Imga Sea
IMGA to host first Southeast Asia awards in Malaysia, submissions now open
Entries close 31 August 2016
Older Female Payers
G5 Entertainment announces it's generated $100 million from mobile hidden object games
Can you spot the difference?
Getting Better
Google outlines the future of Google Play, including better betas and Early Access
A plethora of useful changes
Launch Window
Flaregames' Olympus Rising hits 1 million downloads
Strategy revisited
Looking Ahead
Google announces its high performance mobile VR-for-all ecosystem Daydream
For future Android hardware
Casual-core
Casual games steal midcore's clothes as Candy Blast Mania adds PVP Puzzle Tournaments
A new retention trend
Resurrection?
As Microsoft gives up, a Finnish startup attempts to reboot Nokia
Mobile business sold for $350 million
What's Next?
King to release two non-Candy Crush titles in 2016
Group synergies
Link Up
Gamevil partners with Cartoon Network, bringing Adventure Time characters to Dungeon Link
Summon Adventure Time heroes in the RPG puzzler
World Class Insight
EA, Gram Games, Roadhouse, and Pollen VC join global speaker roster for PG Connects Vancouver 2016
Vancouver-based, but fully international
Classics Digitised
Gamedoctors founders aim to "casualize" analogue classics with new Berlin studio 231 Play
Debut game will be Peppy Pairs Paradise
Kesha Of Clans
Experimenting with RPG retention, Glu brings guilds to Britney Spears: American Dream
Spears at the ready
No More Hero
King's soft-launched midcore title, Hero, pulled from Google Play
No reason given, but we have a few ideas
Setting The Pace
Samsung has sold more than 300,000 Gear VR headsets in Europe in 2016
Driven by discount for Samsung Galaxy S7 customers
Chomping Up Charts
Looks like Ubisoft has a mobile hit on its hands as Hungry Shark World does 10 million downloads in 6 days
And top 50 grossing too
Super Sell
Supercell valued at $5 billion as SoftBank rumoured to be selling shares
Talks with buyers in China reportedly already happeneing
Nordic Drinkup
Unwind at Nordic Game Conference with the Pocket Gamer DrinkUp on May 18
Chill out, network, and drink free beer
Flying High
The Angry Birds Movie makes $43 million in opening weekend
Around half its budget made back before launching in the US
Android Vr Rumours
Google expected to announce standalone Android VR device at I/O conference
Or maybe it needs a mobile device... or maybe both!
Burst The Bubble
Chinese government cracks down on game and VR investments
Market forces quashed
Spicy
Tag Games' tech spin-off Chilli Technologies officially launches ChilliConnect free backend service
Pay when live
New Funding
GREE announces new $65 million investment fund for startups
B2B and B2B2C companies being targeted
Home Growth
Sega Sammy sees 6% growth in Japanese mobile game revenues in FY16 to $375 million
But overall company sales down 5%
On The Up
Hoshi No Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius boost Square Enix's FY16 sales 28% to $2 billion
Old brands sparkle
An End To Infinity
Disney cuts console publishing, doubles down on mobile
Disney Infinity line killed off as 300 lose jobs
6 Finger Discount
Madfinger Games celebrates 6 years and 150 million downloads with in-game events
Free gold, cheap games
Lads Lads Lads
Spil Games acquires male-oriented browser game portal Mousebreaker
1.5 million 18-35 male players now at their disposal
Ezio Hunters
Ubisoft and Lilith Games partner to bring Assassin's Creed to Soul Hunters
Ezio Auditore to be a playable character in the Chinese action-RPG
Vainglory Spring Season
Vainglory Spring Season Championship events to be held in Hollywood and Berlin in June
June 3-5 in Hollywood, June 10-12 in Berlin
Esports Awareness
Over 1 billion people will be aware of eSports by the end of 2016, predicts Newzoo
Actual viewing audience currently around 292 million people
Normal For Norwich
Over 50,000 attend Norwich Gaming Festival 2016
Free for all
Play To Win
First China Mobile eSports Games competition kicks off with Vainglory, CrossFire and King of Glory
It's already happening
Rpg Cash Machine
Summoners War hits $500 million in lifetime revenues, boosting Com2uS to another sales record
From only 60 million downloads
Uniting Women
Unity announces five-part Women In Gaming talks
Talks across the globe by women in the industry, for women in the industry
Free Emblem
Nintendo confirms Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem mobile games will be free-to-play
After the success of Miitomo, it's no real surprise
Tag Team
Vivid Games announces its first publishing deal
Developed by fellow Polish developer EVERYDAYiPLAY
Google Play Charts
Puzzle & Dragons is the highest grossing Google Play game of all time
According to App Annie
Rising High
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes helps boost EA Mobile FY16 sales up 9% to $548 million
Big brand, big hit
Home Runs
Baseball titles boost Konami's FY16 game sales up 27% to $1.2 billion
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyu bats well
Take You On A Cruise
One Piece Treasure Cruise passes 10 million downloads in the west
Niche performer
Monster Downloads
Monster Hunter Explore surpasses 3 million downloads
Worldwide launch expected sometime this year
Dragons & Downloads
Puzzle & Dragons reaches 10 million downloads in North America
But will it be enough to keep GungHo afloat?
The Anti Ces
In search of mobile gaming at Collision 2016
Hot new tech conference shows promise for gaming startups
Canada Calling
Tilting Point, King, Icejam, Colopl, Bandai Namco and Roadhouse confirmed as PGC Vancouver speakers
32 more reasons to come to Canada on June 28-29
Watch More
Instagram becomes even more tantalising for UA as it introduces video carousel ads
Five ads, one post
Cannibal Clash
Is Clash Royale cannibalizing Clash of Clans' sales?
EEDAR reckons so
Strong Support = Strong Results
34% of PocketGamer.biz's top 50 developers use in-app support platform Helpshift
Customer support the key, says Helpshift
Bubble Wilbur Saga
King soft-launches new entry in Bubble Witch Saga series, disguises it as "Wilbur"
Calling the package "com.king.bubblewitch3" a bit of a giveaway
It's A Wrap
Alternative Android distribution platform Flexion raises $3 million to expand into India, Iran and more
Going global
Hero King
Updated: King goes midcore, soft-launching one-handed RPG Hero
A simple name for a simple game?