Project D
Nexon partners with South Korean developer Weredsoft to publish Project D globally
Promising console-quality RPG action on a small screen
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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
About To Blow Up
Finnish developer Nitro Games gearing up for $3.5 million IPO
Subscription period has already begun
Drown Them All
EA soft-launches potential big hitter The Sims Mobile ahead of FY18 release
Confirms free-to-play approach
(x)locked In
Keywords Studios continues spending spree by acquiring CMS developer XLOC for $900,000
Providing efficient localisation across all major game engines
Indie Mavens
How useful is influencer marketing to an indie mobile game developer?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
No More Executions
Games incubator Execution Labs deploys all funds and shuts its doors after four years
Jason Della Rocca and Keith Katz will stick around to help out funded developers
Ea Financials Q4 Fy17
EA banks on live ops and new Sims mobile game in FY18 to boost slowing mobile business
Galaxy of Heroes now has a 162 minute average daily playtime
Super Mobile Gamer
Today's "super mobile gamer" is a Pokemon GO-loving 39-year old woman
Verto Analytics looks into who owns the most devices and more
Worlds Together
Bossa Studios hires Ansible PR founder Tracey McGarrigan as Chief Marketing Officer
Overseeing Worlds Adrift and other unannounced projects
Super Speed
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe became the best-selling game of April 2017 in the UK in just two days
Breath of the Wild takes 6th spot depsite being launched in March
Apple 180
Apple U-turns on lowering app affiliate commission rates to 2.5%
Now only IAPs will be affected
You Fight Well
Nexon and Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors Unleashed smashes 5 million downloads
Took just over a month to get there
Wanna Trade?
Toys-to-life developer PlayFusion partners with TOMY to launch Lightseekers physical TCG
Using AR-enabled cards that can be scanned into the mobile game
Game On
War Child launches online charity hub GameOn with Tim Schafer, Rhianna Pratchett, and more
A centralised location to find out all about upcoming campaigns and current partnerships
Ffbe 20 Million Downloads
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius passes 20 million global downloads in time for first anniversary
Still no idea what Exvius means
Most Read
NaturalMotion founder leaves, Branko Milutinović on the rise of Nordeus, and Supercell kicks off Clash Royale Championship
The hottest articles of last week
Strike Of Kings
Tencent's megahit mobile MOBA Honor of Kings soft-launched in the West as Strike of Kings
Available in the UK and beyond
Go Play Outside
Niantic partners with Knight Foundation to foster communities in the real world
Play Pokemon GO and make some friends while you're at it
Take-off
2K Games President Christoph Hartmann departs after 20 years at Take-Two
No reason given
Greater Things
505 Games appoints former 2K Games GM Neil Ralley as President
Helping take them to the next level
Activision Blizzard Financials Q1 Fy17
Activision Blizzard revenues hit $1.73 billion as Candy Crush franchise remains a stable performer
King is also getting into social casino now, apparently
Zynga Financials Q1 Fy17
Zynga sees revenues rise to over $194 million as Zynga Poker sees huge boost
Words With Friends suffers heavy losses
Partnerships With Friends
Zynga partners with People to launch latest social game Crosswords With Friends
That's three With Friends games launched in the last two months
Adjust Into China
Analytics firm Adjust expands mobile measurements platform into China
Down from a 2.67 second delay to just 1.01 seconds
Apple Manufacturing
Apple to invest $1 billion in US manufacturing in effort to boost local industry
Might score points with Trump while he's at it
Extending A Bridge
Tapjoy partners with analytics firm Moat to track viewability of its rewarded video ads
Shows promising results in preliminary tests
Ahead Of The Pack
Hot Wheels: Race Off developer Hutch scores place on 2017 UK's Best Workplaces list
The only games company in the UK to be added to the list this time around
Millions Of Friends
Words With Friends trumps Pokemon GO as most popular US mobile game in March 2017 with 13 million users
Pokemon GO not far behind with 10.5 million
Ready For Titanfall
Particle City ditches CCG for RTS in next mobile game Titanfall Assault
More likely to capture the series' "action-packed gameplay"
Glu Financials Q1 Fy17
Glu starts 2017 strong with $57 million in revenues thanks to Design Home and Tap Sports Baseball
Still making a heavy loss
China Games Market
China game revenues expected to hit $35 billion in 2021
Mobile games to make up 58% of these revenues, says Niko Partners
Up The Ante
Social casino players spend $39.87 in-game a month and play for 57 minutes per session
SuperData takes a closer look at social casino games
Mad Skillz
Skillz doubles revenue run-rate to $100 million in eight months as mobile eSports scene gains steam
Increased users by 32% in the same period
Time To Duel
Supercell kicks off year-long global Clash Royale Crown Championship
Promising $1 million in prizes throughout the first year
Huuuge Signing
Nonstop Games co-founder Henric Suuronen joins Huuuge Games' Board of Directors
Has been an investor since early 2015
App Store Price Increase
Apple increase App Store prices in Denmark, Mexico, Taiwan and EU countries
Appears to be introducing alternate pricing tiers to affected countries
Mtg Takes Over
MTG spends $90 million to increase InnoGames stake to 51% majority
Entire acquisition has so far cost MTG over €130 million
The Deluxe Package
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe becomes fastest-selling game of the franchise with 459,000 units sold in the US
Tops the UK sales charts for last week in just one day of sales
Deeper Underground
Amazon's "actually free" Underground service to be shut down in 2019
Access taken away in summer 2017
Strike No More
Mixi to shut down Monster Strike's English-language version on August 1st
No refunds, no transfers
Most Read
C.A.T.S. scores 8 million downloads, Dragon Ball Z tops grossing charts, and 7 reasons why you love Clash Royale
The hottest articles of last week
Mobair In China
Mobile marketing firm MobAir pushes into China with Shanghai office
Wants to offer personalised services to its local clients
Digital Games Market March 2017
Lineage 2 Revolution dropped from the top of the worldwide mobile grossing ranks to 10th in March 2017
Clash Royale takes the top spot instead
2017 Finnish Game Awards
Clash Royale picks up two Game of the Year accolades at 2017 Finnish Game Awards
Kopla Games scores a win as Best Rookie
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Nonstop Knight rushes past 12 million downloads in 10 months
Players have spent 56 million hours in-game collectively
50 Million Fighters
Netmarble's Marvel Future Fight hits 50 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
20 million downloads alone in Asia
Still Running
Super Mario Run approaches 150 million downloads
Number of paid players said to be gradually increasing too
Cyberagent Financials
CyberAgent sales grow to $1.62 billion but profits fall sharply in H1 FY17
Profits are way, way down
Gree Financials Q3 Fy17
GREE's release blitz scores sales of $142.4 million thanks to three top 50 grossing games
Has plenty more where that came from
Strategy And Insight
Mobile strategy games on Android have a D30 retention rate of 3% and generate an ARPU of $2.23
AppsFlyer digs deep into the state of strategy titles on mobile