Siege Once More
Square Enix to bring Dungeon Siege to The Sandbox
Will operate Dungeon Siege Land from virtual real estate plot
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
Adding Adtech
NBCUniversal partners with Anzu to expand in games and esports
Gaining access to adtech integrations
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
Pg Connects Interviews
PG Connects London: AppLovin talks smarter in-game ad integration and the new world of privacy
AppLovin's Tony Deane talks ad delivery in a more private world, smarter integration, machine learning, and more at PG Connects London
Gameloft Gets Greener
Gameloft joins Playing for the Planet Alliance
Commits to decarbonation across operations
Subscription Service Expands
Google Play Pass launches in India with more than 1,000 titles
Requiring Android 4.4 or above to run
Most Read
Hot Five: Bandai Namco shuts down Digimon ReArise, Apple privacy update causes IAP decline, and NFT and blockchain gaming to the mass market
The hottest news articles on PG.biz
Time To Nominate
Last chance to nominate your company for the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2022
You have 24 hours left to nominate your game or company for recognition at this year’s prestigious awards!
Travel Hardship
Alex Nichiporchik shares tinyBuild's staff support plans ahead of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
"If you can do anything here, highlight the travel issue. Encourage the UK and other governments to create a simplified GAMEDEV-VISA procedure."
Advancing On Apac
Riot Games to expand publishing efforts in APAC
To focus in on a region with a "strong appetite" for mobile gaming
Limited Launch
Apex Legends Mobile to come to 10 countries next week
Will allow the studio to continue working on in-game systems, features, and more
Casual Control
Playtika revenue grew 8.9% to $2.58 billion in 2021
Board of directors considering the sale of the company
Black Box Begone
For mediation, I chose independence – the importance of Fyber's focus on transparency
Fyber's Director of Product Management, Pedro Miranda discusses the value of transparency and independence when it comes to mediation within mobile ads
Love Island Launch
Love Island The Game 2 is now Fusebox Games’ most successful launch
Seeing high retention rates
Saved By Q4
Netmarble scraped 0.8% revenue growth in 2021 to $2.12 billion
Q4 revenue climbed 20.4% to $656.6 million
Hiring Hundreds
Epic Games hiring hundreds as full employees with benefit plans
QA testers make up bulk of hires
Top Charts
Uptodown: The platform's most popular mobile games from the past 10 years
From Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies to PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile
Privacy Problems
AppsFlyer: Apple’s privacy update caused 35% in-app purchase revenue decline
iOS user acquisition spend fell 13%, Android jumped 35%
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
Ads Value
Adverty releases updated Unity SDK for in-game ads
Adverty releases Unity SDK 4.0, with 2D games support and a refreshed suite of high-quality ad assets for the ultimate in-game advertising experience
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
Bye Bye Barriers
Coda launches Infinite Arcade to bring mass blockchain gaming to casual mobile games
Blending NFTs and cryptocurrency to turn F2P to P2E
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
Last chance to get the lowest possible price for tickets to Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle!
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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