Casual-core
Casual games steal midcore's clothes as Candy Blast Mania adds PVP Puzzle Tournaments
A new retention trend
Resurrection?
As Microsoft gives up, a Finnish startup attempts to reboot Nokia
Mobile business sold for $350 million
Stark Contrast
Which Marvel games are beating up the US top grossing charts?
Super heroes and villains
Inject Some Personality
In the standardised world of F2P mobile games, a little narrative creativity goes a long way
Don't write sagas, sprinkle detail
Money Shouldn't Sleep
Why you should be Revenue Recycling with Pollen.VC
Are you using the app store bank?
Group Glue
Palringo on why Chat Games are the next generation of mobile gaming
Introducing GamePad
What's Next?
King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016
Group synergies
Local Heroes
Why the Japanese mobile games market remains the world's most lucrative and competitive
App Annie and Dentsu reveal all
Link Up
Gamevil partners with Cartoon Network, bringing Adventure Time characters to Dungeon Link
Summon Adventure Time heroes in the RPG puzzler
World Class Insight
EA, Gram Games, Roadhouse, and Pollen VC join global speaker roster for PG Connects Vancouver 2016
Vancouver-based, but fully international
Classics Digitised
Gamedoctors founders aim to "casualize" analogue classics with new Berlin studio 231 Play
Debut game will be Peppy Pairs Paradise
Kesha Of Clans
Experimenting with RPG retention, Glu brings guilds to Britney Spears: American Dream
Spears at the ready
Actionable Data
How to pick the best mobile analytics tool for your game
Albert Kolacek discusses the options
No More Hero
King's soft-launched midcore title, Hero, pulled from Google Play
No reason given, but we have a few ideas
Setting The Pace
Samsung has sold more than 300,000 Gear VR headsets in Europe in 2016
Driven by discount for Samsung Galaxy S7 customers
Iap Inspector
Apex predator: the monetisation of Hungry Shark World
How FGOL added F2P meta-game to Hungry Shark
New Audiences
How web portal Poki is helping Color Switch reach 150 million downloads
And how it can help other developers to reach a wider audience
Trouble In Japan
Mobile games dominate in Japan but where next for gacha monetisation?
Market analyst Sho Sato shares insights
Frictionless
How codeless tool Buildbox is helping new developers enter the App Store Top 100 charts
How it got started and plans for the future
Chomping Up Charts
Looks like Ubisoft has a mobile hit on its hands as Hungry Shark World does 10 million downloads in 6 days
And top 50 grossing too
Super Sell
Supercell valued at $5 billion as SoftBank rumoured to be selling shares
Talks with buyers in China reportedly already happeneing
Nordic Drinkup
Unwind at Nordic Game Conference with the Pocket Gamer DrinkUp on May 18
Chill out, network, and drink free beer
Flying High
The Angry Birds Movie makes $43 million in opening weekend
Around half its budget made back before launching in the US
Candy Crush Pvp
It dominates casual gaming, but can King also be successful in midcore - whatever that is?
Mobile Mavens discuss
Most Read
Publishing in China, why gacha and auto-play are key gameplay trends, and King soft-launches a mid-core game
The hottest articles of last week
Android Vr Rumours
Google expected to announce standalone Android VR device at I/O conference
Or maybe it needs a mobile device... or maybe both!
Burst The Bubble
Chinese government cracks down on game and VR investments
Market forces quashed
Spicy
Tag Games' tech spin-off Chilli Technologies officially launches ChilliConnect free backend service
Pay when live
New Funding
GREE announces new $65 million investment fund for startups
B2B and B2B2C companies being targeted
Home Growth
Sega Sammy sees 6% growth in Japanese mobile game revenues in FY16 to $375 million
But overall company sales down 5%
On The Up
Hoshi No Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius boost Square Enix's FY16 sales 28% to $2 billion
Old brands sparkle
An End To Infinity
Disney cuts console publishing, doubles down on mobile
Disney Infinity line killed off as 300 lose jobs
6 Finger Discount
Madfinger Games celebrates 6 years and 150 million downloads with in-game events
Free gold, cheap games
Lads Lads Lads
Spil Games acquires male-oriented browser game portal Mousebreaker
1.5 million 18-35 male players now at their disposal
Ezio Hunters
Ubisoft and Lilith Games partner to bring Assassin's Creed to Soul Hunters
Ezio Auditore to be a playable character in the Chinese action-RPG
Vainglory Spring Season
Vainglory Spring Season Championship events to be held in Hollywood and Berlin in June
June 3-5 in Hollywood, June 10-12 in Berlin
Esports Awareness
Over 1 billion people will be aware of eSports by the end of 2016, predicts Newzoo
Actual viewing audience currently around 292 million people
Social Is The Glue
Creativity within restrictions is the key to success, says chat game dev Palringo
We take a tour round its Swedish studio
5 Years Of F2p
Angry Birds Action! dev Tag Games on the challenges and opportunities of going F2P
CEO Paul Farley explains
Ignore The Herd
All eyes are on VR... so now's the time to launch elsewhere, says Mike Bithell
Thomas Was Alone dev talks opportunities, 'Indiepocalypse', and crunch
Normal For Norwich
Over 50,000 attend Norwich Gaming Festival 2016
Free for all
Play To Win
First China Mobile eSports Games competition kicks off with Vainglory, CrossFire and King of Glory
It's already happening
Echo Idiots
Let me tell you a secret. The moon isn't made of cheese. Nintendo is making F2P games
What's Nintendo up to?
Rpg Cash Machine
Summoners War hits $500 million in lifetime revenues, boosting Com2uS to another sales record
From only 60 million downloads
Uniting Women
Unity announces five-part Women In Gaming talks
Talks across the globe by women in the industry, for women in the industry
Free Emblem
Nintendo confirms Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem mobile games will be free-to-play
After the success of Miitomo, it's no real surprise
Tag Team
Vivid Games announces its first publishing deal
Developed by fellow Polish developer EVERYDAYiPLAY
Analyse This & That
Why gacha, social glue and auto-play are 2016's key gameplay trends
So says Torulf Jernström
Google Play Charts
Puzzle & Dragons is the highest grossing Google Play game of all time
According to App Annie
Watch This Closely
Can mobile gaming save an ad-supported internet?
Venatus Media's Matt Cannon thinks it can