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?
Creative Accounting
Estimates suggest King may have stabilised its revenue decline
Very simple math
Biggleswho?
Top Eleven dev Nordeus renews sponsorship of the best football team you've never heard of
Biggleswade United FC gets the Top Eleven logo on their shirts for another season
Discontinuous
Stripping out King stub revenues, Activision Blizzard sees FY16 Q1 mobile sales down 58% to $36 million
Up and down
Publisher Panel
Video: The role of publishers, according to the publishers themselves
What they look for and what they can do for you
Seriously Lifestyle
Seriously widens Best Fiends' UA strategy, signing up 200 lifestyle YouTubers for new influencer campaign
PewDiePie swapped out for CuteGirlsHairstyles
Kim Is Still King
Kendall and Kylie fails to sustain as Glu sees FY16 Q1 revenues down 11% to $55 million
B-list
Foxy Business
Plarium reboots Stormfall with Megan Fox as your in-game inspiration
Doing things the MZ way
Intern Wanted
Dutch publisher TFJoy hiring Intern Game Programmer
Rotterdam firm seeks killed coder for paid internship
Talk Talk
Speaker submissions for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016 now open
Indian game dev conference returns 10-12 November
Player Survey
Nielsen launches its Mobile Game Tracking service
From the players mouth
Cash Royale
Supercell on track to break $3 billion barrier in 2016
Out-performs Tom Clancy's The Division on consoles
Beam Me Up
How to get a job at Star Trek Timelines' developer Disruptor Beam
VP of People Ops Jennifer Ramcharan shares insights
Must-go Show
Last chance for Early Bird tickets for PG Connects Vancouver, June 28-29
Hurry - final 24 hours before price increase!
Apply Now
Korean publisher Smilegate hiring Software Engineer and UI Artists
English or Korean speakers needed for MMO project