Passion To Start
Standing up for the female perspective through storytelling
Pixel Federation's Patricia Pribolova tells her story
Mobile Master Chief
20% of Xbox Cloud Gaming subscribers use touch controls exclusively
Games include Hades, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest XI and more
Esports Expansion
Esports group 100 Thieves raises $60 million at $460 million valuation
Yearly revenue increases 111%
Block Buster
Busting myths about blockchain, NFTs, and play-and-earn monetisation for games
David Kim, VP of Business Development and Marketing for wdny.io explores the facts, the fallacies and the phenomenon
Mega Milestone
Gismart surpasses over one billion mobile games and apps downloads
Over 450 million mobile games downloads since 2019
Fantasy Is Final
Japanese game sector to hit $22 billion in 2021
Players prefer single player RPGs within a fantasy setting
Excluding Exclusives
No exclusive titles for Steam Deck, says Valve
Steam Deck front page will feature only deck verified titles
Dead Good
N3twork scaled Idle Necromancer's DAUs by 970%
Surge in DAUs and revenue in the first month
Building On Bingo
AviaGames' new Bingo Tour allows players to win cash in online tournaments
Bringing bingo to a new generation of social gamers
Time To Conquer
Lineage 2M launches in North America and Europe
Open world adventure with 10,000 player capacity
Inside Track
Voodoo shares the secrets of hypercasual development at Paris HQ
The mobile publisher's real-world educational events have returned
Don't Interrupt Me
Playstack launches Interact SDK for less interruptive mobile game ads
Offers three methods of non-interruptive ad monetisation
Breezy
Talewind raises $3.4 million for casual Roblox experience Breezy Bay
Animal Crossing meets Runescape in Roblox
Gotiva’s Got It
Sarajevo startup Gotiva Games raises $250,000 for NFT social puzzle games
Debut title scheduled for Q2 2022
European Expansion
Wildlife Studios is opening a new mobile games studio in Sweden
Heading to Europe in search of the best developers
Expanded Support
Game Insight to bring casual games portfolio to desktop and web
Currently has five games playable on its site
Making Millions
Mobile blockchain game Guild of Guardians raises $5.3 million
Raised $18.8 million in total
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Apple Awards
League of Legends: Wild Rift voted Apple’s iPhone Game of the Year
Marvel Future Revolution wins iPad Game of the Year
There Was A Spark
Electric Manta partners with Sunday to create hypercasual games
Providing a one-stop-shop for casual, hybrid, and hyper games
Lowkey Hires
Niantic hires the majority of social platform Lowkey's staff
Hired the majority of the team
Create To Dominate
Sneaky Panda raises $6 million for novel 'luck-puzzler' mobile games
Debut title scheduled to release next year
Ad Asia
Adverty partners with Livewire to continue growth of in-game advertising across Asia Pacific
Brings Adverty's in-game ad inventory locally to Asia Pacific
Blockchain Branding
Gamevil rebrands as Com2uS Holdings to focus on blockchain and NFT projects
Solidifies shift towards play-to-earn games
Character Crossover
Plarium partners with Navi to bring S1mple to Raid: Shadow Legends
In-game event lasting two months
Beast Boosts Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars US downloads surge 350% following sponsorship of Mr Beast's Squid Game
Approximately 324 million lifetime downloads
In-game Commerce
Sayollo launches direct-to-consumer in-game marketplace gComm
Allows users to purchase products without leaving games
What Matches Match 3
Dream Games' Royal Match leads match-3 D30 retention at 16.5%
App Annie takes a deep dive into retention
Indie View
Hook Up: Exploring creativity through storytelling and dating
We talk to Sophie Artemigi from Team Hook Up
Innovative Tracks
20 tracks revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022
Get to know the innovative tracks featured at our upcoming February event! Learn everything from Blockchain Basics to Mapping the Metaverse
Sideswipe Soccer
Epic Games and Psyonix launch Rocket League Sideswipe worldwide
Soft launched in Oceania earlier this month with pre-season
Crossover Celebration
Free Fire crossover with Money Heist gets a second run
Includes new missions, themed items and social media engagement activities
Ad Analysis
37 second video ads are most effective for hypercasual games
So claims Liftoff Vungle
It Could Be You
Yodo1 mobile game competition: enter today and win up to $1000
Cash prizes and coaching on offer to winning developers in gameplay, game design, music and monetisation categories
Portfolio Expansion
Nexters launches casual title Island Questaway globally
Featuring a blend of farming a puzzle elements
Will It Fit?
Playstudios acquires exclusive rights to develop Tetris mobile games
Taking over from N3twork
Unite Highlight
Pokémon Unite wins best game at Google Play’s Best of 2021
Wild Rift, Overboard, and My Friend Pedro pick up two awards each
Lucky Ducky
Homa Games acquires Ducky Games
Acquisition will strengthen the publisher's position as a leader in idle arcade games
Roblox Red Carpet
Roblox brings The Fashion Awards experience to the metaverse
Features exclusive in-game items designed by Gucci
A Steel Defence
Superplus partners with Denuvo to protect against cheaters
Integrated in Hills of Steel 2
Winner Winner Worldwide
PUBG Mobile Global Championships begins November 30
$6 million prize pool up for grabs
In-game Insight
How in-game ads have taken APPS to the next level
In the first of a new Knowledge Base series, in partnership with Anzu, PocketGamer.biz explores how APPS implementation of in-game ads reimagined the studio's monetisation
A Taste Of Premium
PUBG Mobile partners with Google to give players 3 month YouTube Premium trial
Part of the 1.7 version update
Ads With Audio
AudioMob partners with AWS to create in-game audio ads
Advertisers can reach users through multiple demographics, including location and language
Indie View
Ablaze Interactive discuss solo development and blending genres
Guardians of Elderon placed second at The Big Indie Pitch
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New State Numbers
PUBG: New State made $2.6 million in its first week
Downloaded over 40 million times
Growing Globally
Tencent appoints Zoran Roso as marketing director of global publishing
Continuing its overseas expansion strategy
Shining Brilliantly
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are Japan’s second-best physical Switch launch
Switch sales almost doubled