Ship Comes In
Shipyard Games secures $2.9 million investment from Supercell to develop location-based game
Supercell continues to flash its cash
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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
Public Nitro
Finnish developer Nitro Games considers public listing to support self-publishing efforts
Taking a page out of Next Games' book
Pokemon Society
Pokemon GO now has as many MAUs as the entire population of the UK
Expect that number to grow
Most Read
How Pixonic has evolved War Robots, the making of Chhota Bheem Speed Racing, and why doesn't Clash Royale have any worthy competition?
The hottest articles of last week
Bowled Over
Nazara partners with Indian cricket team Royal Challengers Bangalore for new game RCB Star Cricket
Hitting it for six in mid-April
New Star On The Block
Rising Star Games makes mobile publishing debut with Natsume's Harvest Moon Lil' Farmers
It's like Harvest Moon... but for kids!
Final Fantasy Mz
Square Enix soft-launches Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire mobile game likely developed by MZ
All signs point to it being MZ's promised title
Lego Bear
TT Games hires new Global Community Manager to promote all things LEGO
Parker has previously worked on community management for Xbox and PlayStation
Baftas 2017
Pokemon GO and Clash Royale snag Best Mobile Game and Audience eSports Award at the 2017 BAFTAs
Multiplatform title That Dragon, Cancer also wins Game Innovation
Indie Mavens
How do indie developers measure and define success?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Falstein Leaves
Google's Chief Game Designer Noah Falstein resigns after four years
Looking into VR and neuroscience for next role
Vr Is Bad
Niantic's John Hanke thinks VR is a "problem for society" because it's too immersive
Says AR is the way forward, obviously
Tenjin Daydream
Tenjin adds Google Daydream support to its mobile marketing platform
Track installs and user behaivour in Daydream apps
Ball Battling
Chinese casual eSports game Battle of Balls hits 300 million users worldwide
Big plans for this year's tournaments
The Potion Is Lava
Palringo's Magnus Alm sets up new premium strategy game developer Lavapotion
With the help of co-owner Coffee Stain Studios
Appota Investment
Vietnam-based publisher Appota pushes towards $50 million valuation with series C funding round
Korea Invesment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment throw some money in
Dokkan Downloads
Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle pushes past 150 million downloads in just over two years
Celebrating with a summon event to reward older players over new ones
Huawei Banned?
Huawei could be blocked from selling its mobile phones in the UK
High court ruling may lead to injunction against the manufacturer
Jagex Financials Fy16
Jagex posts second consecutive record financial year with revenues up 28% to £74.4 million
Profits also up 21.5% year-on-year
Roblox Customer Service
Roblox appoints new VP of Customers to oversee and improve customer service and content moderation
Remy Malan joins from a five year stint at SugarCRM
Xiaomi India Investment
Xiaomi plans to invest another $500 million into its growing India presence
Targetting $2 billion in revenues for the country in 2017
Big Data
MZ launches massive free open data project Satori
Developers encouraged to use new platform with big money competition
Model Strike
ASA orders Mobile Strike ad takedown following complaints that it objectifies women
Use of plus-size models not an excuse
Inmobi Up
Mobile advertising firm InMobi sees operationally profitable 2016 following big boost in China
Even a $1 million fine couldn't bring it down
Inkle Hires
80 Days developer Inkle hires a new Senior Artist and Concept Artist
Laura Dilloway and Anastasia Wyatt bring the headcount to six-and-a-half
Uk Games Fund
UK Games Fund awards 15 developers up to £25,000 each in third round of funding
Dumpling Design, Stormcloud Games, Quite Fresh and Crash Lab all funded
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Gumi Nordic Vr
Gumi and Nordisk Film partner for €100,000 incubation program Nordic VR Startups
Offering seed funding and advice to Nordic VR developers
Most Read
G5 Entertainment suing MyTona, Gameloft goes free-to-play with Gangstar, and how Supercell grew Boom Beach
The hottest articles of last week
Women In Games
Women In Games launches Ambassador program to encourage women in Europe to join the games industry
Working with schools and industry to promote the industry
Big Dreams
China's iDreamSky establishes $30 million fund to publish indie games globally
Wants to find the next Monument Valley
Fastlane To Youtube
Space Ape Games taps over 20 YouTube stars as characters in Fastlane: Road to Revenge
The kids will love it
Harmonix Layoffs
Harmonix suffers series of layoffs affecting at least 17 staff
Seven more reported to have occurred in prior months
Not So Luckey
Oculus designer and co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
It's unknown if he was kicked out or left of his own accord
Glu Job Cuts
Glu Mobile reportedly cuts 25 jobs and closes Portland studio
Was working on a new celebrity game
Midas Touch
Koei Tecmo establishes mobile-specific brand Midas
Wants its games to "shine like gold"
Switch Japan
Nintendo's Switch has sold 500,000 units in Japan
Sales are up week-on-week to 78,441 units
Vasco Who?
Little-known developer Vasco Games surpasses one billion downloads on mobile since 2013
62 million downloads in its first year from 130 games
To The Future
Global Android app store spend will overtake iOS in 2017
App Annie takes a look at the markets of the future
Oceans & Pirates
South Korean dev Joycity bags license for Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War
Looks a lot like Oceans & Empires
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games
Compete In Shadows
Cygames partners with Next Generation Esports for first North American Shadowverse tournament
$10,000 prize for the overall winner
Crossy Mouse
Disney Crossy Road celebrates one year anniversary and 31 million downloads with new toy line
Get a blocky Mickey for $2.99
Blast Off
Shane McCafferty and Jim Squires team up to launch new Canadian studio Rocketship Park
Already working on first game Block Droppin'
Gamee Investment
Social gaming platform Gamee raises $2.15 million
Initial Capital and Credo Ventures lead the way
Of Swords And Ltv
MMO Logres of Swords and Sorcery gears up for Western launch after eight million downloads in Japan
Not huge player numbers, but an enormous LTV
Down With The Sickness
Ndemic Creations hires ex-PocketGamer.biz writer Matt Gilman as Project and Community Manager
Makes the jump from journalism to community management
Get Updated
Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3
Smoother, faster, better
Free No More
Apple now rejecting any app or game that references its own price on the App Store
No more releasing free versions of the same game
Crikey
Lineage 2: Revolution was the top grossing game worldwide in February 2017 despite only being launched in South Korea
Monster Strike and Clash Royale didn't stand a chance