40 Million Players
Black Desert franchise exceeds $2 billion revenue, Pearl Abyss expands Western presence
Amsterdam and Los Angeles growing
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Hot Five: Honor of Kings lawsuit, Jurassic World Alive generates $100 million and Take-Two takes home Nordeus
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Warzone Mobile?
Activision building internal mobile games studio for "triple-A experiences"
New studio is based in Santa Monica, California
Top Talent Networking
Connect with developers and publishers with the Publisher SpeedMatch at next month’s online conference - sign ups available now
Seek amazing talent and get your game to market with our curated meeting sessions at July’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Industry Veterans
Jagex goes on hiring spree with experience from PlayStation, Bethesda and Insomniac Games
"Each of these new hires brings a wealth of industry experience…"
Growing Space
Quicksave Interactive raises $1.3 million to scale its HTML5 games
Konvoy Ventures led the round
Take The Opportunity
iOS 14.5 is live: Are you ready?
Bidalgo's Alon Tvina explains what to do
Indie View
Big Indie Pitch Finalist Forgotten Machine discusses ideas, inspirations and creating Arenas of Ryst
Ali Husain placed third in the competition with Arenas of Ryst
Move Over, Glastonbury
Niantic confirms Pokémon GO Fest 2021 will be music-themed
Taking place on July 17th and July 18th
Pitch Your Game
Calling indie developers - pitch your games in the Big Indie Pitch at next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Showcase your games to a panel of our expert judges for feedback and the chance to win amazing prices - open to mobile, PC and console developers
527 Individual Deals
Game deals in 2021 have reached $49 billion in value so far
Drake Star Partners digs into the data
Poc In Mobile
"It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make meaningful change in this industry"
Zynga's Keisha Krainer on the issue of diversity
Data Is Power
Skillz acquires Aarki for $150 million
First move since joining the New York Stock Exchange
Early Bird Savings
Early Bird ends tonight: last chance to save more than $420 on next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
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Like Clockwork
Estonian developer Clickwork Games raises $1.2 million to "rejuvenate" idle genre
Headed up by former Hypestar games co-founder Marko Mänd
All That Potassium
Minion Rush races to one billion downloads and 90 trillion bananas collected
The runner was launched in June 2013
One-year Anniversary
Riot Games is bringing hero shooter Valorant to mobile
14 million active players
People Power
Has your game made the Pocket Gamer People's Choice Award 2021 finalists?
Get your players to vote for it until June 30th if so
Transfer Market
Take-Two scores Top Eleven developer Nordeus for $378 million
$225 million paid upfront
Expert Voices
See into the heart of Tencent, Ubisoft, Zynga, Miniclip and more at next month’s top B2B games industry conference - all online
The first set of speakers for next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7 event has been revealed, with the full lineup set to be a scorcher
Tel Aviv Hold’em
Comunix raises $30 million to scale video chat mobile game Pokerface
Series A was led by March Capital
425 Characters
Dark Horse Comics launches gaming division, Dark Horse Games
Hellboy, The Umbrella Academy, 300 and more
Discord+
Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision
Jussi Laakkonen is back
Honor At Stake
Tencent facing lawsuit over 'inappropriate content' in Honor of Kings
"The game characters have tampered with the image of historical figures…"
Indie Spotlight
From filing for bankruptcy to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game to the future of Mad About Pandas
"We never saw a penny from it..."
"nintendo Gallery"
Nintendo to convert Hanafuda card factory to museum in Japan
Uji Ogura Plant was built in 1969
Deal To Die For
Dead Cells mobile publisher Playdigious acquired by Fragbite Group
100 per cent of shares purchased
Broader Perspective
Master The Meta: Sony’s emerging ecosystem
How the PlayStation maker is building a formidable games business
Find Your Funding
Meet with the biggest games investors and secure your funding next month at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Get investor funding for your games studios to take your company to the very top with our next conference
Commanding
City battle strategy games are up 60% - $2.5 billion in Q1 2021
Crunching the data with App Annie
Creative Tension
Perfect game balance: The Thanos Fallacy
Glyn Fairweather discusses the value of imbalance
New Era
Outfit7 looks to grow 430 million MAU with new IP expansion
Mythic Legends and Swamp Attack 2 unveiled
Money Talk
What is CFO Resources?
How to better understand your game's finance
Good Works
SpecialEffect's One Special Day will return in October 2021
Building up for the big day
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Hot Five: Double Loop and Noice raise millions while Jetpack Joyride returns
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Work With Us
Jobs available! Come and work with the Pocket Gamer family
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Life Finds A Way
Jurassic World Alive roars to $100 million-plus revenue and 25 million downloads in three years
Over 300 million dinosaurs unlocked
Big Data
GameAnalytics launches new market intelligence platform GameIntel
Over 140,000 games leveraged for data
Sonic Rangers?
Sonic Central debuts Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Sonic 2022 and mobile partnerships
Sonic Dash, Sonic Forces and Sonic Racing all receive new content
Seeing Is Believing
Unreal Engine 5 is now in early access
Full launch in 2022
It's A Whopper
Ten Square Games' Q1 2021 revenue up 83% to $46 million
Fishing Clash continues to drive growth
It's Happening
Nintendo Switch Pro unveiling imminent
Reportedly launching in September or October
Sponsored
Admix In-Play: An interview with Paul West, VP partnerships at Admix
Bridging the gap between mobile games and advertising
Masterclass
Celia Hodent on the importance of cognitive science and a UX framework to improve your game
There is no guaranteed formula for crafting games but clear ingredients do exist
Krongregational
Double Loop raises $8 million for its first game for unconsidered gamers
Takes total funding to $10.5 million
Faster Faster
Applications now open for Carry1st and CrazyLabs' Cape Town-based hypercasual accelerator
First companies will start in September
Affordable Training
Last chance to save 50% off five essential MasterClass courses
Develop essential skills and discover new business practices from top games industry mentors
Jobs In Games
The intersection of psychology and games with PeopleFun director Matt Streit
"I think psychology gets misunderstood a lot"
Less Is Less
Undoing the duopoly in mobile game distribution
GameBake's Michael Hudson makes the case
Big Social Beasts
New social gaming platform Noice raises $5 million from Supercell, Unity and Remedy founders
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