June 11, 2024 Real Deal Voodoo snaps up photo-sharing app BeReal in €500m deal Games publisher plans to invest in product strategy, growth and infrastructure
January 17, 2024 Successful Defence Homa wins Craft Island court case against Voodoo, ending almost three years of uncertainty Voodoo had accused Homa of "maintaining confusion" through similarities between Homa's Craft Island and their own Lumbercraft
October 17, 2023 Hybridcasual Hype A casual revolution: Why even console devs want in on hybridcasual Mobile changes fast, and while brave devs lead the way, there are plenty more happy to follow the lead
September 15, 2023 Unity Runtime Fee Developers issue collective ultimatum to Unity. "No more ironSource or Unity Ads until RunTime conditions are reviewed." A brace of big names have banded together to shut off ads cash in protest against Unity's new pricing plans
August 23, 2023 Best Of 2023 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023 The movers and the shakers of the last 12 months
May 8, 2023 Voodoo Strategy Voodoo's hybridcasual strategy is working The company has built a portfolio of ten hybridcasual games which are generating between $20 and $100 million a year
February 22, 2023 Growth In France TapNation selected for French Tech 120 program The program supports and promotes French start-ups
January 30, 2023 Pocket Gamer Connects Voodoo’s Alex Shea: “Hypercasual is dead” In his talk at PGC London 2023, Alex Shea of Voodoo made a convincing argument for how hypercasual may be going the way of the dodo
January 12, 2023 Crypto Coin Coming Hypercasual goliath Voodoo is launching its own blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency Approximately 10 blockchain games are currently in development
December 19, 2022 Academic Achievement Voodoo Academy hits new highs Voodoo Academy program celebrates admission milestone with new game artists track and opens to hybridcasual
December 13, 2022 Voodoo Style Voodoo launches casual and midcore games publishing Sign up now to find out more about the publishing giant's plans for the future of hybridcasual publishing - and submit your game now
October 20, 2022 Gotta Collect Em All Collect Em All - From hyper to hybrid-casual hit Voodoo outlines the company's new focus on hybrid-casual games and explains how it turned a hypercasual prototype into a success
October 13, 2022 Crowd Control Mob Control: hybridising a hypercasual hit Voodoo highlights the company's new 'DNA shift' from hypercasual to hybrid casual, and the impact it's had on the success of Mob Control
September 21, 2022 Acquisition Achieved Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects Value of the acquisition has not been disclosed
August 23, 2022 Best Of 2022 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2022 The movers and the shakers of the last 12 months
July 29, 2022 Trial On Tiktok TikTok launches HTML5 games with Voodoo, Nitro and more Influencer Run, Tap the Difference and Basketball FRVR among mini games included
May 9, 2022 Download Deluge Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs The sole European member of the top six
April 7, 2022 Hypercasual School Voodoo Academy is training the next generation of hypercasual developers Launching April 14 with up to $3000 prizes for "high-potential" prototypes
March 24, 2022 Data Science For All GameAnalytics Brings DataSuite to the Masses – Through AWS for Games GameAnalytics is working with Amazon Web Services to support the AWS for Games initiative to put data analytics into the hands of every developer
March 16, 2022 Score And Earn Update: Volt Games raises $1.5 million, led by Voodoo Follows earlier pledge of $200 million to fund blockchain games
February 23, 2022 Upcoming Competition Voodoo’s Spring Game Competition to reward studios with up to $1 million Top prize for reaching five million downloads in four months
February 18, 2022 Starter For Six Top tips: levelling up hypercasual partnerships in 2022 Voodoo's head of publishing, Alexander Shea gives his six top tips on creating more successful collaboration in hypercasual games in 2022
February 15, 2022 Making Milestones Voodoo surpasses 6 billion downloads across games and apps One billion downloads achieved in the past 9 months
January 20, 2022 Now That's Magic Voodoo and MagicLab discuss building a successful hypercasual partnership PocketGamer.biz interviews Ümit Boncukçu, the co-founder at MagicLab and Voodoo's Halil Kaftan about the companies partnership and success in the rapidly evolving hypercasual market
January 3, 2022 2021 In Review Voodoo's Alexander Shea talks hitting 5 billion downloads and doubling down in 2022 Voodoo head of publishing on 2021's challenges and opportunity
December 21, 2021 Winter Games Voodoo announces new winter game competition with coaching and resources on offer Studios around the world can enter and access top coaching and resources from Voodoo, alongside exclusive up-to-date product knowledge
December 20, 2021 Platform Partnership Voodoo launches 5 hypercasual titles on Facebook Gaming Including Cube surfer and Paper.io 2
December 16, 2021 Backing Blockchain Voodoo to invest $200 million into blockchain games Bringing blockchain to casual mobile users
December 2, 2021 Inside Track Voodoo shares the secrets of hypercasual development at Paris HQ The mobile publisher's real-world educational events have returned
November 8, 2021 Israeli Investment Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
October 6, 2021 Heating Up Hypercasual Voodoo launches 'unlimited value' hypercasual development competition on 10 October First prize guarantees a minimum of $1 million
October 1, 2021 New Way To Pay Voodoo buys Beach Bum to diversify monetisation from ads to IAPs Israeli startup did $70 million in past 12 months
September 23, 2021 Hyper Meets Casual From hype to hyper to hybrid-casual Voodoo talks about the birth of hybrid-casual
September 16, 2021 Hypercasual Help Run of Life indie dev Tarek Mongy on how to have a hypercasual hit Tarek Mongy explains how working with Voodoo helped him create more successful games
September 7, 2021 Voodoo Child How Voodoo helped hone a hypercasual hit Tummy Games' Nemanja Divjak reflects on its approach to hypercasual and the studio's relationship with Voodoo
September 6, 2021 Best Of 2021 The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021 The movers, the shakers, and all those funky moneymakers
August 20, 2021 Hybridcasual Electric Manta and Voodoo agree long-term publishing partnership The companies aim to extend the lifetime and engagement of hypercasual games
August 18, 2021 Causing A Storm Storms launch new game studio and partner with Voodoo The studio has developed one game so far, AZ Run
July 16, 2021 Hiring Now 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job vacancies from Sega, Activision Blizzard, Square Enix and Bandai Namco
July 13, 2021 Voodoo Voice Voodoo president and COO joins Homa Games as senior strategic advisor The announcement follows Voodoo’s former CFO’s appointment as Homa Games’ new VP of finance and legal.
July 12, 2021 Pgc Digital #7 PGC Digital: Voodoo head of publishing Alexander Shea discusses 'the science of publishing' Shea provides insight into how Voodoo has reached 5 billion hypercasual downloads
July 9, 2021 Hiring Now 10 games industry jobs to apply for this week Job vacancies from King, Zynga, Niantic and Playrix
June 10, 2021 Bid Accepted Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake Company launched in January 2020
June 9, 2021 Hypercasual Have-a-go Voodoo offering $1 million for new hypercasual hits Summer Games Competition takes place between June 10th to July 15th
May 24, 2021 Voodoo X Snapchat Snapchat gaming is different: it's curated; it's hypersocial Snap Games and Voodoo explain their partnership
May 21, 2021 Snap Partner Summit 2021 Voodoo extends partnership with Snapchat, five more games coming to platform Unity deal also in place regarding Bitmojis
April 21, 2021 You're A Winner Voodoo announces six regional winners of its $150,000 hypercasual contest They were rewarded with $20,000
April 18, 2021 Speaker Spotlight "Don’t always assume that you need expensive and professional training to enter the industry" Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
January 21, 2021 Break It Down How a partnership with Voodoo gave life to hypercasual indie, Demolish! We speak to Jean Mikryukov about how Voodoo's support helped his title thrive