Catch Of The Day
Big Fish appoints 15 year industry veteran Jeff Karp as new managing director and president
Karp brings aboard executive experience from some of the industry’s biggest players
Drop
Drastic drop in Google Play downloads rocks indie devs after discovery algorithm fiasco
Devs started noticing the abnormal behaviour on Thursday, June 21st
10 Years
App Store users have spent over $4 billion on Supercell’s Clash of Clans
Supercell is just behind majority owner Tencent in terms of consumer revenue made per company
Click
Nintendo Switch is played docked about as often as undocked
Individual games more likely to skew one way or the other
Show Me The Money
VIDEO: Games industry investment power panel
Six experts deal out advice on raising money and offer their thoughts on initial coin offerings
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5 Superstar Sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the big talks at our even bigger event
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9 videos on mobile monetisation, retention and user acquisition from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Monetise, Retain, Acquire track
Sneak Peek
Niantic opens up preview of its AR Real World Platform
Pokemon Go developer looks to collaborate with third parties to advance augmented reality
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8 videos on mobile games industry trends from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the InduTrends track
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5 videos all about the world of mobile esports from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Esports Academy track
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4 videos on how to work with influencers from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Influencer Insight track
Roundup
Games industry roundup: The hottest stories across the PC, blockchain and influencer sectors
15 articles from PCGamesInsider.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockhainGamer.biz
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6 videos on indie strategies and business advice from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Indie Strategies track
Goodnite
PUBG Corp ends Epic Games lawsuit over PUBG and Fortnite copyright infringement claims
Brings end to battle royale spat
The Milestone Is Passed
Edmund McMillen's The End is Nigh sells more than 100,000 copies
Indie games maker reckons it could have performed better had he done more press, however
Pgc Videos
8 videos that offer practical tips and game development insight from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
All the talks from the Developer Toolkit track
Hot Five
Brawl Stars comes to Android, King enters the social casino space, and why Gabe Leydon swapped mobile for blockchain
Last weeks hottest articles
Addition
Social casino dev KamaGames signs exclusive Unity Ads partnership
Irish social casino games company agrees to only provide in-app video monetisation through Unity Ads platform
The Weekly
The Weekly: The secrets behind the most successful F2P games, inside Tencent's new $600m HQ, and gaming addiction
Rounding up the week's games industry analysis and news from around the internet
Ruled Out
Judge halves Facebook’s Zenimax payout to $250 million in Oculus dispute
Headset sales won’t be blocked either, Judge rules
Fallout
Warner Bros labels Bethesda lawsuit over Westworld mobile game "baseless"
Skyrim developer accused Warner Bros and Behaviour Interactive of snagging code from Fallout Shelter
Googled
Report: Google eyes game dev acquisitions to work on new streaming service
The internet behemoth is said to have met with devs at E3
Still Going Strong
Four years on: The rise, fall and rise again of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
The tribulations of Glu’s most successful game ever
Acquisition
Pokemon Go developer Niantic acquires London-based machine learning outfit Matrix Mill
AI research outfit join the augmented reality giant
Pgc Sf Video Interviews
18 exclusive fireside chats from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018
HyprMX interviews the industry's leading lights at the show
That Is Unreal
Epic Games dishes out $1 million in grants for Unreal Engine 4 devs
The games publisher handed out grants to 37 teams
Keep It Clean
Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime reinforces his commitment to storefront curation for Switch
“Their games are selling best on Switch because of that environment we're creating”
Oh Snap
Report: Snapchat games platform to land later this year
One games publisher is said to be lined up already
Squared Away
Pokemon Quest lands on the iOS App Store and Google Play
The adventure RPG game has already caught 2.5 million downloads on the Nintendo Switch
Mobile Masters
Amazon names the winners of its $100,000 Mobile Masters Seattle esports event
Participants competed in World of Tanks: Blitz, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Critical Ops and Survival Arena
Adjusted
Adjust launches open-source performance benchmarking tool for mobile apps
Free tool should help publishers track app performance
Free No More
The Sims: Freeplay banned in seven countries due to “regional standards”
The Sims: Freeplay will be banned in China, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt come July 5th.
Royalties
PUBG Mobile raking in $700k a day thanks to the new Royale Pass
Revenues boosted by 365 per cent in one week
On The Go
Pokemon Go racks up $104 million as player base reaches its highest level since 2016
The game has surged 174 per cent year-on-year in time for summer
Grass Is Greener
Why MZ CEO Gabe Leydon has left mobile games for blockchain data outfit Satori
One example of a wider trend
Pay To Play
Mobile is the most popular platform for gaming, but the least for paying customers
Newzoo study finds the platform has a lower player-to-payer ratio than console or PC
Digital Sports
Chinese esports market set to reach 350 million users by 2020
Experts also expect the scene to value at $1.5 billion
Job News
Kabam co-founder Holly Liu joins the Animoca Brands board of directors
Leading games entrepreneur sees potential in Animoca’s AI and blockchain endeavours
Cloned
Indie dev lambasts recently flush publisher Voodoo for ‘clone’ Hole.io
Hole.io is currently sitting at the top of the free-to-play charts on iOS
Blockchain Competition
One week left to enter $150,000 blockchain developer competition
Could you win the Alto Cryptogame Challenge powered by BlockchainGamer.Biz?
Game Changer
Inspiration not just adaptation: Asmodee Digital's new editorial policy
Despite Carcassonne coming to Nintendo Switch, Scythe coming to PC and Ticket to Ride coming to PlayStation, it's not all about old IP
About Time
Report: Telltale Games to ditch its own its own tech for Unity game engine
Follows 15 years of using Telltale Tool
Big Pull
King enters the social casino space with Royal Charm Slots
The title had been in soft-launch since August 2017
Fallout World
Fallout Shelter publisher Bethesda sues Warner Bros over “blatant rip-off” Westworld
Lawsuit claims "highly similar" game design, art style, animations and features
Roundup
Games industry roundup: The hottest stories across the PC, blockchain and influencer sectors
15 articles from PCGamesInsider.biz, InfluencerUpdate.biz and BlockhainGamer.biz
Hot Five
Shadowgun Legends took two days to be Switch ready, Tencent to acquire Bluehole, and Lineage M breaks $1.2bn
The past weeks hottest articles
The Weekly
The Weekly: The Legend of Nintendo, phones within phones, and Twitch's games streaming dominance
Rounding up the week's games industry analysis and news from around the internet
Tweeted
Nintendo the most talked about games company on Twitter during E3 2018
Super Smash Bros also received the most tweets out of the games on show
Chart Check
Top 50 US App Store games take 76% of the revenue
Apptopia research finds iOS games peak quickly, with harsh falloff
Key Takeaways
5 things we learned at Unite Berlin 2018
Google, machine learning, mixed reality and more were the key topics in Germany