Big Indie Pitch
Arcade shooter Defenoid shoots down the competition to win the Big Indie Pitch at G-Star 2017
Dead 2048 and GWARP take second and third spots
Even More Insight
PG Connects Advent Day Seven: A speakavalanche from Rovio, Bandai Namco, NaturalMotion, Seriously, Nitro Games, PlayRaven, Gfinity, Lima Sky
Latest unveiling of confirmed speakers for 2018 London Connects conference rolls in
Crazy Ad Experiments
Animoca gets revenue boost for Crazy Kings with AppOnboard's Rewarded Demo zones
Developer trial new playable ad format
Super Evil Razer
Super Evil Megacorp forms strategic partnership with Razer to advance mobile eSports
Razer's going to sponsor a bunch of Vainglory tournaments
Spatialos Goes Mobile
PlayRaven becomes first mobile game developer to use SpatialOS through partnership with Improbable
Project Metro will be the first mobile game using SpatialOS, but there's no info until next year
To The Top
Big Indie Pitch winners Splitter Critters and Hidden Folks named Apple's Games of the Year 2017
Splitter Critters takes the iPhone crown, while Hidden Folks is the best game on iPad
I Want To Believe
FoxNext partners with Creative Mobile on mobile game The X-Files: Deep State
FoxNext can't be stopped
Level Up
King, Ironhide, Cartoon Network and more kick off Uruguay’s Level UY conference talks
Event also hosts Indie Showroom, workshops and CONAVI Awards for local developers
Pole Position
Hutch's CCG Top Drives races past three million downloads in two months
Adds over 80 new Porsches to its ever-growing list of car cards
Stillfront Acquires Goodgame
Stillfront acquires Hamburg-based strategy game developer Goodgame Studios for $318 million
Goodgame's owners now become majority shareholders in Stillfront
New Track
PG Connects Advent Day Six: ZPLAY, Snap, DeltaDNA, Exit Games, Outfit7, Google confirmed for new Developer Toolkit track
Latest addition for 2018 conference content focuses on core aspects of successfully making mobile games
Happy Birthday Finland
Rovio, Supercell, RedLynx, and more celebrate Finland's 100th birthday
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää Suomi!
Bridge Constructor Portal
Valve licenses Portal IP to Headup Games for branded Bridge Constructor game
Bridge Constructor Portal is not the game we expected, but exactly the one we deserve
Blockchainization
Spells of Genesis developer EverdreamSoft adds ability to "blockchainize" cards for full ownership
Turn your digital cards into an item that can be sold for real money
Android Market Share
Android's US market share grew 8.2% in October 2017 while iOS faltered
Kantar Worldpanel blames November launch of the iPhone X
The Next Generation
Code.org raises $12 million to provide more computer science education for children
22 million users of its platform, 10 million of which are girls
Search Ads Basic
Apple launches stripped-back pay-per-install Search Ads Basic service in the US
Designed for smaller developers with small budgets
Free Entry, Big Win
PG Connects Advent Day Five: Time to enter our Very Big Indie Pitch Competition
Shortlisted entries for flagship pitching event get free access to PGC London, underpinning conference's devotion to helping indies
Champion Of Fire
Amazon's 2017 Champions of Fire casual eSports tournament wraps up in New York
Twitch streamer Yassuo wins $10,000
Xiaomi Ipo
Report: Xiaomi exploring a potential IPO in Hong Kong with a $50 billion valuation
Could raise $5 billion to help its expansion in India
Connect The Dots
Dots CEO Paul Murphy to step down at the end of 2017
COO Patrick Moberg to take over
Turn To Ad 67
IronSource launches choose your own adventure-style "4D" interactive ads
Make ads even more personalised
Investment Window
Underworld Football Manager dev Stanga Games raises $500,000
CEO Adam Jaffe on turning the bootstrapped indie house of part-time devs into a full-time games business
Mtg Investment
Modern Times Group launches $30 million investment fund for eSports and online gaming
Looking for minority investments in US and European companies
Bad To The Bone
Badland developer Frogmind pushes into free-to-play with soft-launched brawler Badland Brawl
Slingshots and brawling in the Badland universe
Ingress Prime Time
Niantic to reboot its first location-based game Ingress with major update and anime series in 2018
Ingress Prime introduces a new narrative and some serious redesign
Ubisoft Station F
Ubisoft looking for mobile AR and blockchain start-ups for second season of its Station F program
Working with developers to build new tech for the future
Clash Royale World Champion
16-year-old Clash Royale player Sergioramos:) wins first place and $150,000 at Crown Championship World Finals
$400,000 in prizes given out across the competition
All Aboard
Unity co-founder David Helgason joins Lockwood Publishing board
Avakin Life developer opens Leamington Spa studio
Funding Quest
Ex-King staff raise $2.2 million for new Swedish studio Strange Quest
Developer to focus on multiplayer games for mobile
Roll The Dice
NHN Entertainment partners with Sony Pictures on soft-launched Jumanji mobile game tie-in
Jumanji: The Mobile Game due to launch on December 14th
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp heads straight to the top
Rankings from November 20th to 26th
Grow Up Time
PG Connects Advent Day Four: Indie Strategies track powered by Hello Games, Curve, Tricky Tribe, White Wolf, Imperia Online and chums
The indie apocalypse is done. Indie survival has been overcome. What's next for the 'little' guys looking to go big?
Hotels.con
PG Connects Advent Day Three: How to beat the London conference accommodation conundrum
Finding where to stay on January 22nd-23rd a little pricey? Allow us to help…
Special Space
PG Connects Advent Day Two: Why The Brewery is PGC delegates' venue of choice
Second return to celebrated central London Connects conference spot will push space to its limits
Sizzling Speakers
PG Connects Advent Day One: Snapchat, FunPlus, Cherry Pick Talent, MojiWorks and Supercell lead 20-strong 'new speaker' unveiling
From influencer marketing to eSports to funding to monetisation to indie development and beyond
Top Mario
Super Mario Run was the most downloaded new game on Google Play in 2017
Bubble Witch 3 Saga takes second, some dispute over the final three
Skidstorm Sale
Finnish dev Immobile sells Early Access game SkidStorm to Cheetah Mobile after pirated version goes viral in China
Publishing deal turns into an offer too good to turn down
Top Grossers October 2017
Honor of Kings topped the worldwide top grossing mobile charts again in October 2017
Fantasy Westward Journey falls back to second place
Pikachu On The Case
Detective Pikachu movie reportedly signs up Kathryn Newton as female lead
Wait... they're still making the Detective Pikachu movie?
Two New Battlegrounds
Tencent reveals two new mobile games based on PC hit PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
One traditional, one a little more action-focused
(red) Candy
King partners with AIDS charity (RED) on three charity IAPs across the Candy Crush franchise
Help fight AIDS and crush some candies while you're at it
Go Money
Pokemon GO generates $16 million in tourism revenue for Japan's Tottori Prefecture in three days
89,000 people arrive in the region's sand dunes to catch Pokemon
Hit For Six
JetSynthesys secures 700,000 pre-registrations for upcoming cricket game Sachin Saga Cricket Champions
Indian developer believes it will be the first ever to hit one million pre-registrations
Stealing Christmas
Jam City brings Dr Seuss' The Grinch to mobile for the first time in Panda Pop
Partnership with Dr Seuss Enterprises adds a heap of new content
War Child Armistice 2017
War Child adds 11 mobile games to its next Armistice fundraising campaign
Dawn of Titans, Total War Battles: Kingdom, and more to donate their revenue
Hatch-y Birthday
Hatch celebrates first anniversary by rolling out to five new countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands can now start streaming games
Line 'em Up
CoolGames brings classic puzzle game Tetris to Facebook's Instant Games platform
All part of its AAA Instant Games strategy
Newzoo Estimates
Global games market now expected to grow to $116 billion in 2017
Newzoo adjusts its expectations to account for popular trends in games
Mobile Heavyweights
Mobile Games Awards 2018: The finalists revealed
Awards ceremony to take place on January 23rd.