Celebrating The Ecosystem
Who are some of Apple's favourite game developers? Earth knows...
Apps for Earth highlights some faves
New Job
Kabam's Chris Petrovic now SVP at Zynga
New business challenges
Get, Steady...
Video: Adways on how pre-registration can rocket-boost your launch
In particular, its own PreLaunch.me service
Looking Good
ARM launches Mali Graphics Week 2016 on 18 April
Chip company reaches out
Develop Indie Showcase
Submissions now open for the Develop:Brighton Indie Showcase
Free conference tickets for the ten finalists
Session Lengths
Video: Nicholas Lovell on why your on-ramp needs to be better than Facebook's
Good luck with that!
Taking Charge
GSN Games appoints Arun Dutta as Country Manager for India
Overseeing new projects and Bingo Bash live ops
Climax Auckland
Climax Studios opens new Auckland studio with ex-Gameloft employees
Focuing on AR and VR projects
Swedish Scenes At Stugan
Stugan 2016 applications closed, location of summer program announced
7 weeks of making games in the Swedish countryside
Looking Ahead
Part funded by Mixi and COLOPL, GREE announces its $12 million VR investment fund
Western focus for Japanese outfit
Big Boots
How to get a job at one of Gameloft's 21 global studios
HR Manager Romain Delebecque shares insights
Meg-ua Predictions
Eric Seufert predicts the UA mega trends of 2016
What will be big?
Time To Split
Cliff Bleszinski, Rami Ismail and Tim Schafer among the speakers for Croatia's Reboot Develop 2016 conference
Croatia's premier conference returns 28-30 April
Bigger Brands
Animoca Brands raises $5 million for content and IP acquisitions
In expansion mode
Cogs In The Machine
Machine Zone hiring for live ops and engineering in Hamburg and Palo Alto
In the zone
Softlayer Services
Video: Softlayer on the importance of cloud hosting services and GPNs
Need to scale? You'll need cloud hosting
All In Hand
Keep calm and carry on racing: Zynga VP Chris Plummer now leading CSR Racing dev Boss Alien
Boss Alien in safe hands
Programme Perfect
Full schedule announced for Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2016
55+ sessions and 35+ hours of unmissable content on April 21-22
What's Next?
Updated: With CSR Racing 2 still in soft launch, studio boss Jason Avent leaves
Boss Alien loses boss
Culture Test
Video: How to pass the Cultural Test for the Video Games Tax Relief
British money for British companies
Empire Builder
Vainglory eSports team acquisitions continue as Rebirth of Empire bought by mousesports
German organisation snaps up local young team
Tale Of 2 Publishers
Nexon passes on Turbo's Super Senso, leaving GungHo to sign publishing deal
All change
Big Indie Pitch
Pitch your mobile and VR games at the Big Indie Pitch @ Gamefest Berlin 2016 on 22 April
Get your game in front of experts and journalists
Rewarded Action
As Unity highlights the power of rewarded video ads, ex-Tapjoy exec Paul Bowen joins as VP for Unity Ads
Different incentive
Live Pitches
Video: PGC London 2016 live investor pitching
There's plenty of advice and criticism, but will anyone get any investment?
Hu Ge is the new celebrity endorser for Westward Journey
NetEase's top game has a new face
Something New
TrulySocial raises investment from Nazara Games, London Venture Partners and Supercell game lead
Games for women
New Way To Stream
BlueStacks' Twitch integration provides wire-free Android game streaming from your PC
Open for all
21-22 April
Why you should be heading to Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2016
Everything's hot in India
Venture Concerns
Video: Shelley Lau on what VCs look for for when investing
They're not just there to bail you out
Tanks Royale
FTUE: League of War: Mercenaries
GREE re-enters the battle
Prime Asset
Veteran Apple game dev Pangea Software for sale to the 'right buyer'
Brian Greenstone retires from games
Turnaround
Rovio's game sales up again to $161 million, but company makes loss in 2015
#MakeRovioGreatAgain
Built From Clay
Video: Clayburger on looking for publishers at PGC London 2016
Matej Pavelka talks the difficulties of being a two man team
Data Beyond Games
Updated: Machine Zone spins out big data tech RTplatform as separate division
What Gabe Leydon did next
Solid Session
Mark Cerny to interview Hideo Kojima at Develop:Brighton 2016
Fireside chat as keynote
Vc And Me
Video: How Pollen VC can accelerate your cashflow
Get your app store revenues faster thanks to venture capitalism
Luck Of The Roll
Netmarble combines Everyone's Marble with Disney characters, announcing its Disney Magical Dice virtual board game
Korean publisher steps up
The Client's Always Right
NativeX is hiring a Developer Relations Manager
Courting clients and analysing performance
Virtual Realities
Video: Volker Ritzhaupt on meditative VR puzzle game Carpe Lucem
Avoiding motion sickness by going at a slower pace
Funny Business
US comic Kevin Hart is 'doing a Kardashian' with mobile game in the works
Lionsgate signs long-term deal
Core Centre
Capcom consolidations all mobile operations to aggressive focus on own IP games
Beeline Interactive dissolved
Your Next Job
Helsinki developer Next Games is hiring a Full Stack Developer
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land dev looks to bolster Live Ops team
Singularity
Go computer AlphaGo relaxes by becoming the #1 Clash Royale player in the world
What it did next
On The Up
NetEase Games ranked 6th on PocketGamer.biz's Top 50 Developer 2016 list
Going global
Vainglory Growth
Super Evil Megacorp and Twitch sign three-year deal to grow Vainglory's eSports presence
Multi-million dollar investment from both companies
From Facebook To Mobile
Disney launches Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2, the sequel to its most successful social game ever
2012 Facebook title gets a 3D, mobile-only sequel
Jobs Feed
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Mad Max Frozen
FTUE: Winterstate
A cocktail of ice and explosions
Reel 'em In
Gear VR fishing game Bait! catches 150,000 downloads in first five days of release
First download data released for an Oculus-powered game