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All Aboard
Ex-Kabam COO Chris Carvalho joins G5 Entertainment's board of directors
Mobcrush and Playfab investor on board
Trivia Cracked
Trivia Crack Kingdoms surpasses seven million downloads in 10 months
Over 2 billion questions answered
Paid Vs. Free
"Paid apps are truly dead”
But are they really?
Trying Times
GREE looks to Japanese "release blitz" to rescue longterm decline
Planning a "release blitz" for FY17
Nearly Free-to-play
Top Indian indie games selling at $0.15 apiece as part of Indian App Store's Independence Week
Four Indian Mavens featured
New Era
Craig Chapple appointed Editor of PocketGamer.biz
Ric Cowley and Matt Suckley promoted to News Editor and Features Editor
Firefly Funding
Firefly Games closes $10 million funding round to work on Hollywood IPs
Also looking into VR and eSports
Party
Pocket Gamer’s ChinaJoy Mobile Mixer led the way on a night of 100 parties in Shanghai
Thanks to AOL 1, Akamai and The Specialist Works
Boss Remedy
Remedy names former RedLynx boss as its new CEO
Finnish studio hires Tero Virtala after 12 years at RedLynx
Vr Indie Pitch
The VR Indie Pitch launches on September 6th at PG Connects Helsinki
A very real indie competition for virtual development.
Key Curriculum
PG Connects Helsinki 2016 Mobile Games University track schedule includes King, Rovio, Frogmind, Amazon, Secret Police, Mana Cube, Google and more
That's six hours of game development learning
Too Many Apps?
App Store to have over 5 million active apps by the end of 2020
73% more than the end of 2016
Child's Play
Kids' game publisher TabTale crosses 1 billion downloads
Tel Aviv studio scores big with family-friendly angle
Dena Financials Fy16 Q1
DeNA sees small revenue increase as it focuses in on Japan and China
Stepping away from the economic uncertainty of the rest of the world
Peer-to-peer
Rethinking game marketing one player at a time
Finding light in the dark days for digital game marketing
The Xtra Mile
Backend as a Service provider Clan of the Cloud rebrands as XtraLife, gives devs open source access
Wandrille Pruvot appointed new CEO
Keep Them Close
Retention is dropping across all apps, but games have the worst of the lot
People churn, gamers churn faster
Pokemon Stay
Pokemon GO may have peaked in the US, but how well is it retaining users a month after release?
Verto Analytics looks back at the last 30 days
Native Speaking
Native advertising is here to stay
More subtle and adjustable than conventional ads
Growing Plan
Shifting DAUs from low value China, how Seriously used influencers to raise US daily revenues 400%
Best Fiends love
Up And Down
Apple smartphone sales see small growth in US and Europe, but continue to stumble in China
Poor launch of iPhone SE partly to blame
From Our Sponsors
How game developers can optimize their in-app advertising strategies even further
Pavel Golubev has his finger on the pulse
Gaming Ninja
Hall of Fame: A slice of life with Fruit Ninja designer Luke Muscat
The creative director on designing a mobile sensation, and what's next
Premium Or F2p?
Indian Mavens discuss Blyss and the power of an App Store feature for paid games
Is premium still too risky?
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