An Apple (game) A Day
All Apple Arcade games available now
From Subway Surfers Tag and Sayonara Wild Hearts to Sonic Racing and Amazing Bomberman
Interview
As Top Drives turns five Hutch’s top devs tell us what makes a hit
The developer’s pivot to racing games revived their fortunes with Top Drives the jewel in their crown
Interview
Behind the scenes with “Indo-Futurism” battle royale game Indus
SuperGaming CEO Roby John goes in-deep on their upcoming BGMI-beating shooter
Interview
Why hit developer Nordcurrent is moving to publishing
The Vilnius based developer has pushed into publishing with mobile an increasing focus for the company
Interview
CEO of SuperGaming: “Battle royales are a frictionless entry point for Indians to play games”
The developers of homegrown battle royale game Indus hope to show off what domestic developers can do
Awards
Apple’s Design Awards winners 2023
The company awards programs for excellence in technical achievement
New Tech
Will Apple Arcade be enough to push the Vision Pro?
At least 100 titles will be available on launch. But is that it? And where's the metaverse in all this?
New Tech
Why developers need to take Apple Vision Pro seriously
The next App Store explosion starts here. Apple Vision Pro matters. And here's why.
Soft-launch
Supercell's Thunderdome: Flood Rush vs Squad Busters
Why're we keeping an eye on Supercell's back-to-back release this month? Find out.
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news including Apple's latest hardware, Silent Hill's next steps, and Microsoft's appeal against the CMA
Interview
Noah Rosenfield talks Addagrams: “People enjoy investing in the betterment of themselves.”
The word game recently released on iOS and Android
Women In Games
Zynga's Paula Neves shares her journey from psychology to mobile marketing
From a psychology major in Brazil to a Senior Product manager with Zynga in Montreal, Pocketgamer.biz finds out more about Paula Neves' journey in games
Feature
Animal Restaurant: How to Earn $2,000,000 in IAPs with a Cute Mobile Game
Analysing Animal Restaurant's path to success with AppQuantum
Feature
How to accelerate ASO with ChatGPT
Azur Games ASO manager Zlata Kazantseva shares how the team used ChatGPT to create keywords and texts in Survive Squad
Back For Good?
BattleGrounds Mobile India is back: So what happened?
With the game set to return to storefronts, how exactly did Krafton get into so much trouble in India?
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news including new mobile platforms, app store invasions, celebrity developers and… Have you seen my $2bn? I could have sworn it was right here…
Roundup
Revenue Report: Games financials roundup: May 2023
Who's up? Who's down? Here's the latest quarterly financial results from around the world of mobile games, all in one place
Mavens
Mobile Mavens: Activision Blizzard: So what will happen next?
We asked our industry experts for their thoughts on the deal that rumbles on and continues to divide opinions. Here's what they said.
Company Spotlight
Company Spotlight: Optimove
Game Dev Rebellion
The Activism Game: How games can provoke positive change for good
Game designer and developer Daniel Fernández Galeote on how developers can play their part and motivate pro-environmental action
Q&a
Cygames' Euro and US branches make new connections with the West
“Our new branches will enable us to further strengthen our Western marketing approach”
Feature
The key to successful hypercasual prototypes
Director of Publishing at Supersonic Nir Regev shares how to best build your next prototype
Spreading Sustainability
10 Weeks To Save the Games Industry - The Final Episode
The journey reaches an end with a recap of the 38 incredible games industry figures that took part across 10 weeks of travels
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss unexpected returns, making millions and losing them too…
Feature
Unity's Anna Popereko on rewarded video tips for meta match-3 games
The game design consultant shares how to best implement video rewards for players
Report
98% of app store spend on one-time purchases
According to new report by data.ai on app revenue
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss investment vs buy out, mobile's amazing next-level ads and making dance moves for money…
Spreading Sustainability
10 Weeks To Save The Games Industry with Sybo CEO Mathias Gredal Nørvig
The journey continues with gaming and eco-insight from the makers of the legendary Subway Surfers
Investment
The big Supercell investment roundup
Money to invest? Or looking for funding? Here's all the studios that Supercell has invested in, all in one place
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight Seattle: Maintain UA and performance within the changing privacy landscape with Mark Menery of Dataseat
We get up close with the speakers at our upcoming Pocket Gamer Seattle event. Don't miss out!
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight Seattle: Phil Shpilberg of GameChangerSF by Pixis outlines the future of AI in games marketing
We get up close with the speakers at our upcoming Pocket Gamer Seattle event. Don't miss out!
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight Seattle: Delivering premium live services with Kazutomo Niwa of Game Server Services (GS2)
We get up close with the speakers at our upcoming Pocket Gamer Seattle event. Don't miss out!
Going Global
Using mobile games as part of a brand-building promotional strategy
As president of digital media at leisure giant Falcon's Beyond, Jason Ambler has made mobile gaming a key component in their theme park's promo plans
Spreading Sustainability
10 Weeks To Save The Games Industry: Sweden Part 2
The journey continues with more eco-video from Sweden featuring Johan Sjöberg of Star Stable Entertainment and Gustav Martner at Greenpeace.
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss a fragmented Apple eco-system, games going all-in on AI and Fortnite's return to iOS… Kinda
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight Seattle: Moloco's Donghwan Jeon on AI, big data, machine learning and more
With just a couple of weeks to go, we get up close with the speakers at our upcoming Pocket Gamer Seattle event. Don't miss out!
Spreading Sustainability
10 Weeks To Save The Games Industry reaches Sweden
Get the first part of our eco duo's interviews from Sweden, featuring Daniel Hasselberg, CEO of MAG Interactive and David Olsson of We Don’t Have Time
Blog Posts
Rovio reveals the secrets of their level design
The studio’s latest blog post unveils some inside details
Industry Insights
How combining UA and ASO learnings can enhance store performance
UA and ASO play an important part of a mobile app strategy so why not combine the efforts of both, asks Gameloft's Claudia Trujillo
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss Apple's 'win' over Epic, all that AquiBlizz action and Scopely's stumble to victory
User Acquisition Masterclass
Take control of your user acquisition campaigns - a masterclass with Bango
As the challenges facing app marketers grow, how do you understand what players want - and find audiences more effectively? Find out from our industry experts
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss the big Rovio buyout, big-ups and back-slapping and Epic moves…
Report
Over-50s are top mobile players, but feel "overlooked"
Smartphones are now older players preferred means of play
Hypercasual
What's next for hypercasual marketing in 2023?
Google industry manager Anastasia Selchuk shares the state of hypercasual and outlines the marketing trends ahead
Report
M&A is coming back swinging in 2023, Drake Star report concludes
New report offers key insights into changes in the VC climate for Q1
Spreading Sustainability
10 Weeks To Save The Games Industry - Extra!
The climate battle isn't over yet. With the journey at a close there's still plenty of interviews and opinion as to how the games industry can be more sustainable
Opinion
Mobile Mavens: Is AI a helping hand or to be kept at arm's length?
Our round-up of opinion from around the industry returns with AI's role in game development the hot topic
Acquisition
Sega + Rovio: How did we get here?
Now that Sega is acquiring the Angry Birds developer, we retread the steps both parties took towards the big deal
China Changes
Why you should be optimistic about mobile gaming in China
Game licence approvals offer new opportunities to Tencent, miHoYo and others
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news and discuss 2023 bounceback, pop star problems and… Eggy Party?