Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
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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
Vr For The Masses
Two million people in the UK will own a VR headset by the end of 2016
Will grow slowly across the next six years
Trending In 2016
What are the mobile game monetisation trends of 2016?
Scientific Revenue CEO William Grosso tells all
Ios Uptake
Over 50% of Apple devices now have iOS 10 installed
Slower uptake than iOS 9
Doubling Up
Apple opening second China R&D centre in Shenzhen
Strengthening bonds even more
Life Thru A Hololens
HoloLens pre-orders open in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and UK
Prices starting at £2,719
'tis The Season
Halloween and Thanksgiving are just as important for mobile game marketers as Christmas
So says AppsFlyer
Samsung Sales
Samsung slashes sales forecasts and predicts $2 billion loss in wake Galaxy Note 7 woes
Sales figures affected, but not so much
Nexon Push
Nexon to bring Maple Story, Dungeon & Fighters and five other games to mobile by the end of 2016
Only reveals six
Suns Out Thumbs Out
Average cost per paying mobile game player falls by 47% in first half of 2016
iOS users are more likely to spend though
Play And Chat
Mobile messaging app Telegram adds bot-powered gaming platform for in-chat gaming
Developers can add their own games to the platform right now
Free To Pray
The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design
Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play
Analytics For Everyone
New indie developer-focused analytics tool comes to drag-and-drop game engine Stencyl
Install the extension, drop in some code, get retention data
Touch The Rift
Oculus opens pre-orders for $199 Oculus Touch VR controllers
Shipping December 6th
Second Mass Recall
UPDATE: Samsung permanently halts production of Galaxy Note 7 and issues second mass recall
Recommends users get an S7 instead
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Vungle X Kakao
Vungle partners with Kakao to launch rewarded video ad service Kakao Game Ad+
Brings expertise to fledgling platform
Real-money Arcade
GSN Games launches real-money arcade platform Sparcade
Make money playing Pac-Man and more
Too Big To Fail
Pokemon GO may be losing millions of users, but its retention rate is on par with Clash of Clans
Niantic Labs has nothing to fear if SurveyMonkey is right
Getting In Early
Zynga, MZ, and King are already blocking App Store Search Ads on their own games
Bigger brands leave space wide open
Blazes
Sales of Galaxy Note 7 halted as Samsung investigates five exploding phones
Stops production and shipments of replacement phones
Most Read
Kiloo opens a publishing arm, how to monetise, retain, and acquire users, and why did Ubisoft buy Ketchapp?
The hottest articles of last week
Blimey
Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi sells 500,000 units in India in 3 days
A new record for India
Heating Up
Samsung profits increase by $3.6 million despite exploding phone fiasco
Other arms of the business still performing well
Moving On Up
Oculus looking to invest $50 million into mobile VR developers
Setting aside money for education and diverse developers
Indie Mavens
Is soft-launching a game effective for an indie developer?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Look, No Cables!
Oculus working on standalone VR headset that's more advanced than the Gear VR
Lowers system specs for Rift devices
Making Of
Upholding visual fidelity without sacrificing game design: The making of Oz: Broken Kingdom
This Game Studio talk us through the Asian influences on a Western title
Sell Your Dragonsoul
GREE International Entertainment acquires RPG DragonSoul from PerBlue
Developer sells just the game, not its company
Pixel Perfect
Google holding back some of Pixel's best features for its own phones
Makes perfect business sense really
Walking Disruptor
Disruptor Beam reveals new story-driven mulitplayer game The Walking Dead: March to War
Story-driven competitive multiplayer strategy based on the comics
Optibot Rolls Out
Optimove aims to make marketing easier through automated Optibot
CRM optimisation bot will recommend new courses of action for marketers
First Investment
LA VR start-up First Contact Entertainment closes $5 million investment round
Brings on two new senior hires
N-app-oli
Apple opens App Development Centre in Naples' oldest university
Free iPhone, iPad, and MacBook for all students on the free nine month course
Goodness Gracious
Samsung's big recall up in smoke as replacement Galaxy Note 7 catches fire on US plane
Samsung's own system claimed it was safe
Fund Seekers
Ex-RuneScape team wants to create a new generation of toys-to-life games with Lightseekers
UK studio heads to Kickstarter to take game into production
Top Of The World
Mobile eSport Vainglory goes to Hollywood for first ever World Championship on December 2nd
First mobile eSports world championship ever
Pokemon Maybe
Pokemon GO still jostling for top spot on US App Store with Clash Royale and Mobile Strike
Remains at the top of the UK charts
Back To Reality
EA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros and CCP all making games for Google Daydream VR
Big developers and relatively big indies get in on the launch
Apple Tv Go Home
Apple discontinues third-generation Apple TV
Focusing on flagging fourth-gen model instead
Investing For The Future
$2.3 billion has been invested in AR and VR over the last 12 months
$500 million in the last quarter alone
Pixel Perfect
UPDATE: Multiple retailers and carriers leak Google Pixel smartphone details ahead of official reveal
Plenty of information made available
Always Android
Google faces major EU fine over anti-competitive Android practices
European Commission demands end to financial incentives to smartphone manufacturers
Watch The Drop
Apple Watch sales to drop by one million units in 2016 compared to 2015, analyst claims
So says analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
Foster The Pixels
Google hires former Amazon exec to lead development of new Pixel phones
David Foster joins as VP of Product Engineering
#madebygoogle
Watch the Google Pixel and Google Daydream VR headset reveals right here
YouTube livestream to show off everything Google has to offer
Daydream Into Reality
Google Daydream to launch in October for $79
According to sources close to the announcement
Going To The Top
Pokemon GO generated $204 million of August 2016's $3 billion mobile game revenues
Highest grossing game of the month
Look At Me
App Store developers can start using Search Ads on October 5th to promote their games
Appe details pricing structure and analytics package
Opening Up
Push notifications sent on a Monday lunchtime that say "get your" are the most likely to be opened
So says Tapjoy's new report