No Watching
China's government bans the streaming of unapproved games
Another nail in the coffin for China's indies
Drifting Along
VR eSports developer Drifter Entertainment closes $2.25 million seed funding round
Funding led by Signia Venture Partners
Oculus Shuffle
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribie steps down to head up new PC VR division
Jon Thomason taking lead on new mobile VR division
New Year New Unity
Unity 5.6 to be the last in the development cycle as the game engine moves onto Unity 2017
Due to launch in March 2017
Trailer Clash
Clash of Clans' VR short was the third-most viewed game trailer on YouTube in 2016 with 37 million views
Clash of Kings sneaks into the list too
Ok Google
Slither.io beats Agar.io to be the most Googled game of 2016
Top two games both mobile/browser
New Name, Same Company
Opera Mediaworks rebrands itself AdColony following browser sale
Chinese consortium retains rights to Opera brand, forcing change
Late Night Switch
Nintendo Switch launch date and price to be revealed on January 12th at 8pm PT/11pm ET
4am GMT for poor UK-based news editors
Big Valiant
Big Viking partners with indie comic publisher Valiant Entertainment on five-year HTML5 game deal
Shadowman making a comeback
Go To India
Pokemon GO to officially launch in India following Niantic partnership with Reliance Jio
No data charges on the game until the end of March
Tapping Up Line
Tapjoy partners with LINE to bring rewarded Interplay ads to 220 million chat app users
Earn stickers by playing ads
Final Clash
Clash Royale's inaugral North American championship finishes with the Crown Duel on December 17th
$15,000 and a trip to Helsinki up for grabs
Fundtastic
Execution Labs, Agnitio, Animoca, Starting Point, Rovio, IPC and more confirmed for Show Me The Money track at PGC London 2017
Everything you've always wanted to know about funding but were too busy coding to ask
Pokemon Going
Pokemon GO adds first new batch of pokemon five months after launching
Also gives Pikachu a Santa hat
It's About Time
Google acquires smartwatch platform developer founded by ex-Google staff Cronologics
Bringing them home
Find Funding
PG Connects London's new Investor SpeedMatch brings together investors and developers
Looking for funding or developers to invest in? Look no further
Talk The Talk
Chat app Discord releases free developer SDK GameBridge
Free SDK features custom UI
Industry Events
GDC Europe is no more
Organisers to focus on San Francisco event
Super Nintendo World
Universal Studios Japan to open $433 million Nintendo-themed area by 2020
Generating 1.1 million jobs in the decade after its launch
Just Fine
French stock market fines five Ubisoft execs €1.2 million for insider trading
Ubisoft appealing the decision
Money To Burn
Californian man embezzles $5 million from employer, spends $1 million in Game of War
Facing 20 years in jail for his trouble
Majesco Leaves Games
Majesco exits games industry after merging with medical firm
Plans to work in regenerative medicine
Outplay Squared
UK's largest independent mobile developer Outplay acquires Raid HQ studio Eight Pixels Square
Bumps employee count to over 190
High Noon
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios raises $1.4 million
Closing down on a Summer 2017 release for Exiles of Embermark
Crytek In Crisis?
Crytek employees going unpaid and Bulgaria studio up for sale, reports claim
Financial troubles allegedly resurface at developer and CryEngine maker
One To Watch
Ex-InnoGames CMO and Adobe exec open new mobile ad agency MediaPlier
Volker Dressel and Josh Rinsky head up new company in LA and Hamburg
Super Abiko Run
Maliyo Games' Aboki Run becomes the first Nigeria-made game to be featured on Google Play
A big leap for a small game
Super Mario Estimates
Super Mario Run will generate $71 million in its first month of release, says Sensor Tower
7.1 million paying players is reasonable, right?
Striking Hard
Mobile Strike's Super Bowl ad is the most watched ad on YouTube in 2016 with over 100 million views
People love Arnie
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Run & Jump
Nintendo stock prices jump 3.7% after positive reaction to Super Mario Run marketing
Heading back towards post-Pokemon GO hype levels
Pokebucks
Niantic partners with Starbucks to turn over 7,800 stores into PokeStops for Pokemon GO
There's a new Frappuccino too
A Natural Move
Rovio COO David Byrne flies the nest to join NaturalMotion as new COO
Overseeing operations in all its studios
Story Time
Legendary Games brings StoryToys children's game to Japan's HTML5 kid's platform dkids
The Very Hungry Caterpillar proves to be a hit
Vivendi Gains Ground
Vivendi now owns a quarter of all Ubisoft shares but continues to claim no takeover is imminent
25.15% of shares and 22.92% of voting rights
Titans Dawn
Updated: Dawn of Titans launches worldwide after almost two years in soft launch
Never thought we'd see this day
Advancing Ai
Unity pushes on into artificial intelligence efforts with new VP of AI and Machine Learning
Dr Danny Lange joins from Uber
Keep It Casual
MobilityWare picks up casual developer Critical Hit Software for its Jigsaw Puzzle and ColorArt titles
Casual developer acquires casual developer
Five Million Heroes
Asia mobile eSports tournament Hero World Championship 2 draws in five million viewers
2,000 people there in person
No More Monkey Business
SurveryMonkey Intelligence to close down services after just one year
Data available until January 31st
Charitable Fiends
Apple's Games for (RED) sees millions of Best Fiends and Episode players raise money to fight AIDS
Seriously and Pocket Gems share some stats
Indie-spensable
Fireproof, Icejam, Paladin, Lucky Kat, Stugan, Mi-Clos, Wooga and more confirmed for Indie Adventures track at PGC London 2017
And Mid Term ticket rate extension surprise bonus, too
Apple Best Of 2016
Clash Royale named best iPhone game of 2016 by Apple
Pokemon GO doesn't get a look in
A Galaxy Too Far
Cause of exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7s may be an untested battery too big for the devices
Instrumental tears down the phone to uncover the truth
Moving Forward
Sony ForwardWorks reveals first mobile games, partnerships and mixed-reality tech for 2017
A wealth of games for Asia
Ubisoft Switch
Ubisoft designing Nintendo Switch games with mobile play sessions in mind
Appealing to hardcore and casual gamers alike
Download.io
Agar.io amasses 113 million mobile downloads in 20 months
30 million players a month still
Sharing Is Caring
DeltaDNA and Tenjin partner to bring powerful analytics and ad tracking to their customers
Analyse and act for better LTVs
The New Thq
THQ Nordic gears up for Nintendo Switch launch with three old IP acquistions
Remember Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy?
Android Adoption
Android Nougat adoption rate increases to 0.4% three months after release
Older OS' starting to drop away