Pikachu, Stats & Lies
Updated: Pokemon GO: The latest bigger numbers
How big? How fast?
Whole Lotta Catchin' Going On
Did the US hit Peak Pokemon GO on Friday 15 July?
Verto Analytics thinks so
Skewed Distribution
20% of the 106 million US mobile gamers account for 62% of time spent playing
Verto Analytics crunches some numbers
New Blood
Ambitious Spanish dev Codigames raises $1 million
Dungeon Legends and beyond
Hype Balls
Will Pokemon GO's success have any influence on the way indies make games?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Good News
How Halfbrick automated its in-game messaging to drive player engagement
Right message, right time
Apply Now
Lisbon developer Bica Studios hiring Product Manager
Smash Time developer seeks a new recruit
Catching Records
Pokémon GO hits 10 million downloads in record seven days
Over 30 million players to date
Storm8 Study
Germany, Japan, and Russia play three times more casual games than any other market, claims Storm8
Most gaming done during the weekdays
More Than Crossy Road
Hipster Whale sets up as a publisher, hires new president
Clara Reeves joins from Film Victoria
A Rare Beast
Why Pokemon Go is the perfect 'perfect storm' of hype
Something borrowed, something new
Games By The Numbers
82% of all mobile games are downloaded on Android devices, finds Unity
Based on downloads of Unity-powered apps
Keep Your Players
4 reasons you're losing players and how to get them back
Good advice
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
Beyond Japan
Japanese App Annie competitor Fuller raises $4 million from Sega and others to go international
Expanding analytics and making apps easy
Bafta Games Lecture
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen to give BAFTA lecture on 5 September
Talking about company culture
In The Real World
Pokeballs: All the stupid things Pokemon GO made us do
Silly Season
Making Of
Sticky snowballs and shifting genres: The making of Tap My Katamari
How do you explain such a bizarre concept?
Shiny, New
VR is dead. Let's all bow down to the location-based AR future of Pokemon GO
How one game took down a whole conference
Poke-day In Tokyo
Servers braced and Giga Big Macs primed as Pokemon GO preps to go live in Japan
Coming home
Fansourcing
Updated: My.com sets up new studio to crack mobile MOBAs
Planet of Heroes will be Fast Forward's debut
Jump Higher
Doodle Jump leaps onto eSports bandwagon
Old dog, new tricks
No Stars
Rovio Stars on why it hasn't published a game for over a year
Matthew Wilson is getting fussy
X Hits The Spot
Post-Pokemon GO, where next for location-based marketing?
In the place to be
Indian Mavens
Indian Mavens discuss the value of Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal's new early stage game investment fund
And is Vishal Gondal the one to provide it?
Canny Bird
Early Bird rate for PG Connects Helsinki 2016 is running out
Tick tock, tick tock, the clock will stop
Bits & Pieces
Chinese companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun Games buy Opera's consumer businesses for $600 million
Focus for a quick sale
Designs On Vr
Video: Resolution Game's Tommy Palm on what makes a great VR game
CEO discusses VR's future
Look At Me
Worth 3 Supercells: SoftBank gets back into the expansion game with $32 billion acquisition of ARM
Indebted Japanese firm spends more
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
Most Read
Kabam goes all-in on retention, Space Ape wastes millions of dollars on UA, and how does Pokemon GO monetise?
The hottest articles of last week
Times Move On
Why CSR Racing 2 won't be the hit Zynga needs
Vladimir Funtikov explains
Big Indie Pitch
Big Indie Pitch heads to Gamescom 2016 on 16 August
Come show us your game and win some prizes
Buying Data
Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista continues its westward expansion buying GameAnalytics
Deal #2
Connected
Mobile game spenders are more social
Facebook research
New Channel
Flexion gains $2 million for its new Gamesmondo distribution and affiliate platform
Horizon 2020 gives grant
Trio Up
Deep Silver Fishlabs hires new three senior development staff
Technical edge
Surprise
How a broken arm in a game jam led to Slovak indie Jan Ilavsky winning an Apple Design Award
The story behind Chameleon Run
Weather Vs Pikachu
Is Pokemon GO a fad or a billion dollar phenomenon? We won't know until the first snow
The weakness of location games
Dark Side
NSPCC deeply troubled about 'well documented child safety concerns' of Pokemon GO
Think about the kids
Pc Challengers
Global VR Challenge: The PC VR contenders
We profile the developers targetting desktops
Space Ape Spend
How Space Ape wasted millions marketing its dark fantasy game Rival Kingdoms through the wrong UA channels
Mistakes made and lessons learned
Successful Unity
Hall of Fame: The hinterland of thoughtful entrepreneur and Unity founder David Helgason
The co-founder of the game engine firm on his entrepreneurial beginnings
Fast Forward
Shifting gears: the making of CSR Racing 2
GM Julian Widdows on making racing social
Pots Of Gold
Pokemon GO to add sponsored locations
Second revenue stream
Indie Survival
Ian Masters on how to manage your life and mental health as an indie
Exercise, meditate, and sleep right
Fastforward Finland
King, Seriously, Wooga, Rovio, Frogmind, Gamevil, PlayRaven & more announced for PG Connects Helsinki 2016
First speakers revealed for September 5th-6th conference
War Chest
DFJ Growth leads Unity funding round of $181 million
Barry Schuler joins the board
Born Free
“Don’t make a premium app on mobile unless you’re Monument Valley”
Leanne Bayley on why indies should consider embracing free-to-play
Google Growth
How Google is integrating tools and automating app store discovery
Ads and automation