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Zuckerberg warns metaverse losses will continue until 2030s
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Interview
Resident Evil 4 VR's Tom Ivey on updating a classic for virtual reality
Armature Studio's lead producer gives us the low down on the new Mercenaries mode revealed during the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase
Interview
VR won't replace mobile gaming, says Meta's Jason Rubin
The Metaverse Content VP answers our questions about the Quest Gaming Showcase and virtual reality in general
Quest
New VR games coming this year from the Meta Quest Gaming Showcase 2022
Resident Evil 4 gains Mercenaries; Moss, Walking Dead sequels; NFL Pro Era and Ghostbusters!
Making Money Matters
Diversifying revenue: how Fingersoft strikes the right balance
Meta Audience Network and Fingersoft explore the reasons for adopting a diverse revenue model within mobile games and the impact it had on the Hill Climb Racing franchise
Hypercasual Cash
Three casual and hypercasual monetisation strategies in 2022
Meta’s Yuthida Donnelley, Strategic Partner Manager, delves into monetisation strategies for hyper/casual games, and what opportunities will arise from the evolution of the hybrid-casual genre
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
Meet The Experts At Pg Connects
Speaker Spotlight: Facebook Gaming at Meta's Cheryl Savage on reimagining games advertising
Meet the mobile gaming ad and branding experts at Pocket Gamer Connects London, February 14-15
Ad Insight
How to prepare your game’s monetisation strategy for the future
Learn about the growing trends in app monetisation and what you can do to stay ahead of the curve in Episode 5 of the PocketGamer.biz Podcast
What's Next?
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Discover ways to help grow your game downloads and increase your year-end sales
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: How to balance monetisation and increase retention
Facebook strategic partner managers talk boosting ad exposure
Listen Learn Love
PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook
Imran Khan from Facebook Audience Network joins the team
Expert Minds
Learn from Facebook, Square Enix and App Annie at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Revealed: the final speakers for the leading mobile B2B games industry conference
Funplus Likes This
Facebook Gaming director Bob Slinn joins FunPlus as VP of business development
Fifth management signing in recent months
Disruption Sparks Innovation
Disruption accelerates three shifts for gaming businesses
Facebook's Michael Bertaut explores new opportunities for success in the rapidly evolving global mobile market
Assassin's Creed Rebellion
Facebook partners with Ubisoft on cloud gaming service, exceeds 1.5 million users
Now possesses over 25 games
Pgc Profile
Facebook's Michael Bertaut talks the future of app monetisation
PocketGamer.biz profiles Facebook Audience Network's EMEA regional director as a speaker at PocketGamer Connects
New Tricks
Mastering Monetization: Using Facebook solutions to build resilience and sustainable growth
An industry conversation with Facebook Audience Network - 22 April at 2pm BST
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 28 million more people are playing mobile games in the US since the pandemic began
A 28 per cent increase year-over-year
That's Growth
2021 opportunities for growth-minded game publishers
As IDFA shakes up the advertising world, Facebook Audience Network offers insight on how to keep revenues flowing
Goodbye Farmville
Down on the FarmVille: The rise of Zynga's social gaming icon
As Zynga closes down the first FarmVille, we take a look back at what made it special
No Fair
Facebook claims new App Store policies are anti-competitive
"Apple is behaving anti-competitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses"
See You In Court
Facebook hit with a lawsuit from most of the US
Could be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Facebook Gaming's Olha Muzychenko explains the social growth recipe to meaningful content
"Make sure to provide shareable, meaningful moments"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The importance of automated app ads with Facebook Gaming
Facebook Gaming's Finbarr O'Mahony spoke about the benefits
Webinar
2021 predictions and growth strategy - an industry conversation with Facebook Audience Network
The webinar will take place on Thursday 3rd November at 3pm
App Bidding
App bidding: The importance of automating monetisation in hypercasual games
Facebook Audience Network’s Thomas Coulon looks at the most efficient way to maximise your ad revenue potential
Top Advertising
Facebook takes the top spot for mobile advertising
It charges more than Google for games ads
"not Representative"
ASA bans "misleading" Gardenscapes and Homescapes Facebook ads
Only 0.03% of players reach the end content.
Trust Issues
US antitrust committee completes investigation into 'monopolistic' practices of Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google
"These firms typically run the marketplace while seven also competing in it—a position that enables them to write one set of rules for others, while they play by another"
New Hardware
Facebook officially reveals Oculus Quest 2
Hardware starts shipping next month, comes with $299 price tag
Staying Put
Facebook claims Oculus brand isn't going anywhere
Follows confusing announcement from the social media giant
New Identity
Oculus rebrands as Facebook Reality Labs
"Together, AR and VR will change how we work, interact, and play, with novel use cases we haven’t even begun to imagine"
Deeper Magic
Facebook's angry yet radical reaction to Apple's IDFA changes
IDFA tracking is out. Probabilistic modelling inbound
Diversity Matters
POC in Mobile: Facebook director of games partnerships Leo Olebe explains why it's "everyone’s job to find great and diverse talent"
"It’s like the old saying: 'you have to fish where the fish are'."
Another Account
Oculus hardware will soon require a Facebook account to use all features
"We know that social VR has so much more to offer, and this change will make it possible to integrate many of the features"
Taking Issue
Facebook criticises Apple for its App Store commission costs
Follows the removal of Fortnite
Hybrid Monetisation
Gaming Spotlight: Why hybrid monetisation is a sustainable business solution
Join us and Facebook Audience Network for a webinar discussing best hybrid monetisation practices
What's Your Genre?
Report: 49 per cent of mobile players pick a new game based on genre
"With this genre report, we sought to understand people's motivations for downloading a specific game"
Stripped Back
Facebook Gaming launches app without Instant Games for iOS
"Unfortunately, we had to remove gameplay functionality entirely in order to get Apple's approval"
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: How studying Creative Advertising inadvertently lead to Joy Marianowicz joining Facebook Gaming
"The course mainly helped me realise that looking at data and coming up with a concrete plan was much more my strength"
Laters Mixer
Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
Microsoft launched the platform in 2016
Join The Team
Facebook acquires Lone Echo developer Ready At Dawn for Oculus Studios
No figure placed on the deal just yet
Sixth Time's The Charm
Report: Apple has rejected Facebook Gaming app at least five times already
App Store rules preventing HTML5 gaming app from launching
Making Money
Facebook Gaming adds fan subscriptions and live ads for its content creators
Creators need at least 250 weekly viewers
Impressive Numbers
Google had the most downloads of all mobile publishers in May
Voodoo and Crazy Labs cracked the top five
#blacklivesmatter
The Pokemon Company, Double Fine, House House, and more join in to show support for #BlackLivesMatter
Through statements and charity donations
Get That Data
AppsFlyer forms a new partnership with Facebook Audience Network for UA data
"This partnership is providing a significant foundation for marketers"
Beta Only
IronSource opens up Facebook Audience Network to its in-app bidding platform LevelPlay
70 per cent of its mediation traffic expected to run through in-app bidding by the end of 2020.
Quest For Gold
Over $100 million has been spent on Oculus Quest content
The hardware was released a year ago