Rising High
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes helps boost EA Mobile FY16 sales up 9% to $548 million
Big brand, big hit
Home Runs
Baseball titles boost Konami's FY16 game sales up 27% to $1.2 billion
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyu bats well
Take You On A Cruise
One Piece Treasure Cruise passes 10 million downloads in the west
Niche performer
Monster Downloads
Monster Hunter Explore surpasses 3 million downloads
Worldwide launch expected sometime this year
Focus On Rewards
How Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes enables players to optimise their time and rewards
John Salera on three ways to play
Dragons & Downloads
Puzzle & Dragons reaches 10 million downloads in North America
But will it be enough to keep GungHo afloat?
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How to get a job at Agar.io and 8 Ball Pool developer Miniclip
HR Director Sarah Rose shares insights
Playing The Long Game
We're more Supercell than Machine Zone, says Nordeus CEO Branko Milutinovic
Belgrade firm takes retention-first, long-term view for next game
Spending Patterns
54% of whales don't spend more than $50 per transaction
How whales spend
Looking East
4 top tips for publishing your mobile game in China
Tom Van Dam explains all
The Anti Ces
In search of mobile gaming at Collision 2016
Hot new tech conference shows promise for gaming startups
Canada Calling
Tilting Point, King, Icejam, Colopl, Bandai Namco and Roadhouse confirmed as PGC Vancouver speakers
32 more reasons to come to Canada on June 28-29
Smells Good
How a running Sephora-branded campaign boosted Daily Celebrity Crossword's revenue by 79%
Matching demographics
Watch More
Instagram becomes even more tantalising for UA as it introduces video carousel ads
Five ads, one post
Team Up
What's been the impact of adding guilds to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' grossing performance?
How to enthuse already engaged players
Appboy Funding
Appboy closes $20 million funding round
Funding to be spent on growth in Europe
Off To A Flyer?
Are Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing good choices for Nintendo's first mobile games?
Mobile Mavens weigh up commercial prospects
Most Read
Behaviour goes branded mid-core, Day 7 retention drops, and Supercell making $3 billion in 2016
The hottest articles of last week
Cannibal Clash
Is Clash Royale cannibalizing Clash of Clans' sales?
EEDAR reckons so
Strong Support = Strong Results
34% of PocketGamer.biz's top 50 developers use in-app support platform Helpshift
Customer support the key, says Helpshift
Bubble Wilbur Saga
King soft-launches new entry in Bubble Witch Saga series, disguises it as "Wilbur"
Calling the package "com.king.bubblewitch3" a bit of a giveaway
It's A Wrap
Alternative Android distribution platform Flexion raises $3 million to expand into India, Iran and more
Going global
Hero King
Updated: King goes midcore, soft-launching one-handed RPG Hero
A simple name for a simple game?
Creative Accounting
Estimates suggest King may have stabilised its revenue decline
Very simple math
Biggleswho?
Top Eleven dev Nordeus renews sponsorship of the best football team you've never heard of
Biggleswade United FC gets the Top Eleven logo on their shirts for another season
Discontinuous
Stripping out King stub revenues, Activision Blizzard sees FY16 Q1 mobile sales down 58% to $36 million
Up and down
Looking Ahead
How Fierce Kaiju got in on the ground floor of VR and avoided making its "Barbie game"
From Blast Furnace's ashes
Back From Split
5 important things we learned at Reboot Develop 2016
Most significant lessons learned from Croatian game dev conference
Publisher Panel
Video: The role of publishers, according to the publishers themselves
What they look for and what they can do for you
Creativity = Profit?
India has a burgeoning indie scene, but can it find commercial success?
Indian Mavens weigh up the creative/commercial balance
Sibling Rivalry
Two months after launch, Kendall & Kylie is being out grossed by two-year-old Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Elders and betters
Seriously Lifestyle
Seriously widens Best Fiends' UA strategy, signing up 200 lifestyle YouTubers for new influencer campaign
PewDiePie swapped out for CuteGirlsHairstyles
Kim Is Still King
Kendall and Kylie fails to sustain as Glu sees FY16 Q1 revenues down 11% to $55 million
B-list
Foxy Business
Plarium reboots Stormfall with Megan Fox as your in-game inspiration
Doing things the MZ way
Who Are Your Players?
Revisiting Bartle's 4 player types for success in F2P mobile game
Torulf Jernström talks audience
Focus On Core
Deeper Heroes: The making of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2
The team at Disney talk design decisions and gameplay balancing
Intern Wanted
Dutch publisher TFJoy hiring Intern Game Programmer
Rotterdam firm seeks killed coder for paid internship
Talk Talk
Speaker submissions for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016 now open
Indian game dev conference returns 10-12 November
Player Survey
Nielsen launches its Mobile Game Tracking service
From the players mouth
Cash Royale
Supercell on track to break $3 billion barrier in 2016
Out-performs Tom Clancy's The Division on consoles
Beam Me Up
How to get a job at Star Trek Timelines' developer Disruptor Beam
VP of People Ops Jennifer Ramcharan shares insights
Must-go Show
Last chance for Early Bird tickets for PG Connects Vancouver, June 28-29
Hurry - final 24 hours before price increase!
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Korean publisher Smilegate hiring Software Engineer and UI Artists
English or Korean speakers needed for MMO project
Growing Pains
As the Chinese mobile game market matures fast, "abnormal" ad clicks become a problem
So reckon Newzoo and TalkingData
Going Global
NetEase on its holistic approach to finding success in China and the west
Riten Huang explains the plan
Don't Push It
Indie Mavens on why Crunch - including indie self-crunch - is a failure of process
Don't confuse passion with servitude
Downward Spiral?
Increasing competition sees Day 7 retention for mobile F2P mobile games drop 50%
GameAnalytics has been number crunching
Best Of The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2016
The shakers, movers and moneymakers
2017 And Beyond
Why Behaviour Interactive is committing to big-brand midcore for the next 3 years
VP of mobile publishing Jimmy Gendron thinks big
Tracking
GameAnalytics now freely available for Unreal Engine
Getting the inside scoop