Storm8 Study
Germany, Japan, and Russia play three times more casual games than any other market, claims Storm8
Most gaming done during the weekdays
More Than Crossy Road
Hipster Whale sets up as a publisher, hires new president
Clara Reeves joins from Film Victoria
Games By The Numbers
82% of all mobile games are downloaded on Android devices, finds Unity
Based on downloads of Unity-powered apps
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
Beyond Japan
Japanese App Annie competitor Fuller raises $4 million from Sega and others to go international
Expanding analytics and making apps easy
Bafta Games Lecture
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen to give BAFTA lecture on 5 September
Talking about company culture
In The Real World
Pokeballs: All the stupid things Pokemon GO made us do
Silly Season
Poke-day In Tokyo
Servers braced and Giga Big Macs primed as Pokemon GO preps to go live in Japan
Coming home
Fansourcing
Updated: My.com sets up new studio to crack mobile MOBAs
Planet of Heroes will be Fast Forward's debut
Jump Higher
Doodle Jump leaps onto eSports bandwagon
Old dog, new tricks
No Stars
Rovio Stars on why it hasn't published a game for over a year
Matthew Wilson is getting fussy
Canny Bird
Early Bird rate for PG Connects Helsinki 2016 is running out
Tick tock, tick tock, the clock will stop
Bits & Pieces
Chinese companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun Games buy Opera's consumer businesses for $600 million
Focus for a quick sale
Designs On Vr
Video: Resolution Game's Tommy Palm on what makes a great VR game
CEO discusses VR's future
Look At Me
Worth 3 Supercells: SoftBank gets back into the expansion game with $32 billion acquisition of ARM
Indebted Japanese firm spends more
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
Big Indie Pitch
Big Indie Pitch heads to Gamescom 2016 on 16 August
Come show us your game and win some prizes
Buying Data
Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista continues its westward expansion buying GameAnalytics
Deal #2
Connected
Mobile game spenders are more social
Facebook research
New Channel
Flexion gains $2 million for its new Gamesmondo distribution and affiliate platform
Horizon 2020 gives grant
Trio Up
Deep Silver Fishlabs hires new three senior development staff
Technical edge
Dark Side
NSPCC deeply troubled about 'well documented child safety concerns' of Pokemon GO
Think about the kids
Pc Challengers
Global VR Challenge: The PC VR contenders
We profile the developers targetting desktops
Space Ape Spend
How Space Ape wasted millions marketing its dark fantasy game Rival Kingdoms through the wrong UA channels
Mistakes made and lessons learned
Pots Of Gold
Pokemon GO to add sponsored locations
Second revenue stream
Indie Survival
Ian Masters on how to manage your life and mental health as an indie
Exercise, meditate, and sleep right
Fastforward Finland
King, Seriously, Wooga, Rovio, Frogmind, Gamevil, PlayRaven & more announced for PG Connects Helsinki 2016
First speakers revealed for September 5th-6th conference
War Chest
DFJ Growth leads Unity funding round of $181 million
Barry Schuler joins the board
Born Free
“Don’t make a premium app on mobile unless you’re Monument Valley”
Leanne Bayley on why indies should consider embracing free-to-play
Google Growth
How Google is integrating tools and automating app store discovery
Ads and automation
Guerrilla Marketing
How to use low-cost guerrilla marketing to push your indie game
Training pigeons encouraged but not required
"craft Games Studio"
Monument Valley lead designer founds Mountains, a new Melbourne games studio
Three-person team focused on premium mobile games
Vr Hyperbole
Hideo Kojima on virtual reality’s potential to change the world
"I really think the possibilities are infinite"
Mobile Challengers
Global VR Challenge: The mobile VR contenders
We profile the developers targetting smartphones
New Reality
Asobo: Augmented reality devices closer to market than you think
AR more user friendly than VR, says David Dedeine
After The Gold Rush
Auroch Digital on how to run a successful Kickstarter in a world of jaded backers
It's hard, but you can do it
180 And Growing
How to get a job at Trivia Crack developer Etermax
Recruiting Lead Fernanda Rodriguez shares insights
Lessons In Vr
Why VR game developers need to "sacrifice creativity for comfort"
Player Research on the lessons developers have learned in VR
Ar Or Vr?
Should indie developers be working on AR or VR?
Koolhaus Games thinks it's AR
Growing Pains
Oculus' Anna Sweet on why VR is still in its "Pong Stage"
New genres
New Hat
TinyBuild's Twitch guru Mike Rose joins Ripstone Games
Seeking third-party PC, console, and mobile games to publish
After Hours
Pocket Gamer's Develop:Brighton 2016 party and networking guide
Rounding up the best extracurricular activities
Big Beast
App Annie reckons Pokemon GO could generate $1 billion a year
Fastest grossing
Going Strong
In the US, Pokemon GO is bigger than Tinder, and it's on track to have more DAUs than Twitter
AR game rivals messaging apps for usage
Off To A Flyer
Pokémon GO making $1.6 million per day on the US App Store
Topping both Downloads and Grossing charts
Gotta Count Them All
Pokemon Go adds $8 billion to Nintendo's value over the weekend
Market cap up 40%
Mobile Focus
Turbine cuts jobs as it focuses on free-to-play mobile development
PC MMO teams cut significantly
Clash China
Tencent starts distributing Clash Royale through China
Not that it wasn't already there
Ninten-go
Nintendo's market value shoots to $23 billion following launch of Pokémon GO
Share values rise 10%
A Good Harvest
Farm Heroes Super Saga was the fastest growing Android game in June, as Clash Royale falls rapidly
Clash Royale engagement starting to fall