Blockchain For Everyone
Şekip Can Gökalp wants to bring blockchain gaming to the masses
"Anyone who can make great games is probably way too into making them to bother scamming you!"
Big Savings
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Arcade Achievement
Antstream Arcade welcome pack surpasses 3 million downloads
After $3.5 million investment from The Atari Group
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
New Leadership
Tjodolf Sommestad becomes new president of King
Co-founder Sebastian Knutsson stepping down from CCO role
3 Million Gameplays
Ethlas raises $2.7 million for F2P P2E mobile and PC metaverse
Will "aggressively" hire talent in the Web3 space
Pg Connects Interviews
PG Connects London: Fyber on matching big data analysis with KPIs, and protecting the publisher's trust
Fyber's Shalom Michaeli discusses transparency between networks and publishers, the right pairing of big data analysis and goals, and more at PG Connects London
#mechswerehere
Plarium donates $100,000 to games accessibility charity AbleGamers
Following successful fundraising campaign in Mech Arena
Negligible Decline
Over 228 million active mobile gamers in the US and Canada in 2021
Down 4% over 2020
Get Generating
Ludo launches Image Generator to provide game devs with artwork inspiration
Free beta available to allow studios to experiment with new features
Prime Eternals
Jam City to launch Champions: Ascension NFTs on February 24
Private sale to be followed by public sale 24 hours later
Region Lock
Region Lock: Turkey's hypercasual truimph, and what it means for its young population
PocketGamer.biz takes a look at the meteoric rise of Turkey as a mobile games behemoth, and what it means for the country’s young workforce
Pg Connects Interviews
PG Connects London: TransPerfect Gaming celebrates the correct approach to localisation
TransPerfect Gaming's Kayla Madsen discusses the myriad of options of games localisation, from text translation to quality assurance and legal advice, and more at PG Connects London
$1.5 Billion
Call of Duty: Mobile fires past $1.5 billion in consumer spending
US is highest spender at $647 million, or 43%
Mobile Mods
Bluestacks launches Creator Studio and Creator Hub for modding mobile games
Gives users varying levels of modding abilities, from basic to advanced
Backbone Backed
Backbone raises $40 million to bring console and PC games to mobile
Back by Kevin Hart, Post Malone, The Weeknd, and more
Presale Plans
Netmarble to sell Golden Bros NFT presale at 33% discount
Early access period coming in March
Time To Celebrate
Join us at this year’s Mobile Games Awards in London!
The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards return to London in 2022 to celebrate the businesses and individuals driving the mobile games industry
Dynamic Segmentation
IronSource launches new feature to change ad strategy in real-time
Claims will improve user engagement and maximise revenues
Upcoming Competition
Voodoo’s Spring Game Competition to reward studios with up to $1 million
Top prize for reaching five million downloads in four months
Gouge To Jones
EA appoints Gareth Jones as vice president and head of Playdemic Studios
Following departure of studio head Paul Gouge
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
Join Us
Europe’s leading mobile games conference is coming to Seattle in May!
Pocket Gamer Connects, the leading global mobile games industry conference series, is coming to Seattle in May
Pushed Back
CGC X postponed to March 3 and 4 due to unexpectedly high attendance
Extra time needed to address bandwidth issue
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
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
Premium Brand Ads
Bidstack partners with Game Tap Studios to bring in-game and in-menu ads
Will be included in 3 Game Tap titles, including Flying Car Real Driving
Pg Connects Interviews
PG Connects London: Xsolla on the return to live events and supporting the mobile games industry
Xsolla's Sebastian Zechel discusses the need to return to live events, reaching new players and markets, and more at PG Connects London
Pocket Metaverse
Chillchat raises $1.85 million for create-to-earn "pocket metaverse"
Led by blockchain platform Solana's VC arm, Solana Ventures
Making Of
Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd
The Match 3 RPG genre is popular and well populated. FunPlus' Leon Zhou talks to PocketGamer.biz about differentiating yourself from the crowd
Fifth Time's A Charm
Dutch antirust regulator serves Apple fifth $5.7 million fine
ACM claims Apple's suggestions are "unnecessary and unreasonable"
Digimon Discontinued
Bandai Namco to shut down Digimon ReArise from April 21 2022
In-game currency sales discontinued from today
Starting To Slow
PUBG Mobile hits $237 million for January 2022
Global mobile games market generated $7.4 billion, a 7% fall
Welcome Back
Riot Games appoints co-founder Marc Merrill as president of games
Former co-CEO will oversee current and future projects, as well as R&D
Titles And Trends
Kolibri Games hires Dzmitry Yudo as product director for new games
Leading the initiative to explore idle games
Very Big Indie Pitch
TAP TRICKS unique one-touch skateboarding action wins as live Very Big Indie Pitch returns
Winners breakdown
Most Read
Hot Five: Supercell's 45% revenue increase, Garena Free Fire banned in India, and FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores
The hottest news articles on PG.biz
It's A Secret
Secret Society Games appoints Andreea Enache as chief business officer
Formerly of Sony, Konami, Namco, Marvel, and more
Vamoosed
FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores
"Local regulations issues" lead to complete service shutdown
Revving Up
Animoca Brands acquires Torque Burnout dev Grease Monkey Games
Indie dev will align focus with P2E, NFT, and blockchain operations
Starter For Six
Top tips: levelling up hypercasual partnerships in 2022
Voodoo's head of publishing, Alexander Shea gives his six top tips on creating more successful collaboration in hypercasual games in 2022
Compiling Cards
Pokémon TCG Live is getting a limited launch in Canada next week
The Pokémon Company keeps to its promise following delay
Investor Encouragement
Supercell highlights excitement for external developers and importance of young talent
The Level Up program begins
Master Monetisation
Why hypercasual gaming app marketers need their own playbook
Adjust's Alexandre Pham breaks down the monetisation of hypercasual games, player retention, and in-game ads in a new world of privacy
Angered Attorneys
Attorneys seeking $27 million for securing $100 million settlement against Apple
Fallout of the Apple antitrust class action suit
Tech Tool Titan
Company Profile: Unity Technologies
Find out more about Unity Technologies, the San-Francisco headquartered company powering the next generation of games, animation, film, transport, architecture, engineering, and more...
Triumvirate Hires
Lockwood Publishing expands leadership with three strategic hires
Brings on industry veterans James Cox, Rob Hendry, and Chris Tilston
Mobile Merger
Netmarble US studio to join Kabam in merger
Simon Sim to become Kabam COO