No Mario For China
Nintendo undecided on whether or not to release Super Mario Run in China
Also explains why it was brought forward ahead of Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing
Games Fund
UK Games Fund offering £25,000 to developers to make new games
£1.3 million in grants handed out to date
Start-up Funding
Mobile and VR start-up Playsnak raises $1.3 million funding from South Korean investor
Former Crytek, NCSoft, EA and Nintendo staff open new studio
Record Breaker
Best Fiends Forever surpasses five million downloads
Seriously's latest off to a fast start
It's Mi Vr
Smartphone maker Xiaomi launches $29 VR headset Mi VR in China
Ultra-low latency and touch-controlled remote
Gungho Financials Q3 Fy16
Puzzle & Dragons publisher GungHo switches to global development approach as profits fall by 43.4%
10 games currently in development
Virtually Hired
Oculus hiring over 100 new staff as it boosts AR and future tech development
Developing new headsets and experiences
Crushing It
Mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $20 million
Platform has over one million monthly active users
The Story Ends
COLOPL NI winds up development on JRPG Rune Story after just one year
A hit in Japan, not so in the west
Konami Financials Q2 Fy17
26 million Power Pro downloads helps Konami's profits soar to $115.8 million
Game revenues increase while everything else drops
Hurry To Hyderabad
NaturalMotion, EA and Unity speakers heading to NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016
Others include Big Boss Entertainment, Fireproof and Stoic
Capcom Financials Q2 Fy16
Capcom talks up VR potential as profits slump to $3.86 million
Digital Contents business sees some growth
Tencent On Top
Tencent generated more games revenue in the first half of 2016 than EA or Activision Blizzard ever have in a year
Newzoo Global Games Market Report tells all
Asia Bulletin
China’s App Store revenues hit $1.7 billion in Q3, the top 20 Chinese Android app stores, and more
Here's your summary of the best of the last week. Scroll down for the English language version in each case...
Pokemon Go Go Go
Pokemon GO back on top of the US App Store thanks to in-game Halloween event
Niantic's hit surges up charts across the globe
China Rich List
Tencent and NetEase CEOs in top five of Forbes' China Rich List with combined worth of $39.7 billion
Worth $24.5 billion and $15.2 billion respectively
Vungle Fever
Vungle helped increase rewarded ad revenues in Magic Jigsaw Puzzles from $200 to $6,000 a day
Revenues rise by 29x
Switch It Up
Nintendo keeping quiet on Switch until January 13th 2017
Plans to ship 2 million units globally in its first month
Studio Closure
King shuts down Singapore studio Nonstop Games two years after big money deal
Developer closes two years after big money acquisition
A Cut Above
Gazillion Entertainment cuts a non-Marvel path onto mobile with licensed IP Dexter: Slice
First non-Marvel title released by the studio.
Piggies Come To Uk
Taptica partners with Chinese publisher Rafo Tech to drive UK downloads of Piggy Boom
Top game in Taiwan looking for female downloads in the West
Bwhaaaat?
Ubisoft cans card-battler Rabbids Heroes five months into soft launch
Online services to shut down November 15th
Facebook Transformation
Transformers: Earth Wars saw 50% cheaper CPIs using Facebook Ads
Facebook case study reveals how it helped grow the game
Samsung Financials Q3 Fy16
Samsung blames exploding Galaxy Note 7 fiasco for burning a hole in its mobile profits
Profits and sales drop across the board
Global Mario
Super Mario Run heading to 150 countries in December
Nintendo confirms game will not have any in-app purchases other than to unlock the full game
Ninten-go
Nintendo profits up to $364 million as Pokemon GO and Seattle Mariners sale prop up falling revenues
Financial report doesn't mention Miitomo
Tough Apples
Apple posts first annual revenue loss in 15 years as sales fall by $18.1 billion
Sales down across the board except in Services
Key Players
Keywords Studios acquires user testing firm Player Research for up to $1.6 million
£700,000 in cash, 65,000 shares
Not To Bee
UA and monetisation platform Bee7 no longer available to third-party developers
Tech only available for Outfit7 and advertisers
Never Stop Never Stopping
Flaregames' Nonstop Knight rushes past seven million downloads in just under five months
Achieving around one million downloads a month
Drifting Along
Ex-HoloLens and Oculus staff form eSports VR game developer Drifter Entertainment
Currently hiring
Logging On
Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin office
Working closely with Twitch team there
Hi Doggy
Fireproof Games' The Room series generated $3.3 million from each game in their first 12 months of release
Barry Meade takes to Twitter to explain the infographic
Pokemon Boo
Pokemon GO aims to entice players back with more candy and scary Pokemon in Halloween event
First live event since launch
Piece Of Eden
Eden Games appoints new CMO at large as it prepares for mobile release of Gear.Club
Bolsters team ahead of first self-published effort
Top Insight
Twitch, NaturalMotion, Magmic, Curve, Gamevil, Gram and Execution Labs confirmed for PGC London 2017
The finest industry speakers keep coming...
Watch Out
Global smartwatch shipments halve to 2.7 million units in Q3 2016
So says market intelligence firm IDC
Job Losses
Gameforge lays off around 90 staff as it pulls out of mobile
German publisher to focus on PC
Another Galaxy
Samsung offering half-price Galaxy Note 8 to Note 7 owners in South Korea
An apology for launching an exploding phone
Evil Run
Evil Dead runner rises from new UK mobile game publisher Boomdash
Endless Nightmare coming to iOS
My Little Clone-y
Peak Games files My Little Pony lawsuit against Hasbro for cloning Toy Blast
New My Little Pony game looks awfully familiar
Asia News
Netmarble employee jumps to his death from Seoul office building after sacking
Fired for alleged embezzlement of cyber money
Mobile Trumps Pc
Mobile growth picks up the slack from PC decline in Changyou’s games business
Number of paying mobile players up by 700,000
Learn From Experience
Jobs in Games: King's Ben Hollis on how to get a job as a Lead Game Designer
The man behind Shuffle Cats shares career insights
Data Block
Apple's new $925 million Ireland data centre could be delayed by 18 months
Local residents not happy
Seriously Good
Seriously's Best Fiends Forever surpasses 3 million downloads in 3 days
Currently has 3.39 million DAUs
What A Story
Fireproof Games' The Room trilogy hits 11.6 million downloads
Detailed infographic reveals all
Record Catcher
Pokemon GO rakes in $600 million in revenue twice as fast as Candy Crush Saga
Niantic continues to catch all the records
Record Breaker
China’s iOS App Store revenues hit record $1.7 billion in Q3 2016 as staggering growth continues
Now the biggest marketplace for iOS apps
Ubi-switch
Ubisoft CEO: Nintendo Switch could redefine we the way we play games
Yves Guillemot appears bullish about Nintendo's new hardware