Nvf To Bgi
British Games Institute hopes to "turbo-charge" industry agenda with National Videogame Foundation merger
Will operate out of the NVF's headquarters in Nottingham
Cash Slinger
Rovio partners with GSN Games for real-money tournament game Angry Birds Champions
Play Angry Birds for cash on the WorldWinner platform
Outplay Refresh
Outplay Entertainment refreshes its brand with new logo and focus on "limitless fun"
Partners with design agency JDO on the rebranding
Qualcomm Fights Back
Qualcomm ups bid for NXP Semiconductors to $44 billion to fend off Broadcom acquisition
The increased price has Broadcom "evaluating its options"
Fire Emblem Heroes Revenue
Fire Emblem Heroes generated almost $300 million in revenue in its first year
Sensor Tower estimates it's still generating $10 million each month
Colopl Financials Q1 Fy18
Colopl's revenues slide despite strong launches for Disney Tsum Tsum Land and Alice Gear Aegis
White Cat Project no longer generating the overall majority of its revenues
Selfie Clash
Winner revealed for PGC #RealityClash photo contest
Quincy Williams nabs £300 worth of cryptocurrency
Bafta Fusion
Lightseekers developer PlayFusion partners with BAFTA to accelerate awareness of new technologies
PlayFusion CEO Mark Gerhard joins BAFTA VR Advisory Group too
Nintendo's Potential
Nintendo could grow revenues by $2.5 billion from IAPs and subscriptions, says Newzoo
Market research firm looks into the ways Nintendo can improve its revenues
Giant Investment
Finnish developer Small Giant Games raises $41 million
Success of Empires & Puzzles leads to significant funding round as studio plots further growth
Up In The Clouds
Mobile games-on-demand service Hatch partners with Qualcomm to power cloud-based gaming
Finnish firm to utilise 48-core Qualcomm Centriq 2400 server processors
Trends Survey
What are the hottest mobile gaming trends right now? Tell us in our developer survey
You could win a free ticket to an upcoming PGC event
Innogames Financials 2017
Forge of Empires developer InnoGames' revenues grow to $200 million for 2017
Elvenar's mobile release to be a key focus in the future
Fifth Finland
PG Connects Helsinki 2018 confirmed for September 11th to 12th
Call for speakers, content overview, save the date
Win Big
Brazil’s Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 2018 developer awards
Finalists will be on show to the public
Job Losses
Layoffs at Sniper Ghost Warrior developer CI Games
Restructuring despite studio hitting profitability and one million in sales for Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
Unreal Partnership
Epic signs Unreal deal with Mail.RU Games Ventures
Unreal Engine 4 developers could get funding, development and marketing support
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Interactive story-focused games head into top 10 grossing
Rankings from February 5th to 11th
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds mobile games are killing it on the Chinese App Store
Battle royale games have been downloaded more than 150 million times on mobile
Legal Dispute
Outsourcing firm Glass Egg sues Gameloft for alleged copyright infringement in Asphalt series
Alleges Gameloft used assets created using Game Egg's equipment without its knowledge
Women In Games Scotland
Women in Games Scotland appoints new lead ambassador and national coordinator
Rockstar North engine programmer Timea Tabori will lead the program
Unity Probuilder
Unity acquires level design and prototyping tool ProBuilder
Developers can now use ProBuilder, Polybrush and ProGrids directly within Unity
Gree Gfr Fund
Gree rebrands its VR fund to include augmented reality and mixed reality projects
The GFR Fund is looking to start a new round of funding later in 2018
Vivendi Financials Q4 Fy17
Gameloft averages 2.5 million downloads every day but its MAUs and DAUs are falling
Generates 65 per cent of its revenues from internally-developed games
G5 Financials Q4 Fy17
G5 Entertainment revenues hit $45 million following purchase of The Secret Society
Cashflow heavily impacted by the deal
Trends Survey
Tell us what the hottest mobile gaming trends are right now in our Spring developer survey
You could win a free ticket to an upcoming PGC event
Get Creative
Chartboost looks to 'gamify' mobile ads with Creative Studio launch
New service aims to increase engagement and drive installs
Clash Of Giants
Semiconductor giant Broadcom secures $100 billion for mega Qualcomm bid
Potential $121 billion deal would be the technology sector's biggest ever
Mixi Financials Q3 Fy18
Mixi revenues slide but Monster Strike remains one of the world's top grossing mobile games
No plans for the future revealed
Unity Ads Partnerships
Unity partners with MediaMath and Moat to bolster its Ads offerings
Metrics already on the up from the Moat integration
Vainglory 5v5 Launches
Super Evil Megacorp launches 5v5 mode in mobile MOBA Vainglory
Switching its competitive scene over to the more traditional mode
Crazy Defense Revenues
Animoca Brands' Crazy Kings franchise generates $1 million in revenue in a month
Crazy Defense Heroes has a very strong launch
Kakao Investment 2018
Kakao Games raises $131 million ahead of planned IPO in 2018
Tencent, Netmarble and Bluepoint all chip in
Supercell Financials 2017
Supercell revenues drop to $2.25 billion due to lack of new games and falling sales in Clash of Clans
Pressing on into China and Asia in 2018
Snatch And Clash
Reality Gaming Group adds Snatch creator Jamal Hirani to Reality Clash advisory board
Opening up cross-promotional opportunities between Reality Clash and Snatch
Chatterbox Pre-seed Funding
Chat app games developer Chatterbox raises $400,000 to develop for Facebook Instant Games
Huuuge Games CEO Anton Gauffin and Reaktor Ventures lead the round
Singular Roi Index 2017
Snapchat emerges as key player for high ROIs in mobile marketing on iOS
Facebook, Unity and Google Adwords still on top
Nhn Rooster Teeth Partnership
NHN Entertainment partners with RWBY creator Rooster Teeth on a new mobile game
Thin details on what the game is or what license will be used, but RWBY is a safe bet
Google Play Winner
Bury me, my Love scoops top prize at the second Google Play Indie Games in Europe
Old Man's Journey and Yellow take second and third
Thq Nordic Buys Koch Media
THQ Nordic snaps up Deep Silver owner Koch Media in deal worth $196 million
No changes to happen at either company
Game Dev Tycoon Reviews
Greenheart Games loses 2,000 positive reviews for Game Dev Tycoon on Google Play under mysterious circumstances
Developer blames Google's algorithm, but Google claims it removed the reviews on purpose
Key Figures
The key user numbers behind the rapidly growing chat app games market
Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten offers the big stats showing off the opportunity of messaging apps
Glispa New Cco
Mobile advertising tech firm Glispa hires Jon Hook as its new chief commercial officer
Formerly the VP of brands and agencies at AdColony
Paradox Ceo Steps Down
Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester to step down after nine years
Replaced by member of the board Ebba Ljungerud
Money Makers
950 mobile games generated more than $5 million in consumer spend in 2017
App Annie's Silvia Buermann shares insights into the growing mobile market
Conference Evolves
Develop:Brighton extends all tracks across three days
The first day will now have expanded schedule
Pit Crew
Hutch bolsters its London studio with four new team members
Adds a programmer, artst, producer and technical designer to the fold
Ubisoft Financials Q3 Fy18
Ubisoft's China-only mobile game Might & Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos generates over $120 million in revenues
Avoids specifics on the rest of its mobile endeavours
More Funding For Scopely
Report: The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely looking to raise another $125 million
New funding round could value the company at $795 million
Up Where We Belong
Peter Vesterbacka leads first PG Connects San Francisco 2018 speakers announcement
Flaregames, Scientific Revenue, MoPub, Facebook, Epic Games and more confirmed for May 14th to 15th conference