Busy Bees
Koukoi Games to bring Crashing Season to Japan as part of Asia push
Partners with Worker Bee for localisation
Pokemon Won't Stop
Pokemon GO rakes in $200 million in its first month
Outperforms Clash Royale in every way
Time To Network
Pocket Gamer and G-STAR to team up for the best industry party at Gamescom, in association with G2A
Join us for drinks and networking on 17 August
Asia Bulletin
Chinese consortium acquires Playtika, M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion, and more
Here's your weekly Chinese summary of the top stories in mobile gaming
Perfect Publishing
How to publish a game perfectly in China, according to CMGE
Keep your eye on the market
Spending Habits
Chinese mobile game players spend more at midnight but play more at midday
Key user habits and profiles based on 100 million players
Simple Ua
Mobile marketing platform Simplaex reaches more than 50 million players in four months
100 million expected by the end of September
Cultural Clash
Cultural clashes are still holding back Chinese developers overseas
Companies should focus on quality over quantity, panel suggests
July Ad Spend
MZ made up 40% of games industry US TV ad spend in July 2016
King, InnoGames also feature
Watch This Space
Apple Watch 2 fitted with GPS rumored for release in second half of 2016
New smartwatch to bring barometer and better battery life too
Pokemon Gone
Iran bans Pokemon GO
And other strange goings-on around the world
Rebuilding Job
Zynga kills soft launched CityVille game for failure to meet expectations
But still committed to brand
Activision Blizzard Financials
King brings in $454 million and 409 million MAUs for Activision Blizzard following acquisition
Another non-Candy Crush game due out later this year
Relentless Relents
Relentless Software to close after almost 13 years
All staff made redundant
Multiplayer Made Easy
New V-Play feature lets devs implement real-time and turn-based multiplayer for free
Multiplayer implementation with less than 100 lines of code
Long Wait
Zynga's Social Slots see 31% growth but overall the company remains loss-making
Waiting for a hero
King Crab
iCandy Interactive's Crab War gets its pincers into one million users
Most successful game for the company to date
Speaker Squad
Mark Sorrell, Traplight Games, Beatshapers, Seepia, Sisu and Dodreams join PG Connects Helsinki 2016
One month to go for final PGC of the year
Freeing Resources
Third-party Pokemon GO apps "hurt" game and delayed Latin America launch
Niantic explains why it blocked them
Taking Over
Mobile gaming bigger than ever at Gamescom 2016
Mobile industry attendance up 20% on last year, representing 1/8 of all exhibitors
Total Dominance
Apple loses ground as Android swallows up 97% of India smartphone market in Q2 2016
iOS market share for the quarter fell to 2.4%
Make It Huuuge
Huuuge Games raises $4.6 million to grow social casino games business globally
Investment led by Woori Technology Investment
Zynga's Latest Exec
Zynga swoops for EA exec Matthew Bromberg as its new Chief Operating Officer
New exec will oversee business operations and Bangalore studio
Funding Stimulator
Job Simulator dev Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games
Studio believes VR will be as big as mobile
Get Hired
How to get a job at Avakin Life developer Lockwood Publishing
CEO Halli Bjornsson shares insights
Branching Out
Lockwood Publishing opens VR and AI-focused studio in Brighton
Ex-EA Tech Director Bruce Heather to lead the studio
Mobile Nation
iOS the most popular platform for UK games developers
Mobile leads the way
Natives Revolting
"Exorbitant" Game of War update triggers IAP boycott by some high level kingdoms
Trouble brewing
Join Us
Pocket Gamer publisher Steel Media hiring B2B Events Sales Professional
Boasts remote working, flexible hours, and incredibly good-looking colleagues
Banking Billions
App Store developers have earned more than $50 billion since 2008
July 2016 was a record breaking month for the marketplace
Instant Community
KTplay launches its instant in-game community platform for western developers
SDK already boasts 150 million active users in China
High Rollers
US casino operator splashes up to $170 million on developer Rocket Games
Management could earn extra $110m from acquisition
Long Players
Are Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes players really averaging 2.5 hours of gameplay every day?
Strong engagement
Levelling Up
Stellar performance from Star War: Galaxy of Heroes boosts EA Mobile's sales to a record $165 million
Global top 20 grosser
20x20 Fun
Join Rovio's Wilhelm Taht for the PechaKucha Sessions at PG Connects Helsinki 2016
Oscar Clark ended up losing his trousers at the last one...
Blowing Up
Big Bang Racing hits one million downloads in its first week
100,000 user-generated levels already available
Taking Its Time
Netmarble and nWay partner once again to bring ChronoBlade to North America
Previously brought it to South Korea
Not In My Backyard
Nintendo and Niantic facing lawsuit over Pokemon GO trespassers
Is Pokemon GO encouraging trespass, and is it profiting from it?
Finite Disney
Disney Infinity discontinuing online services
Mobile support the first to go
M&a For Days
Games industry M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion in July 2016
Playtika, King, and Supercell deals lead the way
Reality Strikes
In Pictures: The Global VR Challenge
Visions of China
New York To Montreal
Jesse Divnich leaves Tilting Point to join Hibernum as VP of Product
Former Tilting Point and EEDAR man confident for Hibernum's future
Apply Now
Toronto studio Get Set Games hiring Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint Scripter
Full listing available on PocketGamer.biz
Reunited
King invests big in Swedish developer Snowprint Studios
Bringing old friends back into the fold
Pawapuro Power
Konami's game sales rise 6% on the back of 25 million Power Pro downloads
Hitting a homerun
Ground Up
Glispa launches its performance-at-scale influencer network Voltu
34,000 loudspeakers
Rise Of Video
App Annie launches new service covering the $39 billion in-app advertising market
Who's advertising where?
Catch 'em All
Almost two-thirds of Pokemon GO players are female
Nearly half aged 18-29
Hooray For Indies
Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 19th annual competition
Submissions open until October 24
Long-term Partnership
Flaregames acquires Nonstop Knight developer Kopla Games
Locks down its most successful partnership to date