What's Next
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 conference tracks revealed
24 tracks covering mobile, PC, Console, XR & blockchain games
Data
Preteens start with tablets and move to console
87 per cent of parents think games are educational
Download Drivers
Say Games, Voodoo and Good Job Games the most downloaded gamecos
Sensor Tower's Q3 2019 data
Big Guns
World of Tanks Blitz's global championship to offer $100,000 prize pool
Winners take home $50,000
Strap In
Mario Kart Tour multiplayer beta launching this December for Gold Pass subscribers
$4.99 per month subscription fee will give users access to new mode
Game On
DevGAMM lands in Minsk on 21-22 November
The two-day games industry conference heads to the capital of Belarus
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For The Kids
Red Interactive CEO steps away to launch mobile game studio Red Games
Creating family-friendly titles for mobile and VR
A Good Cause
The American Red Cross and Skillz team up to aid US wildfire victims
The competition platform is holding a tournament
Speaker Line Up
The India Game Developer Conference 2019 reveals speakers
It is being held between November 22nd and 23rd
Financials
Zynga achieves best quarterly revenue and bookings in 12-year history
Empires & Puzzles and Merge Dragons both drive quarter
$$$
New Zealand game industry gets $6m cash injection from government
Dunedin is the country's new Centre for Digital Excellence
Super Smashed It
Switch sells over 41 million as Nintendo's profits jump 53%
The power of Switch Lite
Cultural Fit
The geographic fault lines of mobile game art style
GameRefinery on which games appeal where
No Magic Formula
What makes Summoners War a successful esport?
Gamevil Com2uS' David Mohr explains
Nothing Simulated
The Sims surpasses $5 billion in lifetime revenue
Monthly players up 40 per cent year-on-year
Top Dogs
Nova Esports scoops $250,000 winning the first Clash of Clans World Championships
Total prize pot was $1 million
Victory Road
Pokemon Go collects $3 billion in lifetime revenue
2019 on track for highest revenue year to-date
Bullseye
Why Call of Duty: Mobile and Mario Kart Tour top the download charts but only one is top grossing
Crunching the data with App Annie
Mind The Gap
EA's mobile Q2 2019 revenue falls 20% to $177 million
No new games to boost sales
Young Guns
Gen Z plays fewer mobile games but loves Supercell
Conclusions from App Annie report
Gonged
Reggie Fils-Aimé to become a Legend at New York Games Awards
An Andrew Yoon Legend no less
New Face
Anzu appoints ex-Double Fusion co-founder Guy Ben-dov as strategic advisor
In-game advertising growth
Cash Up
Scopely raises another $200 million, taking total funding to over $450 million
Financing led by NewView Capital
Tour De Force
Mario Kart Tour drives 124 million downloads in first month
Generates $37 million
Visit Jordan
What should I pack to attend Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan 2019? And other FAQs
A short guide to visiting Amman for Western attendees of our first full MENA conference
Bug Or Intentional?
Updated: 22 million App Store reviews have been mysterious deleted
AppFigures highlights something strange
Aggressive Roadmap
How Sylvester Stallone-fronted Battle Strike Force hope to shake up 4X gaming
Greater graphics, wider gameplay
What’s Next?
Eli Hodapp on GameClub’s future: deeper community, adding non-mobile games, and supporting Android
How indie monthly subs service will mature
Loose Change
Coin Master cashes in over $500 million in global revenue at $6.20 per download
Moon Active’s title has surpassed 81 million downloads
Read 5 Now
Hot 5: Empires & Puzzles does $500 million, Backflip's closing down, and EVE Echoes' December beta
The hottest stories
Region Focus
Despite geo-political tensions, Iran's mobile game industry is ready to scale
A sleeping giant
Not Jaded
Google Stadia launches first game studio in Montreal
Location will concentrate on making “exclusive, original content”
Back To The Future
Indie subscription service GameClub goes live with 100 iPhone classics
Costs $5 per month
Acquisition
Bethesda acquires mobile developer Alpha Dog Games
"We're excited to have them join the Bethesda family"
Bouldered
Hasbro reportedly closing down DragonVale developer Backflip
End of an era
Mobile Eve Is Inbound
EVE Echoes starts open beta in December
First playable at EVE Fest
Stats
Even in decline, Elex's Clash of Kings boasts $102 ARPPU
Monthly runrate of $17 million
Nice Growth
Mobile games boost My.Games' revenues 27% in Q3 2019
The firm is launching an new store in Q4
A New Chapter
Fortnite’s “The End” event viewed by seven million concurrents
New records set across Twitch and Twitter
Going More Core
Monetization trends for casual mobile games
GameRefinery's Joel Julkunen on what's changing
$$$
Empires & Puzzles storms past $500 million in lifetime revenue
Sales mainly from Android players
Top Game
Gismart's Cool Goal! rakes in 35 million downloads
The game was one of the top three hyper-casual titles in September
Faster $$$
IronSource releases automated adtech LevelPlay so game devs can earn more with less work
It’s time to flatten your waterfall
Jobs In Games
How Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin got the gig
From film to games
Your Choices
FoxNext brings Titanic and X-Files IP to mobile narrative game with Storyscape
Is it gonna sink?
Event Preview
Schedule for G-STAR 2019 released
Includes the 2019 Korea Game Awards and Game Investment Market
Brand Extender
Twitch snags Zynga and EA vet Doug Scott as new CMO
The mission: extending beyond endemic audiences
Global Launch
Korean top grosser The King Of Fighters Allstar launches globally
100 million fighters have been collected so far
Smiths World
American Dad! Apocalypse Soon out now
Defend your home from aliens