Character Collaboration
Truz characters join Play Together metaverse in IP collaboration
Aiming towards a Millennial and Gen Z audience
Funding Fusion
MiHoYo invests $65 million towards nuclear fusion devices
Contributing to Energy Singularity’s Tokamak research to lower carbon emissions
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
Platform Boost
Wemade and RedFox Games partner to bring Kingdom Hunter to WEMIX blockchain platform
Targeting the play and earn mobile community in South America
Subscription Service Expands
Google Play Pass launches in India with more than 1,000 titles
Requiring Android 4.4 or above to run
Advancing On Apac
Riot Games to expand publishing efforts in APAC
To focus in on a region with a "strong appetite" for mobile gaming
Saved By Q4
Netmarble scraped 0.8% revenue growth in 2021 to $2.12 billion
Q4 revenue climbed 20.4% to $656.6 million
New State X Nier
Krafton and Square Enix partner for PUBG New State and NieR collab
Will bring Nier Automata event back to Nier Reincanation
Global Launch
Potato Play raises $5 million, launches Merge Restaurant
Investments from Everblue Management, Play Ventures and more
Going Green
Tencent vows carbon neutrality by 2030
Will switch to 100% green energy with the next 8 years
Strong Growth
NetEase revenue jumps 19% to $13.75 billion, mobile games do $9.6 billion
Boosted by new titles such as Harry Potter: Magic Awakened and Revelation
3 Million Gameplays
Ethlas raises $2.7 million for F2P P2E mobile and PC metaverse
Will "aggressively" hire talent in the Web3 space
Presale Plans
Netmarble to sell Golden Bros NFT presale at 33% discount
Early access period coming in March
Garena Going Strong
Free Fire was the most downloaded game for January 2022
Subway Surfers comes in close second
Anime Collab
PUBG Mobile Japan to collaborate with Black Lagoon
Bringing exclusive skins to match the anime's noir action theme
Get Golfing
Playlinks launches Kitty Golf on Facebook Instant Games
Latest game from the South Korean developer to join the platform
Digital Entertainment Domination
Research and Markets: Asian mobile games market to reach $86.6 billion by 2027
Tablets top smartphones for user experience, but overall users are significantly lower
Pocket Metaverse
Chillchat raises $1.85 million for create-to-earn "pocket metaverse"
Led by blockchain platform Solana's VC arm, Solana Ventures
Digimon Discontinued
Bandai Namco to shut down Digimon ReArise from April 21 2022
In-game currency sales discontinued from today
Vamoosed
FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores
"Local regulations issues" lead to complete service shutdown
Brand-new Brand
MiHoYo launches new international HoYoverse brand
Keeping the MiHoYo name in China
Insight On India
The Financial Budget brings the spotlight to India’s gaming industry
Nazara Technologies’ Manish Agarwal shares his optimism for the Indian mobile games industry following the 2022 Union Budget
Studio Shares
Krafton acquires Smash Legends dev 5minlab for $19.9 million
100 per cent of shares acquired
Free Fired
Garena Free Fire banned in India after 238 million downloads
Free Fire: Illuminate and Free Fire Max extinguished
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PokÉ To Axie
Philip La on moving from Pokémon GO to Axie Infinity
Player ownership, the strength of the Pokémon IP, and Axie Infinity's economy sustainability
The Might Of Mobile
PUBG Mobile boosts Krafton’s 2021 revenues to record-highs of $1.57 billion
Release of Battlegrounds Mobile India and PUBG New State boosted Q4 sales
Worldwide Wizardry
NetEase to launch Harry Potter: Magic Awakened worldwide
Pre-registrations have opened in the Americas, Europe, and Oceania
Equity Investments
Krafton invests $6.6 million to create and sell NFT avatars
Partnering with South Korea auction platform Seoul Auction Blue
Crypto Consultant
SuperGaming appoints crypto specialist Siddarth Menon as blockchain advisor
Will help the company build its crypto platform and design in-game economies
Fallen Fiscally
Nexon mobile revenue falls 20% following a year of "building and investment"
Looking ahead at upcoming games pipeline in 2022 to boost revenue
Sharing The Storm
iCandy Interactive acquires 51% stake in hypercasual games startup Storms
Storms' management will join the existing iCandy management team
Fighting On
Nexon to bring Dungeon & Fighter to mobile on March 24
Will feature iconic "arcade-style" RPG action
4 Million In 11 Days
Bravely Default Brilliant Lights reaches four million players in first 11 days
Featuring new and returning characters
Rpg Revenue
Fire Emblem Heroes approaches $1 billion
Nintendo's highest-earning mobile game
Company Profile: Applovin
Company profile – AppLovin
Learn more about AppLovin, the California headquartered marketing platform supporting developers worldwide in growing their mobile apps
Oh Thank Heaven
Haegin brings 7-Eleven to casual mobile metaverse Play Together
Will bring 7-Eleven Korea mascots and products into the game
Mobile-centric
Sensor Tower: Mobile games account for almost 20% of all Metaverse-related apps
Early metaverse projects are centred around crypotcurrencies and NFTs
Acquiring Astrokings
Tilting Point acquires majority stake in AstroKings developer AN Games
Will scale the studio's games in both Eastern and Western markets
A Perfect 10
Yodo1 – Ten years, ten voices
As Yodo1 celebrates its tenth anniversary, PocketGamer.biz speaks to 10 of the company's employees around the world about what makes the company special
To Be Expected
Nintendo’s mobile revenue falls 5.2% to $347 million
Nintendo Switch sells over 100 million units, overtakes Nintendo Wii
Meet The Experts
Speaker Spotlight: Meta Audience Network's Thomas Coulon on finding hypercasual success
Meet the mobile gaming casual and hypercasual experts at Pocket Gamer Connects London, February 14-15
Everything Everywhere
The state of mobile in 2022: Millions of apps, billions of downloads, trillions of hours
The incredible ongoing growth of the global mobile market – and the value of games – are highlighted in App Annie’s State of Mobile 2022 report
Marbleverse
Netmarble unveils upcoming Metaverse and NFT projects
70% of upcoming games with utilise blockchain tech
Indie View
Conned Games discuss creating their running town-builder and pitching it at The Big Indie Pitch
We talk to Conned Games' Daniel Cohn about The Big Indie Pitch
Maskgun Millions
MaskGun surpasses 60 million downloads in three years
Gets biggest update yet
Total Divestment
Update: Stillfront acquires 6Waves for $201 million, buys out Nexon's 34.8% stake for $93 million
Purchasing 26.5 million shares from Nexon
Jotaro...
KLab to distribute upcoming JoJo's Bizarre Adventure mobile game worldwide
Will be the first globally available mobile title from the franchise
Apac Advertising
Anzu partners with Livewire to boost APAC ad reach in Roblox
Follows the increasing MAUs on the platform
Aspiring Aspirants
Moonton launches Mobile Legends: Bang Bang NFTs on Binance
Featuring popular MLBB characters Layla and Fanny