Ka-ching?
KamaGames eyes hotly competed slots games market on mobile
Integrates slots into flagship title Pokerist
No Payne No Gain
Next Games and AMC turn to Jesus to teach gamers about The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
Actors Tom Payne and Alanna Masterson promote mobile title with series of videos
Jobs Losses
Pearl's Peril developer Wooga lays off 30 staff as it refocuses on story-driven casual games
Company restructures from in-house studio structure to one based around dev cycles
Chart Royale
Tencent’s PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield tops the mobile battle royale stakes in February
Tencent's Playerunkown's Battlegrounds duo make top five most downloaded for February
Job News
Football Manager firm Sports Interactive hires Disney vet Matt Carroll as first chief operating officer
"A COO is something that Sega has been telling me that I've needed for a few years now," studio chief Jacobson says
Weekly Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Rules of Survival battles its way into the top 10
Rules of Survival leaps up 11 places in this week's charts
Pocket Rumble
Sony unveils Xperia XZ2 phone with built-in rumble and 4K HDR filming
4GB of RAM and 64GB internal storage and oh so much more
Arcore In The Wild
Google launches its augmented reality SDK ARCore on Android
Available now on 13 different devices
New Nokia Phones
HMD Global unveils five new Nokia phones including relaunched 8810 feature phone
Four new smartphones for high-end, mid-range and low-end devices
Big Indie Pitch
Nood Climbrs grasps first place at the Big Indie Pitch at the White Nights conference in Prague
FINIFUGU && friends becomes the first ever back-to-back winner
Competitive Gaming
Vision Esports raises $38 million to power competitive gaming investment
Plans to fund more companies in the space
Say What?
Trump says US needs video games ratings after blaming them for gun crime
Commander-in-chief rambles about system its games industry has had since 1994
Boom!
My.com partners with Pushkin Games Studio to bring Armored Warfare to mobile
PvP title has players duke it out in 3v3 and 8v8 matches.
Awards Nominees
Lineage 2, Animal Crossing, Arena of Valor and more pick up IMGA Global nominations
Winners to be announced at ceremony in San Francisco on March 20th
Business News
Rovio issues profit warning as company plots big Hatch investment and UA costs rise
Revenues also anticipated to be well down from forecasts
Keep Your Receipts
Norwegian Consumer Council claims Nintendo's "no refunds" policy on Switch eShop is not compliant with EU law
Nintendo says that it is fully compliant
Ultra Educational
New educational mobile games studio Ultra Creative Games sets up shop in Vancouver
Headed up by former IGG senior game designer Matthew Tomporowski
Performance Index H2 2017
Apple's Search Ads fall in rank in latest AppsFlyer Performance Index due to higher costs and lower ROI
Facebook and Google still on top
Poopdiepie
Bulb Boy developer Bulbware partners with YouTuber PewDiePie for upcoming mobile game Poopdie
PewDiePie providing creative direction with Bulbware handling development
New Fyber
Fyber absorbs Heyzap and Inneractive as part of its rebranding efforts
Also launches new product FairBid
International Expansion
Mobile esports platform RewardMob opens new European office
Start-up wants closer ties with developers in the region
New Ipad Rumours
Report: Apple to refresh its line of iPad products in March 2018
Filings with the Eurasian Economic Commission suggest new models are coming
Improved Recipe
Save the date: Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019 is set for January 21st to 22nd return
Europe's largest mobile games industry confirms sixth appearance in UK capital
Dash Downloads
Sony ForwardWorks' No Heroes Allowed! Dash! clears 500,000 downloads in three days
Players rewarded with free premium currency in-game
Together At Last
Bandai Namco and Sega partner to bring Pac-Man and Sonic together on mobile for the first time
Month-long cross-promotional event in Sonic Dash and Pac-Man starts now
Join Us
Meet the PocketGamer.biz team at GDC 2018 and Game Connection
Journalists, ad sales, business development and our top execs are flying out to San Francisco
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