Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Big Indie Pitch winner Hidden Folks enters iPad top 10 paid game rankings
Rankings from December 4th to December 10th
All-star Flotation
UK studio Sumo Digital heads for London IPO at $194 million valuation
Developer set to go public as soon as Wednesday
Exec Shuffle
Ustwo Studios names new CEO
Co-founder Mills to lead Ustwo ventures branch and chair games studio
Mobile Pc Ar/vr
PG Connects Advent Day 17: Three conferences, one ticket
21 tracks, 200+ speakers, 180 sessions, 75 hours of mobile & PC gaming and AR/VR/MR content
Quality Quantity
PG Connects Advent Day 16: Meet 2,000 mobile games industry professionals
Continent's biggest conference series is also the only to offer genuine cross-section representation
Casual Connects
PG Connects Advent Day 15: Developers, meet investors (or vice versa)
Reworked matchmaking session enables one-to-one meets within a relaxed and conducive setting
Never Stop Never Stopping
Keywords picks up LATAM localisation firm LOLA just two days after its most recent acquisition
Deal worth up to $1.03 million
Festive Networking
London-based developers: Join Pocket Gamer and Alibaba Cloud for pre-Christmas PG DrinkUp next week
Wednesday December 20th relaxed networking event for anyone looking at China market
Stick Sports Scores
Casual mobile games developer Stick Sports crosses 70 million downloads
Currently hiring at both London and Sydney studios
Wrestlemania!
Reliance Games partners with WWE on branded fighting game WWE Mayhem
The fourth WWE mobile game partnership of 2017
Best Fiends Forever
Seriously clears $100 million in lifetime revenues three years after launching Best Fiends
The studio outlines its plans for 2018
Trends Talks
PG Connects Advent Day 14: Want to emulate the Subway Surfers success story?
From Animoca Brands to War Child, via SYBO and Seriously, our InduTrends speakers share their game-changing insight
Tencent Rules All
Tencent generated 51.6% of China's online games revenue in China in Q3 2017
Beijing-based research firm iResearch digs into the numbers
Raw Fury Funding
Indie publisher Raw Fury secures $600k investment to release more games on Switch
David Helgason, Rikard Lindström, and Raw Fury staff get in on the round
Get Certified
Unity partners with testing firm Pearson VUE to roll out Unity Certification tests globally
5,000 test centres in 180 countries now have access to Unity Certification tests
Shadowverse World Grand Prix
Cygames gears up for end-of-year Shadowverse World Grand Prix with $120,000 prize pool
Each of the 24 players earns $1,000 just for turning up
Hit For Six
JetSynthesys' Sachin Saga Cricket Champions smashes one million downloads in under a week
Currently 90th on the overall top grossing charts on the Indian Google Play store
Candy Crush Ar
King launches AR camera effect on Facebook featuring Candy Crush
Catch candies in your mouth as your head grows bigger and bigger
Food For All
Food Truck Chef developer Nukebox Studios partners with Tilting Point on $18 million UA campaign
Tilting Point to fund and operate UA for Food Truck Chef for the next three years
I Tip My Hat
Indie darling FEZ comes to iOS five years after it first launched
FEZ Pocket Edition port handled by BlitWorks
Mighty Morphin' Investment
Power Rangers: Legacy Wars developer nWay secures $11 million investment round
Lionsgate sets up nWay with March Capital Partners and Ridge Ventures
Star Speakers
PG Connects Advent Day 13: SYBO, Ustwo, Jam City, Grand Cru, NetEase, LVP, Creative Assembly form latest 'speaker reveal' package
Another round of expert minds join our January 22nd-23rd conference line-up
Tapjoy New Features
Tapjoy adds Custom Exchange Rates and Permanent Currency Sales to its advertising offerwall
Set different prices for different players, or drop prices for a limited time for everyone
Ludicious 2018 Speakers
Ludicious 2018 adds seven new speakers to its growing line-up
Ustwo senior artist Lauren Cason and Red Hook creative director Chris Bourassa join the speaker list
Downloads Royale
NetEase's PUBG-like Rules of Survival racks up 15 million downloads
Chinese publisher sets up tournament featuring 30 popular streamers and content creators across the globe
Winning
Mobile eSports company Skillz raises $25 million
Funding round led by Telstra and Liberty Global
Blowing Up
Game Insight developing eSports-specific PRO Play mode for mobile shooter Guns of Boom
Game surpasses 20 million downloads in six months
Nintendo Partnerships
Nintendo reportedly looking for new mobile developers to work with outside of DeNA partnership
GungHo could be in the running
Keywords At It Again
Keywords Studios picks up work-for-hire developer Sperasoft for $27 million
$21 million in cash now, the rest in shares and $1 million cash next year
Nazara Minority Stake
India's 54th richest man acquires minority stake in Nazara for $27.9 million
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala invests in the major Indian developer
Click Tock Click Tock
PG Connects Advent Day 12: It's the final day of Mid Term ticket rates
Grab a pass to Europe's premier mobile games industry conference now to save up to $450
Pearl's Audience Growth
Wooga and marketing agency HeyHuman target younger players with new Pearl's Peril influencer campaign
"Are you a friend of Pearl?" campaign looking to expand the four-year-old game's audience
Change The Game
Google Play launches Change the Game initiative to promote diversity in mobile games
Finds that 49% of all mobile gamers in the US are women
Simogo Goes
Device 6 developer Simogo stepping back from mobile games to focus on console development
Points to issues surrounding perpetually updating games for new hardware
Nintendo Switch Sales
Nintendo's Switch clears 10 million units sold nine months after launching
2.37 million units sold in the last three months
Expelliarmus
Jam City seals licensing deal for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game
Title set to hit the app stores in 2018
Further Research
User testing firm Player Research expands its services with new lab in Montreal
Former Compulsion and Ubisoft user researcher Morgan Kennedy
Pre-orders And Discounts
Apple adds pre-orders and introductory subscription discounts to the App Store
Drum up support for your app or game earlier
Sowing Discord
Gamer messaging app Discord clears 87 million registered users
Now has 14 million DAUs sending 9.5 billion messages a month
Culture Club
PG Connects Advent Day 11: Gram Games, Rovio and friends on why company culture is fundamental
Brand new addition for Connects 2018 conference series joins packed 12-strong track programme
Hutch Hires
Top Drives developer Hutch picks up two new staff from Firefly Studios and NaturalMotion
Mark Ffrench and Jason To join as Senior Programmer and QA Embedded Tester respectively
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Animal Crossing holds on at the top while Episode shoots up the grossing ranks
Rankings from November 27th to December 3rd
Branching Out
Advertising agency Pocket Media opens Tel Aviv office
Ex-Linicom Head of Video Alon Reichman named GM alongside video specialist Mor Goldring
Best To Play
ZeptoLab’s CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars named Google Play’s Best Game for 2017
Quirky brawler proves popular on Android
Rewarding Success
Monument Valley 2 wins Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards
Beats Fire Emblem Heroes, Super Mario Run, Old Man’s Journey and Hidden Folks
Party Time
PG Connects Advent Day Ten: All work and no play wouldn't be PGC anyway
Free drinks, dancing, and discourse for delegates at Global Connects post-conference bash
Key Connections
PG Connects Advent Day Nine: Developers get to meet publishers, guaranteed
Scheduled SpeedMatch session for one-to-one meetings adds to the networking prowess of PGC London 2018
Money Money Money
PG Connects Advent Day Eight: Discover the way to financial success
Let Sisu Game Ventures, Agnitio, Nitro Games, FunPlus, LVP and friends show you the way in reworked PGC London 2018 track
Discovering Publishing
Digital trading card specialist VirtTrade signs three year partnership with Discovery Channel
Expands into independent publishing
Another Ipo
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive launches IPO with $137 million valuation
Share prices at around $5