Tell No Tales
Telltale Games appoints former Zynga SVP of Games Pete Hawley as President and CEO
Dan Connors steps back into an advisory role
Paradise Lost
Where is mobile gaming’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds?
Have we gone too clever, got too niche?
Conceived And Created
Zynga partners with Ferrari on CSR Racing 2 in-game event for 70th anniversary
New cars and challenges for players between September 14th to February 2018
Mobile Esports
Amazon takes eSports Mobile Masters series to Las Vegas
Teams will battle it out for their share of the $80,000 prize pool
Data Quest
Overcoming data hurdles to develop a mobile game for a worldwide audience
VC Mobile Entertainment on development journey of Creature Quest
Infinite Deviations
Google Play launches Infinite Deviation: Games to bring new voices to mobile games
Three game concepts will be made to help push diversity in the indsutry
A Kind Of Magic
Report: Magic Leap eyes $500 million investment round which values it at $6 billion
Mixed reality firm hasn't publicly shown off its tech, but still needs more money
Ar Trumps Vr
Augmented reality is the next frontier for smartphones as VR falters
Apple’s ARKit and iPhone 8 and X show AR has left VR in the dust, and there's a lot more to come
Today At Town Square
Apple begins rolling out new retail concepts Town Squares and Today at Apple
Get your phone repaired while you learn how to code
Ios 11 Is Coming
iOS 11 launches for all compatible iOS devices on September 19th
Brings a heap of improvements including ARKit
Rise Of The Machines
Directive Games showcases AR MOBA The Machines at Apple keynote
Featuring location-based sound and online multiplayer
Syncing Feeling
Apple removes App Store from PC and Mac's iTunes software
Apps no longer sync to your computer
The Bigger They Are
Apple quietly discontinues 256GB model iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
(RED) iPhones also dropped, but prices fall for 32GB and 128GB models
Apple Watch
Apple Watch Series 3 goes independent from iPhone
Launches on September 22nd
Iphone 8
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus release date set for September 22nd
Prices start at $699
Iphone X
Apple unveils the future of its smartphones with the iPhone X
Set to launch on November 3rd
Apple Sky
Thatgamecompany’s Jenova Chen reveals new game Sky for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
Multiplayer-focused title coming exclusively to Apple devices
Monetising Streams
Genvid opens up interactive streaming SDK to all
Make livestreaming from your game even more appeaing with monetisation
Everyone Has One
Apple has sold an average of 323,000 iPhones worldwide every day for the last decade
Newzoo looks back over iPhone sales to celebrate its tenth birthday
Pocket Starship Sold
SPYR Games acquires full ownership of Pocket Starships in cashless deal
Offers shares in its stock to the game's owner
Staying Competitive
Building a mobile eSports giant: Super Evil Megacorp reflects on creating Vainglory
CEO Kristian Segerstrale on what it takes to make a competitive game
No Great Loss
Removing 32-bit apps from the App Store will affect less than 1% of the store's overall revenue
Sensor Tower digs into the data
X Gon' Give It To Ya
Rumour: Apple to unveil three new iPhones at its special event keynote including the iPhone X
According to some code in the iOS 11 firmware
Apple Keynote
How and when to watch Apple's special event keynote on Tuesday September 12th
Tune in at 10am PDT/1pm ET/6pm BST for all the latest reveals
Text Jam
Jam City pushes into interactive fiction with soft-launched choose-your-own-adventure game Twist
Taking a leaf out of Episode's book
Iap Inspector
How does The Walking Dead: March to War monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Hello La
Goodbye Kansas Studios opens new Los Angeles office led by former DICE staff
Fredrik Löving and Tobias Dahl head up the new operation
Ad Play
3 reasons you should outsource production of your playable ad
IronSource's Daniel Herman discusses the benefits
Blizzard Arena
Blizzard opens dedicated eSports arena in Los Angeles to host its own Hearthstone tournaments
Bring the viewers in, sell them merch on the way out
Amazon's Next Top Hq
Amazon begins public search for city to host its planned $5 billion second headquarters
Promises to bring 50,000 jobs to the city
Switch Noire
Rockstar Games tests the Nintendo Switch waters with an L.A. Noire port
Not the most obvious choice for a port
That's The Spirit
Middleware firm Spirit AI hires Peter Alau as its new Business Development Manager
First hire the company has made in San Francisco
Who Thinks Of This
Jump from a plane and pitch to investors at Slush's Skydive Pitching event in San Francisco
Can you sell your idea and remember to deploy your parachute?
App Annie Hires
App Annie shuffles senior management with new President and Chief Financial Officer
CRO Ted Krantz gets promoted, Sujain Jain joins
Marketplace Millions
Minecraft Marketplace creators have generated over $1 million in revenue since June 2017
Microsoft still looking to expand its creator roster
Insert Credit
Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design?
A look at whether mobile developers could embrace arcade-like monetisation
Seeing What Sticks
Glu Mobile licenses Deer Hunter for console game developed by GameMill
First time the developer has explored outside of mobile
Social King
King enters social casino space with soft-launched game Royal House Slots
Partnership with PlayStudios kicks off
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Mix It Up
Microsoft’s Mixer Create mobile app lets players stream games from their phones
Co-streaming also available across PC and console
Servers Up
Why Heroic Labs built its Nakama real-time server technology for an open source future
Product VP Alim Jaffer offers his thoughts on open-sourcing and games-as-a-service
Job News
Oculus hires new Chief Marketing Officer
Rebecca Van Dyck steps in after Liz Hamren's departure to Microsoft
Iap Inspector
How does Glu Mobile's hit game Design Home monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Humble Promotion
Jam City promotes former EA exec Rod Humble to CEO of TinyCo
Suleman Ali leaves, Matt Gaiser takes over San Francisco office
Rock On
Hard Rock partners with Israeli developer for match-3 mobile game
Hard Rock Puzzle Match out now on the App Store and Google Play
Skin In The Game
Bitter decisions Disruptor Beam hopes will sweeten The Walking Dead: March To War
Only the smart survive
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part three: Monetisation and the future of 4X games
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Indie Festival
Google names 20 finalists for Indie Games Festival in San Francisco
Free event open to the public
Core Blimey
Google faces off against Apple's ARKit with ARCore for Android
Aims to target over 100 million devices by the end of its preview period
Welcome Stats
Glu Mobile’s Design Home welcomes one million daily active users
Revenues remain strong in new flagship game for publisher