King Answers The Call
Candy Crush maker King developing Call of Duty mobile game
Casual game publisher's Stockholm studio takes the reigns
Vr Is Bad
Niantic's John Hanke thinks VR is a "problem for society" because it's too immersive
Says AR is the way forward, obviously
Tenjin Daydream
Tenjin adds Google Daydream support to its mobile marketing platform
Track installs and user behaivour in Daydream apps
Wrestlemania
Sega secures licensing deal for new mobile idle game WWE Tap Mania
US studio The Tap Lab working on title
Ball Battling
Chinese casual eSports game Battle of Balls hits 300 million users worldwide
Big plans for this year's tournaments
The Potion Is Lava
Palringo's Magnus Alm sets up new premium strategy game developer Lavapotion
With the help of co-owner Coffee Stain Studios
Appota Investment
Vietnam-based publisher Appota pushes towards $50 million valuation with series C funding round
Korea Invesment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment throw some money in
Dokkan Downloads
Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle pushes past 150 million downloads in just over two years
Celebrating with a summon event to reward older players over new ones
Huawei Banned?
Huawei could be blocked from selling its mobile phones in the UK
High court ruling may lead to injunction against the manufacturer
More, Merrier
Latest speakers from Cmune, MojiWorks, Amazon, Affiniti, IGDA, Newzoo, Scientific Revenue and Scopely join PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Make it California on June 27-28 or miss out
Jagex Financials Fy16
Jagex posts second consecutive record financial year with revenues up 28% to £74.4 million
Profits also up 21.5% year-on-year
Roblox Customer Service
Roblox appoints new VP of Customers to oversee and improve customer service and content moderation
Remy Malan joins from a five year stint at SugarCRM
Xiaomi India Investment
Xiaomi plans to invest another $500 million into its growing India presence
Targetting $2 billion in revenues for the country in 2017
Big Data
MZ launches massive free open data project Satori
Developers encouraged to use new platform with big money competition
Model Strike
ASA orders Mobile Strike ad takedown following complaints that it objectifies women
Use of plus-size models not an excuse
Inmobi Up
Mobile advertising firm InMobi sees operationally profitable 2016 following big boost in China
Even a $1 million fine couldn't bring it down
Cut-price Sale
Baidu sells mobile gaming business for $173 million
Getting out of the games space?
Health Through Play
Therapeutic mobile game developer Tilak Healthcare raises $2.7 million
French digital healthcare startup get big investment
Still Switched On
Color Switch surpasses 150 million downloads in 15 months
Still going strong with 20 million downloads in last three months
Key Deals
Acquisition spree spurred Keywords revenues up 67% to €97 million in 2016
Services provider bought eight companies last year
Revved Up
Creative Mobile’s Nitro Nation racks up 30 million players
Players have travelled further than the distance between the sun and Jupiter
Moving On
Apple Designer to leave after 21 years with the company
Had worked on the original iPhones and iPads
Jobs News
Romanian outsourcing studio Amber recruits former Samsung VP as CEO
Developer launches new live ops service
Disrupting The Market?
Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames
Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant
Battle Royale
Gameloft and Ubisoft gunning for Clash Royale with Blitz Brigade and Tom Clancy's ShadowBreak
Supercell's smash hit gets competition
Inkle Hires
80 Days developer Inkle hires a new Senior Artist and Concept Artist
Laura Dilloway and Anastasia Wyatt bring the headcount to six-and-a-half
Uk Games Fund
UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding
Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
New Platforms
Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support
Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Business Reality
Imagination Technologies shares plummet as Apple reveals intentions to design its own graphics chips
UK firm asks for evidence that new designs don't infringe on its own
Liquidation Proceedings
Peripheral maker Mad Catz ceases operations after filing for bankruptcy
No buyer found for peripheral maker
Fake News Day
April Fool's round-up: The best gags from the games industry
Celebrating Fake News in style
Return To Sender
Fishy consortium enables Supercell to pull-off reverse Tencent takeover
Audacious timing for ambitious move
Women In Games
Women In Games launches Ambassador program to encourage women in Europe to join the games industry
Working with schools and industry to promote the industry
Big Dreams
China's iDreamSky establishes $30 million fund to publish indie games globally
Wants to find the next Monument Valley
Fastlane To Youtube
Space Ape Games taps over 20 YouTube stars as characters in Fastlane: Road to Revenge
The kids will love it
Harmonix Layoffs
Harmonix suffers series of layoffs affecting at least 17 staff
Seven more reported to have occurred in prior months
Not So Luckey
Oculus designer and co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
It's unknown if he was kicked out or left of his own accord
Glu Job Cuts
Glu Mobile reportedly cuts 25 jobs and closes Portland studio
Was working on a new celebrity game
Last Chance
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Tick tock, tick tock
Midas Touch
Koei Tecmo establishes mobile-specific brand Midas
Wants its games to "shine like gold"
Seriously Profitable
Best Fiends franchise generates more than $65 million in revenue
Seriously making $100,000 a day
Switch Japan
Nintendo's Switch has sold 500,000 units in Japan
Sales are up week-on-week to 78,441 units
Vasco Who?
Little-known developer Vasco Games surpasses one billion downloads on mobile since 2013
62 million downloads in its first year from 130 games
Bullish Future
Finnish developer Koukoi seals partnership with Fox to develop Ferdinand mobile game
Studio eyes up further licensing deals
To The Future
Global Android app store spend will overtake iOS in 2017
App Annie takes a look at the markets of the future
Mobile First
iOS the most popular platform for UK games developers in 2016
Arcade the go-to genre for mobile studios
Oceans & Pirates
South Korean dev Joycity bags license for Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War
Looks a lot like Oceans & Empires
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games