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GREE partners with Crunchyroll and Sumitomo to globally distribute games based on Japanese anime
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Ric Cowley
About Ric is the Editor of PocketGamer.biz, having started out as a Staff Writer on the site back in 2015. He received an honourable mention in both the MCV and Develop 30 Under 30 lists in 2016 and refuses to let anyone forget about it.
Articles by Ric Cowley
Match Me
Angry Birds Match launches worldwide after nine months in soft launch
Making use of The Angry Birds Movie characters
In Heaven
Influencer marketing firm Matchmade scores $1.73 million in funding to grow business
Global Founders Capital, London Venture Capital, and Reaktor Ventures all chip in
Decoding Design
A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye
Exclusive currencies and limited gachas don't stop this game from being fun
Core Blimey
Google faces off against Apple's ARKit with ARCore for Android
Aims to target over 100 million devices by the end of its preview period
Feline Fine
ZeptoLab's C.A.T.S. smashes 60 million downloads in four months
Three trillion cars destroyed so far
Most Read
The rise of UX and cognitive science, why Jam City pushed back its IPO, and the requirements for making an F2P game
The hottest articles of the last week
Taking Control
Super Evil Megacorp collaborating with Samsung to bring mouse and keyboard control to mobile MOBA Vainglory
Using Samsung DeX technology to draw in a new crowd
Blowing Up
Jam City's Panda Pop clears 100 million downloads in under four years
Still attracts 9.3 million MAUs
Lineage Leaps
Lineage M was the third-highest grossing mobile game worldwide in July 2017
Only launched in South Korea at the tail end of June
A New Reality
"Augmented reality is going to change the world": Tim Sweeney on the future of graphics in games
Epic Games founder talks photorealism and AR glasses
Grand Revival
Grand Cru on how it rebooted its business following the failure of Supernauts
Markus Palusa talks smaller teams and killing projects early
Rising India
Nazara Games on the future of the mobile market in India
Nikhil Birla talks about the 1.1 billion phones in the country and how they're used
Rcp Licensed Ip
Remote Control Productions on licensed IPs and how to secure them
COO Kalle Kaivola on building relationships and not focusing on genre
Ask Yourself
Oscar Clark suggests nine ridiculous questions every game developer should ask themselves
Silly questions with a serious heart
Inherently Streamable
Game Insight on how it's turning viewers into players with Guns of Boom
CEO Anatolijs Ropotovs offers advice for making a streamable game
The New Hotness
HandyGames CEO Christopher Kassulke on chasing "the new hotness"
Why developers need to jump on the latest technology ASAP
F2p Requirements
The requirements for making a free-to-play game in 2017
Freelance F2P consultant Teur Weidemann shares his rules
Most Read
Clash of Clans AR, Skillz is the fastest growing US company, and Rovio might IPO
The hottest articles of the last week
Keeping Dreams Alive
Live operations management studio DECA Games decloaks after a year of stealth operations
Headed up by Ken GO, former General Manager of Kabam's European HQ
See The Future
IronSource adds Ad LTV Prediction tool to mobile ad mediation platform
Better understand how much money you're likely to make from your ads
Deltadna Promotion
DeltaDNA promotes Head of Insight Isaac Roseboom to Chief Strategy Officer
Helping define the company's vision for the future
Kakao Games Merge
Kakao merges its games division with subsidiary Kakao Games
Hoping to improve efficiency and competitiveness
Hibernum Lay Offs
Hibernum Creations lays off majority of staff amid "transitional period"
More than 100 jobs lost, at least
Proud Partnership
Atari partners with LGBT Media to relaunch social game Pridefest
LGBT Media will rebrand and relaunch the game as its own
Pays The Billz
Skillz named fastest growing company in the US after growing revenues by 50,000% over three years
First eSports company to top Inc. Magazine's list
Screen This
Baidu's Android screen recording app DU Recorder surpasses 10 million downloads in under a year
Adding in livestreaming to thank its users
Tencent Financials Q2 Fy17
Tencent revenues grow to $8.56 billion as mobile games sales beat PC for the first time
Honor of Kings by far the biggest driver of revenue
Be The Builder
Supercell partners with Facebook on Clash of Clans AR experience to celebrate the games' five-year anniversary
Become the Builder, or just drop him in the world somewhere
Explosive Start
Lightneer secures $5 million seed funding round to prep for launch of Big Bang Legends
Invisible-learning game now due to launch in January 2018
Stats Rule
Tel Aviv-based eSports tech firm Overwolf acquires Clash Royale statistics site StatsRoyale
Over 20 million MAUs checking all the latest card stats and more
Rovio Financials Q2 Fy17
Rovio revenues soar past $100 million as Battle Bay and Angry Birds Evolution score strong launches
The Angry Birds Movie continues to bring in the cash
Most Read
Catharina Lavers Mallet joins Talla, what makes MZ so successful, and Subway Surfers devs face class-action lawsuit
The hottest articles of the week
Netmarble Financials Q2 Fy17
Netmarble's revenues slide to $472.3 million as Lineage 2 Revolution loses business in South Korea
Lineage 2 Revolution makes up 37% of all Netmarble's revenues
Valiant
Tencent's massive mobile MOBA Honor of Kings launches as Arena of Valor in Europe
Now available in all European countries
Nexon Financials Q2 Fy17
Nexon revenues grow to $431.7 million due to continued success of Heroes of Incredible Tales
Dynasty Warriors Unleashed finds a home in Southeast Asia
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now
Charging Ahead
Rodeo Stampede smashes 80 million downloads 13 months after launch
Still gets one million DAUs
Netease Financials Q2 Fy17
NetEase clears $2 billion in revenues as Onmyoji gets off to a strong start in South Korea
Already a top ten grossing game in the region
Summoners War Billionaire
Summoners War clears $1 billion in lifetime revenues three years after launch
Com2uS hosting a worldwide tournament for the game too
Zynga India
Zynga makes push for India with localised match-3 game Rangoli Rekha: Color Match
Presumably being developed by Bangalore studio
Pc Games Insider
Steel Media launches B2B PC gaming site PC Games Insider and industry event PC Connects
Covering everything PC related from the lowest indie to the highest AAA dev
Mixi Financials Q1 Fy18
Mixi revenues grow to $437.1 million as Monster Strike nudges 40 million downloads
New game Fight League also has a solid opening week
Something's Brewing
Singapore-based mobile developer BattleBrew closes angel investment round
Using the money to work on its first game
Even More Evil
Super Evil Megacorp raises $19 million to bring 5v5 battles and engine improvements to Vainglory
Looking for new staff to help bolster its mobile MOBA
Go Unlimited
Eden Games partners with Microids to bring Gear.Club to Nintendo Switch
Racing onto the console as Gear.Club Unlimited in Q4 2017
Subway Surfers Lawsuit
Subway Surfers devs face lawsuit for exporting children's personal information to advertisers
Kiloo and Sybo hit with lawsuit along with all the game's advertising networks
Com2us Financials Q2 Fy17
Com2uS revenues hit $114.8 million as Summoners War clears $890 million lifetime overseas revenues
Work continues on Summoners War MMO and Skylanders game
Learn Something New
King General Manager and Studio Head Catharina Lavers Mallet joins AI start-up Talla as COO
Leaves London and mobile games for Boston and AI