It's Turbo Time
Dashy Crashy Turbo takes pole position at the Big Indie Pitch at Apps World London
The winners of the BIP revealed
Share Switch
Nintendo shares rise and fall as investors express concern over Nintendo Switch
But shares still riding high of Nintendo's mobile plans
Power Switch
Nvidia Tegra processor powers Nintendo Switch
Power up!
Game Over
Midcore spin-off studio Black Anvil shut down as part of Wooga cuts
Warlords its last game, Studio Head departs
Clicker Fiends
Seriously launches new clicker Best Fiends Forever as sequel to $50 million franchise
Original Best fiends has over two million daily active users
Nintendo Switch Developers
EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Bethesda and more back Nintendo Switch
Developers and publishers sign up to support Nintendo Switch
New Console
Nintendo finally unveils new console the Nintendo Switch
New hardware set for March 2017 release date
Selling Pixels
Google Pixel smartphones go on sale today in the UK, US, Canada and more
Competition heats up in the Android market
Playable Ads
Playdigious brings playable demos to mobile ads
No downloads required
Iaps Ftw
In-app purchases more popular than DLC in the US
23% of people surveyed
It's New Hardware Time
Nintendo NX reveal today
First glimpse of Wii U successor imminent
Asia Bulletin
Tencent takes $3.5 billion loan to buy Supercell, Apple opening second R&D centre in China, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Investment Game
ESL owner MTG plots further investments following $100 million InnoGames deal
Digital entertainment firm looking for companies with clear track records in IP development
Animation Throwdown-loads
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards surpasses four million downloads in one month
Day one retention over 50%
Game Jam Go
Square Enix Montreal team takes week off for game jam
Inaugural Square Jam uses the theme 'exposed'
App Store Breakdown
Here are the top 20 Chinese Android app stores
Tencent comes out on top with MyApp
Cash Royale
Chinese investors raise $850 million to fund Tencent's Supercell acquisition
Another big money deal to support Supercell purchase
Bidding Contest
Kabam receives $800 million offer for Vancouver studio behind Marvel Contest of Champions
Multiple unknown bidders in for talented team
Out Of The West
DeNA dissolves US subsidiary as Western games fail to meet expectations
Publisher to focus on collaborations with external studios
New Face, Same Direction
Reginaldo Valadares appointed Rovio Stockholm GM as Patrick Liu leaves for Spotify
Patrick Liu seeks pastures new
Crushing It
There is going to be a Candy Crush TV show
New game show will have contestants competing on enormous interactive game boards
Take A Bow
Tiny Archers shoots past one million downloads in three months
Hit game gets localisations for Russian, Spanish, French and Chinese speaking territories
Spil The Beans
How to get a job at fast-growing mobile publisher Spil Games
CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac shares insights
Fantastic Licence
UK developer Mediatonic working on Fantastic Beasts mobile game
Cases from the Wizarding World will be a hidden object title
Ludia Enters The Underworld
Montreal studio Ludia nabs rights for Underworld mobile game
Releases collectible card game
Download Fever
Food Court Fever publisher cooks up five million downloads
Vancouver studio donates 1% of game proceeds to charity
Samsung Grounded
US issues emergency order to ban Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on all flights
Commercial airlines across the globe follow suit
Double Deal
Final hours of PG & VR Connects London 2017 Early Bird tickets - 1 ticket, 2 events
Grab a discount AND get two conferences for the price of one
Mobile Games University
Mobile Games University teaches industry professionals everything they need to know about the mobile business
Learn about the business of mobile games
Loan Royale
Report: Tencent taking $3.5 billion loan for Supercell deal
Chinese firm seeks bank support for big money deal
Company Closure
UPDATE: Game engine start-up MaxPlay lays off most of its 70 staff as funding dries up
Former employee suggests start-up is no more
Super Pre-registration
Super Mario Run hits 20 million pre-registrations on the App Store
Tim Cook talks Nintendo and AR
Pushing Forward
Sony ForwardWorks to release up to six games across the next 18 months
Only in Asia
Cheap And Cheerful
App Store Search Ad campaigns have a 49.4% conversion rate with $0.40 CPA
Mobile Action breaks down the stats
Note Worthy
Samsung to lose $3 billion in next six months following catastrophic Galaxy Note 7 launch
Will fall back on its Galaxy S7 instead
Gameloft's Next Four
Gameloft outlines its first four game releases following Vivendi's hostile takeover
Three sequels and one original IP
Gotta Go Fast
GameFounders opens submissions for Janaury 2017 round of acceleration
Deadline on November 15th
New Nougat
Google to bring App Shortcuts and Image Keyboards to Android 7.1 Developer Preview later this month
Get a sneaky look and make sure your apps still work
Limited Limiting
18 million US iOS users have explicitly opted out of targeted advertising through Limit Ad Tracking
Less uptake in Asia than in the West
Acquisition News
ESL owner acquires 35% stake in German developer InnoGames valuing studio at €260 million
MTG coulc increase stake to majority 51%
Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
Vr For The Masses
Two million people in the UK will own a VR headset by the end of 2016
Will grow slowly across the next six years
Asia Bulletin
NCSoft signs $10 million China publishing deal, Finnish start-up wants to bring Moomin games to Asia, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Ios Uptake
Over 50% of Apple devices now have iOS 10 installed
Slower uptake than iOS 9
Doubling Up
Apple opening second China R&D centre in Shenzhen
Strengthening bonds even more
Life Thru A Hololens
HoloLens pre-orders open in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and UK
Prices starting at £2,719
'tis The Season
Halloween and Thanksgiving are just as important for mobile game marketers as Christmas
So says AppsFlyer
Valerian Mobile
Spil Games bags mobile game licence for upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Mobile strategy game tie-in launching in 2017
Samsung Sales
Samsung slashes sales forecasts and predicts $2 billion loss in wake Galaxy Note 7 woes
Sales figures affected, but not so much
Nexon Push
Nexon to bring Maple Story, Dungeon & Fighters and five other games to mobile by the end of 2016
Only reveals six