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Clash of Clans AR, Skillz is the fastest growing US company, and Rovio might IPO
The hottest articles of the last week
A Good Cause
Vancouver mobile games publisher FlowMotion provides over 10,000 meals to children in need
Partnership with charity Backpack Buddies proves fruitful
Immersive Advertising
Interactive advertising platform Immersv scores $10.5 million funding round
Company to develop and scale its tech for mobile 360 and VR advertising
Business Expansion
Fish Tycoon developer Gogii Games opens Halifax studio
Plans to recruit as many as 20 staff
Keeping Dreams Alive
Live operations management studio DECA Games decloaks after a year of stealth operations
Headed up by Ken GO, former General Manager of Kabam's European HQ
Not So Secret
FoxNext Games and NHN Pixelcube partner for Kingsman mobile game
Real-time puzzle RPG to be released alongside upcoming film The Golden Circle
Hibernum Lay Offs
Hibernum Creations lays off majority of staff amid "transitional period"
More than 100 jobs lost, at least
The Charticle
Just how popular are social casino games on the App Store top grossing charts?
Casino games endure on mobile, but how big is the industry?
Proud Partnership
Atari partners with LGBT Media to relaunch social game Pridefest
LGBT Media will rebrand and relaunch the game as its own
Pays The Billz
Skillz named fastest growing company in the US after growing revenues by 50,000% over three years
First eSports company to top Inc. Magazine's list
Job News
Ex-Glixel GM joins mobile games developer N3twork to lead media products and content
John Davison has previously worked at the likes of GameSpot, Zynga and Red Robot Labs
User Bans
Discord shuts down alt-right server and accounts associated with hate groups
Company will "continue to take action against white supremacy, nazi ideology and all forms of hate"
Stacking Up
UK games publisher PlayStack recruits new COO and Director
Mads Jensen to drive company's technology plans
Global Expansion
UK developer Hutch opens new studio in Canada
Company aims to extend development capabilities across various time zones
Job News
Unity names first independent board members
Robynne Sisco and Max Levchin offer their business experience
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part two: The game design
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Monetise, Retain, Acquire
19 talks on mobile game monetisation, retention and user acquisition from PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Learn all you need to know
The Weekly
The Weekly: How games companies avoid income tax, NetEase's Western expansion, and how Game Freak designs pokemon
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Most Read
Catharina Lavers Mallet joins Talla, what makes MZ so successful, and Subway Surfers devs face class-action lawsuit
The hottest articles of the week
Retention Tool
How Summoners War’s unexpected success disrupts conventional wisdom about mobile eSports
Audience comes first
Ask Your Billpayer's Permission
Disney faces class-action lawsuit for allegedly selling children's personal information in its mobile games
Unity, Upsight, and Kochava also named in the complaint
Essential Phone?
Mobile start-up Essential confirms $300 million funding round
Tencent, Amazon and Foxconn invest in new company from Android co-creator
Play Nyc
New York video games convention Play NYC set to welcome over 100 developers
Event for gamers and creators takes place on August 19th to 20th
Sowing Discord
Gamer chat app Discord guns for Skype by adding video chat and screen-sharing
Won't be ready for at least a month, but testing begins now
Charging Ahead
Rodeo Stampede smashes 80 million downloads 13 months after launch
Still gets one million DAUs
Fuelling Design Home
Glu Mobile’s great user acquisition experiment
Investing for the future
The Charticle
The games powering Zynga's profitability
Zynga's latest financials paint a rosy picture, but how has it got here?
Quick To Profitability
QuickByte Games generates one million downloads in first week for Laps – Fuse
Title already profitable
Tapped Up
Mobile ads firm Taptica acquires Tremor Video’s demand-side platform for $50 million
Tremor Video DSP will operate as independent division of Taptica
Get Creative
Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support
Also includes other new tools and enhancements
Ar Future
iPhone augmented reality camera details leak
Apple internal software update for HomePod goes public, reveals clues about iPhone’s AR future
Made In Japan
Self-taught 82-year-old Japanese coder develops and releases mobile game
"I thought I should make a game app designed for old people to have fun"
Inspirational
#VisibleWomen: Check out this great artwork on Twitter
Artists share their work for all to see
Even More Evil
Super Evil Megacorp raises $19 million to bring 5v5 battles and engine improvements to Vainglory
Looking for new staff to help bolster its mobile MOBA
Subway Surfers Lawsuit
Subway Surfers devs face lawsuit for exporting children's personal information to advertisers
Kiloo and Sybo hit with lawsuit along with all the game's advertising networks
Learn Something New
King General Manager and Studio Head Catharina Lavers Mallet joins AI start-up Talla as COO
Leaves London and mobile games for Boston and AI
Gungho Signals
GungHo partners with Toy Soldiers developer Signal Studios on upcoming AAA mobile game
No other details available at this time
Zplay Buys Noodlecake
ZPlay acquires indie game developer and publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million
Helps the Candian developer push further into Asia with no changes to the business
Diy Development
"Engines encourage creativity and risk-taking": the GameMaker Studio 2 boss on the rise and rise of indie games
YoYo Games' James Cox explains why the 2D game creation tool was rebooted this year
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part one: The history
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
The Weekly
The Weekly: Discord's rapid growth, Monster Strike's Western troubles, and why King may have hit its peak
Rounding up the week's industry analysis and news from around the internet
Top Grossing Games H1 2017
Honor of Kings is the highest-grossing mobile game worldwide for 2017 so far
Some interesting entries in the rest of the rankings
Firing On All Cylinders
Despite profitability, Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau says it’s too early to declare victory
Dog on the up
Activision Blizzard Financials Q2 Fy17
Activision Blizzard hits $1.63 billion in revenues as King's bookings per user grow for the 8th consecutive quarter
Retained players are spending more than ever
Tweeting Made Easier
New Twitter Kit for Unity SDK lets players tweet inside their mobile games
Development tool also made open source
Indie Success
8 talks on indie success and new opportunities from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2017
Discover how independent developers are making it in the games industry
Gsn New Ceo
GSN promotes Executive VP and General Counsel Mark Feldman to President and CEO
Has been with the company almost as long as former CEO David Goldhill
Rewarding Partnership
Zynga makes Unity exclusive rewarded advertising partner
To be integrated into all publisher's games that already use rewarded ads
Of Metal And Men
From console FPS to mobile RTS: The shaping of Titanfall: Assault
Particle City’s journey
Natter Away
Communications-as-a-service firm Agora.io launches mobile gaming voice chat SDK
Agora Mobile Gaming SDK will brink real-time voice chat in just a few lines of code