Awards Sponsors
Game Insight, AppOnboard and Nazara sponsor first ever Mobile Games Awards 2018
First ever Mobile Games Awards takes place on January 23rd 2018
Stellar Insight
PG Connects Advent Day 20: From ESL to Supercell, it's our greatest star speaker line-up yet
Jam City, Space Ape, SYBO, ustwo, Snap, King, Grand Cru, Rovio, Jagex, NetEase and many more to contribute to an unmissable conference programme
It's Like They're Really There
Niantic to improve AR functionality in Pokemon GO with ARKit integration
New gameplay features and more realistic Pokemon on compatible devices
Disruptor Point
Disruptor Beam and Tilting Point form strategic partnership on UA campaign for Star Trek Timelines
Helping Disruptor Beam scale its UA efforts while continuing to work on the game
Unity 2017.3 Update
Unity rolls out 2017.3 update with easier access to Xiaomi's China app store
Also improves various graphics and Cinemachine functions, while dropping support for Tizen
Reality Gizer Partnership
AR developer Reality Gaming Group partners with eSports app Gizer to bring tournaments to Reality Clash
Shoot your friends in AR and maybe win some prizes
Odyssey To Japan
Super Mario Odyssey jumps to one million units sold in Japan
Switch closing in on three million hardware units sold
America Of Valor
Tencent's popular mobile MOBA Honor of Kings lands in the US as Arena of Valor
Hasn't got off to an explosive start, but there's still time
Indie Innit
PG Connects Advent Day 19: How to get into PGC London 2018 for free
Step-by-step guide to transaction-less conference access for independent developers
A Clean Operation
Spil Games' surgery simulator Operate Now: Hospital racks up 10 million downloads in six months
95% organic downloads and 50% day one retention rates
Wargaming Gunslingers
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios partners with Wargaming Mobile to publish upcoming mobile RPGs
Exiles of Embermark likely to be the first game to be published
Rules Of Survival Championship
NetEase kicks off $650,000 championship for PUBG clone Rules of Survival
$150,000 for the overall winners at the finals in China
Vainglory 5v5
Super Evil Megacorp to bring Vainglory in line with PC MOBAs with 5v5 mode in February 2018
What will it mean for the game's current competitive scene?
Downloads Out
NetEase's PUBG clone Knives Out surpasses 100 million downloads in just over a month
Cleared this milestone while still in beta
Press Gang
PG Connects Advent Day 18: Come meet the media
Whether it's real-time feedback from our Journalist Bar or catching up with the leading publications in attendance
Bossing It
Mobile start-up Like a Boss Games secures $1.6 million funding for multiplayer sports title
Debut game set for mid-2018 release
Mega-deal
Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox in $52 billion deal
The house that made Mickey Mouse hordes array of IP including Avatar, X-Men and The Simpsons
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