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2022 Launch
Green Grey invests $4 million into Developers Unknown's third-person shooter Mercs
"We are sure that the results will turn heads..."
A Very Royal Match
Dream Games valued at $1 billion after closing $155 million funding round
Ex-Peak team accelerate business
Climbing That Ladder
Fingersoft name Jaakko Kylmäoja as permanent CEO
"We want to remain the best place to work…"
Rabbids Galore
China approves 43 games including Black Desert Mobile, Sonic Olympics and Rabbids Adventure Party
Marvel Duel, Mario Rabbids, Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed and more
Strong Performance
Update: Konami is working with Tencent's TiMi Studios to bring Contra Returns to the West
Debuted in China in June 2017
Thumbs Up
Increasingly more mobile gamers 'like' than 'hate' rewarded video ads
Crunching the data with App Annie
Pgc Profile
EverdreamSoft CEO Shaban Shaame on the value of NFTs in games
The blockchain pioneer talks about the tribalism of technologies and his presentation on NFTs at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Soccer Star
How did Cristiano Ronaldo appear in Garena Free Fire?
Sportquake and Free Fire explain how they integrated the football icon into the mobile game's universe
Scoped Up
Scopely appoints former Activision Blizzard president Coddy Johnson to board of directors
Morgan Stanley executive Marcie Vu joins board too
Lights Camera
Update: Despicable Me producer Chris Meledandri joins Nintendo as outside director
First western director
Launch Better
Miraculous RP: Quests of Ladybug and Cat Noir hits one million players on Roblox
Zag's IP expands and finds more fans
Event
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Still Growing
Mobile games revenue rises by 18% to $44.7 billion in first half of 2021
$26 billion from the App Store alone
New Datacenters
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on iOS devices
"Today marks a key milestone in our journey…"
The Gang's All Here
Kongregate and Nickelodeon soft launch SpongeBob’s Idle Adventures
"We're very excited to be working in partnership with Nickelodeon once again…"
Pgc Profile
Bytro's David Westerman Talks TikTok
Everything you ever wanted to know about marketing on TikTok but didn't know to ask
End-to-end Ua
BidShake optimises ad creative management
Creative Manager promises seamless cross-channel creative management and reporting
Boom Times
Indian esports app Loco raises $9 million via seed round
Krafton leads the investment
Tune In
Introducing the all-new PocketGamer.biz Podcast
Welcome to episode one of the brand new PocketGamer.biz audio podcast with special guest Pollen VC founder and CEO Martin Macmillan
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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
580,000 Nfts Sold
Marvel partners with mobile collectables app VeVe for NFTs
Superheroes are inbound with added AR
Culture Counts
Fairytale in Montreal - Bingo Story developer going for growth
Clipwire CEO Ritesh Khanna tells PocketGamer about building a new studio in Canada's creative capital
Open Windows
Windows 11 to support Android apps via Amazon Appstore
Tech uses Intel Bridge
Event
The unmissable sessions you need to see at next month's PG Connects Digital #7
Our pick of the 250 plus speakers across 24 tracks, July 12th to 16th
Live And Kicking
How Nexon adapted KartRider Rush Plus for mobile
23 million players and counting
Asia B2b
PlayX4 Online emerges as alternative event for global business
South Korea's leading business-to-business games event found success with its first online only conference
Jackpot
Azerion acquires social casino developer Whow Games
"We will take our game distribution platform to the next level"
Pandemic Push
Continuing COVID-19 boom predicted to boost mobile gaming to $120 billion in 2021
Crunching the data with App Annie
Grass Tacks
Golf Clash scores $780 million in lifetime revenue, tops US player spending
$185 million in 2020 alone
Rub Of The Green
EA acquires Golf Clash developer Playdemic for $1.4 billion
Warner Bros. agrees to part with UK-based studio
Back From Bird Heaven
Rovio looking to reintroduce classic Angry Birds games to storefronts
"We will find a way to bring these classic experiences…"
Shake Your Moneymakers
Introducing MoneyMaker, an exciting new fringe event for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Pairing developers and publishers with monetisation companies
Big The Cat Missing
Mojang and Sega partner to bring Sonic the Hedgehog to Minecraft
Two-week Sonic-themed event
Booming Event
Full schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7, running 12th to 16th July
24 conference tracks feat 250+ speakers from the likes of King, Rovio, Supercell...
Boom Boom
BoomHits announces world's biggest hypercasual competition with $2 million prize fund
BoomHits CEO Jon Hook talks about the label's plans to disrupt the hypercasual market
Smarter
DeepMind's AI now being tested on Android version of The Battle of Polytopia
Part of the AndroidEnv release
Indie View
How Compiled World's Anton Kasabutski built Nimble Dash after work
Nimble Dash placed second at The Big Indie Pitch
Authenticity Is All
Games as a luxury product: the opportunity for brands
Brotherhood of Brand's Lucy Rissik on the growing opportunities for brands in games
Slam Dunk
AdVenture Capitalist co-creator Tristan Rattink joins blockchain outfit Dapper Labs
Becomes GM of NBA Top Shot
Making Of
How Huntdown looks to embody the best parts of 80s arcade shooters
"We're convinced these types of games don’t age..."
Get Moving
Pokémon GO starts to reset for a post-lockdown world
Changing coming to US and New Zealand in July
Gear Up
Looking for your mobile games studio to be acquired? Here's what recent M&A data is telling founders
Pollen VC's Martin Macmillan highlights the trend
Ua Ok Hun?
User acquisition masterclass for app marketers on July 1st
Learn the trade secrets of successful mobile marketing from experts including Bango, Appvertiser, Adikteev and Uptime
Winners Take All
Top 100 mobile games accounted for 54% of global revenues in 2020
Percentage is even higher in the US
Mass Marketing
InMobi's Saurav Dutta on rethinking in-game advertising
The ongoing evolution of in-game ads
Six Year Deal
Rovio gains exclusive rights for Moomin mobile games
Also invests in Gutsy Animations
Flying Solo
How Portal, Little Nightmares and Limbo inspired Nakul Verma
The Playbae founder won The Big Indie Pitch with In My Shadow
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