In Preview
Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 goes live with new Asset Builder SDK
Lumberyard strengthens its feature set
On The Map
New UK Games Map shows country's 2,000 games companies
Showing the true scale of the British games industry
Facebook Streaming
Why BlueStacks is investing big in bringing Facebook Live app streaming to its 150 million users
BlueStacks Senior Director of Marketing Yuriy Yarovoy on the future of streaming
East To West
Popular China MMORPG MU Origin hits one million downloads in Europe, US and South America
Strong start for Webzen-published mobile hit
Gearing Up For Nx
Nintendo NX production estimated at up to 10 million units per year
Console giant prepares for planned Nintendo NX March 2017 release date
Portable Nx
Pokemon CEO hints Nintendo NX will be home console and handheld hybrid
The Pokemon Company making games for Nintendo NX
Fame Land
Hall of Fame: Delving into the mind of Badland developer Johannes Vuorinen
Making it big in premium
More Monsters
Rovio's Pet Monsters expands soft launch to India, Ireland, and the UK
Flat out fails in the UK
Ua In Asia
How to adapt your UA campaign for China, Japan and South Korea
They key cultural differences between the top Asian countries for mobile games
Fraud Or Flight
Apps marketers will lose up to $100 million from fraud in 2016
AppsFlyer introduces DeviceRank to combat it
Player Personalities
The four MMO player types you can target for your UA campaign
Achievers, explorers, socialisers and killers
Get Into The Jam
SGN Games rebrands as Jam City as it bolsters branded IP roster with Peanuts license
All in the name of growth
Party Hats And Streamers
BlueStacks integrates Facebook Live streaming into its Android-to-PC platform
Making streaming even easier
We Jammin'
XX+ Games Jam to host jam for women in UK and Canada on October 14th
24 hours to make a game
Battle's End
Blizzard dropping Battle.net name after almost 20 years of service
Technology will continue to be used
Creative Crossley
Creative England appoints ex-GameSpot editor Rob Crossley as Head of Games
Informing future strategies and decisions
Key Frames
NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title
Real-time inverse kinematics, they call it
Studio Closure
Update: Vancouver studio Roadhouse Interactive closes and lays off around 100 staff
A Thinking Ape hosts hiring party for affected employees
Driving Vr Adoption
AR has Pokemon GO, but what is virtual reality's killer app going to look like?
VR experts discuss how to drive adoption of headsets
Indie Game Funding
Consultancy Games Co. London raises $782,000 to invest in new indie games
Three new games to receive funding
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
'allo 'allo
Google releases iOS 10 Messages rival app Allo
Stickers, font sizes, and Google Assistant
Free To Paid
AlphaPit developer on going premium after $240 lifetime revenue from ad-supported free-to-play
Shane McCafferty on ditching F2P for premium
Going To China
Pokemon GO aiming for release in China, says Pokemon Company's CEO
New features still on their way
A Good Note
Improved Galaxy Note 7's are already being sold by US mobile carriers
Only 25% of owners have returned their exploding phones
Going, Going, Gone
Pokemon GO falls from the top of the US App Store grossing charts for first time in 74 days
Still floundering in Japan
Real-money Gaming
Swedish real-money eSports company Gumbler raises €5 million from tennis and football stars
Robin Söderling, Andreas Granqvist and Martin Dahlin bet on real-money gaming company
Have A Corona
Perk sells Corona Labs to its own CEO as competition in the game engine space heats up
Paying him back for his shares
Denial Of Service
Hearthstone and other Blizzard games suffer DDoS attacks
Servers go offline
Games Are Art
A day in the life of a Game Art Director
Ilyon Dynamics Art Director Erez Kramer on dazzling players with game art
Vr Is Here
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset launches at UK retail for £549
VR revolution gets underway
Nexus No More?
Google teases new smartphone announcement at October 4th event
Maybe we'll see Google Daydream too?
Less Life
Samsung limits Galaxy Note 7 battery life to stop them from exploding
Adds an alert to phones telling users to turn them off
Ilkka Paananen Interview
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen talks company culture, expansion plans and eSports
Digging deep after the BAFTA Games Lecture
Asia Bulletin
Chinese eSports dev Hero Entertainment gets $288 million investment, advertising platform Leadbolt opens Bangalore office, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Galaxy Note 7 Returns
US Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sales to resume on October 21st
Tokyo Game Show
Record 270,000 attendees visit Tokyo Game Show 2016
Tokyo Game Show 2017 dates revealed
Tanks For The Memories
Wargaming's Tank 100 app lets users see 100 tanks in 100 UK locations through AR and VR
See them in the real world, watch a film about them in VR
Virtual Phone
You can use your mobile phone in PlayStation VR with AnywhereVR
The virtual world gets more real
Supercell Expansion?
Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
CEO Ilkka Paananen expands on his previous hints
Match-third
One-third of Japan's 127 million population has downloaded Puzzle & Dragons
So says Serkan Toto
Powering Ideas
Why King is entering the game engine space with Defold and how it will help other devs launch their games
Evangelist Oleg Pridiuk explains all
Pick 'n' Mix
MoPub helps devs reduce app size and pick select ad formats with new modular SDK
Pick and choose which ads you want to implement
Misleading Metric
How high eCPMs nearly killed my business and how to avoid this mistake
Giftgaming CEO Nick Hatter on measuring ad revenues correctly
Samsung Lawsuit
Galaxy Note 7 owner sues Samsung after phone explodes in their pocket
Amount of damages undisclosed
Very Much Alive
Warner Bros. Suicide Squad: Special Ops achieves 10 million downloads
70% of downloads on Google Play
Most Read
Reigns achieves 600,000 downloads, Peter Vesterbacka joins Lightneer, and why you should get into Hong Kong
The hottest articles of last week
Borrowed Time
Marmalade 8.6 launches with iOS 10 and Android N support
The SDK gears up for new OS updates
It's A Hit
Trophit and Adways join forces to boost Prelaunch.me's pre-registration campaigns
More gifts equals more pre-registrations
Gaming Gifts
Sponsored gifts lift 2D shooter Deul’s daily revenues by up to 38%
Sponsored gifts earning more than IAPs