O, Android
Google pushes out first Developer Preview of upcoming OS Android O
Improvements to battery life, notifications and more
Smart Gamification
Mobile marketing meet the smart hairbrush: Connected and gamified environments are defining the smartphone-powered now
How game developers and marketers can power new experiences
New Ipads
Apple unveils two new 9.7-inch iPads and a red iPhone 7
Almost all the rumours come true
More Speakers
Electronic Arts, QuickByte, Mail.Ru and Priori Data are latest additions for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Second wave of speaker announcements for June 27th to 28th conference
Machine Learning
PlayFab partners with IBM Watson supercomputer to help game developers boost player engagement
New tools to provide insights into player behaviour
Run!
Scopely snags Temple Run license for soft-launched match-3 title Treasure Hunters
Now open for pre-registration on Google Play
Crushed
The Candy Crush TV show airs from July 9th 2017
Teams of two will honestly be playing Candy Crush on television
Permanent Spotlight
NimbleBit, Zach Gage and Untame praise the App Store's new indie games section
“I think it has the potential to be really great,” says Gage
Tell No Tales
Telltale Games CEO Kevin Bruner steps down after two years in charge
Hands reins back to previous CEO Dan Connors
Grab A Corona
Appodeal snaps up 2D game engine developer Corona Labs
Opening up its Enterprise pricing tier for free
Indie Spotlight
Apple opens permanent App Store section for indie game developers
Shining a spotlight on indie creativity
Boggles The Mind
Zynga nabs licence for new mobile game Boggle With Friends
It's like Boggle, but with your friends
Iap Inspector
How does Alliance: Heroes of the Spire monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Boycott Over?
A week after boycotts began, Marvel: Contest of Champions is rising back up the top grossing ranks
Broke into the top ten on Monday March 13th
Live Support
Best practices for player support in mobile game live operations
Experts from Wargaming, PlayRaven, Armada and Nexon M discuss dealing with the community
First Among Equals?
Did you know Zynga now generates more mobile game revenue than EA?
Zynga rise is going unnoticed
Rivals On Hold
Hi-Rez Studios halts development on Smite Rivals to focus on PC projects
Needs significant additional development
Building Blocks
How Roblox's explosive growth and one million concurrent players led to a $92 million funding round
Roblox VP of Marketing Tami Bhaumik discusses the company's plans
Improbable King
King's Chief Legal Officer Robert Miller leaves to join SpatialOS developer Improbable
Taking over as Chief Legal Officer at the startup tech firm
Yes Another One
Jam City soft-launches branded match-3 title Family Guy - Another Freakin' Mobile Game
TinyCo acquisition apparently acting as gateway to the license
Supercell Shop
Supercell opens online shop to sell official Clash of Clans merchandise in the US and Canada
Supercell Shop is open for business
Homegrown Talent
Whatever happened to Fire Emblem Heroes?
How has Nintendo’s first F2P mobile game launched?
Know Your Ltv
Quantifying lifetime value - A metrics-based approach to growth
Pollen CEO Martin Macmillan on how the top companies plan UA budgets and spend
Roblox Funding
Roblox closes $92 million funding round to support its 48 million MAUs
Players making up to $50,000 a month from creations in the game
Gdc 2017 Wraps Up
GDC 2017 attracts 26,000 attendees and 570 exhibiting companies
GDC 2018 dates are already set
Back From San Francisco
Mobile Mavens reflect on their GDC 2017 trends and highlights
What sticks in the memory?
Zynga Solitaire
Zynga acquires four Solitaire games from little-known developer for $42.5 million
Harpan LLC just made a killing
February Tv Ad Spend
Top Games Inc trumps Machine Zone for TV advertising spend in February 2017
Relative newcomer to the TV ad scene spends $13.1 million in a month
In The Mix
Harmonix partners with Hasbro for mobile and card game DropMix
Playing cards in the real world to mix beats in an app
Crazy Demiurge
Demiurge Studios tapped to develop soft-launched clicker Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire
Second game with Sega will hopefully do better than the first
Double Dna
DeltaDNA doubles monthly active users to 100 million in six months
Processing 25 billion data events a month
Asian Dominance
Tencent world’s top earning mobile games publisher in 2016
Asia-Pacific companies dominate App Annie’s rankings
Most Read
Madfinger experimenting with monetisation, Contest of Champions players threaten boycott, and China blocks South Korean games
The hottest articles of last week
Gdc Trends
5 key mobile trends from GDC 2017
VR, Eastern influence, engines and live ops - but are things really changing?
We Heart Indies
Apple celebrates indies with launch of 12 new games on the App Store between March 9th and 20th
A new title released and featured every day, even at the weekend
Kabam Boycott
Why Marvel: Contest of Champions' top players are threatening to walk away
Kabam could be set to lose a substantial source of their revenue from the game
Point Proven
Vainglory ignored casual players "to a fault" in pursuit of eSport legitimacy, says Super Evil Megacorp
But now it's redressing the balance
Corona Sparks
Corona Labs adds GameSparks plug-in to make backend servers simpler for mobile developers
Multiplayer servers set up from one tool
Video Ads Rule
93% of all mobile gaming ad spend went on video ads in Q4 2016
AppLovin and AppsFlyer work together for the data
Gree San Francisco
Gree International cuts staff at San Francisco office to focus on marketing and publishing
Yet more jobs lost at the company
Unity Without Borders
Unity opens Unity Without Borders program to support developers affected by US travel ban
A free trip to Unite Europe and help with visa applications on offer
First-timer
3 lessons from an indie developer's first GDC
Frank DiCola discusses scheduling, sessions and not taking no for an answer
Form & Function
Trying to get a grip on Nintendo Switch
Hands on with the latest contender
Twitchbook
Twitch takes on social networking with newly rolled-out Pulse platform
Post updates, share videos, emote, and without even streaming
Your Game
The cautionary tale of Marvel: Contest of Champions’ v12 update
Whose games is it anyway?
It Begins...
NaturalMotion, Execution Labs, Agnitio, Bandai Namco, Nexon confirmed for PG Connects San Francisco 2017
First speakers announced for June 27-28 conference
Big Indie Pitch
Crashy Cars smashes competition to win the Big Indie Pitch at GDC
3D platformer Suzi Cube grabs second spot as Where Shadows Slumber claims third place
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Big Huge Games' Brad Fisher on how to get a job as a Game Designer
DomiNations Game Designer shares career insights
Github For Unity
GitHub introduces extension for Unity to allow devs easier access to code resources
Also includes storage for large binary assets
More Pixels
Google wants to "follow the rhythm of the industry" and launch a new Pixel phone in 2017
Rick Osterloh says it won't be any cheaper