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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius passes eight million downloads in five months outside Japan
Holds special event to celebrate
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Apple Ar
Apple exploring augmented reality glasses for possible 2018 launch
So claims sources "close to the matter"
Q3 Smartphone Sales
iPhone 7 sales push Apple's market share in the US to 34.2% in the US in Q3 2016
Continues to struggle in China
Own Goal
Rovio cancels Angry Birds Football after seven months in soft launch
Services to close December 15th
Most Read
Donald Trump's influence on mobile games, Age of Empires: World Domination canned, and how does The Trail monetise?
The hottest articles of last week
China In October
NetEase and Tencent continued to dominate the App Store in China in October
Newzoo's report breaks it down
Netease Financials Q3 Fy16
NetEase hits $1.38 billion in sales as Fantasy Westward Journey continues to deliver
Over 100 other games also helping out
Nexon Financials Q3 Fy16
Nexon profits drop 60% despite strong performance of Heroes of Incredible Tales in Southeast Asia and the West
Planning on releasing even more games soon
Bigger And Cheaper
Mobile games will be bigger than PC in Southeast Asia by 2018
Niko Partners report tells all
Amazon Iap
Amazon ordered to pay parents up to $86 million for unauthorised IAPs made by children
Federal judge orders year-long claims process
Learn Localisation
How to smartly localise your game for the global market
OneSky's Patrick Yip details the steps
Wake Up
Google Daydream View launches in 5 countries for $79
Available in Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and US
Deltadna Ad Survey
Mobile developers are becoming more cautious about showing too many ads in game
DeltaDNA says interstitial ads are much less popular too
Still In Season
Koukoi Games pushing Crashing Season into Middle East and North Africa markets
Working with Maysalward to make the move
String In Your Rakuten
Rakuten launching browser-based mobile gaming platform in Japan
Working with Blackstorm Labs to develop it
Unite Under Cook
Tim Cook tells Apple employees "the only way to move forward is to move forward together" after Trump election win
Apple CEO tries to unite company following US election
End Of Empires
UPDATE: Age of Empires: World Domination canned after 11 months in soft launch
KLab not offering bonuses to its players
Mixi Financials Q2 Fy17
Mixi profits tumble by 31% as it begins to test Monster Strike in Western markets
Marvel Tsum Tsum gets a brief mention
Kings And Vp's
King hires ex-GSN VP of Creative Steven Meretzky as VP of Design
Industry veteran to work on secret project
Tsum More
Marvel Tsum Tsum amasses six million downloads in nine months of release
A whole lot of stacking
Global Trends
5 key trends that are shaping the global mobile gaming market
Newzoo's Jelle Kooistra tells all
'tis The Season
Mobile gamers buy more IAPs the week after Christmas
Nanigans breaks down the holiday data
Cheap Iphones
Apple begins selling refurbished iPhones to make up for drop in smartphone sales
iPhone 6S now available for $80 less
Player Personas
30% of a social game's revenue is generated by 1% of its players
75% of a game's revenue will be brought in by 10% of users
East Meets West
10 videos that teach you about the global mobile gaming markets
The key sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Get Them Cheap
High quality users are cheaper to acquire on iPhone than Android
According to Verto Analytics
Mo' Money Mo' Adverts
Mobile Strike and Game of War were the most advertised games on Google in Q3 2016
Instagram still underused as a market
Android Adoption
Android Nougat garners a 0.3% adoption rate in first two months of release
0.2% better than Android Froyo
Upping The Stakes
Vivendi increases stake in Ubisoft to 24%
Now has 21% of the voting rights
Bandai Namco Financials Q2 Fy17
Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle helps push Bandai Namco sales to $2.82 billion
Profits up 32.5% year-on-year
Square Enix Financials Q2 Fy17
Square Enix sales hit $1 billion off the back of mobile successes Mobius Final Fantasy and Brave Exvius
Games released this fiscal year have "underperformed"
Final Strike
Mobile Strike dev MZ partners with Square Enix for Final Fantasy XV mobile MMO
A Game of War reskin or something wholly new?
Partners = Players
How to choose the perfect partner to make your game a success
Oscar Clark leads a panel of experts
Search No Farther
Advertisers have doubled spends on App Store Search Ads since they launched
Acquiring engaged users to boot
Daily Pokemon
Four months after launch, Pokemon GO adds Daily Bonuses to boost retention
Does it even need it at this point?
Us Player Habits
78% of US gamers play games on their smartphones
Female players most interest in puzzle, arcade and social casino games
Vroom Vroom
Eden Games' Gear.Club races to one million downloads in five days
Coming to Android later this month
Indie Mavens
Are indie developers interested in releasing games on the Nintendo Switch?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Brave New World
Peter Molyneux's The Trail quietly exits soft launch and releases globally
Kongregate publishes the third game developed by 22Cans
Move On Up
Eric Seufert on how to hit the top 100 grossing charts with a barebones UA budget
Eric Seufert spills the beans
Unity And Xiaomi
Unity wants to make publishing mobile games in China easier for developers with Xiaomi partnership
Providing help with licensing and a space on their store
Vungle Dynamic Templates
Vungle introduces modular Dynamic Templates to boost LTVs for video advertisers
More revenue without sacrificing UX
Back In The Saddle
Unity appoints VR pioneer Tony Parisi as new head of AR and VR Strategy
Reveal made at Unite LA 2016
Daydream Becomes Reality
Google Daydream View VR headset launches on November 10th for $79
Available in Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, US
Latin America Predicitons
Latin America is the second fastest growing mobile market having generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2016
Should hit $3 billion by 2019
Ea Financials Q2 Fy17
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes still performing for EA as it helps push mobile sales to $138 million
Still seeing average daily playtimes of 2.5 hours
From Small Beginnings
How Gram Games ran UA for 1010! on a limited budget
UA Manager Kerem Alemdar details the process
Play No More
SNK Playmore dropping Playmore name on December 1st
Going back to basics
Pokemon Ghoul
Pokemon GO sees daily revenues up to $4.6 million a day during Halloween live event
Revenues up 133% worldwide for four days during the event
Ddm Sbdm
Digital Development Management hires ex-Marmalade exec as new Senior Business Development Manager
Stephanie Jorgl joins after 4 years at Marmalade