Result
Glu Mobile steps closer to profitability as it cuts losses to $0.3 million in Q3 2018
The result is a significant step up from an $11.7 million loss in the same period last year
Indie Mavens
Maintaining a work/life balance as an indie games developer
The Indie Mavens air their views and tips
Snap
Pokemon Go revenue in October is up 67 per cent year-over-year to $73 million
AR hit has slipped since September but is still performing well over the same period last year
Draw
Hearthstone hits 100 million users as mobile revenue reportedly passes $660m
Blizzard’s Warcraft card game spinoff hits the milestone over four years after launch
Seige
Castle Clash charges past worldwide revenue of over $550 million
Three quarters of the strategy game's audience is playing and paying through Google Play
Prime For Release
Pokemon Go dev Niantic goes back to its roots with Ingress Prime launch
"The beauty of having your own IP is it allows you to test the way you want, challenge gameplay and create experiences maybe we couldn't get away with stakeholders"
Shambler
The Walking Dead: March to War shutting down in January
Disruptor Beam's undead mobile strategy will be wrapping up over the next three month
Back To Hell
Diablo Immortal backlash shows once again triple-A publishers are afraid of their audiences
Biting the hand that feeds you?
Hot Five
Red Alert on top in China, Zynga picks up big-name IP, and Frank Gibeau talks company growth
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Hell Breaks Loose
All hell breaks loose as Blizzard reveals Diablo Immortal mobile game
Here we go again
To Boldly Go
Scopely taps Star Trek IP for 4X strategy game Fleet Command
Set for global release on November 29th
Funding Chain
CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs secures $15 million investment to bring blockchain to the mainstream
Blockchain company wants to bring technology into the mainstream
Big Indie Awards
The Big Indie Awards 2018 Top 20 Countdown Part 1 - 20 to 11
We check out 20 -11 Big Indie Awards countdown highlighting the very best indie games from the last 12 months
Oh Snap
Case study: How Miniclip used Snapchat to market Football Strike
The marketing push resulted in more than 200,000 new installs for Football Strike, peaking at 10,000 daily installs at a $2.07 CPM
The China Effect
Newzoo's drops 2018 global games industry revenue forecast by $3 billion
Mobile dip by $8bn, PC and console forecasts lower overall decline
Stall
Madden Mobile and underperforming titles are holding back EA’s "stalled” mobile business
EA isn’t phased as it sees this year as a preparation for future handheld success
Get Bigger Faster
Frank Gibeau on how IP licensing will help Zynga to the next level
Jetfuel for the mobile generation
Best Of Both Worlds
How Super Bit Machine hopes Armajet will ride Fortnite’s coat-tails to cross-platform success
Fighting on both fronts
Forever Franchises
Zynga bags Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Star Wars mobile game licences
Wonka’s World of Candy match-three title set for release this week
Found
Dragalia Lost is making four times the revenue per download of Fire Emblem Heroes in Japan
Nintendo’s action RPG has brought in $28 million over its first month
Strike
Marvel Strike Force has earned over $55 million worldwide
To date, FoxNext’s superhero RPG has been downloaded over 13.7 million times
Recycling Ad Dollars
How AppCoins hopes to monetise unbanked app store users via blockchain
Creating value flow
Winners
The 3rd International Mobile Game Awards SEA names its winners
In a high-quality competition, no single game stood out above the rest to take home Grand Prix winner
Loud
A live-action Talking Tom movie has begun production
Assassin’s Creed movie producer Jean-Julien Baronnet will help adapt the mobile app for the big screen
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile game charts: Tencent's Command & Conquer Red Alert Online rolls into China as a top grosser
Google Play and App Store rankings in the US, Great Britain and Ireland, and China for the week of October 15th to 21st
Toll
Google will charge phone-makers if they want to use Google Play following European Commission ruling
Following a European Commission ruling earlier this year resulting in a $5 billion fine
Just Do It
Nominations for Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2019 close today
Ceremony takes place on the evening of January 22nd
Hot Five
Helix Jump case study, key retention data, and Candy Crush Friends Saga tops the charts
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Epic Stuff
Fortnite developer Epic Games raises $1.25 billion in funding from over half a dozen investors
Seven new investors become minority shareholders in the Fortnite and Unreal developer
Hit
Subway Surfers is the most downloaded game of all time on Google Play
App Annie has released a report on the most popular games of Google Play’s first 10 years
Overworked
How can we tackle the games industry's crunch problem?
The Mobile Mavens have their say on working conditions
Stream
Amazon GameOn expands with Twitch-integrated Tournament organiser
The latest update to the cross-platform API lets viewers play alongside streamers
Freeze
China reportedly halts “green channel” approvals during a government restructure
Local developers and gamers are increasingly turning to Steam to remain active in the space
Global Charts
Weekly global mobile game charts: Candy Crush Friends Saga inevitably dominates the download rankings
Google Play and App Store rankings in the US, Great Britain and Ireland, and China for the week of October 8th to 14th
Top Stuff
Here are the longest-serving number one games and apps on Google Play since 2012
Sensor Tower reports on the high flyers over the last six years of the Android storefront
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Neutronized's Gionathan Pesaresi on making Super Cat Tales 2 in a tough mobile market
"If you consider that Super Cat Tales 2 took almost a year from its start to release, you can imagine how hard it is to compete with publishers dropping a new hyper-casual game every two weeks"
Jobs News
Former Oculus CEO and co-founder Brendan Iribe follows Palmer Luckey out the door
Spent six years with the virtual reality pioneers
Dunk
Rovio partners with the Chicago Bulls NBA team to create the Angry Birds Eye View Cam
Mobile developer becomes the first Finnish company to sponsor an NBA team
Banner Up
Unity Ads SDK 3.0 features personalised placements, AR and banner ads
Personalised placements uses machine learning to decide between an ad or IAP promotion
Oh Snap
Tenjin named Snapchat mobile measurement partner
Marketers can use tool to optimise install campaigns through Snap Ads, Lenses and Story Ads
Mobile Games Awards
Game Insight returns as headline sponsor of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards
Event takes place on the evening of January 22nd after Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019
Hot Five
AppsFlyer's $100m annual recurring revenue, PGC London reveals first speakers, and Com2uS on following up a $1bn hit
The hottest stories from the last week
Play
Google Play improves support for app bundles and subscriptions
It has also launched Academy for App Success interactive courses for developers
Going Up
Marketing analytics firm AppsFlyer soars past $100 million in annual recurring revenue
Mobile attribution and analytics company is reporting 100 per cent growth every 12 months
Esports
Arena of Valor 2018 International Championship sports a $600,000 prize pool
Grand finals will take place in Thailand on December 15th to 16th
Putting The U In Union
Ex-Telltale dev: "Developers deserve a lot better than what this industry is giving us right now"
Former Telltale Games narrative designer Grace Buck gave the illuminating talk at the Sweden Games Conference
Oh
Tencent’s Westernised Arena of Valor takes $15m a year after launch
The US proved to be its most popular region
Nope-mon
Former US president Barack Obama doesn't care for Pokemon
I’d honestly always figured him more of a Digimon fan anyway
Crunch
Minit developer encourages developers to share games made without crunch
Indies take to Twitter to share games developed without excessive overtime
Narrative Games
Universal is the latest contender in the mobile interactive fiction space with Series Your Story Universe
Game set to tap film and TV IP such as Vanderpump Rules, Saved By The Bell, The Breakfast Club and Law & Order