More Monsters
Rovio's Pet Monsters expands soft launch to India, Ireland, and the UK
Flat out fails in the UK
Ua In Asia
How to adapt your UA campaign for China, Japan and South Korea
They key cultural differences between the top Asian countries for mobile games
Fraud Or Flight
Apps marketers will lose up to $100 million from fraud in 2016
AppsFlyer introduces DeviceRank to combat it
Player Personalities
The four MMO player types you can target for your UA campaign
Achievers, explorers, socialisers and killers
Get Into The Jam
SGN Games rebrands as Jam City as it bolsters branded IP roster with Peanuts license
All in the name of growth
Party Hats And Streamers
BlueStacks integrates Facebook Live streaming into its Android-to-PC platform
Making streaming even easier
We Jammin'
XX+ Games Jam to host jam for women in UK and Canada on October 14th
24 hours to make a game
Battle's End
Blizzard dropping Battle.net name after almost 20 years of service
Technology will continue to be used
Creative Crossley
Creative England appoints ex-GameSpot editor Rob Crossley as Head of Games
Informing future strategies and decisions
Key Frames
NCSOFT partners with IKinema to use cost-cutting procedural animation system in next title
Real-time inverse kinematics, they call it
Studio Closure
Update: Vancouver studio Roadhouse Interactive closes and lays off around 100 staff
A Thinking Ape hosts hiring party for affected employees
Driving Vr Adoption
AR has Pokemon GO, but what is virtual reality's killer app going to look like?
VR experts discuss how to drive adoption of headsets
Indie Game Funding
Consultancy Games Co. London raises $782,000 to invest in new indie games
Three new games to receive funding
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
'allo 'allo
Google releases iOS 10 Messages rival app Allo
Stickers, font sizes, and Google Assistant
Going To China
Pokemon GO aiming for release in China, says Pokemon Company's CEO
New features still on their way
A Good Note
Improved Galaxy Note 7's are already being sold by US mobile carriers
Only 25% of owners have returned their exploding phones
Going, Going, Gone
Pokemon GO falls from the top of the US App Store grossing charts for first time in 74 days
Still floundering in Japan
Real-money Gaming
Swedish real-money eSports company Gumbler raises €5 million from tennis and football stars
Robin Söderling, Andreas Granqvist and Martin Dahlin bet on real-money gaming company
Have A Corona
Perk sells Corona Labs to its own CEO as competition in the game engine space heats up
Paying him back for his shares
Denial Of Service
Hearthstone and other Blizzard games suffer DDoS attacks
Servers go offline
Vr Is Here
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset launches at UK retail for £549
VR revolution gets underway
Nexus No More?
Google teases new smartphone announcement at October 4th event
Maybe we'll see Google Daydream too?
Less Life
Samsung limits Galaxy Note 7 battery life to stop them from exploding
Adds an alert to phones telling users to turn them off
Asia Bulletin
Chinese eSports dev Hero Entertainment gets $288 million investment, advertising platform Leadbolt opens Bangalore office, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Galaxy Note 7 Returns
US Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sales to resume on October 21st
Tokyo Game Show
Record 270,000 attendees visit Tokyo Game Show 2016
Tokyo Game Show 2017 dates revealed
Tanks For The Memories
Wargaming's Tank 100 app lets users see 100 tanks in 100 UK locations through AR and VR
See them in the real world, watch a film about them in VR
Virtual Phone
You can use your mobile phone in PlayStation VR with AnywhereVR
The virtual world gets more real
Supercell Expansion?
Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
CEO Ilkka Paananen expands on his previous hints
Match-third
One-third of Japan's 127 million population has downloaded Puzzle & Dragons
So says Serkan Toto
Pick 'n' Mix
MoPub helps devs reduce app size and pick select ad formats with new modular SDK
Pick and choose which ads you want to implement
Samsung Lawsuit
Galaxy Note 7 owner sues Samsung after phone explodes in their pocket
Amount of damages undisclosed
Very Much Alive
Warner Bros. Suicide Squad: Special Ops achieves 10 million downloads
70% of downloads on Google Play
Borrowed Time
Marmalade 8.6 launches with iOS 10 and Android N support
The SDK gears up for new OS updates
It's A Hit
Trophit and Adways join forces to boost Prelaunch.me's pre-registration campaigns
More gifts equals more pre-registrations
Gaming Gifts
Sponsored gifts lift 2D shooter Deul’s daily revenues by up to 38%
Sponsored gifts earning more than IAPs
Good Causes
GamesAid raises record-breaking £954,000 for UK charities
69 per cent more than 2015
Jobs News
Disney’s Mobile Games GM jumps ship to NBCUniversal as its new games exec
Chris Heatherly leaves after 14 years
The Dead Rise Revenues
Scopely scores big as Walking Dead: Road To Survival reaches $5 ARPDAU and 25 million downloads
Impressive numbers across the board
Jurassic Vr
Google Cardboard dinosaur adventure Jurassic VR surpasses three million downloads
Publisher Rabbit Mountain wants more VR games in its portfolio
China Esports Deal
Huyai Brothers invests $288 million in major Chinese eSports developer Hero Entertainment
Good deal for both sides
Cast Iron Team
CastAR snaps up ex-Avalanche staff to bolster new Salt Lake City studio
From toys-to-life to mixed reality
Last Chance
Final hours of PG Connects London 2017 Super Early Bird tickets, January 16th-17th
Don't miss Europe's biggest B2B mobile games event of the year
Sell Out
Apple sells out of iPhone 7 Plus and jet black iPhone 7 in first week
Other colours still available
Job Losses
Disney cuts around 125 jobs at Marvel: Avengers Alliance developer
Game closed, staff cut
Indian Potential
Mobile advertising platform Leadbolt opens Bangalore office
Sydney-based ad platform targets India's 204m smartphones
Harsh Virtual Reality
Sony cuts "a substantial number" of jobs at London Studio as it wraps up VR project
Studio restructuring leaves some out of work
Taking The Reigns
Tinder-esque indie strategy game Reigns swipes 600,000 downloads
Title has made approximately $1.8 million in sales
Mobile Savior
Nexon signs global publishing deal for Korean MMO Tree of Savior Mobile
Deal excludes Greater China