New Team Comp
Super Evil Megacorp COO Kristian Segerstrale to take over as CEO
Current CEO becomes President and Chief Business Officer
Monetisation Design Webinar
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Eastern Promise
Chat apps have been vital to mobile gaming success in Asia, but can Facebook do the same in the West?
The potential impact of Facebook Instant Games
Vainglory Franchises
Super Evil Megacorp establishes Vainglory Team Franchise Program to grow the eSport
Another big step for the fledgling eSport
Noobs Welcome
Best practices for implementing IAP starter packs in free-to-play games
How to break the psychological barrier
Mobile Mavens
Mobile developers discuss the most important rules of game monetisation design
The most important techniques to get players spending
Zynga Lawsuit
Zynga suing two former employees for stealing confidential data and taking it to Scopely
Also suing Scopely for poaching other employees
Instant Vikings
Big Viking Games opens $10 million publishing fund for HTML5 messenger platforms like Facebook's Instant Games
Offering development tools and analytics for interested parties
Instant Developers
King, Zynga, Konami and more launch 17 games on Facebook's Instant Games platform
14 developers give their support
Games In An Instant
Facebook launches HTML5 platform Instant Games for News Feed and Messenger
Access to one billion possible players
Asset Affiliates
New Unity Asset Store Affiliate program lets users earn 5% from sales of their favourite assets
Everyone's eligible
Game Alliance
Tilting Point establishes $12 million Game Alliance fund for indie UA campaigns
Helping developers grow while retaining their independence
Throwback Tuesday
35% of all sales made during Cyber Monday were made on mobile devices
iPad Air 2 the top-selling tablet
Another New Iphone
Apple's next iPhones with OLED screens could hit the market in 2017
Manufacturers asked to increase production to meet demand
A Billion Pixels
Google to generate $3.8 billion in 2017 from the Pixel and Daydream
Morgan Stanley says so
Learn New Words
Zynga soft-launches updated version of Scrabble-like game New Words With Friends
New Words With Friends is an apt name
Runaway Success?
Strong IP doesn’t guarantee Super Mario Run will be successful on mobile
Mobile gamers unsure about $9.99 price
Know Your Players
Mobile Games University - Monetisation Design: The psychology behind game monetisation
Learning how players think
Non-disruptive Failure
4 ways mobile gaming companies can succeed through failure
Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on why failure is to be accepted, not feared
Fighting On Multiple Fronts
How June Software is racking up downloads in India while targeting global grossing success
CEO Roby John on a big year for the studio
Now Playing
Now playing: Tommy Palm on Kingdom Rush Frontiers
What games are keeping the industry busy after hours?
Dark Horse
Glu seemingly shuts down ailing celebrity-focused game Katy Perry Pop
First game of its kind to be taken off the market
Use Their Data
Anonymous data monetisation firm Tutela reopens partnership program
Use your user's data as an extra revenue stream
Monetisation Design Webinar
Join our free online webinar on the seven rules of monetisation design with Oscar Clark
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Sticker Happy
Glu adds iMessage stickers to already sticker-heavy celebrity game Kendall & Kylie
50 for free, 200 to unlock or buy
Super Mario Done
Don't expect Super Mario Run to compete with Pokemon GO, says Sensor Tower
92% of all games launched in Q3 2016 were free-to-play
Live And Kicking
EA reflects on mobile hit Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes on its first birthday
EA Executive Producer John Salera on the game's life so far
Ipad Semi-pro
Report: Apple to launch new 10.5-inch iPad for enterprise and education markets in 2017
Slots neatly between standard iPad and iPad Pro
Pixel Pusher
Google and Verizon spent $27 million in a week advertising the Pixel phone
7.5% of all phone activations over the last month were at Verizon
Taking Flight
EA adds ship-based battles to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes to boost already huge retention rates
Also adding Rogue One characters
Slow Burner
FunPlus' King of Avalon surges to the summit of the US App Store top grossing charts
Aggressive marketing the key?
Early Opportunities
India's mobile games market is like the US in 2008, but it's growing rapidly
Boss Fight Entertainment's Bill Jackson on the opportunities in India
Funding News
Mobile market intelligence firm Apptopia raises $2.7 million in funding round led by Ashton Kutcher's VC firm
US firm aims to make app economy more transparent
Flying The Nest
Will Luton joins Rovio Stockholm as Senior Product Manager
Will lead product management on Angry Birds 2
Money-makers
Mobile Games University - Monetisation Design: The different monetisation types in games
Learn about IAPs, ads, subscriptions, premium, gachas and more
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile developers think of Super Mario Run's premium $9.99 price?
Is Nintendo jumping too high with the cost?
Track Your Events
Tenjin launches free self-service mobile marketing tool for small developers to track their data
Prices increase as your needs do
Shared Dream
Motorola the first third-party Android manufacturer to make Google Daydream available on its phones
Android Nougat 7.0 coming some time this week to Moto Z and Moto Z Force
Casual Esports
Amazon Appstore gets in on eSports with first ever tournament for casual mobile games
Winner stands to win grand prize of $30,000
Moving On
Bala brothers leave Vicarious Visions after 25 years to form new company Velan Studios
Duo plans to get prototyping games with small teams
Pining For Seapine
Perforce acquires application lifecycle management tool provider Seapine Software
Fruther integrates itself into the games industry with tool used by SCEE, 2K Games, Epic, Motiga and NCSoft
Quality Over Quantity
How real-money skill gaming platform Sparcade is bringing competitive gaming to the masses
Greg Canessa on providing something for everyone
Hot Five
The story behind India's first games company, Critical Ops hits 10 million downloads, and keeping games alive
The hottest articles of last week
East To West
5 marketing tips for launching Chinese games in Western markets
Increase your chances of a successful Western game launch
Play For Cash
GSN Games' real-money skill gaming platform Sparcade signs up Centipede and Two Dots
Covering the old-school and the contemporary
Unity Certification Partners
Unity gives greenlight to external training providers to offer Unity Certification Exams
11 partners already signed up
App Uninstall Rates
Android users are more likely to uninstall apps than iOS users
AppsFlyer sets the cat among the pigeons
Ea Switches
EA plans to bring one of its "bigger games" to Nintendo Switch but questions broad appeal of device
Probably still hurting from the Wii U
On Target
Hothead Games' Kill Shot franchise achieves 65 million downloads in two years
33 billion minutes spent by players in-game
Tell Me Straight
EA introduces tighter transparency rules on its influencer campaigns
Setting the standard for other developers