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Indie Spotlight
Why Apple Arcade brought Spry Fox CEO David Edery back to mobile
"I'm glad Apple is making a major effort"
More Cash
Game Taco snaps up GSN Games' Worldwinner
Skill-based gaming consolidates
Out Of This World
May’s Beyond Games conference was epic, and there’s more to come…
Our debut event welcomed 700 industry professionals
What's Next?
New challenges ahead: The industry trends that will affect game developers most in 2021
Huawei’s Alexandre Salem, Global Head of Gaming Partnerships, explains
Out Swinging
The Game Band raises $3 million to launch Blaseball on mobile
Viral success gains momentum
Alliance
Kasedo Games acquires majority shareholding in Warhammer 40,000 developer Bulwark Studios
Exclusively working together going forward
Serious Stock
Devolver Digital gearing up for $1.4 billion IPO
Studio publishes Fall Guys, Reigns and Serious Sam
Growing
'Alive and well' Google Stadia breaks through three million app downloads
Big boost came in December 2020
Jobs In Games
Aspyr Media's Mallie Rust on the "happy accident" that lead to games
Marketing is a broad umbrella
New Vision
Reality Clash enables Admix's In-Play tech for advertising in AR
Mobile game demonstrates new monetisation
The Game Is Afoot
Qiiwi Games partners with All3Media for Midsomer Murders game
Now soft-launched in Canada, Netherlands and Sweden
Cross-promotion
Summoners War: Lost Centuria generates $4.4 million in first ten days
Com2uS' new launch takes off
Expanding
Madfinger Games raises $6 million from Nuverse
"We are thrilled to have Nuverse on board..."
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Another beat for Unity
Unity generated $235 million in Q1 2021
Return Of The King
ESA launches E3 2021 dedicated app for "first-ever virtual experience"
Exhibitor Booths, Lounges, Forums, Leaderboards and more
Quiz Questions
Pokémon, Call of Duty, PUBG and which other 2 IP-based games generated $1.4 billion in the US during 2020?
Pokémon GO earned close to $480 million
Mystery Box
Microsoft partners with Call of Duty: Mobile developer Timi Studios on mysterious project
Is another Xbox franchise mobile-bound?
Diy
Hiberworld crosses 1 million user created games
UGC platform growing fast
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga's Chartboost deal, winning Gree may lose, and Turkish game riding high in the US
Hottest articles of the week
Imagine A New Logo
Discord's new branding is friendlier than ever
Growing pains
Working Your Pitch
Mediatonic’s Arran Topalian on building a pitch from concept to doc
A great pitch provides the foundation needed for incredible things to be built upon it
Faster, Faster
Hypercasual downloads grew 20% in Q1 2021, with Simulation leading the charge
Crunching the data with App Annie
Poc In Mobile
Roblox's VP of engineering Julian Walshaw-Vaughan on diversity in games
For real change, we need more inclusion
New View
Rovio teams up with Burger King to offer Angry Birds plushies and AR game
Uses Zappar's tech
Another Add
Krafton snaps up mobile games studio Dreamotion
Building out the plan
Data-driven
Poornima Seetharaman and Vimal Sathish on mastering data for engaging game design
“Games, as a business of entertaining people, is booming... but so is the competition.”
Big Data Smarts
What is a data warehouse and why do hit studios use them?
GameAnalytics' Sara Rubio explains
Sweet Numbers
Animoca Brands raises $88,888,888 to fuel blockchain game growth
Values the company at $1 billion
Doubling Down
Nexon's 2021 Q1 revenue grows 7% to $806 million
Generating $420 million profit
Risky Business
Apple App Store rejected 1 million apps in 2020
The walled garden remains high
Tricky Times
EA's 2021 mobile revenue was $781 million
Total revenue rises to $5.6 billion
Streaming
Blacknut releases cloud gaming service for iOS
Progressive web app is live
Over 450 Staff
Jagex expands product, analytics and data science teams
"We are thrilled to be in a position where we can continue to expand..."
Driving Down Cpi
How Bridge Race reached #1 with Supersonic
Garawell Games' CEO Nebih Başaran explains
Not For Sale
Why Life is Strange dev Dontod rejected several M&A proposals
But did sell a minority stake to Tencent
Lobbying Time
10 days left to submit your game or team to the PG Mobile Games Awards 2021
Nominations close midnight Friday May 21st, people
Mansion Life
Word Mansion surpasses one million installs
Word puzzle game launched in September 2020
New Direction
Ubisoft to focus on triple-A free-to-play games going forward
"This is purely a financial communication evolution..."
Private Beta
Niantic renames Real World Platform to Lightship, offering more access
Access to suite of tools that power Niantic games
Dark Horse
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby storms mobile revenue chart for April 2021, Honor of Kings still top
CyberAgent developed title launched in February 2021
Making Of
How Gameloft looked to capture the spirit of the original Oregon Trail
"We had always envisioned this as an Apple Arcade exclusive"
Unforeseen Consequences
Why Gree may win the law but lose its Supercell patent war
Be careful what you wish for
Incoming
Case filed against Apple in the UK to compensate 20 million iOS users
Claims of monopolistic behaviour
More Data
Apptopia raises $20 million in Series C funding
Expanding tech for more nuaunced insights
Flying High
Top Roblox game Adopt Me devs launch as Uplift Games
Looking to expand headcount and launch new products
Blox Party
Roblox revenue up 140% to $387 million in Q1 2021
Looking to hire more engineering talent
Au Revoir
Simon Prytherch exits Kwalee to return to "deeper games"
But enjoyed his 18 months in hypercasual
Testing, Testing
Why top publishers rely on WeTest for QA services
Making sure everything works correctly
Full Vision
Supersonic launches new hypercasual analytics plaform LiveGames
Part of its new business-focused initiative