Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: FIFA shoots into top grossing top 10
Rankings from January 15th to 21st
Jobs News
MZ eyes 70 new staff in big recruitment drive
Openings in areas including art, analytics, design, engineering, marketing and data science
Fired Up
Eight Pixel Square’s Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 1.5 million downloads in two months
100 million PvP battles completed
Helping Hand
Ubisoft launches personal gaming assistant Sam
Chat bot offer tips and information to users about the publisher's games
Mobile Grossing Charts December 2017
Honor of Kings remained the highest grossing mobile game in the world in December 2017
SuperData Research shares its monthly grossing charts
The Room In Asia
Fireproof Games partners with NetEase to bring The Room Three and Old Sins to Asia
Previous partnership with Chrous Worldwide appears to be over
Tale's End
Bandai Namco to shut down Tales of Link four years after first launching
Everything ends on March 27th
All-new Stats
PGC London 2018 breaks all Connects conference records and shares the games industry love!
More speaker, more people, more meetings and more hugs than ever before
Three’s A Charm
Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal
Crazy Defense Heroes also a big hit
Funding For All
UK Games Fund opens up fourth round of grants up to $36,000 for eligible developers
Also launches Pitch Development Programme for newer developers
A Very Special Day
UK charity SpecialEffect's One Special Day event raised $635,000 for gamers with disabilities
Mobile developers and more come through
All In
Social casino dev KamaGames partners with Yoozoo to launch Poker Champions in India
Game is first since two companies announced deal last year
More Minecraft
Minecraft cleared 144 million copies sold and 74 million MAUs in December 2017
Unclear how many sales come from mobile
Everyone's Invited
Sony ForwardWorks launches pre-registration campaign for third game No Heroes Allowed! Dash!
Already cleared 300,000 registrations after nine days
On Yer Oji
NetEase finally launches English-language version of China hit Onmyoji on iOS
Android players have to wait another week
Thunderful News
Image & Form and Zoink merge studios to form "powerhouse" company Thunderful Games
Bringing together 46 staff to create bigger and better games
Harrison At Google
Ex-Microsoft exec Phil Harrison joins Google as vice president and general manager
Will report to Rick Osterloh, and that's all we know
Miitomo Closure
Nintendo to shut down social app Miitomo two years after first launching
First ever attempt at mobile closes on May 5th
Big Deal
Aristocrat closes $990 million Big Fish acquisition
Company has spent $1.5 billion since August on mobile game purchases
Up In The Cloud
Epic Games acquires cloud computing firm Cloudgine
Tech known for powering Oculus title Toy Box and the upcoming Crackdown 3
In It To Win It
Indian games publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in esports outfit Nodwin Gaming
Picks up 55 per cent stake in local company
Mobile Games Awards
First ever Mobile Games Awards winners revealed
Supercell, Playdemic, Playrix, Flaregames and more pick up top accolades
Accelerating Funding
VC firm Atomico doubles down on games industry investment with Alexis Bonte appointment
Bonte will advise on new investments in France, Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe
Mobile Esports
The current state of mobile esports according to the ESL
James Dean defines an esport and talks about the challenges facing mobile
Dreams To Life
How developers turn their ideas into reality
Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others
Build A Brand
Curve Digital and Identity Spark on how indies can build their own brand
Alex Moyet and Nat Griffith on tone and time
Live Ops Power Panel
Live ops experts on the best practices for keeping your mobile game alive
PlayFab Europe GM Mark Val leads a panel in a live ops discussion
Taking Flight
Mobile games-on-demand service Hatch extends beta to UK and Ireland
Streaming platform attracts over 100 games
Touchdown
Angry Birds developer Rovio partners with the NFL for special in-game events
New characters, costumes and levels in Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Evolutions
Mixed Audience
SuperAwesome on building apps and games for a "mixed audience" of adults and kids
Paul Nunn on how his company is working to monetise kids within COPPA's rules
By The Numbers
An overview of the mobile games market and the growth of VR and AR
Nick Parker breaks out a bunch of big numbers
Surf's Up
Sybo Games on where it's taking Subway Surfers after hitting 1.8 billion downloads
Launching animation and licensing arms while continuing to develop its flagship game
Superstars By The Fire
Peter Vesterbacka and David Helgason discuss the future of the games industry
China, VR, AR, and the film industry all get talked about
State Of Uk
British games experts discuss the state of the UK industry
Jo Twist leads a panel on investment, free-to-play, and buzzwords
Think For Yourself
NaturalMotion's Julian Widdows on creating an independent thinking culture at the studio
Looking for emotional intelligence and curiosity in new staff
Undeniably Premium
Ustwo's Dan Gray on how to succeed with premium games in the current mobile market
Taking risks and not making something which is already free
Keep It Going
King on turning away from the traditional "boxed" model of games to long-running titles
Todd Green on not hiring rockstars in favour of training new staff
Beyond Runescape
Jagex CEO Phil Mansell on the evolution of live games and RuneScape
How to go beyond games-as-a-service
Mighty Investment
Peter Vesterbacka leads $650,000 funding round in Finnish lifestyle games studio Polka Dot
Helsinki start-up's first title slated for Q4 2018 release
Register Now!
Mobile Games Awards 2018: Grab your ticket before they run out!
Time is short to grab your seat at the ceremony
Pgc London
13 reasons to head to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018 on January 22nd to 23rd
There's nothing unlucky about this great line-up...
Keeping A Cool Head
Studio MDHR says Cuphead won't be coming to mobile
Co-founder Chad Moldenhauer said it was "odd" a fake version of the game made it onto iOS
Maternal Valley
Ustwo on breaking out of traditional maternal narratives with Monument Valley 2
Senior artist Lauren Cason talks the time of the dad and bugs that became narrative points
Pgc London
Here's who's coming to Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018
Well, 350 of the 900+ companies heading to the show
Doing It For The Kids
How Playables took its minimalist style further with upcoming game Kids
Co-founders Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei on experimenting and working with others
Physics Engine For Narrative
Disney Research on the quest to build a "physics engine" for game narratives
Associate research scientist Steven Poulakos on keeping people involved
Leave It Out
"If in doubt, leave it out": How to write game narratives for an audience that hates cutscenes
Freelance game writer Morten Brunbjerg talks trimming down and focusing on the essentials
Shiny New Unity
Unity teases Scriptable Render Pipeline and C# Job System in upcoming engine update
Shows off shiny new tools in demo called Book of the Dead
Mobile Games Awards Sponsor
Miniclip and Aardvark Swift join sponsors of first ever Mobile Games Awards 2018
Joining Game Insight, AppOnboard, and Nazara
Unreal Dev Grants 2018
Epic Games hands out $200,000 to 13 developers in latest round of Unreal Dev Grants
The Machines' studio Directive Games among the recipients