Too Many Apps?
App Store to have over 5 million active apps by the end of 2020
73% more than the end of 2016
Keep Them Close
Retention is dropping across all apps, but games have the worst of the lot
People churn, gamers churn faster
Pokemon Stay
Pokemon GO may have peaked in the US, but how well is it retaining users a month after release?
Verto Analytics looks back at the last 30 days
Up And Down
Apple smartphone sales see small growth in US and Europe, but continue to stumble in China
Poor launch of iPhone SE partly to blame
From Our Sponsors
How game developers can optimize their in-app advertising strategies even further
Pavel Golubev has his finger on the pulse
Testing, Testing...
Ever softer: Trends in the soft launch strategy of F2P mobile games
More countries, longer periods
Be In The Running
2016 Unity Awards now open for submissions
Categories include Best Mobile Game and Best VR Game
Appsflyer Insights
Facebook is the most powerful tool for acquiring quality users, says AppsFlyer
Releases latest AppsFlyer Performance Index
Pokemon Won't Stop
Pokemon GO rakes in $200 million in its first month
Outperforms Clash Royale in every way
Asia Bulletin
Chinese consortium acquires Playtika, M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion, and more
Here's your weekly Chinese summary of the top stories in mobile gaming
July Ad Spend
MZ made up 40% of games industry US TV ad spend in July 2016
King, InnoGames also feature
Watch This Space
Apple Watch 2 fitted with GPS rumored for release in second half of 2016
New smartwatch to bring barometer and better battery life too
Pokemon Gone
Iran bans Pokemon GO
And other strange goings-on around the world
Mobile Mavens
Do mobile game developers actually care about Nintendo?
Does NX bridge the gap to mobile, or is it more of the same?
Rebuilding Job
Zynga kills soft launched CityVille game for failure to meet expectations
But still committed to brand
Activision Blizzard Financials
King brings in $454 million and 409 million MAUs for Activision Blizzard following acquisition
Another non-Candy Crush game due out later this year
Long Wait
Zynga's Social Slots see 31% growth but overall the company remains loss-making
Waiting for a hero
Freeing Resources
Third-party Pokemon GO apps "hurt" game and delayed Latin America launch
Niantic explains why it blocked them
The Longest Night
Forget CSR Racing 2: Dawn of Titans remains the defining factor in whether Zynga's $527 million acquisition of NaturalMotion will be viewed a success
The wait continues
Make It Huuuge
Huuuge Games raises $4.6 million to grow social casino games business globally
Investment led by Woori Technology Investment
Jurassic Going Premium
Why Bebopbee shifted from F2P to premium for Jurassic GO - Dinosaur Snap Adventure
CEO Rajeev Nagpal explains all
Mobile To Desktop
The top 4 reasons to play Android games on your PC
Yossi Fishler is platform agnostic
Zynga's Latest Exec
Zynga swoops for EA exec Matthew Bromberg as its new Chief Operating Officer
New exec will oversee business operations and Bangalore studio
Funding Stimulator
Job Simulator dev Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games
Studio believes VR will be as big as mobile
Natives Revolting
"Exorbitant" Game of War update triggers IAP boycott by some high level kingdoms
Trouble brewing
Banking Billions
App Store developers have earned more than $50 billion since 2008
July 2016 was a record breaking month for the marketplace
Instant Community
KTplay launches its instant in-game community platform for western developers
SDK already boasts 150 million active users in China
High Rollers
US casino operator splashes up to $170 million on developer Rocket Games
Management could earn extra $110m from acquisition
Iap Inspector
From guns to girls and gacha: The monetization of Rival Fire
Frontline Commando goes meta
Long Players
Are Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes players really averaging 2.5 hours of gameplay every day?
Strong engagement
Levelling Up
Stellar performance from Star War: Galaxy of Heroes boosts EA Mobile's sales to a record $165 million
Global top 20 grosser
Taking Its Time
Netmarble and nWay partner once again to bring ChronoBlade to North America
Previously brought it to South Korea
Not In My Backyard
Nintendo and Niantic facing lawsuit over Pokemon GO trespassers
Is Pokemon GO encouraging trespass, and is it profiting from it?
Finite Disney
Disney Infinity discontinuing online services
Mobile support the first to go
M&a For Days
Games industry M&A reaches record smashing $25 billion in July 2016
Playtika, King, and Supercell deals lead the way
New York To Montreal
Jesse Divnich leaves Tilting Point to join Hibernum as VP of Product
Former Tilting Point and EEDAR man confident for Hibernum's future
Apply Now
Toronto studio Get Set Games hiring Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint Scripter
Full listing available on PocketGamer.biz
Rise Of Video
App Annie launches new service covering the $39 billion in-app advertising market
Who's advertising where?
Catch 'em All
Almost two-thirds of Pokemon GO players are female
Nearly half aged 18-29
Hooray For Indies
Independent Games Festival opens submissions for 19th annual competition
Submissions open until October 24
Gacha For All
Getting gacha right: Tips for creating successful in-game lotteries
Creating value out of random rewards
Position And The Puck
Why Larry Abrams thinks it's game over for Kabam
Hard times
Five Down, One Anticipated
With Rise of Tyrants prepping for launch, Z2Live sunsets legacy titles including Trade Nations
Time to move on
Made In Vancouver
Kabam teams up with Hasbro for new Transformers mobile game
Transformers: Contest of Champions
En Famille
Google Play opens up games and apps for sharing with Family Libraries
Share everything with up to six people
Super Effective
Pokemon GO generating $10 million daily revenue without cannibalising the market
Generating its own subset of highly engaged players
All Systems Go?
Turbo ends Super Senso beta and pulls anticipated mobile strategy game from soft launch
Something's happening
Lovato Love
Demi Lovato tie-in scores big for interactive story game Episode, generating $13 million
Celebrity licenses paying off
Gsn Layoffs
GSN Games trims a small number of staff working on live games
"These changes are necessary to support our long-term goals"
Watch The Uplift
Tapjoy and comScore detail the power of rewarded in-game ads for brands
The right way to advertise