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
Over 1,900 Live And Digital Attendees
PG Connects London Live was back with a bang, with over 1,900 delegates!
The UK’s leading mobile game show saw over 230 expert speakers and 900 companies from 60+ countries connecting in c. 6,000 meetings!
Avia Expands
AviaGames brings in Scott Leichtner and Weiming Lu
Hires industry veterans to aide in global expansion
Goods Of Growth
Embracer Group's Q3 net sales increased 135% to almost $600 million
Nine month performance increase of 78.3% to over $1.2 billion
Blending Ads
Anzu to bring in-game ads to Dakar Desert Rally
Will integrate in-game ads onto vehicles, roadside signs, and more
Won't Melt In Hands
Tilting Point to launch M&M’s Adventure on iOS and Android in Spring 2022
Developed by Vietnam-based mobile studio Gear Inc.
Metaverse Music
Yahaha partners with Spitfire to bring The Dead Daisies into the metaverse
Making rock music more accessible through the metaverse
Adios Achievements
Microsoft to switch off Xbox Live services on Windows Phones in May
Achievements and cloud saves will discontinue from May 16 2022
Company Profile – pangle
Company profile – Pangle
Learn more about Pangle, the Singapore headquartered mobile app marketing platform
Equine Expansion
Star Stable Online launches worldwide on iOS
Following a year-and-a-half of soft launch
Post-pg Connects Thoughts
Mobile Mavens: the future of live events
PG Connects London attendees share their thoughts on future live events
For The Future
FunPlus and Creative Art Works launch second character design apprenticeship
Targeting "underserved" NYC teenagers and young adults
Time To Celebrate
Your guide to the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2022
Celebrate the best of the industry in 2022 with us!
Company Profile – xsolla
Company profile – Xsolla
Explore Xsolla, the Los Angeles-headquartered games industry sevice provider that has partnered with games luminaries including Epic, NetEase, and Roblox
Well Sourced
IronSource revenue rises 67% to $553 million
Projects up to $820 million in revenue for 2022 fiscal year
Brand-new Brand
MiHoYo launches new international HoYoverse brand
Keeping the MiHoYo name in China
Still Growing
Stillfront revenues rise 37% to over $586 million
Planning to soft launch 15 titles in the first half of 2022
Entertainment Veteran
Scopely adds Salaam Coleman Smith to board of directors
Bringing over 20 years of entertainment industry experience
Furthering Fashion
Drest appoints Saikala Sultanova to newly formed position: VP of growth
With experience at Ubisoft Mobile and more
Ar Audio
Niantic and Sony partner for bring hi-fidelity audio AR
Starting with AR mobile game Ingress
Advert Veteran
Guy Ben-dov joins Anzu as EVP to drive blended ads
Co-founder of Double Fusion and Side-Kick Games
Insight On India
The Financial Budget brings the spotlight to India’s gaming industry
Nazara Technologies’ Manish Agarwal shares his optimism for the Indian mobile games industry following the 2022 Union Budget
Annie Goes Ai
App Annie rebrands to data.ai with focus on unified data AI
Partnered with Similarweb to provide unified mobile and web market dataset
Invested Growth
Gameloft Toronto appoints Michael Stolls as studio head
Will lead the studio's "aggressive expansion" over the next few years
Salem At Stillfront
Stillfront appoints Alexandre Salem as SVP operations & platforms
Previously held positions at Huawei, Google, and King
Sharks Eating Chickens
PG Connects London: a quick-fire green game jam
Mensah-Bonsu, Muntean, and Esteris' Green Live Ops panel prompts a lo-fi game jam
Playing God
PG Connects London: how Genvid aims to bridge into the Metaverse
Genvid director of developer relations Chris Hamilton talks MILEs and accessibility