Reeling 'em In
Hitting 100,000 installs a month, Gear VR fishing sim Bait! passes 700,000 downloads
New content being added all the time
Apple R&d
Apple attempts to improve iPhone sales in China with a new R&D centre
Hoping to improve relations
Tencent Financials Fy16 Q2
Even before Supercell deal closes, Tencent sees huge surge in mobile game revenues
Total revenues up to $5.4 billion in FY16 Q2
New Frames Needed
How to convert your freemium-hating colleagues to F2P
MegaZebra's Matthew Laurence on challenging stigma
Money Money Money
Eric Seufert, Rovio, Gram Games, Dodreams, Pascal Clarysse and more scheduled for PGC Helsinki 2016's Monetise, Retain, Acquire track
Everything you need to know about getting players and keeping them playing
Big On Events
Samurai Siege’s $37 million lifetime revenue growth now being driven by in-game events
Why in-game events can be worthwhile
Tiga Findings
Games industry contributes $1.6 billion to UK GDP
Growth across the industry at an all-time high
Egg Hatching
European Games Group looking to boost portfolio following several million Euro investment
Undisclosed additional capital from Ventech and Omnes Capital
Turkey Loves Indies
Turkey seeks to bring in fresh game development talent with Turkey Loves Indies campaign
Save money by moving your business to Turkey
Closer To Home
Mixi suspends Monster Strike's US marketing; pivots to focus on China
Competitive beast
Spil-ing Over
Spil Games' mobile reboot pays off: it's restating 2016 goal up to 150 million downloads
Has done 100 million downloads in 12 months
Sea-registration
Adways brings its pre-registration campaigns to Southeast Asia, starting in Thailand and Vietnam
Operating through SEA ad network Seads
Rise And Fall
Z2's future looks uncertain as forthcoming midcore title Rise of Tyrants is canned
Writing's on the wall
Asia Bulletin
Nexon grows in South Korea, Android takes 97% of India smartphone market in Q2, and more
Your weekly Asia bulletin
Angriest Birds
Rovio soft-launches yet another Angry Birds title, Angry Birds Blast
Was two not enough?
Learn From Experience
Pitching advice from 45-year industry stalwart Don Daglow
How to sell your vision
Casting Investment
Tencent-led Series C round pushes total investment in Chinese gamecasting platform Douyu TV to over $2 billion
Had previously helped investment push over $1 billion
No Babysitting
OKAM Studio on empowering designers with Godot Engine's adventure game framework Escoria
Ariel Manzur on letting designers design
Going Up
Pokemon GO will soon hit $350 million; well on its way to generating $1 billion
And other stats from App Annie
Mobius Million
Mobius Final Fantasy hits one million downloads outside Japan
New items added to store to appeal to Western players
Designing Candy
How King uses magic and data to find the fun in Candy Crush
Jeremy Kang discusses level design on match-3 games
Secret Service
Unity Finland working on mysterious "revolutionary" Project X
Jussi Laakkonen teases details
Z2 Job Cuts
King-owned developer Z2Live cuts marketing and support functions staff
Parent company aligning studio with its strategic goals
Hard Steel
Exclusive Chinese World of Tanks licensor KongZhong doesn't get rights to World of Tanks: Blitz
Deal modified
Not Just A Fad
Pokemon GO players are more engaged and willing to spend than ever
In New Zealand anyway
Pitching & Networking
Getting into Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016 for free
Looking for a way to bag yourself a free ticket to PGC Helsinki?
All Aboard
Ex-Kabam COO Chris Carvalho joins G5 Entertainment's board of directors
Mobcrush and Playfab investor on board
Trivia Cracked
Trivia Crack Kingdoms surpasses seven million downloads in 10 months
Over 2 billion questions answered
Paid Vs. Free
"Paid apps are truly dead”
But are they really?
Trying Times
GREE looks to Japanese "release blitz" to rescue longterm decline
Planning a "release blitz" for FY17
Nearly Free-to-play
Top Indian indie games selling at $0.15 apiece as part of Indian App Store's Independence Week
Four Indian Mavens featured
New Era
Craig Chapple appointed Editor of PocketGamer.biz
Ric Cowley and Matt Suckley promoted to News Editor and Features Editor
Firefly Funding
Firefly Games closes $10 million funding round to work on Hollywood IPs
Also looking into VR and eSports
Party
Pocket Gamer’s ChinaJoy Mobile Mixer led the way on a night of 100 parties in Shanghai
Thanks to AOL 1, Akamai and The Specialist Works
Boss Remedy
Remedy names former RedLynx boss as its new CEO
Finnish studio hires Tero Virtala after 12 years at RedLynx
Vr Indie Pitch
The VR Indie Pitch launches on September 6th at PG Connects Helsinki
A very real indie competition for virtual development.
Key Curriculum
PG Connects Helsinki 2016 Mobile Games University track schedule includes King, Rovio, Frogmind, Amazon, Secret Police, Mana Cube, Google and more
That's six hours of game development learning
Too Many Apps?
App Store to have over 5 million active apps by the end of 2020
73% more than the end of 2016
Child's Play
Kids' game publisher TabTale crosses 1 billion downloads
Tel Aviv studio scores big with family-friendly angle
Dena Financials Fy16 Q1
DeNA sees small revenue increase as it focuses in on Japan and China
Stepping away from the economic uncertainty of the rest of the world
The Xtra Mile
Backend as a Service provider Clan of the Cloud rebrands as XtraLife, gives devs open source access
Wandrille Pruvot appointed new CEO
Keep Them Close
Retention is dropping across all apps, but games have the worst of the lot
People churn, gamers churn faster
Pokemon Stay
Pokemon GO may have peaked in the US, but how well is it retaining users a month after release?
Verto Analytics looks back at the last 30 days
Growing Plan
Shifting DAUs from low value China, how Seriously used influencers to raise US daily revenues 400%
Best Fiends love
Up And Down
Apple smartphone sales see small growth in US and Europe, but continue to stumble in China
Poor launch of iPhone SE partly to blame
Fishlabs Senior Hires
Deep Silver Fishlabs bolsters its team with trio of senior hires
Studio now employs 92 staff
Ready To Grow
Unity relocates Brighton office to newly-built CityView tech hub
A 16,124 square foot commitment
Nexon Fy16 Q2 Financials
Nexon grows in South Korea with DomiNations and Heroes of Incredible Tales, but suffers losses overall
Takes biggest hit in North America
Be In The Running
2016 Unity Awards now open for submissions
Categories include Best Mobile Game and Best VR Game
Charitable Acts
Palringo brings out the best in its users to raise $1 million for charity
Action Against Hunger and Islamic Relief helped enourmously