Uramagician
Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched"
Creative director Mark Turmell and lead producer Desiree Makowski take us through the many metagame features of the match-3 puzzler
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Ric Cowley
About Ric is the Editor of PocketGamer.biz, having started out as a Staff Writer on the site back in 2015. He received an honourable mention in both the MCV and Develop 30 Under 30 lists in 2016 and refuses to let anyone forget about it.
Articles by Ric Cowley
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This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Black Desert franchise hits $1.7 billion revenue as Nintendo ceases 3DS production
The biggest stories from across Asia
Metawear
Metacore secures $29.6 million from Supercell as it rebrands from Everywear Games
Also launches Merge Mansion with impressive day-30 retention
Stillfront Acquisition
Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million
$100 million now, up to $48 million in 2023
Rovio Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Get your next job with Rovio
UX and server developer roles featured
Boogie Down
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Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples
Designing Live Ops
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Starting with, does your game really need live ops?
Apple Special Event
Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 6 and eighth-generation iPads
September Special Event adds a handful of new products
Hutch Jobs
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Product manager, art outsource manager, and QA embedded tester roles available
Apple Streaming
Apple revises App Store policies to allow Stadia and xCloud on iOS
New policies include major caveats which Microsoft disagree with
K-factor
PGC Helsinki Digital: Tracking your game's "K-factor" and understanding organic growth
A panel of experts discuss how UA campaigns can help your game in other ways
Rapid Growth
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Belka Games adjusted its strategy and grew from 30 to 300 employees
Changing company culture and business development strategies to ensure you grow properly
Aging Art
PGC Helsinki Digital: How app store optimisation saw Lab Cave's Love & Dating Story increase installs by 314%
Aging up art and using colour psychology to boost installs
Prepare For The Future
PGC Helsinki Digital: N3twork director of UA Matthew Saunders on preparing for an IDFA-less future
Learning lessons from the past to deal with the future
Arm Acquisition
Nvidia to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion
Preparing for the "age of AI" with the acquisition
Pgc Digital
Brush up on Big Screen Gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
Pgc Digital
Take a look at the live ops landscape at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
Pgc Digital
Go Beyond Games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 featured tracks
Speaker Spotlight
Agora developer evangelist Joel Thomas gives his advice on getting into the games industry
PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th
Editor's Choice
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions
Our editor's picks for the sessions you can't miss
Industry Visions & Values
Learn all about industry visions and values at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of fifteen tracks at the event
Third And Thirty
Sybo Games partners with NFLPA to bring NFL players to Subway Surfers
For three weeks only
Quiet Clash
Nifty Games soft-launches NFL Clash in UK and Germany
Had quietly been available in Mexico and Brazil since August
Pgbiz Roundtable
The PocketGamer.biz RoundTable is LIVE! Watch here
Join our panel of experts as we discuss pitching to publishers
Pgbiz Roundtable
Join us on September 8th for our next PocketGamer.biz RoundTable session
All about pitching your game to publishers
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Apple Korea is providing $84 million to small businesses and Fall Guys is going to mobile in China
The biggest stories from across Asia
Past Experience
Opinion: Fall Guys owes some of its explosive success to Mediatonic's mobile expertise
How understanding mass audiences and player retention helped launch 2020's surprise hit
Unity Ipo
Unity reveals plans to IPO on New York Stock Exchange
Raising money to pay off a loan and maybe make some acquisitions
Pgbiz Roundtable
Join us on August 25th for our next PocketGamer.biz RoundTable session
Focusing on the importance and growth of online events
Pgcd2 Videos
Catch up on some of the best talks and sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Every recorded session now available on YouTube
Hard Day's Fortnite
Why is Epic going to war with Apple and Google?
Untangling the mess of the Fortnite mobile debacle
Still Running
Subway Surfers has surpassed three billion downloads
Adding 500 million downloads since May 2019
Bluff Plus
Zynga launches new casual card game Bluff Plus
Zynga Turkey gets its first game launched since being acquired in 2017
Pgbiz Roundtable
Join us on August 11th for our "Monetise, not Bastardise" PocketGamer.biz RoundTable session
Discussing new methods of monetisation, brought to you by AudioMob
Develop:brighton Digital
Develop:Brighton replaces physical event with digital-only conference due to coronavirus
Still taking place on November 2nd-4th 2020
Apple Financials Q3 Fy20
Apple revenues grow 11% to $59.7 billion for Q3 2020
Incremental growth across every segment and region offset increased costs
In-app Purchase Inspector
How does Pokemon Café Mix monetise?
The In-App Purchase Inspector actually makes a purchase for once
Game On The Go
Google adds 4G and 5G streaming to its Android Stadia app
New experiment reportedly offers resolutions of 360p
Apple Commission
Apple under fire over subscription commission rates on the App Store
House Antitrust Subcommitte reveals internal emails showing deals with Amazon over commission rates
Pgbiz Roundtable
Catch up on our Death of the IDFA RoundTable discussion
Full video available now on YouTube
Pgbiz Roundtable
Join us on July 28th for the next PocketGamer.biz RoundTable session
Discussing the death of the IDFA
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Hot Five: Gree sues Supercell, NetEase soft-launched Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, and China pulls Cytus II
The hottest stories of last week
Pgbiz Roundtable
Catch up on our Publishing in China RoundTable discussion
Full video available now on YouTube
Super Evil Launchpad
LaunchPad: Why Super Evil Megacorp is getting involved in Pocket Gamer's first digital consumer event
"Digital events like Launchpad are opportunities to bring the celebration of new games to a much broader audience"
One Special Day
SpecialEffect to host fifth annual One Special Day fundraising event on October 2nd
Working with over 40 developers and publishers to raise money to help gamers with disabilities
Turbo Payments
Admix cuts payment terms down to 14 days with new Turbo payments
Those on 90-day terms to receive a better revenue share at the cost of having to wait longer
Tamatem Partnership
Tamatem and Tamalaki partner to release Home Designer Blast Makeover in the MENA region
Renamed خبير تصميم المنزل Home Design Expert
Carbonated Seed Round
Carbonated Games closes $8.5 million seed funding round
Using AI and in-house live ops tech to make a better shooter experience on mobile
Open Beta
AudioMob's rewarded audio ad platform enters open beta
Already a waitlist to get involved
Coming Soon
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2020 list is coming...
Keep your eyes peeled for more information in the coming weeks