Augmented History
Report: 70 laid off as augmented reality firm CastAR closes
A core group trying to sell tech
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Ketchapp's The Floor Is Lava knocks Floor Is Lava Challenge off the top spot
Rankings from June 12th to 18th June
Mobile Games Revenues 2020
Global mobile game revenues expected to hit $64.9 billion in 2020
Newzoo and AppLift partner to share the details
Closing Shop
Scopely pulls Breaking Bad: Empire Business from app stores after 19 months in soft-launch
Looks like no one will be knocking
Potential Legend
King takes another stab at midcore RPGs with soft-launched Legend of Solgard
Will this one survive the soft-launch?
The Weekly
The Weekly: The YouTuber who formed a cult, why the kids are free-to-play, and the road ahead for mobile eSports
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Networking Central
All the companies: Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2017 offers true cross-industry representation
From solo indies to global giants, all shall be rubbing shoulders during June 27th-28th conference
Pokemon Gone
Pokemon GO dropped out of the worldwide top 10 grossing ranks for the first time in May 2017
SuperData Research breaks out its worldwide report yet again
Countdown Time
Super Early Bird & Midsummer Special last chance: PG Connects Helsinki 2017
Double discount for September 19th-20th 'triple conference' will run out soon
Artificial Intelligence
Six ways AI can drive mobile game monetisation and engagement
Tapjoy's Changsu Lee breaks down how AI can benefit the mobile games industry
Shining Star
Brawl Stars tops Canada's iOS download chart and is already a top 10 grossing app in its first week
Can it maintain its position? Does Supercell even care?
On The Tubes
Next Games kicks off huge influencer campaign to promote new The Walking Dead: No Man's Land update
Tens of millions of YouTube viewers seeing sponsored Walking Dead content
Shanghai Pitching
The Big Indie Pitch heads to Shanghai for ChinaJoy on July 28th 2017
Indie dev event arrives in China in order to shed some light on one of the most unexplored mobile markets in the world
New Studio
Warner Bros. Interactice Entertainment opens cloud-based technology studio WB Games New York
Providing backend services across all its online titles
Free Sdk
Cross-platform framework Corona goes free for all app developers
Move follows Appodeal acquisition
I Got A Fever
WonderPlanet's one-thumb puzzle-RPG Crash Fever smashes eight million downloads in just under two years
Big in-game celebration happening now
Play With Me
IronSource opens up entire suite of interactive ads to all clients
Performing 400% better in some cases
Mad For The Sesh
Mobile gamers are spending 44 seconds longer in games across fewer sessions
Flurry Analytics takes a look at average mobile gaming sessions
Color Switch Esports
Color Switch becomes an eSport through partnership with Skillz
Bearing down on 200 million downloads
Ad Whales
80-20 rule applies to ad-based monetisation in mobile apps, report claims
SOOMLA's Mobile Monetisation study analyses ad impressions and revenue generation
Round Two
"Big, hairy fight" rumbles on as ZeniMax demands block on Oculus sales or 20% share
Also looking for another $500 million in damages
Cutting The Ribbon
German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open Gamescom 2017
First time the Chancellor has opened the event
Wooga's New Vp
Wooga appoints new VP of Publishing
David Nixon will now oversee all the marketing and customer care teams
For Sale
Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale after Apple begins designing its own graphics chips
50% of Imagination's revenues gone in a flash
New Ratings
South Korea's GRAC enhances game rating system through international cooperation
Discussion with Valve, Google and Microsoft to enhance follow-up management to protect users as well as joining IARC
A Good Cause
SpecialEffect aims to raise £100,000 with One Special Day fundraiser on September 29th
Raising money for people with severe disabilities
Brain Food
Skybound, Telltale and Scopely join forces to battle The Walking Dead Mega Panel at PGC San Francisco 2017
Moderated by Unity Evangelist – and renowned zombie connoisseur – Oscar Clark, no less
Tranzfuser Round 2
UK Games Fund reveals 23 teams for second year of its Tranzfuser competition
Graduate teams given £5,000 to develop a prototype
Global Mobile Market
Global mobile gaming market expected to grow to $46.1 billion in 2017
Newzoo breaks out the stats
Esports In China
Tencent outlines five-year plan to create $15 billion eSports industry in China
Theme parks, tournaments, merchandise, the lot
Strong Start
NCSoft's Lineage M tops South Korea's iOS grossing charts in seven hours
5.5 million pre-registered players already enjoying the game
Royal Rumble
Glu Mobile signs multi-year partnership with WWE to develop new licensed game
Tap Sports Baseball team taking over development duties
Australian Funding
Film Victoria awards $500,000 to nine Australian developers to help finish their games
Mobile titles include Joko's World: Pocket Planet and Paper House's Paperbark
Tencent Investment
Tencent makes $72 million strategic investment in Chinese developer Ourpalm
Strengthens the relationship between the two tech giants
Cosmo Kong
Gamevil partners with Dungeon Link developer Kong Studios to publish next game Cosmo Duel
An innovative PvP match-3 puzzler is on its way
Market Value
Russia’s mobile games market brought in nearly $700 million in revenue in 2016
Revenues grew 16% year-on-year in 2016
Hutch Hires
Hutch snaps up ex-Splash Damage and Square Enix staff
Rachael Edwards and Corentin Delprat join the studio
Sneaky Purchase
Samsung quietly acquires mobile VR developer VRB for a reported $5.5 million
Increasing internal Gear VR development
Get Your Pitch On
Amazon UK on board as sponsor for Big Indie Pitch in Brighton and Dundee
Batter up... the Big Indie Pitch is coming to a city near you
Mtg Acquires Kongregate
Modern Times Group to acquire casual games publisher Kongregate for $55 million
Kongregate pushing further into developing its own games by acquiring other studios
Mobile Plans
Razer: “There is a huge opportunity to disrupt the mobile market”
CEO Min-Liang Tan eyes company expansion
Influencing Influencers
YouTuber Papa Jake confirmed for Free Hive Games 'Influencer & Exclusive Reveal' keynote session at PGC San Francisco
Extended session will tell you everything you need to know to get the best out of the vloggers
Big Update
Pokemon GO update revamps gyms in bid to improve retention
Raid Battles also incoming for new cooperative play
Rewards For All
Atari partners with Tapjoy to bring rewarded ads to its games starting with Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch
F2P park builder crosses seven million downloads
Dashing Onwards
Dashy Crashy introduces new live events and IAP to expand on experimental monetisation design
Get a free dinosaur if you eat enough meat
Publishing Deal
Kakao snags rights to publish hit Chinese game Onmyoji in South Korea
Game will be put in front of Kakao Talk's 40 million users
European Expansion
Mobile publisher GameMine appoints European CEO
Ante Ukalovic responsible for building up operations in Europe for US-based company
Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: The Floor is Lava jumps on top
Rankings from June 5th to June 11th
The Weekly
The Weekly: Supercell's winning game design strategies, Nintendo's comeback and the eSports revolution
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Gateway Games
Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aimé: Mobile introduces the consumer to our IP before they move on to the "full experience"
Reggie explains Nintendo's mobile philosophy, forgets that it hasn't released any games in China yet