Teaching
YoYo Games launches game-making tutorial Little Town for students
A new way to learn Game Maker Studio 2
Beyond Games
Roblox: In the metaverse, we can improve on reality
Roblox's Morgan Tucker on that Lil Nas X concert
Small Gains
Why Zynga’s Chartboost acquisition is more strategic than reactive
COO Matt Bromberg explains
Epic V Apple
Master the Meta: Fortnite’s cross-platform strategy
Fortnite’s multi-platform presence revealed as the full legal drama unfolds
Voluntary Organisation
UK video games charity GamesAid raises $85,000
Multiple small charities to benefit
Delight
Turkish-developed mobile games accounted for 20% of US top 100
10th largest country for angel and VC investments
"financial Stability"
Nintendo willing to utilise $9 billion war chest for acquisitions - when needed
Next Level Games purchase was first in a decade
Staffing Up
Outright Games announces mobile division
Six new senior roles for fast-growing company
New Ways
Building a (new) company culture
Charting our path to the City of Amber
Boom Times
BoomBit Group tripled revenues to $35.7 million in 2020
Net proft rose to $3.7 million
Most Read
Hot Five: Finnish boom as Metacore gets $180 million and Small Giant $240 million
Hottest articles of the week
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The Big 5
Voodoo crossed five billion downloads
Hypercasual keeps on growing
Big Brain Time
BigBrain raises $4.5 million in funding to launch real-money trivia game
Going live later in 2021
Upside
Fyber's 2020 revenue soars 76% to $255 million
And continues to grow during Q1 2021
Watching
Twitch mobile app hits 22 million installs in Q1 2021, up 62%
81 million total installs made in 2021
Division Multiplied
Tom Clancy's The Division coming to mobile
New free-to-play title and movie still in works
Ugc’s Importance
Mod.io’s Scott Reismanis on the importance of UGC communities
“UGC will become a feature studios optimise and plan for early, as monetisation further shifts towards content and events”
Got Your Number
China announces a new playtime logging system for all gamers
CCP tightening the screws
A Metaverse For All
Genvid’s Dan Pearson on ensuring the world has access to the metaverse
“We connect people and give them valuable cultural experiences”
Bigger Cash
Zynga pays Small Giant $240 million in second performance earn-out
And one more payment is due
History And Development
Prof. Kawal Rhode on the link between home computing and video games
The development of video games and video game technology has had a huge impact on the development of healthcare technology.
All About Context
Data: Why mobile and console players like loot boxes but PC gamers don't
PickFu co-founder John Li asks the questions
New Blood
Ace Games raises $7 million in seed funding
Ex-Peak co-founder starts again
Testing Times
Post-Covid, Newzoo expects games market to decline (slightly) in 2021
But mobile will rise to $90 billion
One Game One Country
Krafton announces Battlegrounds Mobile India
New version following original's ban
Mobile First
Mobile to drive Brazil games market to $2.3 billion in 2021
Largest market by games revenue in Latin America
Done Deal
Why Ninja Kiwi co-founders Chris and Stephen Harris felt now was the right time to sell
"They understood our vision for the company"
Expand The Pool
Using player motivations for user acquisition
Facebook explains its Big Catch playbook
New Worlds
Epic Games' Paul Doyle on populating the Metaverse with digital humans
Why ML-driven approaches to artist augmentation are taking off
Exit Strategy
Stadia sees talent exodus as multiple executives join Jade Raymond's Haven
Jumping ship
Make It So
So Real Digital Twins' Erinrose Sullivan on the future of interactive media
"When I work in other sectors, I'm surprised by how behind they are technically..."
Watch Out Wii
As Switch nears 85 million units sold, Nintendo FY21 revenue grows 37% to $16 billion
Set to overtake Wii in next financial year
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Big Deal
Zynga acquires adtech outfit Chartboost for $250 million in cash
Vertical consolidation happening
More Jobs
Kwalee plans to invest $30 million into India over the next five years
Hypercasual co continues to grow
Upsell
Skillz's Q1 FY21 revenues jumps 92% to $84 million
Raises full year guidance
Zeitgeist Fusion
Ensuring the inclusion of people with disability in gaming and esports, with Big Karma's Pascal Clarysse
"We want to give them a platform through which they can shine for their merits rather than condescending pedestals."
Ua Expansion
Supercell lends Metacore $180 million to scale Merge Mansion
Mobile puzzle game aiming for the big league
Just Do It
Building the user-generated metaverse - Wormhole Labs' Phil Ranta on COVID's silver lining
"Gaming has shown itself to be a powerful tool for building social connections when forced to shelter in place."
Growth Spurt
‘Smart growing’ – Ten Square Games’ secret sauce
CGO Anna Idzikowska explains
Xr Ftw!
XR Games' Bobby Thandi on the social impact of VR during social distancing
"Think about what extra value you can offer to a games studio."
More Cinematic
League of Legends animated series Arcane streaming on Netflix this fall
Prepare for a visually spectacular thrill ride
Creative Companies
SYBO CEO Mathias Gredal Nørvig on why the games industry is 'the best place to be'
"Practice makes perfect"
Not Idling
East Side Games partners with Game Masons to make sports-themed idle game
Expected to launch sometime in 2022
Big Bangs
Call of Duty: Mobile hits 500 million downloads, over a $1 billion revenue
Milestone hit in 19 months
The Future Of Xr
There's still work to do to ensure diversity extends beyond race and gender
"The industry needs people from all walks of life to provide perspective to make better games and apply game design theories and psychology to other fields."
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Shooting Up
Activision Blizzard's Q1 FY21 sales up 27% to $2.3 billion
King's revenue up 22 per cent YoY
Masterclass
Pascal Luban on upcoming PocketGamer.biz MasterClass: Setting Up and Managing Your In-house Playtest Campaign
“Nothing beats the responsiveness and relevance of playtest sessions run within the development studio”