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
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?
Apply Now
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