Big Birds
Angry Birds 2 guzzles 1 million downloads in 12 hours
Players flock to play Rovio's sequel
Rocket Fuel
HyprMX parent Jun Group raises $28 million
Throwing petrol on the branded ad opportunity
Legacy Glide
Despite no new launches, EA Mobile sees Q1 FY16 sales rise 7% to $145 million
Squeezing the margins
Two Heads Better
Mobile gaming streamer Mobcrush adds ex-Appler Greg Essig and ex-Googler Koh Kim to team
Beams are crossed
Opium For The People
Godus heads to China thanks to LongTu publishing deal
God games go east
Summoning Downloads
Local branding campaigns power Summoners War beyond 40 million downloads worldwide
Com2uS USA on understanding your market
Seven Months High
Marvel Contest of Champions is Kabam's fastest game to $100 million revenue
Superhero performance
Sheer Weight Of Numbers
The Simpsons: Tapped Out CEO Stuart Duncan launches Icejam, his new big data-focused studio
Canadian reboot
Shock And Horror
Five Nights at Freddy's movie scoops Poltergeist director
Movie pre-production rolls on as Scott Cawthon endures hate
Sowing Seeds
Mobile strategy outfit Gunjin Games bags $1.3 million seed funding
UK developer turns heads.
The Birds Are Back In Town
Angry Birds 2 launches with new Silver female cast member
Rovio's sequel hits shelves
Fire The Engines
Chukong unveils major Cocos engine upgrade including SDKBOX platform
Cocos v3.7 comes with a cluster of new tricks
July Gloom
Following GREE, Kixeye is latest SF company to shed jobs
Hasn't made the mobile transition
Major Players
Spil Games expands exec team with hires from Bigpoint and Ubisoft
Jan-Michel Saaksmeier and Christian Godorr join the team
Slip Sliding
FY15 Q2 sales drop 5% to $69 million as Gameloft hit by a 17% decline in DAUs
Sales don't match downloads
Vbip @pgc
Calling all mobile, wearable, or VR game devs: enter the Very Big Indie Pitch at PGC Helsinki 2015
Get free conference passes, your game noticed, and a chance to win big
Something New
Gumi chooses Berlin for its new European-focused mobile game development team
Central location is best
Casually Connect
Register now for the GungHo and Pocket Gamer-hosted Playphone Summer Bash at Casual Connect
12 August - remember the date
Rebounds
Following hard reset in SF, GREE expands with new offices in Berlin and Melbourne
Cheaper, fresher locations
Open Arms Around The World
Why Google's Niantic Labs is taking Ingress' success and scaling up to an open platform
Anne Beuttenmüller shares insights
The End For Ouya
Razer confirms all-cash Ouya acquisition, with software and staff assimilated into Forge TV operation
All-cash deal sees Razer strengthen its Android TV business
Rare Treats
Despite Fallout Shelter's success, Bethesda's not ready to open mobile game floodgates
Not developing for mobile "unless it's a good fit."
Spell It Out
Stugan: How to write for video games
We ask three video game writers about their creative processes
Iap Vs Ads
deltaDNA SmartAds increases in-game ad revenue by 300%
Breaking the IAP vs advertising dichotomy
Out & About
Want to ChinaJoy(n) us this week in Shanghai?
Alternatively you can catch up in Cologne, see us in San Francisco or say hi in Helsinki!
Those Who Can, Speak
Final call for speakers at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2015
Just a few slots left to share your knowledge at 7-8 September conference
Going Public
Japanese monetization maestro Metaps is going public
Japan's most-funded startup is filing for an IPO
Play For Cash
BigBit partners with Cashplay for real-cash Race Team Manager tournaments
New game mode allows players to compete for money
Creative Control
NetEase's Success Fund offers up to $500,000 for indie mobile games
Promises an alternative to traditional publishing model
First In
Klang Games bags London Venture Partners investment
Former Supercell investment finds a new project
Jobs In Germany
Angry Birds Epic developer seeking several new faces for its Munich office
Plus vacancies from Zeitland and It Matters Games
Puzzle Unlocked
Puzzle & Dragons does 37 million downloads
Big downloads, bigger revenue
Apply Now
How to get a job at Berlin casual developer GameDuell
Head of HR Rüdiger von Hennig reveals top tips
Eurozone
PlayFab cracks Europe, wants to help you do the same
Backend specialist opens new Berlin office
Your Move
Relentless on why casual devs should look to board games for inspiration
Life after Buzz
Big Bucks
SGN bags $130 million Netmarble investment to break into East
Korean publisher invests in US outfit
Brand Intro
HyprMX's Dan Laughlin on bringing big brand advertising to mobile games
Into the mainstream
Signed And Sealed
OKAM Studio signs publishing deal with Deep Silver Fishlabs
An "instant genre classic" in the making
How To
Stugan: Indie devs share how to choose a game engine
The developers at Stugan explain how they choose a game engine
Watch Out
What does Apple's financial report mean for the Watch?
Tim Cook kept tip toed around cold hard facts.
From The Top
You can't be lazy about monetisation, says Unity Ads' Mickey Maher
Not an add-in extra
Opinions And As*holes
Rami Ismail on how developers trained gamers to have unreasonable expectations
The bar's set too high, but we're to blame for setting it
Axe Falls
GREE lays off 30% of its key San Francisco office
Times are hard
Ad Attack
Appodeal's Pavel Golubev on the future of mobile advertising
A deal just for you
Save The Date
Women in Games conference kicks off 2 September
The fifth annual Women in Games conference heads to London
Long Tail Wags
RockYou recycles MavenHut's Solitaire classics
RockYou swipes Solitaire Arena and Solitaire 3
Was It Worth It?
Bossa Studios on the confusing, exciting, unprofitable development of an Apple Watch launch game
Vince Farquharson speaks out at Develop:Brighton
Plus One
Helsinki dev Two Men and a Dog looking for experienced game programmer
"let's make the coolest games on the planet together"
Pgc Hearts Sf
Pocket Gamer Connects lights up San Francisco with over 650 delegates, sponsors, and speakers
First event in the US continues conference series' successful run
Ol' Sport
Cashplay and Gamblified launch Dead Trigger 2: eSports Tournament
Betting on the undead