Iaps Ftw
In-app purchases more popular than DLC in the US
23% of people surveyed
It's New Hardware Time
Nintendo NX reveal today
First glimpse of Wii U successor imminent
Animation Throwdown-loads
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards surpasses four million downloads in one month
Day one retention over 50%
Cards On The Table
Four companies, five cartoons, one game: the making of Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Kongregate's Peter Eykemans and Jeff Gurian share insights
Game Jam Go
Square Enix Montreal team takes week off for game jam
Inaugural Square Jam uses the theme 'exposed'
Bidding Contest
Kabam receives $800 million offer for Vancouver studio behind Marvel Contest of Champions
Multiple unknown bidders in for talented team
Out Of The West
DeNA dissolves US subsidiary as Western games fail to meet expectations
Publisher to focus on collaborations with external studios
Crushing It
There is going to be a Candy Crush TV show
New game show will have contestants competing on enormous interactive game boards
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile games industry pros think of App Store Search Ads?
Mobile Mavens debate the latest app discovery tool
Key Keywords
Why keywords are crucial for your app store optimization strategy
The ASO Project co-founder Todd Dunham offers his top tips
Fantastic Licence
UK developer Mediatonic working on Fantastic Beasts mobile game
Cases from the Wizarding World will be a hidden object title
Ludia Enters The Underworld
Montreal studio Ludia nabs rights for Underworld mobile game
Releases collectible card game
Download Fever
Food Court Fever publisher cooks up five million downloads
Vancouver studio donates 1% of game proceeds to charity
Samsung Grounded
US issues emergency order to ban Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on all flights
Commercial airlines across the globe follow suit
Mobile Games University
Mobile Games University teaches industry professionals everything they need to know about the mobile business
Learn about the business of mobile games
Driving Downloads
8 essential steps to make your app discoverable
App Annie offers insights into the top ASO techniques to drive app installs
Company Closure
UPDATE: Game engine start-up MaxPlay lays off most of its 70 staff as funding dries up
Former employee suggests start-up is no more
History Of Game Engines
A messy history of game engines and a race to the bottom offers a warning for the future
We take a look at the recent, messy past of game engines
Super Pre-registration
Super Mario Run hits 20 million pre-registrations on the App Store
Tim Cook talks Nintendo and AR
Cheap And Cheerful
App Store Search Ad campaigns have a 49.4% conversion rate with $0.40 CPA
Mobile Action breaks down the stats
Live And Kicking
Postmortem: Dawn of Steel one year on
Former Superweapon President Amer Ajami reflects on an eventful year
New Nougat
Google to bring App Shortcuts and Image Keyboards to Android 7.1 Developer Preview later this month
Get a sneaky look and make sure your apps still work
Bloody Millenials
Male millenials are watching as much eSports as they are basketball or hockey
Newzoo says its eating into their traditional sports viewing
Breaking Out
How we improved monetisation and retention in Castle Breakout - Escape! and what this meant for the game's gender split
Cloudburst Room Escape's Ron Packard Jr. breaks down the changes
Retention Retention Retention
3 retention strategies for mobile game devs to keep players coming back
Chartboost's Pepe Agell offers his advice
Ios Uptake
Over 50% of Apple devices now have iOS 10 installed
Slower uptake than iOS 9
'tis The Season
Halloween and Thanksgiving are just as important for mobile game marketers as Christmas
So says AppsFlyer
Suns Out Thumbs Out
Average cost per paying mobile game player falls by 47% in first half of 2016
iOS users are more likely to spend though
Play And Chat
Mobile messaging app Telegram adds bot-powered gaming platform for in-chat gaming
Developers can add their own games to the platform right now
Living With Live Operations
12 lessons from the trenches of a mobile game live operations team
Hothead Games offers best practice advice
Touch The Rift
Oculus opens pre-orders for $199 Oculus Touch VR controllers
Shipping December 6th
Second Mass Recall
UPDATE: Samsung permanently halts production of Galaxy Note 7 and issues second mass recall
Recommends users get an S7 instead
Mobile Mavens
Mobile games industry experts react to Google Pixel and Daydream View VR
Mobile Mavens react to Google's announcements
Vungle X Kakao
Vungle partners with Kakao to launch rewarded video ad service Kakao Game Ad+
Brings expertise to fledgling platform
Real-money Arcade
GSN Games launches real-money arcade platform Sparcade
Make money playing Pac-Man and more
Too Big To Fail
Pokemon GO may be losing millions of users, but its retention rate is on par with Clash of Clans
Niantic Labs has nothing to fear if SurveyMonkey is right
Getting In Early
Zynga, MZ, and King are already blocking App Store Search Ads on their own games
Bigger brands leave space wide open
Blazes
Sales of Galaxy Note 7 halted as Samsung investigates five exploding phones
Stops production and shipments of replacement phones
Jam-packed
Ex-EA EVP and Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble joins Jam City
And Robert Zakari joins as General Counsel and EVP of Corporate Development
Moving On Up
Oculus looking to invest $50 million into mobile VR developers
Setting aside money for education and diverse developers
Look, No Cables!
Oculus working on standalone VR headset that's more advanced than the Gear VR
Lowers system specs for Rift devices
Making Of
Upholding visual fidelity without sacrificing game design: The making of Oz: Broken Kingdom
This Game Studio talk us through the Asian influences on a Western title
Big Money
Oculus takes virtual reality developer funding up to $500 million as it searches for the killer app
A quarter of what Facebook spent to buy Oculus
Short Burst Storytelling
Disruptor Beam wants players to succeed and fail together in The Walking Dead: March to War
Director of Product & Design Joey Lapegna on the latest IP to get the Disruptor Beam treatment
Sell Your Dragonsoul
GREE International Entertainment acquires RPG DragonSoul from PerBlue
Developer sells just the game, not its company
Pixel Perfect
Google holding back some of Pixel's best features for its own phones
Makes perfect business sense really
Walking Disruptor
Disruptor Beam reveals new story-driven mulitplayer game The Walking Dead: March to War
Story-driven competitive multiplayer strategy based on the comics
First Investment
LA VR start-up First Contact Entertainment closes $5 million investment round
Brings on two new senior hires
Goodness Gracious
Samsung's big recall up in smoke as replacement Galaxy Note 7 catches fire on US plane
Samsung's own system claimed it was safe
Survey Research
Why you should consider Rewarded Surveys for your game monetisation strategy
A pragmatic overview of the market research industry and how it applies to game monetisation