Ubisoft Stadia
E3 2019: Ubisoft's UPlay+ PC subscription service will be available across devices when it comes to Google Stadia in 2020
Library of over 100 100 games will cost $14.99 a month
Mobile Elite
E3 2019: Ubisoft reveals Tom Clancy's Elite Squad mobile game
5v5 squad battler coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
Delf 2019
Hong Kong’s three-day Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum delves into esports, blockchain and mobile gaming
DELF Main Forum and Blockchain and Pocket Gamer Connects take place between July 16th and 18th
Crash
Call of Duty: Mobile soft-launched in India and Australia
Tencent-owned Chinese studio Timi handling development
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: NetEase resurgent with four top 10 grossers on the Chinese App Store
Rankings from May 27th to June 2nd
Event
Meet some of the games industry’s biggest names next month at Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong
Unity, Lab Cave, Tencent, 6waves, EA and more join us for the two-day B2B expo
Head In The Clouds
E3 2019: Ubisoft's Guillemot on why the firm is early on Google's Stadia games streaming platform
"People are open to new technologies, and so you can try new things"
East Meets West
East Meets West: Hong Kong region focus, final bids submitted for Nexon acquisition, and analysis on China's hyper-casual market
Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market
Hot Five
Devs sue Apple over App Store fees, Stillfront acquires Kixeye, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100k installs
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Fallout Milestone
E3 2019: Fallout Shelter surpasses 150 million downloads
Number of installs rises 30 million in a year
Streaming Tech
E3 2019: Bethesda's new Orion technology designed to optimise game streaming across platforms
Publisher shows Doom 2016 streaming on a mobile device at 60 frames per second
Helmet To Helmet
E3 2019: Commander Keen IP returns on mobile this summer
Game set for soft launch in the summer
Switch Blades
E3 2019: Bethesda opens E3 press conference with The Elder Scrolls Blades mobile game
New update goes live for mobile today; Blades coming to Nintendo Switch
Next-gen Xbox
E3 2019: Microsoft unveils next generation Xbox console Project Scarlett
"When we think about the future of gaming, it's not just PC, it's not just console, it's not just mobile, it's really all of the above"
Gears Pop
E3 2019: Pre-registrations open for Gears Pop mobile game
Title looks to take inspiration from Clash Royale with added cover mechanics
Xbox At E3
E3 2019: Microsoft acquires Psychonauts 2 dev Double fine
Developer joins growing number of in-house studios
Going Public
AppLovin wants to raise $1bn in 2020 IPO
Marketing platform and publisher has ambitious plans
Divesting Shares
Tencent sells $56m worth of Glu Mobile shares
Chinese publisher reduces stake in US developer to 14.46 per cent
Spectating Trends
Mobile the most popular games platform among millennials
Millennials are also spending the most money on games per month
E3 2019
E3 2019: Livestream schedule for the biggest press conferences
Days and times for this year's keynotes
Killer Combo
Tencent's Game for Peace helped PUBG Mobile more than double sales to $146m in May
Sales increased 126 per cent from April
Pes 2019
PES 2019 mobile game racks up 200 million downloads
Celebrates with log-in bonuses and other special in-game rewards
Stadia Games
Here are the games coming to Google Stadia
And other developers confirmed to be supporting the platform
Google Stadia
Google Stadia games streaming service launches in November for $9.99 a month
Service will be available across devices, however mobile access will initially be restricted to Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a
Doors Open
Stack open-sources ad software BidMachine mobile apps publishers
Technology has been made an open source resource
Collaboration
Hatch and Samsung team to bring 5G cloud gaming to the US
Two companies continue to collaborate after bringing service to South Korea
Seeing Double
Temple Gates Games CEO accuses DoubleJump of cloning Cannon Brawl
Theresa Duringer claims the studio cloned her game after she entered it in a competition
Another Lawsuit
Developers sue Apple over App Store fees
“This isn’t the first time we’ve taken Apple to task over anti-competitive behaviour”
Job News
Asmodee Digital chief revenue and marketing officer departs
Philippe Dao was the company's second employee and helped grow firm into a leading board game publisher
Bluestacks Inside
BlueStacks Inside SDK lets mobile devs release games on PC
One-step SDK designed to make it as easy as possible to launch games on Steam and Discord
Snap Royale
Zynga launches Snapchat exclusive game Tiny Royale
Battle royale title is the publisher's first release on the Snap Games platform
Event
Last chance to save up to $320 on Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong
Early Bird prices end TONIGHT
Job News
Jam City names former Disney exec Lisa Anderson as senior VP of game operations
Responsible for overseeing operations at company's LA area studios
Meet Us
Meet the Pocket Gamer team at E3 2019
One of the year's biggest games industry events takes place on June 11th to 14th
Wizards Unite
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite conjures up 100,000 installs from first month in beta
Title has so far grossed $400,000 during testing period
Soft Launch
Rovio targets China over Western markets for Angry Birds Dream Island
Game has been in soft-launch since February 2018
Job News
SuperData co-founder Janelle Benjamin departs
"You were the one who brought the discipline and structure to this whole operation that allowed us to grow," said fellow co-founder van Dreunen
“long-term Partner”
Rovio partners with AR firm Zappar for Angry Birds Explore
Soft-launched in Finland, Spain, Portugal and Russia
Still Together
Tencent denies overseas marketing and sales team was disbanded over Arena of Valor woes
But does not touch on whether it will continue to support the game in Western markets
Event
18 reasons why you need to attend Pocket Gamer Connects Hong Kong this July
15 conference tracks, 130 speakers, more than 55 hours of content, networking, pitching and the Global Connects Party. You don’t want to miss this!
Weekly Charts
Weekly global mobile games charts: NetEase's top 10 grossing dominance diminishes on the Chinese App Store
Rankings from May 20th to 26th 2019
Casual Expansion
WeQ: Investment in ad tech, development and publishing sets us apart from hyper-casual competition
Ad tech company has acquired Booster Studios to develop and publish in-house and third-party hyper-casual games
Key Changes
GameMaker firm enacts strategic changes as it halves mobile licence fee and closes publishing division
Free trial now includes all of the engine's features but has been limited to 30 days; publishing division has closed
Good Day For A Swell Drive
Cuphead arriving in Tesla cars this summer
Made possible through the use of Unity and Unreal Engine
Avengers Gather
Avengers directors to adapt Magic: The Gathering for Netflix
Avengers directors the Russo Brothers will helm project based off the collectable card game
Cloudy Skies
Ex-Playdead boss Dino Patti working on cloud-based platform Coherence
"Democratising the creation of connected games is an amazing opportunity that I relish taking on'
Stadia Direct
Google to reveal Stadia pricing, games and more on June 6th
First new details since original unveiling
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer
“I was naive enough to think that I would become a millionaire and would be able to afford a Ferrari with my very first game”
Ios 13
iOS 13 gets faster app downloads, better Apple Maps and a Dark Mode
Raft of new features incoming for the latest operating system
Augmented Apple
ARKit 3 gets motion capture and occlusion enhancements
RealityKit and Reality Composer also unveiled offering a raft of new features and easier ways to build apps