January 31, 2018

#notnolan

GDC rescinds Nolan Bushnell's Game Developers Choice Award after past sexual misconduct comes to the fore

"Their picks should reflect the values of today’s game industry and will dedicate this year’s award to honour the pioneering and unheard of voices of the past"

January 31, 2018

Konami Financials Q3 Fy18

Konami's PES 2018 and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links drive revenues up to $1.64 billion

The games have 80 million downloads and 60 million downloads respectively

January 31, 2018

Cyberagent Financials Q1 Fy18

CyberAgent revenues hit $899 million but games business stays flat for sixth consecutive quarter

Gearing up to celebrate anniversaries for both Granblue Fantasy and BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!

January 31, 2018

Capcom Financials Q3 Fy17

Monster Hunter Explore's continued popularity pushes Capcom's mobile revenues to $31.2 million

The developer is still trying to make a breakthrough in mobile

January 31, 2018

Mobile Expansion

Hong Kong-listed publisher Ourgame splashes $66 million on trio of mobile acquisitions

Buys up companies in digital card and board game spaces

January 31, 2018

Summoners Pop!

Com2us partners with Funko for Summoners War figurines and more

Another one to add to your Funko Pop! collection

January 31, 2018

Next Games Financials Fy17

Next Games' The Walking Dead: No Man's Land suffers as developer moves on to other projects

Revenues grow slightly, but the loss grows too

January 31, 2018

Ea Financials Q3 Fy18

EA's FIFA Mobile drives Q3 FY18 mobile revenue growth with 139 million downloads

Didn't have much to say about its other mobile games

January 31, 2018

Nintendo Financials Q3 Fy17

Nintendo's Switch closes in on 15 million units sold worldwide

Revenues hit $7.88 billion on the back of Switch and Super Mario Odyssey sales

January 30, 2018

Big Indie Pitch

The Big Indie Pitch heads back on the road for White Nights Prague 2018

Conference takes place on February 13th and 14th

January 30, 2018

Mattel163 Launch

NetEase and Mattel team up to launch game development studio Mattel163

Combining NetEase's development prowess with Mattel's brands

January 30, 2018

Superdata 2017 Year In Review

Tencent's megahit mobile MOBA Honor of Kings generated $1.9 billion in revenues in 2017

SuperData Research looks back on the year that was

January 30, 2018

Nfl Yahtzee With Buddies

Scopely partners with the NFL for timed events and branded items in New Yahtzee With Buddies

The game has now hit 1.5 million downloads

January 30, 2018

New Studio

TT Games opens mobile-focused Brighton studio headed by Jason Avent

Developer to focus on LEGO games

January 30, 2018

Lifetime Achievement

Video: Watch Super Evil Megacorp CEO Kristian Segerstrale’s Mobile Games Awards 2018 Legend speech

"I literally owe absolutely everything to those artists, coders, animators, business development folks who decided to take a chance"

January 30, 2018

Funding Diversity

Coffee Stain promotes gender equality in games with new investment initiative

Levelling the Playing Field provides funding to small and start-up studios where at least half of staff of women

January 30, 2018

Rumour Mill

Report: Microsoft considers EA acquisition

Deals for Valve and PUBG Corp also rumoured to be on the cards

January 29, 2018

Up In The Clouds

Microsoft acquires backend services provider PlayFab

Technology to complement computing giant's own Azure platform

January 29, 2018

Gallery

In pictures: The Mobile Games Awards 2018

Remembering a great night for the industry

January 29, 2018

All Together Now

German games industry trade bodies BIU and GAME merge

MD Felix Falk hails news as "historic day" for country's industry

January 29, 2018

Talk Torque

Call for speakers: The finest games industry insight sought for PG Connects San Francisco 2018 on May 14th to 15th

Influencer marketing, cryptocurrency, development knowhow, trends, monetisation... all and more welcome

January 29, 2018

Funding Opportunities

Social casino firm Playtika establishes Israel-focused $400 million investment arm

Aims to support growth of Israel-based companies

January 29, 2018

Uk Mobile Charts

Weekly UK App Store charts: FIFA shoots into top grossing top 10

Rankings from January 15th to 21st

January 29, 2018

Jobs News

MZ eyes 70 new staff in big recruitment drive

Openings in areas including art, analytics, design, engineering, marketing and data science

January 26, 2018

Fired Up

Eight Pixel Square’s Sniper Strike: Special Ops shoots past 1.5 million downloads in two months

100 million PvP battles completed

January 26, 2018

Helping Hand

Ubisoft launches personal gaming assistant Sam

Chat bot offer tips and information to users about the publisher's games

January 26, 2018

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

January 26, 2018

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

January 26, 2018

Tale's End

Bandai Namco to shut down Tales of Link four years after first launching

Everything ends on March 27th

January 26, 2018

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

January 26, 2018

Three’s A Charm

Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal

Crazy Defense Heroes also a big hit

January 26, 2018

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

January 26, 2018

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

January 25, 2018

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

January 25, 2018

More Minecraft

Minecraft cleared 144 million copies sold and 74 million MAUs in December 2017

Unclear how many sales come from mobile

January 25, 2018

Everyone's Invited

Sony ForwardWorks launches pre-registration campaign for third game No Heroes Allowed! Dash!

Already cleared 300,000 registrations after nine days

January 25, 2018

On Yer Oji

NetEase finally launches English-language version of China hit Onmyoji on iOS

Android players have to wait another week

January 25, 2018

Thunderful News

Image & Form and Zoink merge studios to form "powerhouse" company Thunderful Games

Bringing together 46 staff to create bigger and better games

January 25, 2018

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

January 25, 2018

Miitomo Closure

Nintendo to shut down social app Miitomo two years after first launching

First ever attempt at mobile closes on May 5th

January 24, 2018

Big Deal

Aristocrat closes $990 million Big Fish acquisition

Company has spent $1.5 billion since August on mobile game purchases

January 24, 2018

Up In The Cloud

Epic Games acquires cloud computing firm Cloudgine

Tech known for powering Oculus title Toy Box and the upcoming Crackdown 3

January 24, 2018

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

January 23, 2018

Mobile Games Awards

First ever Mobile Games Awards winners revealed

Supercell, Playdemic, Playrix, Flaregames and more pick up top accolades

January 23, 2018

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

January 23, 2018

Mobile Esports

The current state of mobile esports according to the ESL

James Dean defines an esport and talks about the challenges facing mobile

January 23, 2018

Dreams To Life

How developers turn their ideas into reality

Martine Spaans leads a panel on ideas and working with others

January 23, 2018

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

January 22, 2018

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

January 22, 2018

Taking Flight

Mobile games-on-demand service Hatch extends beta to UK and Ireland

Streaming platform attracts over 100 games