Stanga Scores Investment
Underworld Football Manager dev Stanga Games picks up further $500k investment
Studio aims to hire new staff and increase marketing efforts
Know Your Audience
G5 Entertainment CEO on the focus driving its success in hidden object games and beyond
Finding hidden value
Out-gunned
"The European games industry is a non-stop unicorn juggernaut"
Atomico partner Mattias Ljungman is bullish about the region's exciting games sector, and its future
Price Versus Value
The irony of Supercell’s 2017 financials
What goes up?
Crazy Defense Revenues
Animoca Brands' Crazy Kings franchise generates $1 million in revenue in a month
Crazy Defense Heroes has a very strong launch
Tiga Business Opinions
TIGA survey finds fewer UK games companies looking to grow their business in 2018
Business Opinion Survey 2018 shows a mix of optimism and pessimism
Best Fiends Forever
Seriously clears $100 million in lifetime revenues three years after launching Best Fiends
The studio outlines its plans for 2018
Investment Window
Underworld Football Manager dev Stanga Games raises $500,000
CEO Adam Jaffe on turning the bootstrapped indie house of part-time devs into a full-time games business
Newzoo Estimates
Global games market now expected to grow to $116 billion in 2017
Newzoo adjusts its expectations to account for popular trends in games
Outta Here
Outplay Entertainment has increased its revenues by 1,904% since 2013
Ranked fastest-growing tech company in Scotland by Deloitte
Quiet Progress
How has the Indian mobile games market progressed in 2017?
Reflections from Nasscom Game Developer Conference 2017
Rising India
Nazara Games on the future of the mobile market in India
Nikhil Birla talks about the 1.1 billion phones in the country and how they're used
Pays The Billz
Skillz named fastest growing company in the US after growing revenues by 50,000% over three years
First eSports company to top Inc. Magazine's list
Esl New Hires
ESL hires new CMO and CRO to push into next stage of global growth
Rodrigo Samwell and Martin Hubert join the team
Global Mobile Market
Global mobile gaming market expected to grow to $46.1 billion in 2017
Newzoo breaks out the stats
End Of The Boom?
Finnish games industry slows after years of rapid growth
But still on the rise
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
Tencent Financials Q4 Fy16
Tencent shows impressive growth in 2016 with a staggering $21 billion in revenues generated
$6.3 billion generated in Q4 alone
Accelerating Scotland
New £50,000 after-hours games accelerator launches in Scotland
Beer, pizza, and lessons on international growth
Vungle Growth
Vungle hits $300 million annual run rate after sixth consecutive year of growth
Sees 125% increase in SDK adoption rate from 2015
Esports In 2017
Revenues from eSports expected to hit $696 million in 2017
Newzoo digs into the growth of the market
Line Financials Q4 Fy16
LINE grows revenues to $1.2 billion despite global MAUs falling by three million
Revenues going up, users going down
Grow Your Game
How Pixonic grew revenues for Walking War Robots from $0 to $1 million a month
Philipp Gladkov talks confidence and analytics
Xiaomi 2017 Plans
Xiaomi sets $14.47 billion sales goal for 2017 after "make-up year"
Pushing further into retail and finance
Vainglory Franchises
Super Evil Megacorp establishes Vainglory Team Franchise Program to grow the eSport
Another big step for the fledgling eSport
Bigger And Cheaper
Mobile games will be bigger than PC in Southeast Asia by 2018
Niko Partners report tells all
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
Tencent On Top
Tencent generated more games revenue in the first half of 2016 than EA or Activision Blizzard ever have in a year
Newzoo Global Games Market Report tells all
Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
Optimal Funds
Customer marketing cloud Optimove closes $20 million growth funding round
Looks to hire aggressively in New York
Gamescom Grows
Record number of companies represented at Gamescom 2016
500,000 visitors to Cologne during the week
Tiga Findings
Games industry contributes $1.6 billion to UK GDP
Growth across the industry at an all-time high
Going Up
Pokemon GO will soon hit $350 million; well on its way to generating $1 billion
And other stats from App Annie
Too Many Apps?
App Store to have over 5 million active apps by the end of 2020
73% more than the end of 2016
Appsflyer Insights
Facebook is the most powerful tool for acquiring quality users, says AppsFlyer
Releases latest AppsFlyer Performance Index
Taking Over
Mobile gaming bigger than ever at Gamescom 2016
Mobile industry attendance up 20% on last year, representing 1/8 of all exhibitors
A Good Harvest
Farm Heroes Super Saga was the fastest growing Android game in June, as Clash Royale falls rapidly
Clash Royale engagement starting to fall
Vainglory Spring Season
Vainglory Spring Season Championship events to be held in Hollywood and Berlin in June
June 3-5 in Hollywood, June 10-12 in Berlin
Esports Awareness
Over 1 billion people will be aware of eSports by the end of 2016, predicts Newzoo
Actual viewing audience currently around 292 million people
Everyone Can Watch
Newzoo's Peter Warman on why the future of gaming is spectators, not players
Why eSports matters
Indie Growth
Video: How to grow your business as an indie developer
From tiny acorns grow great oaks
Tiga Survey
Two-thirds of UK developers are optimistic about 2016
Looking to grow their business
300 Million Devices
Video: Reliance Entertainment discuss the rise of India
So many handsets
Sea Breeze
Video: The importance and hardships of the Southeast Asia market
There's growth for everyone
Accelerating Growth
Video: The potential of the southeast Asian market
Andrew Walker has the details
Eastern Explosion
What makes India an explosive market?
It's not just cricket
Not There Yet
Gimku CEO Rudy Sudarto on how the Indonesian gaming boom isn't being felt by all
Nationwide growth isn't being felt by developers
More Money, More Fans
Newzoo uprates its eSports revenue prediction to $765 million by 2018
All the insights from Newzoo's eSports report
History Lessons
Video game historian Ivan Barroso on "the brave and mighty Portuguese industry"
How industry has prospered in the face of crisis
Missed Opportunity
South East Asia’s potential untapped by Western developers
Why Western developers are missing out on a major growth opportunity