Refuel Sheil
Refuel4 hires former Twitter exec Ross Sheil as General Manager Commercial EMEA
Bringing experience in EMEA to the ad platform
Talking Acquisitions
Chinese chemical firm back in for $1 billion Talking Tom developer Outfit7 after missing out first time around
Second sale on the cards
Ad2china
Digital marketer ad2games expands into China with Shanghai office
Reaching clients without time differences
Grow Up
Ubisoft acquires massively-multiplayer sandbox game Growtopia
Already has 20 million registered users
Twitchbook
Twitch takes on social networking with newly rolled-out Pulse platform
Post updates, share videos, emote, and without even streaming
Loopme Funding
AI-driven mobile video marketer LoopMe closes $10 million funding round
Expanding into three countries in 2017
King Of Publishers
Cut The Rope developer ZeptoLab opens publishing business to all submissions
Looking for innovative, near-complete mobile games
New Waters
Sega buys Crytek Black Sea and renames it Creative Assembly Sofia
Team of 60 to work with UK developer on slate of unannounced games
It Begins...
NaturalMotion, Execution Labs, Agnitio, Bandai Namco, Nexon confirmed for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
First speakers announced for June 27-28 conference
Switched On
Nintendo Switch UK sales surpass 80,000
Sales better than Wii U launch weekend
Times Are A Changing
Space Ape makes good on promise of "radically different" games with two new soft-launched titles
Super Karts and Fastlane: Road to Revenge are like nothing it has done before
Big Indie Pitch
Crashy Cars smashes competition to win the Big Indie Pitch at GDC
3D platformer Suzi Cube grabs second spot as Where Shadows Slumber claims third place
You're Tearing Me Apart
Fireproof Games reveals fourth entry in critically-acclaimed The Room series
More puzzles, more rooms
Unleashed
Nexon soft-launches potential big hitter Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed for mobile
Brawl with hundreds of enemies on your mobile
India Investment
Chinese games publisher Youzu sets up India office as it plans to invest $10 million in local industry
New office will to employ 30 staff in 2017
Jobs News
UKIE appoints new Head of Public Affairs
Tim Scott joins from London First
Github For Unity
GitHub introduces extension for Unity to allow devs easier access to code resources
Also includes storage for large binary assets
More Pixels
Google wants to "follow the rhythm of the industry" and launch a new Pixel phone in 2017
Rick Osterloh says it won't be any cheaper
Switch Launch
Nintendo's hybrid console Switch launches worldwide for $299
Stock already running low
Ironsource Admob
IronSource expands partnership with Google AdMob to gain access to more rewarded video ads
Reward players when they earn you money
Twitter Esports
Twitter partners with ESL and DreamHack to bring eSports streaming to its social network
Who needs Twitch?
Trends Survey
Mobile Games Developer Trends: The opportunities, the threats and Brexit
From emerging markets to Brexits, a look at the industry in 2016 and moving into 2017
Free Stuff
Buildbox offering $100,000 of game assets in exchange for trying out its codeless game engine
For an unspecified limited time
Pokemon Awards
Pokemon GO scoops Best Mobile/Handheld Game at 17th GDC Awards
Loses its three other nominations
Slow To Switch
Nintendo's Switch predicted to sell 5 million units by the end of 2017
SuperData Research has a crack at the numbers
Global Lineage
Netmarble reveals plans to launch Lineage 2: Revolution worldwide after huge South Korea success
Specially designed versions for China, Japan, and the West
Making A Hit
How Onmyoji’s aim to bring players closer to art, culture and emotion quickly led to 10 million DAUs
NetEase producer Jin Tao reveals the design goals behind the hit game
Partner Strategy
Toys-to-life developer PlayFusion enters strategic partnership with Nexon Korea
Nexon Korea is getting around a bit
Supporting Players
How The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely approaches customer support
Director of Player Care David Tamayo deals out his top tips and KPIs
Moving Fast
Cheetah Mobile rebrands Cheetah Ad Platform as Cheetah Ads
Sleek and simple
Admob Improvements
Google brings playable ads and auto-flipping video ads to AdMob
Opens up video inventory by adding AdWords video ads
Even More Pokemon
Three "major" updates planned for Pokemon GO by the end of 2017
Could PvP finally be on its way?
China M&a
China's Zhaomi Group and Kee establish $360 million video game M&A fund
Bringing value to companies through merging and acquiring
Imga Global 13
Pokemon GO takes home the Grand Jury prize at the 13th IMGA Global
Dawn of Titans snags two awards
Progressive Unity
Unity 5.6 to add native Vulkan API support when it launches on March 31st
Xiaomi partnership now in effect too
It’s Mobile Time
Power Rangers stars battle it out in mobile game on stage at GDC 2017
nWay's Power Rangers: Legacy Wars set for March 23rd release
Big Numbers
Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016
Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
Happy Birds
Rovio revenues shot up 34% in 2016 as games business had best year ever
Games business revenues increase to €159 million
Cardboard Foundations
10 million Google Cardboard VR viewers have been shipped since 2014
And Google Cardboard apps have racked up 160 million downloads
Safe For Kids
Kid-friendly ad platform TotallyAwesome raises $2 million
Set to launch PopJam in Australia and Southeast Asia
Fiksu Cpms January 2017
CPMs are falling on Android and iOS but users aren't sticking to new apps for long
Fiksu digs into the data
Portable Only
Some Nintendo Switch games can only be played in portable mode
VOEZ is the first
Chart Topper
Chhota Bheem Speed Racing racks up 1 million downloads and 500,000 DAUs in India
Nazara Games and Tiny Lab Productions team up
Keyword Appointment
Keywords Studios appoints new Audio Manager at LA studio
Ed Lima brings his expertise to expand the studio's services
Mine All Mine
Minecraft surpasses 122 million sales across all platforms
But how many on mobile?
Back Of The Net
EA's Peter Moore leaving company to become CEO of Liverpool Football Club
An obvious move, really
Raven's Call
PlayRaven brings in ex-EA exec Juha Sadeharju as COO
Overseeing studio operations and recruitment
Breaking Out
Epic reveals new UE4-powered mobile game Battle Breakers
Tactical role-playing title to support cross-play with PC
Critical Hit
Pokemon GO racks up 650 million downloads
Players walk a combined 8.7 billion km
Unity Gdc Keynote
Unity's GDC keynote to show off new and unnanounced games alongside advancements in AR and VR
Streaming worldwide from 4:30pm GMT on February 28th