Everyone Has One
Apple has sold an average of 323,000 iPhones worldwide every day for the last decade
Newzoo looks back over iPhone sales to celebrate its tenth birthday
Pocket Starship Sold
SPYR Games acquires full ownership of Pocket Starships in cashless deal
Offers shares in its stock to the game's owner
Staying Competitive
Building a mobile eSports giant: Super Evil Megacorp reflects on creating Vainglory
CEO Kristian Segerstrale on what it takes to make a competitive game
No Great Loss
Removing 32-bit apps from the App Store will affect less than 1% of the store's overall revenue
Sensor Tower digs into the data
X Gon' Give It To Ya
Rumour: Apple to unveil three new iPhones at its special event keynote including the iPhone X
According to some code in the iOS 11 firmware
Apple Keynote
How and when to watch Apple's special event keynote on Tuesday September 12th
Tune in at 10am PDT/1pm ET/6pm BST for all the latest reveals
Text Jam
Jam City pushes into interactive fiction with soft-launched choose-your-own-adventure game Twist
Taking a leaf out of Episode's book
Iap Inspector
How does The Walking Dead: March to War monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Hello La
Goodbye Kansas Studios opens new Los Angeles office led by former DICE staff
Fredrik Löving and Tobias Dahl head up the new operation
Ad Play
3 reasons you should outsource production of your playable ad
IronSource's Daniel Herman discusses the benefits
Blizzard Arena
Blizzard opens dedicated eSports arena in Los Angeles to host its own Hearthstone tournaments
Bring the viewers in, sell them merch on the way out
Amazon's Next Top Hq
Amazon begins public search for city to host its planned $5 billion second headquarters
Promises to bring 50,000 jobs to the city
Switch Noire
Rockstar Games tests the Nintendo Switch waters with an L.A. Noire port
Not the most obvious choice for a port
That's The Spirit
Middleware firm Spirit AI hires Peter Alau as its new Business Development Manager
First hire the company has made in San Francisco
Who Thinks Of This
Jump from a plane and pitch to investors at Slush's Skydive Pitching event in San Francisco
Can you sell your idea and remember to deploy your parachute?
App Annie Hires
App Annie shuffles senior management with new President and Chief Financial Officer
CRO Ted Krantz gets promoted, Sujain Jain joins
Marketplace Millions
Minecraft Marketplace creators have generated over $1 million in revenue since June 2017
Microsoft still looking to expand its creator roster
Insert Credit
Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design?
A look at whether mobile developers could embrace arcade-like monetisation
Seeing What Sticks
Glu Mobile licenses Deer Hunter for console game developed by GameMill
First time the developer has explored outside of mobile
Social King
King enters social casino space with soft-launched game Royal House Slots
Partnership with PlayStudios kicks off
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Mix It Up
Microsoft’s Mixer Create mobile app lets players stream games from their phones
Co-streaming also available across PC and console
Servers Up
Why Heroic Labs built its Nakama real-time server technology for an open source future
Product VP Alim Jaffer offers his thoughts on open-sourcing and games-as-a-service
Job News
Oculus hires new Chief Marketing Officer
Rebecca Van Dyck steps in after Liz Hamren's departure to Microsoft
Iap Inspector
How does Glu Mobile's hit game Design Home monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Humble Promotion
Jam City promotes former EA exec Rod Humble to CEO of TinyCo
Suleman Ali leaves, Matt Gaiser takes over San Francisco office
Rock On
Hard Rock partners with Israeli developer for match-3 mobile game
Hard Rock Puzzle Match out now on the App Store and Google Play
Skin In The Game
Bitter decisions Disruptor Beam hopes will sweeten The Walking Dead: March To War
Only the smart survive
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part three: Monetisation and the future of 4X games
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Indie Festival
Google names 20 finalists for Indie Games Festival in San Francisco
Free event open to the public
Core Blimey
Google faces off against Apple's ARKit with ARCore for Android
Aims to target over 100 million devices by the end of its preview period
Welcome Stats
Glu Mobile’s Design Home welcomes one million daily active users
Revenues remain strong in new flagship game for publisher
Investment News
360-degree VR eSports platform Sliver.tv secures $9.8 million funding round
Total investment in company now stands at $17.5 million
Tekken Mobile
Bandai Namco unleashes Tekken on mobile
Title soft-launched in Canada for iOS and Android
Business Expansion
Testing firm Pole To Win opens Canada office
New studio set up in Montreal
Competitive Gaming
Super Senso and sensibility: GungHo on embracing the growth of mobile eSports
GungHo and Turbo CEOs offer their thoughts on eSports and discuss new strategy game Super Senso
Strike Two
Hi-Rez Studios returns to mobile with Paladins Strike
Team shooter based off its popular PC title
The Weekly
The Weekly: Disney's games-inspired Star Wars hotel, are app stores taking advantage of developers, and the real cost of VR
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
The rise of UX and cognitive science, why Jam City pushed back its IPO, and the requirements for making an F2P game
The hottest articles of the last week
A New Campaign
MZ recruits influencer and model Alexis Ren as the face of Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire ad campaign
Follows in the footsteps of Kate Upton, Mariah Carey and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Studio Closure
Glu Mobile closes Long Beach studio and cuts jobs in San Francisco
CTO also parts ways with publisher
Taking Control
Super Evil Megacorp collaborating with Samsung to bring mouse and keyboard control to mobile MOBA Vainglory
Using Samsung DeX technology to draw in a new crowd
Blowing Up
Jam City's Panda Pop clears 100 million downloads in under four years
Still attracts 9.3 million MAUs
New Studio
UK design studio Atomhawk opens new studio in Vancouver
Office headed up by Creative Director Maurice Kimball
The Charticle
How Rovio's mobile game revenues keep soaring higher
How did Battle Bay, Angry Birds Evolution and Angry Birds Blast contribute?
Lineage Leaps
Lineage M was the third-highest grossing mobile game worldwide in July 2017
Only launched in South Korea at the tail end of June
Big Bets
Stick or twist: What’s next for the mobile social casino sector?
Stick within a $3 billion market or twist for $40 billion?
The Gamer's Brain
How the rise of UX has brought cognitive science to mainstream game development
Epic's Director of UX Celia Hodent opens the book
A Waiting Game
Why Jam City’s IPO is on hold
Recent launches have failed
The Weekly
The Weekly: China's missing mogul, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's big new game, and the rule breakers playing Honor of Kings
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet