Uk Mobile Charts
Weekly UK App Store charts: Space Frontier and War Wings fly into the top 10
Rankings from July 24th to July 30th
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Articles by Ric Cowley
Gungho Signals
GungHo partners with Toy Soldiers developer Signal Studios on upcoming AAA mobile game
No other details available at this time
Monkey Business
One-man indie developer Part Time Monkey surpasses five million downloads in under two years
Breakout Ninja is the breakout success
Zplay Buys Noodlecake
ZPlay acquires indie game developer and publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million
Helps the Candian developer push further into Asia with no changes to the business
War On Tv
War Wings scores top three download spots on iOS and Android in the UK during first week of launch
Miniclip pushes the game with UK TV ad campaign
Ncsoft Financials Q2 Fy17
NCSoft's mobile sales jump 300% to $83 million thanks to Lineage M
Mobile take on PC MMO is cannibalising other games with its name
Most Read
Grand Cru partners with Nexon, King soft launches Brick Wizard, and Clash of Clans' fifth anniversary
The hottest articles of the last week
Top Grossing Games H1 2017
Honor of Kings is the highest-grossing mobile game worldwide for 2017 so far
Some interesting entries in the rest of the rankings
Keywords Buys More Studios
Keywords Studios acquires four Paris-based localisation studios for $8.9 million
La Marque Rose, Dune Sound, Around the Word, and Asrec will all be rolled into one
Square Enix Financials Q1 Fy18
Square Enix revenues grow to $518.1 million thanks to its mobile back catalogue
All the usual suspects still raking in the cash
Activision Blizzard Financials Q2 Fy17
Activision Blizzard hits $1.63 billion in revenues as King's bookings per user grow for the 8th consecutive quarter
Retained players are spending more than ever
Gsn New Ceo
GSN promotes Executive VP and General Counsel Mark Feldman to President and CEO
Has been with the company almost as long as former CEO David Goldhill
Natter Away
Communications-as-a-service firm Agora.io launches mobile gaming voice chat SDK
Agora Mobile Gaming SDK will brink real-time voice chat in just a few lines of code
Transfer Day
Jürgen Klopp signs on with Digamore Entertainment as brand ambassador for Football Empire
Part football management sim, part base builder
Gree Financials Q4 Fy17
GREE sales fall to $592.7 million amid "strategic pivot" to Japan-first development
Four titles from release blitz crack the top 20 grossing ranks
Sega Sammy Financials Q1 Fy18
Sega Sammy revenues reach $969.8 million thanks to Puyopuyo!! Quest and Hortensia SAGA
But is its mobile business just going through the motions?
Take-two Financials Q1 Fy18
Take-Two Interactive hits $418.2 million revenues with help from WWE Supercard and Dragon City
Main focus is still on its console titles
Zynga Financials Q2 Fy17
Zynga scores $5.1 million profit thanks to continued growth of Zynga Poker and its social slots
CSR 2 continues to grow too
Glu Financials Q2 Fy17
Glu Mobile posts revenues of $68.7 million as Design Home has its strongest quarter yet
Still operating at a loss, which grows to $23.6 million
Apple Financials Q3 Fy17
Apple sees revenues of $45.4 billion as iPad Pro refresh boosts tablet sales by 28%
Sold 11.4 million units iPads in the quarter
Destruction Of Clans
Clash of Clans celebrates five-year anniversary with video montage of destruction
44 billion three-star victories secured over the game's lifetime
Sony Hits & Misses
From Fate/Grand Order to Mingol and PlayLink: Two years of Sony's mobile big bangs and misfires
A look at the three pillars of Sony's current mobile efforts
Milky Tencent
Liverpool-based developer Milky Tea secures investment from Tencent
Expanding its team and focusing in on its current game
Most Read
How Fire Emblem Heroes made $100 million, Strike of Kings becomes Arena of Valor, and MZ's new UA strategy
The hottest articles of last week
Pokemon Sue
Pokemon GO fans are suing Niantic for disastrous Pokemon GO Fest in Chicago
Fans want their travel expenses refunded - which shouldn't hurt Niantic's bank account too much
Gungho Financials Q2 Fy17
GungHo's sales continue to decline despite 46 million downloads of Puzzle & Dragons
Still trying to put its eggs in other baskets
Good Turnaround
Goodgame Studios returns to profitability following corporate restructuring which cost 600 jobs
Has two new mobile games in the works
Gone Home
Gardenscapes developer Playrix soft-launches sequel Homescapes
Currently on iOS in Canada
Join The Family
Capcom to dissolve and absorb Capcom Mobile subsidiary
Also posts sales of $105.6 million for the quarter
Ea Financials Q1 Fy18
EA mobile revenues hit $150 million as FIFA Mobile scores 95 million unique users
NBA Live and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes also continuing to draw in players
Line Financials Q2 Fy17
LINE sees revenues grow to $705.8 million but MAUs are still consistently falling
NextFloor acquisition could turn this around in the future
Cyberagent Financials Q3 Fy17
CyberAgent sales hit $2.4 billion but profits are still in a slump
Nothing particularly new or surprising this quarter
Marvel At The Aftershock
Kabam off-shoot Aftershock partners with Marvel on new licensed mobile game
No other information revealed
Pokemon Go Slow
Niantic CEO John Hanke pins Pokemon GO Fest issues on overloaded mobile data networks
Things went far more smoothly when everybody left
Keywords Financials H1 Fy17
Keywords posts revenues of $74.7 million so far in 2017 thanks to aggressive acquisition strategy
Profits up to $11.3 million
War Wings West
Miniclip partners with majority stake owner Tencent to publish War Wings in the West
Launching first in the UK
Flash In The Pan
Adobe admits defeat and plans to end-of-life Flash by 2020
Hasn't been used on mobile for five years
A Fine Lineage
NCSoft's Lineage M reported to have generated over $233 million in revenues in first month of release
Beats Lineage 2: Revolution's record by a fair chunk
Indie Mavens
What do indie developers think about Apple's ARKit?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Arena Of Strike
Tencent rebrands Western release of mobile MOBA Strike of Kings to Arena of Valor
Strike of Kings fans not particularly happy
Ready To Rumble
Take-Two to focus on WWE and NBA mobile games following Social Point acquisition
Might move on if these games perform well
Chain Reaction
Guns of Boom blasts past 10 million downloads two months after global launch
Over 100,000 YouTube videos made of it
Superdata Top Grossing June 2017
Honor of Kings was the top grossing mobile game worldwide in June 2017
SuperData reckons it generated $150 million in revenues for the month
Igf Submissions 2018
Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 20th annual competition
Deadline is October 2nd, so there's still some time left
Most Read
Golf Clash scores $1.1 million in a day, why we need to stop ignoring MZ, and Brawl Stars versus Clash Royale
The hottest articles of the week
Partnership Perfect
Pocket Gems partners with Universal Studios for new Episode story based on Pitch Perfect
Community writers can win a trip to Universal and face time with Episode writers
Tapjoy Audience Reach
Tapjoy's rewarded video ads now reach over 581 million users thanks to partnerships with major developers
Seriously, Jam City, Sega, Zeptolab and more now making use of the platform
Vgtr Pays Out
UK government's Video Game Tax Relief scheme has paid out $95 million in 2016/17 period
280 claims have been paid out on so far this period
Paying The Billz
Former Kabam COO Kent Wakeford joins eSports platform Skillz's board of directors
Also co-owns an Overwatch eSports team now, apparently
Dena X Nintendo
DeNA dedicates 10% of staff to Nintendo mobile games
DeNA and Nintendo's partnership is going "extremely well"