting a homerun
Ground Up
Glispa launches its performance-at-scale influencer network Voltu
34,000 loudspeakers
Rise Of Video
App Annie launches new service covering the $39 billion in-app advertising market
Who's advertising where?
Catch 'em All
Almost two-thirds of Pokemon GO players are female
Nearly half aged 18-29
Hooray For Indies
Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 19th annual competition
Submissions open until October 24
Long-term Partnership
Flaregames acquires Nonstop Knight developer Kopla Games
Locks down its most successful partnership to date
Gacha For All
Getting gacha right: Tips for creating successful in-game lotteries
Creating value out of random rewards
Tricking The Eye
Chinese Global VR Challenge runner-up Mirage Interactive raises $1.5 million
Investment led by SongHe Capital and Wistone
Position And The Puck
Why Larry Abrams thinks it's game over for Kabam
Hard times
Five Down, One Anticipated
With Rise of Tyrants prepping for launch, Z2Live sunsets legacy titles including Trade Nations
Time to move on
Made In Vancouver
Kabam teams up with Hasbro for new Transformers mobile game
Transformers: Contest of Champions
Virtual Winners
Global VR Challenge: The winners in the spotlight
The rising stars of VR games development
En Famille
Google Play opens up games and apps for sharing with Family Libraries
Share everything with up to six people
Indie Mavens
Is the rumoured Nintendo NX portable hybrid console exciting for indie developers?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Super Effective
Pokemon GO generating $10 million daily revenue without cannibalising the market
Generating its own subset of highly engaged players
From China To Israel
Chinese consortium trumps Netmarble to acquire Playtika for $4.4 billion
Includes Giant and Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital
8 Years Of Pain
Tapdaq's Ted Nash on thinking outside the app stores
Ted Nash takes a look back in anger
Very Big Indie Pitch
Very Big Indie Pitch comes to PG Connects Helsinki on 5 September
Pitches, prizes, indies...
Most Read
Scopely raises $55 million, Nintendo's market cap drops by $7 billion, and we're having a party at Gamescom
The hottest articles of last week
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Singapore publisher GoGame hiring for development, marketing, and business development roles
Sega Networks-backed firm now hiring
Soft Power
Flaregames supports Nonstop Knight's pet upgrade with Snapchat-sourced $10,000 animal charity giveaway
Supporting the underdog
Trusted Source
Rovio and WG Cells are making the most of GetSocial's high converting Smart Invites
High quality channel
Ea Targets Asia
Devin Nambiar leaves Kabam to join EA as Head of Product Management, Asia-Pacific
Kabam's ex-Director of Product jumps ship
All Systems Go?
Turbo ends Super Senso beta and pulls anticipated mobile strategy game from soft launch
Something's happening
Lovato Love
Demi Lovato tie-in scores big for interactive story game Episode, generating $13 million
Celebrity licenses paying off
Gsn Layoffs
GSN Games trims a small number of staff working on live games
"These changes are necessary to support our long-term goals"
Watch The Uplift
Tapjoy and comScore detail the power of rewarded in-game ads for brands
The right way to advertise
Small Print
What are the legal implications of Pokemon GO's success?
Ryan Garcia ponders the phenomenon
Pocket Power
Eric Seufert, Gram Games, Next Games, Tilting Point, Mana Cube and Flaregames are latest PG Connects Helsinki 2016 speakers
Gotta catch 'em all
Hunger Games
Hall of Fame: From Amiga to mobile with Future Games of London's Ian Harper
The studio's MD on dreaming of development and making it a reality
Join Janeious
Frankfurt indie Janeious hiring Senior Unity Developer
Join the team on upcoming strategy title Fusion Guards
Scaling
Taptica partners with Adways to target Asian mobile gamers
Part of an Asian shift