Rip Tablets, Long Live Switch
Flashback Friday: The death of tablet gaming gives Nintendo Switch its best opportunity for success
There's a gap forming, and Nintendo should fill it
Ironsource Admob
IronSource expands partnership with Google AdMob to gain access to more rewarded video ads
Reward players when they earn you money
Twitter Esports
Twitter partners with ESL and DreamHack to bring eSports streaming to its social network
Who needs Twitch?
Trends Survey
Mobile Games Developer Trends: The opportunities, the threats and Brexit
From emerging markets to Brexits, a look at the industry in 2016 and moving into 2017
Free Stuff
Buildbox offering $100,000 of game assets in exchange for trying out its codeless game engine
For an unspecified limited time
Advice From Gdc
ZPLAY at GDC Speech: Opportunities and Challenges for Western Developers
Randy Barenscott takes the stage
Pokemon Awards
Pokemon GO scoops Best Mobile/Handheld Game at 17th GDC Awards
Loses its three other nominations
Puff Out Now
How a non-gamer found App Store success with single-mechanic "digital toys"
The story of The Frosty Pop Corps
Slow To Switch
Nintendo's Switch predicted to sell 5 million units by the end of 2017
SuperData Research has a crack at the numbers
Making A Hit
How Onmyoji’s aim to bring players closer to art, culture and emotion quickly led to 10 million DAUs
NetEase producer Jin Tao reveals the design goals behind the hit game
Supporting Players
How The Walking Dead: Road to Survival developer Scopely approaches customer support
Director of Player Care David Tamayo deals out his top tips and KPIs
Admob Improvements
Google brings playable ads and auto-flipping video ads to AdMob
Opens up video inventory by adding AdWords video ads
Even More Pokemon
Three "major" updates planned for Pokemon GO by the end of 2017
Could PvP finally be on its way?
Imga Global 13
Pokemon GO takes home the Grand Jury prize at the 13th IMGA Global
Dawn of Titans snags two awards
Progressive Unity
Unity 5.6 to add native Vulkan API support when it launches on March 31st
Xiaomi partnership now in effect too
It's All Relative
What if Kabam’s breakup is actually a success story?
May we all experience such failure
Deal Tracker
Deal Tracker 2017: All the biggest M&A activity and deals in the mobile games industry
Monthly breakdowns of the big games industry deals and what they mean
Insert Coin
Retro style, modern medium: the making of Evil Factory
Lawrence Koh and Jaeho Hwang on updating the shmup for F2P
It’s Mobile Time
Power Rangers stars battle it out in mobile game on stage at GDC 2017
nWay's Power Rangers: Legacy Wars set for March 23rd release
Big Numbers
Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016
Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
Cardboard Foundations
10 million Google Cardboard VR viewers have been shipped since 2014
And Google Cardboard apps have racked up 160 million downloads
Fiksu Cpms January 2017
CPMs are falling on Android and iOS but users aren't sticking to new apps for long
Fiksu digs into the data
Keyword Appointment
Keywords Studios appoints new Audio Manager at LA studio
Ed Lima brings his expertise to expand the studio's services
The Long View
Five years on, have the first billionaire F2P mobile games survived or thrived?
Checking out Puzzle & Dragons, Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga
Breaking Out
Epic reveals new UE4-powered mobile game Battle Breakers
Tactical role-playing title to support cross-play with PC
Critical Hit
Pokemon GO racks up 650 million downloads
Players walk a combined 8.7 billion km
Unity Gdc Keynote
Unity's GDC keynote to show off new and unnanounced games alongside advancements in AR and VR
Streaming worldwide from 4:30pm GMT on February 28th
Discover And Play
Google Play improves discovery to focus on engagement over downloads
Also lets developers run their own sales
Vungle V5
Vungle adds ten new Dynamic Templates alongside SDK v5
More choices for showing mobile video ads
King Clash
Clash Royale tops global mobile digital sales market in January 2017
SuperData Research breaks out the top ten
Wield Control
Samsung unveils new Gear VR controller at Mobile World Congress
Catching up with Daydream
More Gaming Summit
Free to attend Mobile Retention and Engagement Gaming Summit kicks off March 1st in San Francisco
Event is free to attend
Gdc Tips
Tips and tricks on how to survive and make the most out of GDC 2017
The mobile mavens offer their advice from years of experience at the event
Job Losses
Dash Galactic developer Kiz Studios struck by layoffs
Number of job losses not specified
Still For Sale
Remaining Kabam studios spun-off into new company Aftershock following Netmarble sale
Discussions already underway with prospective buyers to sell new company
Netmarble Acquires Kabam
Netmarble closes acquisition of Kabam Vancouver and Marvel: Contest of Champions
Will run Kabam as a wholly-owned subsidiary
Playable Boost
Chartboost sees 123% better conversion rates with new interactive 'Playables' ad campaigns
D7 retention for games using the ads is up 26.7%
Appsflyer Performance Index
Facebook remains the top driver of game installs on Android and iOS
AppsFlyer digs into the best advertisers of H2 2016
Lift Your Game
Amazon GameLift now works with all C++ and C#-based game engines
Amazon Lumberyard updated to 1.8 too
Finding An Edge
The 5 most important Facebook Ad updates of 2016
How you can increase your app's revenue
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of key mobile game company financials in 2017
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Raise Your Dragon
Pocket Gems to reward top War Dragons players with limited-edition 3D figurines
Play well, get a figurine
Good News Everyone
TinyCo reveals second Fox Interactive partnership with Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow
Could be a nice money-spinner for Jam City
Managed By Maple
Mobile acquisition and management firm Maple Media raises $30 million
Shamrock Capital gives a healthy cash injection
Pokemon Back
Pokemon GO shoots back to the top of the grossing charts following major update
New Pokemon and customisation options helping boost revenue
Rising Spending
US iPhone gamers spent an average of $27 on games in 2016
Sensor Tower breaks out some estimates
Swiss Speaches
Three things we learned at the Zurich Game Festival
At the end of last month, Ludicious took place in Switzerland, and here are our track highlights…
Tenjin Partnership
Tenjin partners with Looker and Chartio to make marketing data more efficient
Visualising marketing data for better growth
Something's Bugging Me
App Store bug causes top grossing ranks to drop Candy Crush Saga for driving theory test app
Or was Apple testing a new algorithm?
Ipad You Pad
Report: Apple to refresh entire iPad line with four new devices in March 2017
A new red iPhone 7 is also expected