Up In The Clouds
Microsoft acquires backend services provider PlayFab
Technology to complement computing giant's own Azure platform
Top Of The World
How to get to the top of the App Store
The power of ASO and Search Ads
Talk Torque
Call for speakers: The finest games industry insight sought for PG Connects San Francisco 2018 on May 14th to 15th
Influencer marketing, cryptocurrency, development knowhow, trends, monetisation... all and more welcome
Jobs News
MZ eyes 70 new staff in big recruitment drive
Openings in areas including art, analytics, design, engineering, marketing and data science
Helping Hand
Ubisoft launches personal gaming assistant Sam
Chat bot offer tips and information to users about the publisher's games
Mobile Grossing Charts December 2017
Honor of Kings remained the highest grossing mobile game in the world in December 2017
SuperData Research shares its monthly grossing charts
Three’s A Charm
Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal
Crazy Defense Heroes also a big hit
More Minecraft
Minecraft cleared 144 million copies sold and 74 million MAUs in December 2017
Unclear how many sales come from mobile
On Yer Oji
NetEase finally launches English-language version of China hit Onmyoji on iOS
Android players have to wait another week
Beyond Episodes And Choices
Why Ludia thinks What’s Your Story? can turn a new page in the competitive interactive fiction sector
Telling new tales
Force Multiplier
How Glu Mobile and G5 made big UA investments and grew bigger (but Rovio didn’t)
Counting more than the cost
Harrison At Google
Ex-Microsoft exec Phil Harrison joins Google as vice president and general manager
Will report to Rick Osterloh, and that's all we know
Big Deal
Aristocrat closes $990 million Big Fish acquisition
Company has spent $1.5 billion since August on mobile game purchases
Up In The Cloud
Epic Games acquires cloud computing firm Cloudgine
Tech known for powering Oculus title Toy Box and the upcoming Crackdown 3
Mobile Games Awards
First ever Mobile Games Awards winners revealed
Supercell, Playdemic, Playrix, Flaregames and more pick up top accolades
Taking Flight
Mobile games-on-demand service Hatch extends beta to UK and Ireland
Streaming platform attracts over 100 games
Touchdown
Angry Birds developer Rovio partners with the NFL for special in-game events
New characters, costumes and levels in Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Evolutions
Hot Five
Lessons from Angry Birds 2, the rise of hyper-casual, and HQ Trivia monetisation
The most read articles of the last week
Event Highlights
What you CANNOT MISS at PG Connects London 2018
The editors speak: here's what our team is most looking forward to next week in London
Keeping A Cool Head
Studio MDHR says Cuphead won't be coming to mobile
Co-founder Chad Moldenhauer said it was "odd" a fake version of the game made it onto iOS
Active Agent
The logic behind Disney’s new mobile strategy
A new approach again
Industry Diversity
How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer recruits
Recruiter Jeesoo Sohn discusses changes in the hiring process to improve diversity
Playing Ads
2018 mobile advertising trends to watch: Playables and interactive ads
Applift CEO Tim Koschella looks at the benefits of different kinds of mobile advertising
Success Uncovered
Hidden object revealed: The rise of G5 Entertainment
The story behind 2017’s top game share
Shiny New Unity
Unity teases Scriptable Render Pipeline and C# Job System in upcoming engine update
Shows off shiny new tools in demo called Book of the Dead
Unreal Dev Grants 2018
Epic Games hands out $200,000 to 13 developers in latest round of Unreal Dev Grants
The Machines' studio Directive Games among the recipients
Future Of The Industry
Mobile games predicted to generate up to $95 billion in revenues in 2022
Digi-Capital looks to the future of the industry
Zplay Time
Next generation playable ads
ZPLAY on why playable ads will become more widespread in 2018
Featured Features
The hottest strategy features in the US, China and Japan
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your strategy game's design and its chances for global success
The Hardest Question
How will HQ Trivia monetise?
It's giving away thousands of dollars, but how will it turn a profit?
King Of Monsters
Monster Strike was the top grossing game worldwide for the third year in a row in 2017
Honor of Kings would probably be on top if China had Google Play
The Charticle
Charting the rise of hyper-casual mobile games
Examining the performances of Ketchapp, Voodoo and Gram Games
Most Read
Glu sells Moscow studio, the potential of live ops, and which of 2017's games will sustain in 2018?
The hottest articles of last week
Trejo Doughnuts
Jam City taps actor Danny Trejo for Family Guy: Another Freakin' Mobile Game ad campaign
Buy some doughnuts, play the game, everyone wins
Facebook Ad Survey
57% of mobile gamers who don't pay to remove ads are fine with being advertised to in a free game
Facebook surveys 6,000 mobile gamers to find out their likes and dislikes
Google Redux
Google quietly acquires Cambridge-based mobile audio tech firm Redux
Could use its panel audio technology in upcoming Pixel phones
Iap Inspector
How does Choices: Stories You Play monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Building A New Monster
How Seriously took a new IP and created a $100 million business
But there's still a lot of work to be done
Ka-ching
Sega gets into casino gaming on mobile with Sega Slots
Title leverages famous IP such as Sonic, Super Monkey Ball and Golden Axe
Pg Connects
Developers: Book your appointment at the Pocket Gamer Journalist Bar now
A rare chance to demo your game one-on-one with one of our expert game journos
Pocket Blockchain
Spyr Games reveals plans for "blockchain universe" in mobile MMO Pocket Starships
Buy planets, pay Spyr upkeep costs
Pokemon Gone
Pokemon Go to stop supporting older iPhones and iPads on February 28th
Can't run iOS 11? Upgrade your phone or lose your game
Do It Live
Live long and prosper: Understanding the potential of live ops
Developers weigh in on the important of games-as-a-service
Poor Little Linda
Razer unveils Android laptop Project Linda powered by its own smartphone
Slot in your Razer Phone and you're away
Lineage 2 Revolution Downloads
Netmarble's MMORPG Lineage 2: Revolution clears five million downloads in 50 days in the West
Still going strong in South Korea
Quizzed Up
Hit mobile app HQ Trivia attracts 1.2 million players
Rapid growth for popular quiz app
From Russia With Games
Glu Mobile sells Moscow studio for $2.8 million
Publisher also sells four games to My.com
Sticking Around?
Which of 2017's biggest mobile games will sustain in 2018?
Homescapes, Lineage 2, Toon Blast, Final Fantasy XV?
Iap Inspector
In-App Purchase Inspector Extra: How does South Park: Phone Destroyer monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Hammer Time
Epic crackdown on copyrighted Unreal Engine 4 Marketplace assets
Audit to take place over the next few months