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Web3 For All
Manticore opens up its Core platform for NFT projects
MekaVerse and 0N1 amongst the first to build
Another Tilting Point
Tilting Point bullish on blockchain as it announces first Web3 titles
Samir Agili reveals partnership with Polygon and Stardust
Time For Fun
Tripledot acquires mobile game livestream platform Live Play Mobile
Looks to aggressively scale its live bingo game
Party Up
Social mobile gaming app Bunch heads into the metaverse
Version 2 is coming with NFTs
Built To Win
CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu on Spyke Games' massive $55 million seed round
UA is a bloody competition
2021 In Review
Apple's UA changes have forced innovation, says Gismart's Lana Meisak
Gismart's VP Bizdev on challenges and opportunities
2021 In Review
GameBake's Michael Hudson on the rise of social instant gaming
GameBake's CEO discusses 2021 challenges and opportunities
2021 In Review
Tenjin's Chris Farm on the impact of IDFA's removal to the rise of Axie Infinity
Tenjin's CEO on 2021's challenges and opportunity
2021 In Review
Digital Turbine's Mike Ng on consolidation in adtech and the ramifications of Epic vs. Apple
Digital Turbine's CRO on 2021's challengers and opportunity
2021 In Review
Elena Grigoryan on IDFA deprecation, NFTs, and MY.GAMES' most successful mobile launch
MY.GAMES' CMO on 2021's challenges and opportunities
Aligned Incentives
Tilting Point on synergistic growth by supercharging its developers' success
Samir Agili, Asi Burak and Jean-Sebastien Laverge discuss
Big World
Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse
Pokemon Go developer now valued at $9 billion
Diy
Solo game development platform DreamCraft raises $10 million
March Capital leads the round
Come Together
Aristocrat rebrands its $1.8 billion gaming division as Pixel United
Includes Plarium, Big Fish and Product Madness
Ad In
AdInMo appoints Reece Eaton as new ad operations director
Veteran takes the reins
Rpg+nft
Com2uS is bringing Summoners War: Chronicles to blockchain
Working on its own ecosystem with Terra
Get More
Now.gg launches cloud payments, giving mobile game devs a 95% rev share
Compliant with app store policies, also handles NFTs
Buzzing
Drone Racing Arcade launches on Skillz
The official game of the Drone Racing League is live
Minting
Majority of game developers considering using blockchain
New survey shows speed of change
Block On
Mobile game devs part of blockchain gaming platform Forte's $725 million raise
Sea Capital co-led the round
New Worlds
Classic MMORPG remake Ragnarok Origin now live
Gravity's got a new game
Add On
Anzu adds David Cox as a strategic advisor
Ad platform strengthens team
Starring Role
Unity acquires Weta Digital, its tools and 275 staff for $1.6 billion
A cash plus stock deal
More Eyeballs
Zynga sees Q3 FY21 sales up 40% to $705 million
Hypercasual games boost ad revenues
Minting
Zynga appoints its first VP of blockchain gaming
Matt Wolf will lead the charge
Smarts Transfer
Why data's the glue to supercharge Stillfront's consolidation strategy
Head of data platform Andre Cohen on a new strategy
The End Game
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite shutting down on 31 January 2022
Location-based wizarding game fails
Rewarded
Animoca-backed Gamee launches Arc8, its blockchain mobile gaming platform
Play and win crypto
Full House
Scopely acquires social casino outfit GSN Games for $1 billion
Combined company is now worth over $5 billion
A New Way To Pay
The slow inexorable rise of Skillz
Andrew Paradise on a decade to the tipping point
Rocket Fuel
Ludus invests in three Turkish mobile game startups
Istanbul cluster is blooming
Capital Move
French hypercasual dev 8SEC opens Paris office
Lyon startup is growing fast
No Play
No new games were approved for release in China during August or September
Banhammer is swinging
New Way To Pay
Voodoo buys Beach Bum to diversify monetisation from ads to IAPs
Israeli startup did $70 million in past 12 months
Staffing Up
Admix expands, hiring Stefan Adamczyk as VP of Global Partnerships
Ex-AdColony SVP moves on
Plain Speaking
Panivox decloaks its RichCast voice-driven interactive platform
Next generation of narrative audio experiences
Three Up
Big Idea Games, Golden Parachute and Mustard Games join N3twork's platform
More games, more scale
Looking Good
Sulake launching 12,500 Habbo avatar NFTs
Auction for 10,000 will take place this week
Better Together
How $1.4 billion Playdemic deal accelerates EA's future mobile success
Jeff Karp and Paul Gouge on more games and synergies
Quicker, Better
Pollen VC launches its dCPM calculator for better ad revenue transparency
The value of future money demonstrated
Just Magic
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened's perfect launch: it's China's top grossing mobile game
Coming to other Asian countries later in 2021
Mo' Money
Honor of Kings is the first mobile game to generate $10 billion
Mobile games get really big
Smashing Times
PopCap co-founder Jason Kapalka on bringing web hit Shell Shockers to mobile
Finding the sweet spot
Most Read
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Ramping Up
Adam Mottram joins Reality Gaming as head of studio
One of four new hires for blockchain game dev
Invest To Grow
Ten Square Games sees Q2 2021 profits slip 4% to $9 million as it invests for the future
Has just launched Fishing Clash in China
Bigger Beast
Vungle and Liftoff merge to create end-to-end mobile adtech
Consolidation upscales
The Horror, The Joy
Why The Walking Dead is launching its first NFTs in The Sandbox
Dan Murray and Sebastian Borget explain their partnership
Firing Up
Play-to-earn gaming community Yield Guild raises $4.6 million
A16z and former MZ CEO Gabe Leydon invest