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Gungho Financials Q2 Fy17
GungHo's sales continue to decline despite 46 million downloads of Puzzle & Dragons
Still trying to put its eggs in other baskets
Submissions Open
Just a few days left to enter your game for the International Mobile Gaming Awards in Southeast Asia
Call for submissions ends on July 31st
Good Turnaround
Goodgame Studios returns to profitability following corporate restructuring which cost 600 jobs
Has two new mobile games in the works
Gone Home
Gardenscapes developer Playrix soft-launches sequel Homescapes
Currently on iOS in Canada
Join The Family
Capcom to dissolve and absorb Capcom Mobile subsidiary
Also posts sales of $105.6 million for the quarter
Ea Financials Q1 Fy18
EA mobile revenues hit $150 million as FIFA Mobile scores 95 million unique users
NBA Live and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes also continuing to draw in players
Jobs News
Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan joins Coffee Stain Publishing
Takes on role of Business Developer
Line Financials Q2 Fy17
LINE sees revenues grow to $705.8 million but MAUs are still consistently falling
NextFloor acquisition could turn this around in the future
Viral Ua
Tech start-up Megacool raises $1.5 million to make viral GIFs for mobile games
Funds to be used to employ new staff and accelerate development of API
Cyberagent Financials Q3 Fy17
CyberAgent sales hit $2.4 billion but profits are still in a slump
Nothing particularly new or surprising this quarter
Marvel At The Aftershock
Kabam off-shoot Aftershock partners with Marvel on new licensed mobile game
No other information revealed
Pokemon Go Slow
Niantic CEO John Hanke pins Pokemon GO Fest issues on overloaded mobile data networks
Things went far more smoothly when everybody left
Keywords Financials H1 Fy17
Keywords posts revenues of $74.7 million so far in 2017 thanks to aggressive acquisition strategy
Profits up to $11.3 million
War Wings West
Miniclip partners with majority stake owner Tencent to publish War Wings in the West
Launching first in the UK
Gambling To Gaming
Alibaba-owned gambling firm AGTech partners with Indian e-commerce company Paytm to create mobile games
AGTech hasn't turned a profit in 13 years
Fish. In. Spaaaace.
Sony ForwardWorks preps launch of its second game Sora to Umi no Aida with pre-registration campaign
Get your fishing rod and prepare to go to space
Flash In The Pan
Adobe admits defeat and plans to end-of-life Flash by 2020
Hasn't been used on mobile for five years
Performance Ratings
Pocket Gamer reviews now feature independent user-centric performance ratings from GameBench
Ratings cards give mobile gamers the lowdown on how games will run on their device
A Fine Lineage
NCSoft's Lineage M reported to have generated over $233 million in revenues in first month of release
Beats Lineage 2: Revolution's record by a fair chunk
F2p Comedy
Rovio's Wilhelm Taht is looking for PechaKucha candidates for PG Connects Helsinki 2017
Frantic, fabulous, fun way to end day one
Nintendo Financials Q1 Fy18
Nintendo sales hit $1.38 billion as its Switch console surpasses 4.7 million units shipped
Mobile games generate $80.5 million for Q1
Jobs News
GDC appoints Katie Stern as General Manager
Victoria Petersen also named as Lead Conference Manager
Funding Round
Web and app market intelligence firm SimilarWeb raises $47 million
Company plans to open new offices, develop new products and extend its data coverage
Arena Of Strike
Tencent rebrands Western release of mobile MOBA Strike of Kings to Arena of Valor
Strike of Kings fans not particularly happy
Influential Donations
Twitch community raises $75 million for charity
2017 has already seen $9.1 million in donations and may surpass 2016 record
Ready To Rumble
Take-Two to focus on WWE and NBA mobile games following Social Point acquisition
Might move on if these games perform well
Chain Reaction
Guns of Boom blasts past 10 million downloads two months after global launch
Over 100,000 YouTube videos made of it
Superdata Top Grossing June 2017
Honor of Kings was the top grossing mobile game worldwide in June 2017
SuperData reckons it generated $150 million in revenues for the month
Igf Submissions 2018
Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 20th annual competition
Deadline is October 2nd, so there's still some time left
Gfinity Acquires Cevo
Gfinity pushes into US by acquiring eSports tech firm CEVO for $2.7 million
Solidifying its place on the global scene
Funding Round
Medtech firm Highmark raises $2 million to make games that treat brain injuries
Company also recruits John Gardiner as new CFO
Jobs News
GameInfluencer appoints Macy Mills as new Head of Business Development
Start-up expands operations with new hires
New Lands
Playrix partners with iDreamSky to bring Gardenscapes to China
Hit match-3 game heading to Chinese Android devices
Glitch Fest
Pokemon GO Fest plagued by technical problems
Niantic apologies to 20,000+ registered attendees as it issues refunds for all
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Motorsport Manager Mobile 2 overtakes Minecraft
Rankings from July 10th to July 16th
The Weekly
The Weekly: Pokemon GO turf wars, designing Monument Valley 2, and developing for Facebook Instant Games
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Pokemon Go Fest
Niantic to unleash legendaries in Pokemon GO during special live-streamed real-world event on July 22nd
Players in Chicago will need to work together to take down a legendary
Reality Cash
Reality Gaming readies ‘initial coin offering’ to raise $1.5 million for new AR game
Set to launch on August 29th
Partnership Perfect
Pocket Gems partners with Universal Studios for new Episode story based on Pitch Perfect
Community writers can win a trip to Universal and face time with Episode writers
Tapjoy Audience Reach
Tapjoy's rewarded video ads now reach over 581 million users thanks to partnerships with major developers
Seriously, Jam City, Sega, Zeptolab and more now making use of the platform
Vgtr Pays Out
UK government's Video Game Tax Relief scheme has paid out $95 million in 2016/17 period
280 claims have been paid out on so far this period
Paying The Billz
Former Kabam COO Kent Wakeford joins eSports platform Skillz's board of directors
Also co-owns an Overwatch eSports team now, apparently
Dena X Nintendo
DeNA dedicates 10% of staff to Nintendo mobile games
DeNA and Nintendo's partnership is going "extremely well"
Party On
PocketGamer.biz's ChinaJoy 2017 party and networking guide
Keep up with all the best networking opportunities with this handy list
Gamer Chat
Mobile gamer-focused chat platform Plexchat secures $7 million investment
"The lack of community is an existential crisis for mobile games," says Plexchat CEO Shawn Foust.
Financing Education
Games learning platform Kahoot raises extra $10 million in Series A funding round
Mobile app for teachers and students to launch during the new school year
Finnish Line(up)
Space Ape, Critical Force, Next Games, Wargaming, Seriously, Gameloft, EA, Traplight and more confirmed for PG Connects Helsinki 2017
Second announcement of speakers for final Connects conference of the year is a biggie
Download Siege
Siege: Titan Wars fires past one million downloads in 10 days
Hits top 100 grossing rankings in 30 countries
Stillfront acquires German sports management game OnlineFussballManager
Also agrees publishing deal with Digamore Entertainment for Football Empire