Investment News
360-degree VR eSports platform Sliver.tv secures $9.8 million funding round
Total investment in company now stands at $17.5 million
Tekken Mobile
Bandai Namco unleashes Tekken on mobile
Title soft-launched in Canada for iOS and Android
Business Expansion
Testing firm Pole To Win opens Canada office
New studio set up in Montreal
Competitive Gaming
Super Senso and sensibility: GungHo on embracing the growth of mobile eSports
GungHo and Turbo CEOs offer their thoughts on eSports and discuss new strategy game Super Senso
Strike Two
Hi-Rez Studios returns to mobile with Paladins Strike
Team shooter based off its popular PC title
The Weekly
The Weekly: Disney's games-inspired Star Wars hotel, are app stores taking advantage of developers, and the real cost of VR
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
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The rise of UX and cognitive science, why Jam City pushed back its IPO, and the requirements for making an F2P game
The hottest articles of the last week
A New Campaign
MZ recruits influencer and model Alexis Ren as the face of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire ad campaign
Follows in the footsteps of Kate Upton, Mariah Carey and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Studio Closure
Glu Mobile closes Long Beach studio and cuts jobs in San Francisco
CTO also parts ways with publisher
Taking Control
Super Evil Megacorp collaborating with Samsung to bring mouse and keyboard control to mobile MOBA Vainglory
Using Samsung DeX technology to draw in a new crowd
Blowing Up
Jam City's Panda Pop clears 100 million downloads in under four years
Still attracts 9.3 million MAUs
New Studio
UK design studio Atomhawk opens new studio in Vancouver
Office headed up by Creative Director Maurice Kimball
The Charticle
How Rovio's mobile game revenues keep soaring higher
How did Battle Bay, Angry Birds Evolution and Angry Birds Blast contribute?
Lineage Leaps
Lineage M was the third-highest grossing mobile game worldwide in July 2017
Only launched in South Korea at the tail end of June
Big Bets
Stick or twist: What’s next for the mobile social casino sector?
Stick within a $3 billion market or twist for $40 billion?
The Gamer's Brain
How the rise of UX has brought cognitive science to mainstream game development
Epic's Director of UX Celia Hodent opens the book
A Waiting Game
Why Jam City’s IPO is on hold
Recent launches have failed
The Weekly
The Weekly: China's missing mogul, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's big new game, and the rule breakers playing Honor of Kings
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
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Clash of Clans AR, Skillz is the fastest growing US company, and Rovio might IPO
The hottest articles of the last week
A Good Cause
Vancouver mobile games publisher FlowMotion provides over 10,000 meals to children in need
Partnership with charity Backpack Buddies proves fruitful
Immersive Advertising
Interactive advertising platform Immersv scores $10.5 million funding round
Company to develop and scale its tech for mobile 360 and VR advertising
Business Expansion
Fish Tycoon developer Gogii Games opens Halifax studio
Plans to recruit as many as 20 staff
Keeping Dreams Alive
Live operations management studio DECA Games decloaks after a year of stealth operations
Headed up by Ken GO, former General Manager of Kabam's European HQ
Not So Secret
FoxNext Games and NHN Pixelcube partner for Kingsman mobile game
Real-time puzzle RPG to be released alongside upcoming film The Golden Circle
Hibernum Lay Offs
Hibernum Creations lays off majority of staff amid "transitional period"
More than 100 jobs lost, at least
The Charticle
Just how popular are social casino games on the App Store top grossing charts?
Casino games endure on mobile, but how big is the industry?
Proud Partnership
Atari partners with LGBT Media to relaunch social game Pridefest
LGBT Media will rebrand and relaunch the game as its own
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
Job News
Ex-Glixel GM joins mobile games developer N3twork to lead media products and content
John Davison has previously worked at the likes of GameSpot, Zynga and Red Robot Labs
User Bans
Discord shuts down alt-right server and accounts associated with hate groups
Company will "continue to take action against white supremacy, nazi ideology and all forms of hate"
Stacking Up
UK games publisher PlayStack recruits new COO and Director
Mads Jensen to drive company's technology plans
Global Expansion
UK developer Hutch opens new studio in Canada
Company aims to extend development capabilities across various time zones
Job News
Unity names first independent board members
Robynne Sisco and Max Levchin offer their business experience
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part two: The game design
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Monetise, Retain, Acquire
19 talks on mobile game monetisation, retention and user acquisition from PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Learn all you need to know
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The Weekly: How games companies avoid income tax, NetEase's Western expansion, and how Game Freak designs pokemon
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
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Catharina Lavers Mallet joins Talla, what makes MZ so successful, and Subway Surfers devs face class-action lawsuit
The hottest articles of the week
Retention Tool
How Summoners War’s unexpected success disrupts conventional wisdom about mobile eSports
Audience comes first
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Essential Phone?
Mobile start-up Essential confirms $300 million funding round
Tencent, Amazon and Foxconn invest in new company from Android co-creator
Play Nyc
New York video games convention Play NYC set to welcome over 100 developers
Event for gamers and creators takes place on August 19th to 20th
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now
Charging Ahead
Rodeo Stampede smashes 80 million downloads 13 months after launch
Still gets one million DAUs
Fuelling Design Home
Glu Mobile’s great user acquisition experiment
Investing for the future
The Charticle
The games powering Zynga's profitability
Zynga's latest financials paint a rosy picture, but how has it got here?
Quick To Profitability
QuickByte Games generates one million downloads in first week for Laps – Fuse
Title already profitable
Tapped Up
Mobile ads firm Taptica acquires Tremor Video’s demand-side platform for $50 million
Tremor Video DSP will operate as independent division of Taptica
Get Creative
Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support
Also includes other new tools and enhancements
Ar Future
iPhone augmented reality camera details leak
Apple internal software update for HomePod goes public, reveals clues about iPhone’s AR future
Made In Japan
Self-taught 82-year-old Japanese coder develops and releases mobile game
"I thought I should make a game app designed for old people to have fun"