East Meets West
10 videos that teach you about the global mobile gaming markets
The key sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Get Them Cheap
High quality users are cheaper to acquire on iPhone than Android
According to Verto Analytics
Mo' Money Mo' Adverts
Mobile Strike and Game of War were the most advertised games on Google in Q3 2016
Instagram still underused as a market
Android Adoption
Android Nougat garners a 0.3% adoption rate in first two months of release
0.2% better than Android Froyo
Upping The Stakes
Vivendi increases stake in Ubisoft to 24%
Now has 21% of the voting rights
Bandai Namco Financials Q2 Fy17
Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle helps push Bandai Namco sales to $2.82 billion
Profits up 32.5% year-on-year
Talking Seriously
How to get a job at Best Fiends developer Seriously
Chief Creative Officer Petri Jarvilehto shares insights
Square Enix Financials Q2 Fy17
Square Enix sales hit $1 billion off the back of mobile successes Mobius Final Fantasy and Brave Exvius
Games released this fiscal year have "underperformed"
Asia Bulletin
Unity signs China publishing deal with Xiaomi, GungHo switches to global development approach, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Final Strike
Mobile Strike dev MZ partners with Square Enix for Final Fantasy XV mobile MMO
A Game of War reskin or something wholly new?
Educating Unity
Free Unity Licence Grant programme now available to all educators
Primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities can now use game engine in lessons
Two Games, One Kingdom
NCsoft files lawsuit against Netmarble over alleged Lineage IP infringement
MMORPG Aden stood to benefit from Lineage likeness
Cut Off
Samsung to cut off phone call and messaging services for Galaxy Note 7 in New Zealand
South Korean company takes further lengths to get users to exchange phones
Jobs News
Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham returns after 12 years out of the games industry
Adham to help ensure new projects get off the ground
Dena Financials
DeNA to double down on Nintendo partnership into next year and beyond
Publisher also plans to release five games of its own in Japan and China
Subscription Play
With subscriptions the fastest growing business model on Google Play, devs can now implement introductory discounts
Timed lower pricing aimed at helping devs attract more users
Moshi Monsters Reboot
Mind Candy’s last chance? London studio rolls the dice on Moshi Monsters relaunch
London studio pins hope on mobile game and animated show
Sweet For Success
King records three top 20 grossing mobile games for nearly three years straight
MAUs fall slightly to a still impressive 394 million
Asia Dash
Sega eyes other Asia markets as Japanese mobile market saturates and game dev costs rise
Predominance of leading publishers raising the stakes in mobile games industry
Tax Breaks For All
167 games have received UK tax relief in the last 12 months
Games have a total budget of £350 million
Ch-ch-changes
Glu Mobile appoints new CEO and acquires control of Covet: Fashion dev Crowdstar for $45 million
Revenues fall to $51.4 million as publisher sets out new changes
Dawn Finally Breaks
Zynga will finally release Dawn of Titans during the Christmas holidays after 20 months in soft launch
Publisher gears up for big UA push for long-awaited title, but doesn't expected significant impact on Q4 financials
New Face
App Annie hires Aaron Mahimainathan as its new Chief Product Officer
20 year industry veteran takes reins on product management
Search No Farther
Advertisers have doubled spends on App Store Search Ads since they launched
Acquiring engaged users to boot
Daily Pokemon
Four months after launch, Pokemon GO adds Daily Bonuses to boost retention
Does it even need it at this point?
A New World
Backflip Studios returns to DragonVale after five years with the 3D DragonVale World
A belated sequel to the early App Store hit
Us Player Habits
78% of US gamers play games on their smartphones
Female players most interest in puzzle, arcade and social casino games
Vroom Vroom
Eden Games' Gear.Club races to one million downloads in five days
Coming to Android later this month
Eat Sleep Develop
Augmented reality start-up CastAR swoops for Twisted Metal dev team Eat Sleep Play
Eat Sleep Play devs working with ex-Disney Infinity team
Big Funding Deal
HTML5 developer Big Viking Games seeks further $60 million funding after raising $21.75 million
"We truly believe that HTML5 is the future"
Back To The Nest
Rovio brings back former VP of Ads from Unity and hires new Senior VP of Studios
Antti Viitanen joins from Sulake
Zynga Financials
Zynga’s MAUs fall to 66 million year-on-year as casino games drive revenues
CSR Racing 2 performs better than expected
Live Long And Develop
Unity adds enhanced support for Metal and Vulkan APIs
New version of EditorVR authoring tool, Daydream support and more coming soon
Brave New World
Peter Molyneux's The Trail quietly exits soft launch and releases globally
Kongregate publishes the third game developed by 22Cans
Unity And Xiaomi
Unity wants to make publishing mobile games in China easier for developers with Xiaomi partnership
Providing help with licensing and a space on their store
Better Than In-house
WildTangent reports 33% fill rate increase after signing up with AerServ
Brand advertising approach brings impressive returns
Vungle Dynamic Templates
Vungle introduces modular Dynamic Templates to boost LTVs for video advertisers
More revenue without sacrificing UX
Back In The Saddle
Unity appoints VR pioneer Tony Parisi as new head of AR and VR Strategy
Reveal made at Unite LA 2016
Daydream Becomes Reality
Google Daydream View VR headset launches on November 10th for $79
Available in Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, US
App Store Metrics
App Store trends for October 2016: Breaking down the number of apps and pricing points
We take a look at the data from our App Store Metrics
Latin America Predicitons
Latin America is the second fastest growing mobile market having generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2016
Should hit $3 billion by 2019
Ea Financials Q2 Fy17
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes still performing for EA as it helps push mobile sales to $138 million
Still seeing average daily playtimes of 2.5 hours
Asia Bulletin
King closes Nonstop Games, China Rich List, Nintendo profits up on Pokemon GO and Seattle Mariners sale, and more
PocketGamer.biz亚洲移动游戏每周新闻简报. Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Unity Run
Nintendo using Unity game engine to develop Super Mario Run
Nintendo using third-party engine to develop Super Mario Run
Connecting Developers
New jobs site Unity Connect brings developers together to collaborate on new games
Unity's talent marketplace aimed at connecting devs with projects
Play No More
SNK Playmore dropping Playmore name on December 1st
Going back to basics
Pokemon Ghoul
Pokemon GO sees daily revenues up to $4.6 million a day during Halloween live event
Revenues up 133% worldwide for four days during the event
Ddm Sbdm
Digital Development Management hires ex-Marmalade exec as new Senior Business Development Manager
Stephanie Jorgl joins after 4 years at Marmalade
A Brighter Future
Apple's next iPhone will replace old LTPS screens with curved OLED
Like the Samsung S7 Edge
Switch Supplies
Nintendo preparing to ship more Switch consoles should demand exceed initial 2 million units
Says it will not be selling them at a loss