April 12, 2023 Esg Tencent pushes “Tech for good” in latest ESG report The company's environmental, social and governance report highlights their 2022 achievements
July 11, 2022 Success And Challenges Israeli industry reached $8.6 billion in revenue in 2021, with mobile the dominant gaming platform Israeli gaming industry must overcome lack of local talent, youth investment, and government funding to build
July 4, 2022 Niantic Wants You To Play Together Niantic introduces social app Campfire After the beta period, the app’s rollout begins in the coming days
June 24, 2022 Happy Birthday! Rec Room turns six with more rooms than there are apps on App Store Platform enjoys a 640% year-over-year increase in player numbers on mobile devices
March 3, 2022 Gen Z Gamers Game Jolt launches on App Store and Google Play Aiming to tap into the "next generation of gamers"
February 9, 2022 Party Up Social mobile gaming app Bunch heads into the metaverse Version 2 is coming with NFTs
February 7, 2022 Returning To Roots Outplay Entertainment returns to Facebook Instant Gaming with Solitaire Together Will launch more social games on the platform throughout 2022
January 20, 2022 Total Divestment Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million Purchasing 26.5 million shares from Nexon
July 29, 2021 Disruption Sparks Innovation Disruption accelerates three shifts for gaming businesses Facebook's Michael Bertaut explores new opportunities for success in the rapidly evolving global mobile market
March 24, 2021 Money Bags Rec Room raises $100 million at $1.25 billion valuation "We think that Rec Room can become an enduring large business that fuses games and social"
November 9, 2020 Pgc Digital PGC Digital: Facebook Gaming's Olha Muzychenko explains the social growth recipe to meaningful content "Make sure to provide shareable, meaningful moments"
September 16, 2020 Two Billion Users PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
July 13, 2020 Helping Hand Niantic donates $10,000 to Edinburgh Fringe Festival "Niantic's support will have a material impact on our ability to deliver key digital projects"
July 13, 2020 New Acquisition Animoca Brands acquires social games platform GAMEE Deal was closed for $4.5 million
June 17, 2020 Great Start Team17's older titles soar in coronavirus lockdown Firm reports increased sales and playtime in social and multiplayer titles
June 8, 2020 Pgc Digital PGC Digital: Social, IP and localisation pivotal when launching in the West, says Tencent's Aras Senyuz Netmarble's partnership with Marvel on Marvel Future Fight cited
April 27, 2020 "more Successful Than Ever" Wooga founder and CEO Jens Begemann departs after 11 years Former Google head of games Nai Chang will takeover position in June
March 24, 2020 Remote Working Survival Group Join our new games industry remote working survival Facebook group! Share tips on working from home with other people in the industry
January 17, 2020 Game Changers Learn how hypercasual and social games are changing the industry at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 One of 15 tracks at the conference
December 19, 2019 Kicked Out NetEase to remove Arsenal football star from PES 2020 in China Player made comments to social media regarding the treatment of Uighur Muslims in the country
November 20, 2019 From Devs For Devs Social video app for gaming Bunch raises $3.85 million from Supercell, Miniclip, Riot Industry funding for synergetic NYC startup
September 6, 2019 Series C Investment VRChat secures $10 million in funding to expand team Investment comes from Makers Fund, HTC, Brighstone VC and GFR Fund
June 19, 2019 Bebo X Twitch Twitch acquires Bebo to expand esports platform Bebo launched in 2005 before Facebook spearheaded the social media frenzy
March 22, 2019 Rolling Out GDC 2019: Facebook updates mobile app to include dedicated games tab Social application looking to take games more seriously
March 15, 2019 Real World Gaming Lessons from a year of location-based games with Google Maps Real world gaming said to drive engagement; most successful when integrated with AR and social elements
February 20, 2019 Social Gaming Teatime Games: "Mobile games have lost the value of playing together" Start-up launches video communication platform Teatime Live with first title Hyperspeed
January 25, 2019 Changing Infrastructure Facebook set to integrate Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram apps Users to be able to message each other across services
November 13, 2018 Social Influence Network effect: Looking at the impact of social in games Gamee CEO Bozena Rezab takes a deep dive into the data from her company's gaming platform
October 5, 2018 Referred Mobile gamers referred through organic social channels have up to 67% higher retention They also have a 63 per cent higher lifetime session count versus non-referred players
September 20, 2018 Social Asset GetSocial partners with Unity to bring sharing tools to Asset Store Company offers social analytics and publishing tools
July 11, 2018 Chat Up Warner Bros. acquires mobile games communication platform Plexchat "Advancing the social aspect of our mobile games is a top priority for us"
May 16, 2018 New Studio QuizUp creators secure $9m funding for new studio to develop real-time social gaming platform Teatime Games set to expand team in Iceland
May 4, 2018 New Studio Google spins up mobile social games start-up Arcade Developing a new kind of social network
March 19, 2018 Good Gamee Gamee teams up with Viber to bring social gaming to 1 billion users The new partnership will see over 70 of Gamee’s titles brought to Viber’s 1 billion users
February 16, 2018 Close Ties Cupcake on how to build a great community for casual games Chief marketing officer Gabriel Stürmer discusses the studio's approach
January 10, 2018 User-generated Content Can you merge social media and free-to-play games in a monetisable way? Two approaches to user-generated content
November 6, 2017 Toon Army Niantic acquires animation platform Evertoon to add new social features to Pokemon GO Evertoon's community services to shut down at the end of November
October 13, 2017 Shake It Off Glu partners with Taylor Swift for new mobile title The Swift Life Digital community lets fans connect with singer and each other
September 5, 2017 To The Moon Gamee partners with NASA for Voyager game following successful Mars Rover title Previous game had over 50 million plays
August 4, 2017 Tweeting Made Easier New Twitter Kit for Unity SDK lets players tweet inside their mobile games Development tool also made open source
May 4, 2017 Partnerships With Friends Zynga partners with People to launch latest social game Crosswords With Friends That's three With Friends games launched in the last two months
May 2, 2017 Huuuge Signing Nonstop Games co-founder Henric Suuronen joins Huuuge Games' Board of Directors Has been an investor since early 2015
April 27, 2017 Jobs News GSN CEO David Goldhill steps down after 10 years Search for a replacement already underway
April 20, 2017 A Gif For All Zynga partners with GIF sharing platform Tenor for GIFs Against Friends Continues to barrel down the With Friends approach
April 11, 2017 Sleeping With The Fishes Zynga digs deep into its back-catalogue for newly soft-launched game Mafia Wars The title returns for another crack at the big time
February 6, 2017 Up In The Cloud Over 50 studios sign up for mobile game streaming platform Hatch More than 90 games set for launch
January 16, 2017 Trendy Town InnoSpark on the MMOSNG - the "next big thing" of mobile gaming Daniel Cho explains what that means