Switch To Vr
Nintendo seemingly files patent for Switch VR headset peripheral
Zelda in your face
Running Nicely
Super Mario Run generates $14 million during its first three days of launch
Yet more numbers run in
Explosive Deal
Netmarble acquires Kabam’s Vancouver studio and picks up Marvel Contest of Champions
Also picks up customer support, marketing, biz dev and UA teams in Austin and San Francisco
Perfect Fit
MobilityWare on why it bought Critical Hit Software and its ambitions for 2017
Why the card game specialist picked up Jigsaw Puzzle dev
Download Dash
Super Mario Run runs up 37 million downloads in three days
Some big early numbers for Mario’s mobile debut
Jump-start
Super Mario Run made $4 million on day one
10 million downloads
Hot Five
GDC Europe is no more, rising Rival Kingdoms revenues, and Zynga opens Finland office
The hottest articles of last week
Ad Revenue Attribution
AppsFlyer launches Ad Revenue Attribution service to track all revenue sources in one place
See how much ad revenue you're actually making
Super Mario Predictions
SuperData predicts $60 million in revenue for Super Mario Run
Only time will tell
Runaway Success
Super Mario Run tops download charts in 49 countries and the top grossing rankings in eight
Sees success in US and UK
A Vintage Year?
The state of play for mobile games in India in 2016
Looking back on India's year in mobile games
We Have Lift Off
Super Mario Run now available on iPhones and iPads
Mario’s mobile debut releases in 150 countries
Pokemon Sit
Pokemon GO players walk more than non-players but only for the first six weeks after downloading it
Says a study from the British Medical Journal
Indie Pr
PR activity that indies can do for themselves
Dimoso CEO Jacki Vause offers key tips to get your game in front of potential players
Watch This
VR eSports streaming platform Boom.tv raises $3.5 million in seed funding
Bringing VR eSports streaming to all headsets
Pretty Little Partner
Episode partners with Warner Horizon Television for new Pretty Little Liars story
Another big hitter for the narrative platform
Drifting Along
VR eSports developer Drifter Entertainment closes $2.25 million seed funding round
Funding led by Signia Venture Partners
Oculus Shuffle
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribie steps down to head up new PC VR division
Jon Thomason taking lead on new mobile VR division
New Year New Unity
Unity 5.6 to be the last in the development cycle as the game engine moves onto Unity 2017
Due to launch in March 2017
Ok Google
Slither.io beats Agar.io to be the most Googled game of 2016
Top two games both mobile/browser
On The Up
How Fortafy Games boosted Color Switch's ad revenue by 35%
Co-founder Zeb Jaffer on monetising the viral hit
Marketing Avenues
Mobile Games University - Indie Marketing 101: Where and how to promote your game
We take a look at the marketing avenues open to indies
Late Night Switch
Nintendo Switch launch date and price to be revealed on January 12th at 8pm PT/11pm ET
4am GMT for poor UK-based news editors
Big Valiant
Big Viking partners with indie comic publisher Valiant Entertainment on five-year HTML5 game deal
Shadowman making a comeback
Tapping Up Line
Tapjoy partners with LINE to bring rewarded Interplay ads to 220 million chat app users
Earn stickers by playing ads
Winning Accolades
How the International Mobile Gaming Awards is changing with the industry
Founder and CEO Maarten Noyons on the final call for entries
Final Clash
Clash Royale's inaugral North American championship finishes with the Crown Duel on December 17th
$15,000 and a trip to Helsinki up for grabs
Pokemon Going
Pokemon GO adds first new batch of pokemon five months after launching
Also gives Pikachu a Santa hat
It's About Time
Google acquires smartwatch platform developer founded by ex-Google staff Cronologics
Bringing them home
Talk The Talk
Chat app Discord releases free developer SDK GameBridge
Free SDK features custom UI
Just Fine
French stock market fines five Ubisoft execs €1.2 million for insider trading
Ubisoft appealing the decision
Money To Burn
Californian man embezzles $5 million from employer, spends $1 million in Game of War
Facing 20 years in jail for his trouble
Majesco Leaves Games
Majesco exits games industry after merging with medical firm
Plans to work in regenerative medicine
High Noon
Industrial Toys spin-off Gunslinger Studios raises $1.4 million
Closing down on a Summer 2017 release for Exiles of Embermark
One To Watch
Ex-InnoGames CMO and Adobe exec open new mobile ad agency MediaPlier
Volker Dressel and Josh Rinsky head up new company in LA and Hamburg
Super Mario Estimates
Super Mario Run will generate $71 million in its first month of release, says Sensor Tower
7.1 million paying players is reasonable, right?
Striking Hard
Mobile Strike's Super Bowl ad is the most watched ad on YouTube in 2016 with over 100 million views
People love Arnie
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Premium Go
Square Enix Montreal’s approach to fixing the long-term challenge of premium on mobile
How the Canadian developer thinks about monetisation design in the GO series
Pokebucks
Niantic partners with Starbucks to turn over 7,800 stores into PokeStops for Pokemon GO
There's a new Frappuccino too
Titans Dawn
Updated: Dawn of Titans launches worldwide after almost two years in soft launch
Never thought we'd see this day
Advancing Ai
Unity pushes on into artificial intelligence efforts with new VP of AI and Machine Learning
Dr Danny Lange joins from Uber
Mobile Mavens
How big an impact will Facebook Instant Games have on mobile gaming?
Mobile Mavens discuss the HTML5-powered Messenger platform
Keep It Casual
MobilityWare picks up casual developer Critical Hit Software for its Jigsaw Puzzle and ColorArt titles
Casual developer acquires casual developer
No More Monkey Business
SurveryMonkey Intelligence to close down services after just one year
Data available until January 31st
Charitable Fiends
Apple's Games for (RED) sees millions of Best Fiends and Episode players raise money to fight AIDS
Seriously and Pocket Gems share some stats
Apple Best Of 2016
Clash Royale named best iPhone game of 2016 by Apple
Pokemon GO doesn't get a look in
Business Deals
Deal Tracker: Big money deals in China, HTML5, chat apps and fashion games in November 2016
37 Interactive splashes nearly $200 million on acquisitions
Sharing Is Caring
DeltaDNA and Tenjin partner to bring powerful analytics and ad tracking to their customers
Analyse and act for better LTVs
Android Adoption
Android Nougat adoption rate increases to 0.4% three months after release
Older OS' starting to drop away