Interview Space Ape's Simon Hade: “Country Star benefits from several years of live ops R&D right out of the gate”
June 19, 2023 Summer Celebration Genshin Impact to host real-world summer events in Paris, New York and Berlin The game’s first-ever summer festival is coming this July
May 9, 2023 Collaborations Jonas Brothers premier new music in Candy Crush Saga Bypassing traditional routes to market, the musicians will be previewing their new album exclusively within the smash hit mobile game
April 13, 2023 Netease Lawsuit Pop star Jay Chou sues NetEase for copyright infringement Chou claims that NetEase’s latest campaign for Tianxia III led fans to believe the game had a “specific connection” to his music
April 13, 2023 Interview Why Reactional Music is the future of gaming audio Reactional's president David Knox explains the art of turning game soundtracks into personalised gamer avatars
April 12, 2023 Success In Funding Reactional Music raises $2.05 million in pre-series A funding round The platform aims to connect music and players for game developers
December 9, 2022 Women In Games Vanesa Tate, Head of Audio at King, talks to us about the transition from movies to games Having recently helped to makeover the sound for Candy Crush, Tate gives her insights on being a female in the industry and why games are more inclusive than films
December 7, 2022 Drumming Up Interest World’s Fastest Drummer game speeding towards release The game will be released this Saturday
December 6, 2022 Music Metaverse Animoca Brands acquires majority stake in music metaverse platform PIXELYNX The company is helping people discover new music – and new ways to monetise it
September 8, 2022 Music Games Go Ape Space Ape Celebrate One Year of Beatstar The game hits 38m installs in its first year.
July 20, 2022 Anniversary Achievements Outfit7’s My Talking Angela 2 celebrates first anniversary and 300 million downloads Anniversary celebrations include game update and song release
July 7, 2022 A Big Investment For Space Ape Games Supercell makes a further $37 million investment in Space Ape Games Supercell increases its stake to 75%
June 15, 2022 Bringing The Beats A mobile games and music industries first: Beatstar releases early exclusive of Black Eyed Peas, Shakira new single Space Ape's Simon Hade speaks with PocketGamer.biz on how the new single became available to play through Beatstar two days ahead of global release
March 21, 2022 Music In The Metaverse Roblox to host 24kGoldn virtual concert Taking place in San Dorado with first performance of new single
February 28, 2022 Smooth Like Butter Garena to bring K-Pop band BTS to Free Fire in March 2022 Musical group will be part of "never-before-seen" event
February 17, 2022 Metaverse Music Yahaha partners with Spitfire to bring The Dead Daisies into the metaverse Making rock music more accessible through the metaverse
February 8, 2022 Virtual Vip Party Roblox to host virtual VIP party for the Brit Awards Will include live performances from Adele, Ed Sheeran, Pink Pantheress, and more
February 1, 2022 Enter The Guetta-verse David Guetta to perform DJ set on Roblox Intergalactic-themed set will last 45 minutes
January 25, 2022 Selfie Services Pixelynx and Ready Player Me to bring selfie-generated 3D avatars to music metaverse Will feature in upcoming music metaverse AR mobile game
December 17, 2021 Deadmau5 Metaver5e Globant partners with Pixelynx to create music metaverse mobile game Striving to create leading ecosystem for music, fashion, and entertainment
November 12, 2021 A-o-k Tai Verdes and Roblox announce an exclusive avatar-led concert Performance will include new single Let’s go to Hell
November 2, 2021 Turning Up The Volume Splash raises $20 million for Roblox music game Will improve virtual instruments and establish more partnerships
October 21, 2021 Roblox Rave Roblox announces World Party, its first metaverse music festival Virtual performances from EDC Las Vegas 2021 roster starts 23 October
September 9, 2021 Rock For Roblox Roblox hosting Twenty One Pilots Concert Experience on 17 September Featuring pre-concert experiences and virtual merchandise
August 10, 2021 Blox Party UK rapper KSI to host album launch party via Roblox The artist will perform several of the songs from his second studio album
August 2, 2021 Thank You, Next Epic Games teams with Ariana Grande for Fortnite’s Rift Tour "I can’t wait to join my fans and see all of your reactions..."
July 7, 2021 Move Over Spotify Roblox strikes deal with Sony Music to bring more artists to the gaming platform "We look forward to expanding our successful partnership…"
June 10, 2021 Bloc Party Cancelled Update: Roblox responds to $200 million lawsuit over alleged music misuse Ariana Grande, Deadmau5, Ed Sheeran and more
April 22, 2021 Pgc Digital #6 PGC Digital: When games meet music - insight from Studio Killers Visible Realms CEO Eliza Jappinen explains
April 16, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Roblox's Jonathan Vlassopulos on music biz meets the metaverse Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
November 13, 2020 Pgc Digital PGC Digital: Forming music and gaming partnerships "Travis Scott and Fortnite have set the bar quite high for what partnerships can look like"
October 21, 2020 It's A Party Latin Grammy winner J Balvin will headline Epic's Fortnitemares event "I am always looking for innovative ways to connect with fans that have been so incredibly supportive of my career and music, as well as gain exposure to future fans"
October 1, 2020 Sountrack Twitch launches new music tool packed with free-to-use tunes Soundtrack will provide streamers with a comprehensive library of rights-cleared music
September 24, 2020 Feel The Music Roblox's Warner Music deal debuts with Ava Max record launch Taking place September 25th
September 18, 2020 Diversity Matters POC in Mobile: Chase Bethea's journey as a game composer and the many benefits of game jams "There's no need to wait because the longer you do, the more opportunities will pass you by"
September 17, 2020 Boogie Down PGC Helsinki Digital: Things to consider when running music events in your game Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples
August 7, 2020 #blacklivesmatter POC in Mobile: Why Amanotes publishing manager Micke Joseph Moisa believes creative freedom is key to better diversity "I don’t think people should go the extra mile to prove more than non-coloured people."
July 24, 2020 Feel The Music Ukie launches new event with focus on musical talent in the games industry Game Changers will take place on August 6th
July 24, 2020 Busting Rhymes Games publisher Leaf teams up with Cypress Hill rapper B Real for musician's first game Bringing the "Dr Greenthumb brand" to mobile
July 20, 2020 Feel The Music Amanotes teams up with YG Entertainment to bring K-pop music to its games Including iKON, BIG BANG and BLACKPINK
June 29, 2020 Welcome To The Club Interview: HB Studios' senior audio designer John McCarthy on the music and commentary of PGA Tour 2K21 "I think that presenting it in a second-person POV is the part that catches people by surprise"
June 3, 2020 Feel The Music Gismart is launching a new music partnership program called Games for Artists Designed to help musicians get exposure through games
May 18, 2020 Listen To This The pitfalls of using library music: Five reasons your approach to music is wrong LabelRadar CEO Ed Brew explains why you shouldn't just go straight to the music libraries
April 30, 2020 Feel The Music Sega launches a music brand Launching soundtracks via other labels in Japan
April 21, 2020 Astronomical Event Epic Games partners with US rapper Travis Scott for Fortnite virtual tour Scott will debut his new song in-game
February 25, 2020 "great Potential" Sega invests in Indian music startup Flutin Flutin boasts nine million downloads with over 300,000 daily active users
January 13, 2020 Indies Unite Track and Build competition offering indie game studios professional soundtrack by duo Koven Cinematic bass pair will produce the soundtrack for the winner
December 9, 2019 Rocking Beats Gismart invests $500,000 in social music platform Jambl Will also acts as strategic partner and publisher