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Rovio close Studio Lumi in Montreal with the loss of 16 jobs ANGRY NERDS

Rovio close Studio Lumi in Montreal with the loss of 16 jobs

Rovio's second studio in Montreal, Studio Six remains unaffected, alongside roles held by key Rovio Montreal-based staff

Odeeo claims over 90% of audio ads are not skipped by gamers AUDIO ADS

Odeeo claims over 90% of audio ads are not skipped by gamers

Odeeo’s research provides tips on designing the ideal audio ads

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat FESTIVE SURPRISES

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat

Celebrate the festive season with a special treat each day from Pocket Gamer Connects. Click through to find today's surprise…

3D Sonic adventure Sonic Dream Team launches as an Apple Arcade exclusive SUBS ONLY

3D Sonic adventure Sonic Dream Team launches as an Apple Arcade exclusive

This marks Hardlight’s second exclusive Sonic game on Apple Arcade

League Of Geeks halts Jumplight Odyssey, announces layoffs

League Of Geeks halts Jumplight Odyssey, announces layoffs

Codemasters suffer job losses in ongoing Electronic Arts takeover aftermath

Codemasters suffer job losses in ongoing Electronic Arts takeover aftermath

King soft launch Candy Crush 3D: Is their next crowning victory on its way?

King soft launch Candy Crush 3D: Is their next crowning victory on its way?

Ukie: Government immigration proposals "risk giving impression the UK is closed for business"

Ukie: Government immigration proposals "risk giving impression the UK is closed for business"

Candy Crush to lose its crown in 2024? But overall mobile game revenues will be up

Candy Crush to lose its crown in 2024? But overall mobile game revenues will be up

Twitch is pulling out of Korea after "significant" losses with "no pathway forward"

Twitch is pulling out of Korea after "significant" losses with "no pathway forward"

Nintendo pulls out the stops for Fire Emblem Heroes' billion-dollar future

Nintendo pulls out the stops for Fire Emblem Heroes' billion-dollar future

AppsFlyer closes the year with second acquisition in less than a month

AppsFlyer closes the year with second acquisition in less than a month

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The Africa Games Industry Report sheds light on the region's challenges and triumphsThree-time Big Indie Pitch winners Minidragon on embracing failure in order to succeedPitching your game: Big Indie Pitch manager Sophia Aubrey Drake's advice for indiesNetmarble cuts losses by 90% in Q3 despite revenue decline
The Africa Games Industry Report sheds light on the region's challenges and triumphs GAMING IN AFRICA

The Africa Games Industry Report sheds light on the region's challenges and triumphs

Reflecting rich diversity and a youthful demographic, the Africa games market continues to witness steady rise in mobile game development as its primary platform

Three-time Big Indie Pitch winners Minidragon on embracing failure in order to succeed BIG INDIE PITCH STORIES

Three-time Big Indie Pitch winners Minidragon on embracing failure in order to succeed

Interview: We sit down with the Big Indie Pitch winner Minidragon

Pitching your game: Big Indie Pitch manager Sophia Aubrey Drake's advice for indies PITCHING TIME

Pitching your game: Big Indie Pitch manager Sophia Aubrey Drake's advice for indies

We sit down with the Big Indie Pitch Manager, Sophia Aubrey Drake, to learn about her experiences with the indie community

Netmarble cuts losses by 90% in Q3 despite revenue decline DEBTMARBLE

Netmarble cuts losses by 90% in Q3 despite revenue decline

Workforce reduction and original IP stem losses, but publisher still has $1.29 billion short-term debts

Mobile Game of the Week: Warhammer 40,000 Warpforge

Mobile Game of the Week: Warhammer 40,000 Warpforge

Celebrate 10 years of incredible PGC conferences throughout 2024

Celebrate 10 years of incredible PGC conferences throughout 2024

Developer Funstop secures $1.5 million funding from Indian investors

Developer Funstop secures $1.5 million funding from Indian investors

India's Nazara Technologies launches publishing division to support local and international developers

India's Nazara Technologies launches publishing division to support local and international developers

Appodeal & Pollen VC partner to offer a new kind of mobile growth platform

Appodeal & Pollen VC partner to offer a new kind of mobile growth platform

China’s app stores begin compliance with China’s latest regulations

China’s app stores begin compliance with China’s latest regulations

Tencent acquires visual novel company Visual Arts

Tencent acquires visual novel company Visual Arts

Smash Head Studio's roguelite action platformer wins the first ever Dubai Big Indie Pitch

Smash Head Studio's roguelite action platformer wins the first ever Dubai Big Indie Pitch

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Comment & opinion

AI advances: Kongregate’s new AI Adventure Creator platform is out now AI MEETS UGC Dec 6th, 2023

AI advances: Kongregate’s new AI Adventure Creator platform is out now

Behind the scenes: The developers of Going Balls on the success of their hypercausal hit HYPERCASUAL HIT Dec 6th, 2023

Behind the scenes: The developers of Going Balls on the success of their hypercausal hit

Jobs in games: Breaking into animation with Hutch’s Lucia Gentile INDUSTRY STORIES Dec 5th, 2023

Jobs in games: Breaking into animation with Hutch’s Lucia Gentile

"Unity - I'm done" Why Fundamentally Games’ CEO Oscar Clark is switching platforms UNITY NO MORE Dec 4th, 2023

"Unity - I'm done" Why Fundamentally Games’ CEO Oscar Clark is switching platforms

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Features

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat FESTIVE SURPRISES Dec 7th, 2023

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat

Microsoft accelerates plans for Xbox mobile marketplace launch NEW COMPETITION Dec 6th, 2023

Microsoft accelerates plans for Xbox mobile marketplace launch

Hot Five: Supercell’s path to fame, a Chinese gacha hit and 20M in Web3 funding HOT FIVE Dec 4th, 2023

Hot Five: Supercell’s path to fame, a Chinese gacha hit and 20M in Web3 funding

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Data & Research

as The Africa Games Industry Report sheds light on the region's challenges and triumphs GAMING IN AFRICA Dec 7th, 2023

The Africa Games Industry Report sheds light on the region's challenges and triumphs

The US accounted for 53.5% of casual game installs in Q3, but what are the hottest genres globally? AMERICAN ASCENT Dec 5th, 2023

The US accounted for 53.5% of casual game installs in Q3, but what are the hottest genres globally?

Q3's biggest genres saw 700% more downloads on Google Play than Apple App Store DOWNLOAD DISPARITY Dec 5th, 2023

Q3's biggest genres saw 700% more downloads on Google Play than Apple App Store

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Events News

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024 Dec 7th, 2023

PG Connects Advent Calendar: A Daily Festive Treat

PGC Stories: "Feedback from seasoned judges helped me grow as a professional and individual" Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024 Dec 1st, 2023

PGC Stories: "Feedback from seasoned judges helped me grow as a professional and individual"

as Three-time Big Indie Pitch winners Minidragon on embracing failure in order to succeed Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024 Dec 1st, 2023

Three-time Big Indie Pitch winners Minidragon on embracing failure in order to succeed

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NSPCC’s Kevin Antao And Andy Sallnow On How To Prevent Child Abuse In Games

Where's the Smart Money Going? (And how to get it!) Investment Trends Update, Chris James

Solid Bash's Matthew Zoern On An Approach That Amplifies A Game's "Fun Factor"

Session: How To Build The Next Forever Game Franchise - Michael Chang, Mavent Partners, LLC

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Hot Five: Niantic has a new star, Epic warns of "degradation in quality", and new games hit the market Hot Five Oct 9th, 2023

Hot Five: Niantic has a new star, Epic warns of "degradation in quality", and new games hit the market

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days Week that was Oct 6th, 2023

Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days

PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam News Sep 14th, 2023

PG.biz Podcast - Hot gaming trends and ad formats that are losing steam

Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever? Mobile Mavens Aug 22nd, 2023

Mobile Mavens: Can we preserve classic mobile games forever?

Profiles

Nekki celebrates 20 years of mobile gaming innovation after surpassing one billion installs MAJOR MILESTONE Aug 8th, 2023

Nekki celebrates 20 years of mobile gaming innovation after surpassing one billion installs

Company Spotlight: Pingle Studio COMPANY SPOTLIGHT Jul 5th, 2023

Company Spotlight: Pingle Studio

Speaker Spotlight: Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023: Christina Macedo of Ready Games SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 21st, 2023

Speaker Spotlight: Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023: Christina Macedo of Ready Games

Speaker Spotlight: Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023: Soham Tacker of Gamerji SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Jun 20th, 2023

Speaker Spotlight: Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023: Soham Tacker of Gamerji

Job News

My.Games appoints Elena Grigorian as CEO as Vladimir Nikolsky steps down PROMOTED POSITION Sep 28th, 2023

My.Games appoints Elena Grigorian as CEO as Vladimir Nikolsky steps down

East Side Games co-founder Joshua Nilson leaves after 14 years NEXT STEPS Sep 26th, 2023

East Side Games co-founder Joshua Nilson leaves after 14 years

Lisa Bridgett steps down from role as DREST CEO JOB NEWS Sep 14th, 2023

Lisa Bridgett steps down from role as DREST CEO

Rovio Stockholm appoints Johannes Mang as head of studio JOB NEWS Sep 8th, 2023

Rovio Stockholm appoints Johannes Mang as head of studio

Deals

Former Activision Blizzard CEO supports GameTree's $1.7M seed round for AI app to unite gamers PLATFORM PSYCHOLOGY Dec 5th, 2023

Former Activision Blizzard CEO supports GameTree's $1.7M seed round for AI app to unite gamers

Sony sets sights on mobile in strategic partnership with NCSoft PARTNERSHIP POWER Nov 29th, 2023

Sony sets sights on mobile in strategic partnership with NCSoft

KEK Entertainment raises $8M in seed round to build "platform-agnostic IP" PLATFORM POWER Nov 28th, 2023

KEK Entertainment raises $8M in seed round to build "platform-agnostic IP"

NFTs incoming: Matr1x doubles funding to $20M ahead of its debut Web3 mobile launch NFT NOW Nov 27th, 2023

NFTs incoming: Matr1x doubles funding to $20M ahead of its debut Web3 mobile launch