January 4, 2024 Poker Face Tencent is now spending over HK$1 billion A DAY on its own shares Every cloud has a silver lining, and following its recent shareprice nosedive post legislative bombshell, the company is only accelerating its buybacks
January 3, 2024 Passing The Buck Top Chinese official removed following gaming crackdown confusion Top publicity official Feng Shixin has been relieved of his duty after the release of work-in-progress tighter gaming regulations wiped $80 billion from top Chinese gaming stocks
December 8, 2023 Bad For Business “This is a classic example of political point scoring taking precedence over business common sense” CEO and founder of Matchingham Games Fatih Haltas shares his take on the controversial UK visa rules and how it’s expected to impact the gaming industry
August 22, 2023 Gambling Games Google's inconsistent app-store gambling regulations come under fire Mobile game Luck be a Landlord has been banned in 13 countries, and its developer isn't happy
July 13, 2023 Talks Should you care what the UK government thinks? UKIE's Daniel Wood things you should More attention equals better support, but far more scrutiny says the UKIE co-CEO
July 5, 2023 Regulation South Korean game regulatory agency investigated for corruption An investigation took place as a result of petition by players of gacha titles affected by unpopular age-rating changes
July 4, 2023 Competition Authority South African authorities unconditionally approve Activision Blizzard acquisition Another win for Microsoft despite home-grown struggles
July 4, 2023 Legislation Apple to ask US Supreme Court to overturn Epic ruling The company ask Supreme Court to consider Ninth Circuit ruling
June 30, 2023 Alternative App Stores Meta to get into the app store game as Facebook allows app downloads The EU's Digital Markets Act is opening up app store monopolys and big players are getting ready to reap the rewards
June 23, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news including EA's big break up, new looks, new opportunities and new challenges…
June 22, 2023 Legslation Finland’s Neogames industry body weighs in on controversial new immigration law The latest proposed reforms continue to draw strong criticism from companies who rely on foreign talent
June 21, 2023 Legislation Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen and other game execs decry Finland's "catastrophic" new three-month immigration law Finnish Game leaders call out new rules that would require unemployed skilled workers to leave the country
June 20, 2023 Delays New Zealand competition authorities to delay decision on Activision Blizzard acquisition to July 17th The delay comes as the US FTC and UK CMA both levy actions against the landmark deal
June 16, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news including MiHoYo's star performance, gaming in India and never-ending legislation woes…
June 15, 2023 Funding UK video game industry to benefit from additional $5m boost The boost comes as part of a larger plan to boost creative industries by $50bn
June 14, 2023 Legislation Google's ads business under threat from EU Commission The European Commission has sparred with Google before
June 13, 2023 Legislation India to enact new laws prohibiting three types of mobile game The new regulations are both a clarification, and an incredibly broad set of factors to be interpreted
June 1, 2023 Legislation Brazil's app store tax takes aim at foreign developers New tax laws mean that the Brazilian government gets a bigger slice of the pie, with Apple holding back cash in order to adhere
May 31, 2023 Aquiblizz South Korean regulators approve Activision Blizzard deal The approval puts further pressure on the UK CMA
May 26, 2023 App Store Regulation Google removes “Slavery Simulator” game from Play Store The app had attracted acute controversy, particularly in Brazil
May 19, 2023 Legislation BattleGrounds Mobile India to be ‘unbanned’ Just as Krafton promised, the PUBG spin-off will once again be “available for download soon”
May 18, 2023 Regulations Major mobile titles not compliant with South-Korean gacha laws Mobile games are part of a list of 16 titles not compliant with voluntary guidelines
May 12, 2023 Regulation The UK CMA place blanket ban on investment between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard It just gets worse. Now the two giants will not even be able to “acquire an interest” in one another
April 28, 2023 Week That Was Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss Apple's 'win' over Epic, all that AquiBlizz action and Scopely's stumble to victory
April 28, 2023 Regulators Bobby Kotick and Brad Smith defiant after CMA ruling The bosses of both Activision Blizzard and Microsoft have hit back harshly at regulators who've blocked their deal
April 6, 2023 Acquiblizz Sony claims CMA narrowing scope of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is “irrational” The tech giant has been one of the deal’s biggest opponents
April 5, 2023 Tiktok TikTok fined £12.7 million for mishandling of children’s data The social media giant has fallen foul of the UK’s data protection laws
April 4, 2023 Mobile App Fraud Consumers were exposed to $5.4 billion in app fraud during 2022 Games saw six times fewer levels of fraud compared to other apps
April 3, 2023 Loot Boxes Lawyer claims that game makers don’t comply with loot box label regulations An academic paper found that 71 of 100 Google Play games downloaded weren’t labelled correctly
February 10, 2023 Legislation Krafton confident that BGMI will be 'unbanned' The ban severely burned Krafton’s bottom line in mobile battle royale games
December 16, 2022 Legislation EU calls for greater player protections in video games As part of a number of recent announcements and initiatives, the EU consumer protection committee has called for controls on loot boxes and increased player protection
December 16, 2022 Regulation What does Finland’s lootbox law actually do? Loot Boxes may fallen out of vogue as a target of gamer and regulator ire, but their control and restriction is still being debated by regulators
July 18, 2022 Government Clamps Down On Loot Boxes UK government demands games industry reevaluate loot boxes The government stopped short of a crackdown