Activision Blizzard Financials Q1 Fy17
Activision Blizzard revenues hit $1.73 billion as Candy Crush franchise remains a stable performer
King is also getting into social casino now, apparently
What's Next?
Next Games doubles revenue in Q1 2017 after successful IPO
Helsinki firm grows to 77 employees
Zynga Financials Q1 Fy17
Zynga sees revenues rise to over $194 million as Zynga Poker sees huge boost
Words With Friends suffers heavy losses
Amicable Parting
NaturalMotion co-founder and CEO Torsten Reil leaves after 15 years
Time for a break
Partnerships With Friends
Zynga partners with People to launch latest social game Crosswords With Friends
That's three With Friends games launched in the last two months
Adjust Into China
Analytics firm Adjust expands mobile measurements platform into China
Down from a 2.67 second delay to just 1.01 seconds
Apple Manufacturing
Apple to invest $1 billion in US manufacturing in effort to boost local industry
Might score points with Trump while he's at it
Extending A Bridge
Tapjoy partners with analytics firm Moat to track viewability of its rewarded video ads
Shows promising results in preliminary tests
Ahead Of The Pack
Hot Wheels: Race Off developer Hutch scores place on 2017 UK's Best Workplaces list
The only games company in the UK to be added to the list this time around
Millions Of Friends
Words With Friends trumps Pokemon GO as most popular US mobile game in March 2017 with 13 million users
Pokemon GO not far behind with 10.5 million
Ready For Titanfall
Particle City ditches CCG for RTS in next mobile game Titanfall Assault
More likely to capture the series' "action-packed gameplay"
Glu Financials Q1 Fy17
Glu starts 2017 strong with $57 million in revenues thanks to Design Home and Tap Sports Baseball
Still making a heavy loss
Downtown Sf
Bespoke confirmed as PG Connects San Francisco 2017 venue
Rumours of Alcatraz setting for June 27th-28th conference were unfounded
China Games Market
China game revenues expected to hit $35 billion in 2021
Mobile games to make up 58% of these revenues, says Niko Partners
Up The Ante
Social casino players spend $39.87 in-game a month and play for 57 minutes per session
SuperData takes a closer look at social casino games
Anniversary Celebrations
GungHo stems quarterly decline as Puzzle & Dragons income recovers for fifth anniversary
Number of downloads surpasses 45 million in Japan alone
Business News
Apple revenues up year-on-year to nearly $53 billion despite iPhone and iPad sales slump
Greater China revenues fall on quarterly and yearly basis
Surfs Up
Ex-Warner Bros Animation President joins Sybo Games to take lead on Subway Surfers TV series
Developer also touts potential for animated film
Dealing Them In
Hearthstone snaps up 70 million downloads
April's Journey to Un’Goro update proves popular with players
Soaring Financials
Rovio’s games business revenues soar to nearly $62 million in Q1 2017
Nearly doubles quarterly revenue year-on-year
Popcap Layoffs
Plants vs. Zombies developer PopCap lays off staff at Seattle studio
Studio aims to refocus on key titles and new projects
Tweet Tweet
Early Bird ending for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Final hours to save up to 20%
Sending A Message
Facebook Instant Games for Messenger rolls out worldwide with new features
Words With Friends to offer turn-based play and spectating
Mad Skillz
Skillz doubles revenue run-rate to $100 million in eight months as mobile eSports scene gains steam
Increased users by 32% in the same period
Time To Duel
Supercell kicks off year-long global Clash Royale Crown Championship
Promising $1 million in prizes throughout the first year
Huuuge Signing
Nonstop Games co-founder Henric Suuronen joins Huuuge Games' Board of Directors
Has been an investor since early 2015
App Store Price Increase
Apple increase App Store prices in Denmark, Mexico, Taiwan and EU countries
Appears to be introducing alternate pricing tiers to affected countries
Mtg Takes Over
MTG spends $90 million to increase InnoGames stake to 51% majority
Entire acquisition has so far cost MTG over €130 million
Jobs News
PlayRaven recruits Eero Pöyry as new Development Director
Has experience at betting agency Veikkaus and THQ Wireless
The Deluxe Package
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe becomes fastest-selling game of the franchise with 459,000 units sold in the US
Tops the UK sales charts for last week in just one day of sales
We're Hiring
Join our growing biz dev team: Steel Media is expanding into new areas!
Pocket Gamer publisher hiring two BizDev pros
Deeper Underground
Amazon's "actually free" Underground service to be shut down in 2019
Access taken away in summer 2017
Feeling The Crunch
Controversy over Icarus Mobile development crunch
Developer Wemadeio for long working hours and treatment of staff
Strike No More
Mixi to shut down Monster Strike's English-language version on August 1st
No refunds, no transfers
New Studio
DICE veterans form new developer Fall Damage
Swedish Games Industry CEO Maria Tjärnlund named as Chairman of the Board
Mobair In China
Mobile marketing firm MobAir pushes into China with Shanghai office
Wants to offer personalised services to its local clients
Digital Games Market March 2017
Lineage 2 Revolution dropped from the top of the worldwide mobile grossing ranks to 10th in March 2017
Clash Royale takes the top spot instead
Eye For Fashion
Ex-Rovio and Digital Chocolate staff score pre-seed funding round for new Finnish mobile studio Polka Dot
Developer's ambition to become the leader in fashion games
2017 Finnish Game Awards
Clash Royale picks up two Game of the Year accolades at 2017 Finnish Game Awards
Kopla Games scores a win as Best Rookie
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Nonstop Knight rushes past 12 million downloads in 10 months
Players have spent 56 million hours in-game collectively
50 Million Fighters
Netmarble's Marvel Future Fight hits 50 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
20 million downloads alone in Asia
Making India Play
Indian mobile game studio Mech Mocha raises $5 million series A funding
Shunwei Capital, Accel Partners and Blume Ventures invest
Still Running
Super Mario Run approaches 150 million downloads
Number of paid players said to be gradually increasing too
Cyberagent Financials
CyberAgent sales grow to $1.62 billion but profits fall sharply in H1 FY17
Profits are way, way down
Gree Financials Q3 Fy17
GREE's release blitz scores sales of $142.4 million thanks to three top 50 grossing games
Has plenty more where that came from
Strategy And Insight
Mobile strategy games on Android have a D30 retention rate of 3% and generate an ARPU of $2.23
AppsFlyer digs deep into the state of strategy titles on mobile
No Trojans Here
Eric Seufert's Heracles launches mobile user acquisition tool Agamemnon
Work out when your UA campaigns will generate money
Capcom Financials Fy17
Capcom sales up to $782.5 million as it eyes stronger mobile performance
Hoping to "break through the current situation" with big IPs
Critical Training
Critical Force wants to fix Finland's game dev shortage with new academy
20 students at Kajaani University will get specialist coaching and feedback
Jobs News
GSN CEO David Goldhill steps down after 10 years
Search for a replacement already underway