Acquisitive Inquisitions
10 mobile game M&A deals that probably won't happen but which maybe should
Joining the dollar dots
Big Business
Six of the world’s top 10 biggest public companies are key players in the games industry
Chinese tech giant Tencent ousts Wells Fargo
Iap Inspector
How does Gangstar New Orleans monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Final Fantasy Mz
Square Enix soft-launches Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire mobile game likely developed by MZ
All signs point to it being MZ's promised title
Indie Mavens
How do indie developers measure and define success?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Falstein Leaves
Google's Chief Game Designer Noah Falstein resigns after four years
Looking into VR and neuroscience for next role
Vr Is Bad
Niantic's John Hanke thinks VR is a "problem for society" because it's too immersive
Says AR is the way forward, obviously
Wrestlemania
Sega secures licensing deal for new mobile idle game WWE Tap Mania
US studio The Tap Lab working on title
More, Merrier
Latest speakers from Cmune, MojiWorks, Amazon, Affiniti, IGDA, Newzoo, Scientific Revenue and Scopely join PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Make it California on June 27-28 or miss out
Roblox Customer Service
Roblox appoints new VP of Customers to oversee and improve customer service and content moderation
Remy Malan joins from a five year stint at SugarCRM
Out Of The Park
How Glu Mobile became an ambassador for Major League Baseball
What value can mobile developers offer to partnering IP holders?
Big Data
MZ launches massive free open data project Satori
Developers encouraged to use new platform with big money competition
Model Strike
ASA orders Mobile Strike ad takedown following complaints that it objectifies women
Use of plus-size models not an excuse
Health Through Play
Therapeutic mobile game developer Tilak Healthcare raises $2.7 million
French digital healthcare startup get big investment
Mobile Mavens
Why does Clash Royale have no worthy competition?
A year on, why has there been no challenger for the Clash Royale crown?
Moving On
Apple Designer to leave after 21 years with the company
Had worked on the original iPhones and iPads
Disrupting The Market?
Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames
Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant
New Platforms
Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support
Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Business Reality
Imagination Technologies shares plummet as Apple reveals intentions to design its own graphics chips
UK firm asks for evidence that new designs don't infringe on its own
Liquidation Proceedings
Peripheral maker Mad Catz ceases operations after filing for bankruptcy
No buyer found for peripheral maker
Fake News Day
April Fool's round-up: The best gags from the games industry
Celebrating Fake News in style
Behind The Total
Why it matters App Annie, Newzoo and Superdata can’t agree on the size of the mobile game market
And what they should do about it
Harmonix Layoffs
Harmonix suffers series of layoffs affecting at least 17 staff
Seven more reported to have occurred in prior months
Future Today
Are we already in the HTML5 games Plateau of Productivity?
WiMi5 CEO Raul Otaolea analyses the history of HTML5, and where it sits today
Not So Luckey
Oculus designer and co-founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
It's unknown if he was kicked out or left of his own accord
Glu Job Cuts
Glu Mobile reportedly cuts 25 jobs and closes Portland studio
Was working on a new celebrity game
Iap Inspector
How does The Elder Scrolls: Legends monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Last Chance
Final hours of Super Early Bird rate for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Tick tock, tick tock
To The Future
Global Android app store spend will overtake iOS in 2017
App Annie takes a look at the markets of the future
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games
Compete In Shadows
Cygames partners with Next Generation Esports for first North American Shadowverse tournament
$10,000 prize for the overall winner
Crossy Mouse
Disney Crossy Road celebrates one year anniversary and 31 million downloads with new toy line
Get a blocky Mickey for $2.99
Blast Off
Shane McCafferty and Jim Squires team up to launch new Canadian studio Rocketship Park
Already working on first game Block Droppin'
Free To Roam
Gameloft on designing an open-world F2P mobile game with no limits in Gangstar New Orleans
The Gameloft Montreal team discuss a project two years in the making
Get Updated
Mobile developers can now respond to App Store user reviews in iOS 10.3
Smoother, faster, better
Free No More
Apple now rejecting any app or game that references its own price on the App Store
No more releasing free versions of the same game
Crikey
Lineage 2: Revolution was the top grossing game worldwide in February 2017 despite only being launched in South Korea
Monster Strike and Clash Royale didn't stand a chance
Sad Catz
Peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz to be delisted from NYSE
Abnormally low trading price to blame
Mobile Mavens
Can international mobile game developers still find success in China?
Is there still a way in for developers from abroad?
Google Free Apps
Google trials Free App of the Week feature to rival the App Store
A free app or game every week
Kickstart My Heart
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has seen 10,000 games recieve full funding
$613 million raised in the last 8 years
Super Mario Review
Super Mario Run gets over 160,000 5-star reviews on Google Play in 24 hours
Fans rush to defend the big N
Creative Colombia
Inside the top five game developers in Colombia
Meet the studios that are turning Colombia into a hub of mobile and VR games development
Mobile Games University
19 talks with practical mobile game development tips from PG Connects London 2017
Advice from the experts
The Rich Get Richer
The top ten public developers generated 54% of the global games industry's revenues in 2016
Tencent made up 10% of all revenues generated in the year
Apps Become Platforms
Are we heading for a post-app store future?
Blackstorm's Michael Carter and Ernestine Fu on the rise of the super apps
Having A Party
Plarium launches Twentieth Century Fox-licensed Rio: Match-3 Party
Jesse Eisenberg reprises his role as a bird
Instant Hit
Users play EverWing on Facebook Instant Games for an average of one hour per day
Blackstorm Labs CEO Michael Carter on early successes in post-app store gaming
Birthing Heroes
A team effort: The making of Alliance: Heroes of the Spire
Behind the scenes with Mark Spenner