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Unity's China publishing deal, the different types of monetisation, and PlaySimple Games raises $4 million
The hottest articles of last week
Fighting On Multiple Fronts
How June Software is racking up downloads in India while targeting global grossing success
CEO Roby John on a big year for the studio
Everybody Loves Pokemon
Pokemon GO is the most played game of all time in Japan
According to a not-very-scientific survey
Black Friday
Black Friday brings big savings to game development tools and assets
Grab yourself a bargain
Power Of Friendship
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links passes four million downloads in first week of Japan launch
100 million duels have taken place in the game
One Time Only
Black Friday deal: Get 30% off Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017 tickets
Save money for one of the biggest mobile games B2B events around
Defold Competition
King opens Defold game engine competition to send devs to GDC 2017
Entries close January 22nd
Now Playing
Now playing: Tommy Palm on Kingdom Rush Frontiers
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Dark Horse
Glu seemingly shuts down ailing celebrity-focused game Katy Perry Pop
First game of its kind to be taken off the market
Get Your Vr On
Get hands-on with virtual reality at VR in a Bar in London next month
Spread some virtual festive cheer
Use Their Data
Anonymous data monetisation firm Tutela reopens partnership program
Use your user's data as an extra revenue stream
Monetisation Design Webinar
Join our free online webinar on the seven rules of monetisation design with Oscar Clark
Oscar Clark helps you make sure that your decision on monetisation doesn't come at the cost of making an enjoyable game
Working Together
How to get your game published in Southeast Asia
Find the right publisher, says Johary Mustapha
Sticker Happy
Glu adds iMessage stickers to already sticker-heavy celebrity game Kendall & Kylie
50 for free, 200 to unlock or buy
Super Mario Done
Don't expect Super Mario Run to compete with Pokemon GO, says Sensor Tower
92% of all games launched in Q3 2016 were free-to-play
Live And Kicking
EA reflects on mobile hit Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes on its first birthday
EA Executive Producer John Salera on the game's life so far
Ipad Semi-pro
Report: Apple to launch new 10.5-inch iPad for enterprise and education markets in 2017
Slots neatly between standard iPad and iPad Pro
Pixel Pusher
Google and Verizon spent $27 million in a week advertising the Pixel phone
7.5% of all phone activations over the last month were at Verizon
Think Long-term
Live ops at EA is about making stolen moments count
We talk live games and monetising Indian users
Highs And Lows
India's mobile games market is growing rapidly, but revenues are still playing catch up
Downloads not an indicator of revenues and engagement
Taking Flight
EA adds ship-based battles to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes to boost already huge retention rates
Also adding Rogue One characters
'ow Much?
Creative England launches £300,000 fund for Yorkshire-based developers
Grants of up to £30,000 offered for prototype development
Hungry Shark In Your Face
Hungry Shark VR developer expects mass market breakthrough for virtual reality soon
FGOL MD Ian Harper on the possibilities VR presents for games developers
Go East
Unity’s Xiaomi deal will offer developers “unparalleled access” to China’s mobile games market
Partnership kicks off next year
Slow Burner
FunPlus' King of Avalon surges to the summit of the US App Store top grossing charts
Aggressive marketing the key?
Easy-peasy
China’s NetEase is now the world's top-grossing mobile games company
Onmyoji, Fantasy Westward Journey and Ghost top 10 grossing games
Early Opportunities
India's mobile games market is like the US in 2008, but it's growing rapidly
Boss Fight Entertainment's Bill Jackson on the opportunities in India
Funding News
Mobile market intelligence firm Apptopia raises $2.7 million in funding round led by Ashton Kutcher's VC firm
US firm aims to make app economy more transparent
Favouring Favro
Keep your game’s development on track with Agile project management tool Favro
Why Team Hansoft’s new app can help improve team collaboration
Flying The Nest
Will Luton joins Rovio Stockholm as Senior Product Manager
Will lead product management on Angry Birds 2
Top Tips
The seven rules of monetisation design
Oscar Clark espouses his expertise on the psychology of game monetisation
Money-makers
Mobile Games University - Monetisation Design: The different monetisation types in games
Learn about IAPs, ads, subscriptions, premium, gachas and more
King Of Latam
An overview of the LATAM market in 2016 and the keywords you need to know about it
King's Sabrina Carmona tells all
Mediating India
IronSource opens office in Bangalore to bring ad mediation platform to India
Opens new office in Bangalore
37 + 2
Chinese publisher 37 Interactive snaps up one of China's most recently successful developers Mokun Technology
Pushing mobile after finding success on browser
Looking Forward
Sony's mobile studio ForwardWorks preparing to unveil its first games on December 7th
The Last Guardian could be heading to mobile
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Super Mario Run's premium $9.99 price?
Is Nintendo jumping too high with the cost?
Track Your Events
Tenjin launches free self-service mobile marketing tool for small developers to track their data
Prices increase as your needs do
Shared Dream
Motorola the first third-party Android manufacturer to make Google Daydream available on its phones
Android Nougat 7.0 coming some time this week to Moto Z and Moto Z Force
Ar Trumps Vr
Pokemon GO named Mobile Game of the Year 2016 at The Golden Joystick Awards
Also wins Innovation of the Year over Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Indie Contest
Google set to launch a new Google Play Indie Games Contest for European developers
Winners stand to win a YouTube influencer campaign worth up to €100,000
Casual Esports
Amazon Appstore gets in on eSports with first ever tournament for casual mobile games
Winner stands to win grand prize of $30,000
Sleeping Giant
An overview of India's games market in 2016 and why it's a sleeping giant for mobile games
Nazara CEO Manish Agarwal discusses why developers around the world should release their games in India
Simple Funding
Ex-Zynga devs raise $4 million for new Indian studio PlaySimple Games
Mobile studio aims to double number of staff by the end of 2017
Moving On
Bala brothers leave Vicarious Visions after 25 years to form new company Velan Studios
Duo plans to get prototyping games with small teams
Pining For Seapine
Perforce acquires application lifecycle management tool provider Seapine Software
Fruther integrates itself into the games industry with tool used by SCEE, 2K Games, Epic, Motiga and NCSoft
Quality Over Quantity
How real-money skill gaming platform Sparcade is bringing competitive gaming to the masses
Greg Canessa on providing something for everyone
Hot Five
The story behind India's first games company, Critical Ops hits 10 million downloads, and keeping games alive
The hottest articles of last week
Learning Bonanza
Black Friday: Udemy is offering cut price deals on game development courses starting at £12
Sales end at midnight on Friday, November 25th