Play Time
One year on, games industry recommits to #PlayApartTogether
Zynga is one of many partners
Welcome To The Family
Creative Solutions snaps up streaming tech specialist Lightstream
For an undisclosed amount
Final Schedule
The final conference schedule for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 has been locked in!
Get ready to meet, learn and connect with the games industry as our sixth online conference goes live next week. Find out what’s happening!
Start Up
Oliver twins team with Neil Campbell to form Panivox
Working on undisclosed digital media
Surprise
Siri says an Apple event is taking place on 20 April
Believed to be a pre-recorded online only event
Jobs In Games
Self-taught dev Mikael Forslind on life as Elden Pixels CEO
Absolute freedom vs absolute horror!
Going Public
AppLovin files for IPO at a $30 billion valuation
Taising $2.1 billion
Switched On
Nintendo to focus on creating new IPs and new experiences
President Furukawa on the future
Pgc Digital
Be in the know with CFO 101 at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Speaker Spotlight
Call of Duty: Mobile's Antanina Livingston on live ops' growing sophistication
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
Careers
How to get a job in the games industry
What can you do to kickstart your career, whether you want to become a games artist, programmer or project manager?
Mobile Madness
PlayStation hiring for new Head of Mobile
To adapt PlayStation IPs to mobile
Milestone
After 500 million hypercasual downloads in China, Ohayoo looks to go global
Looking to expand to the global market
Super Strategy
Master the Meta: Understanding Supercell’s new games and evolving strategy
"We’ll expand the Clash universe in ways you’ve never seen before"
What A Clash
Join Clash 3D remains the most downloaded mobile game
Followed by Crash Bandicoot: On The Run
New Territory
Wargaming expects to hire +100 in new Lithuanian studio
The team will be part of development studio MS-1
Listen Good
IDFA revenue losses causing you stress? Context and audio are the answer
AudioMob CEO Christian Facey explains
Most Read
Hot Five: Supercell, PES 2021 Mobile, Clash Quest, more Supercell and Puzzle Combat
Hottest articles of the week
Pgc Digital
Be in the know with The Developer Toolkit at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Fringe Events
The deadline for fringe event registration at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 is fast approaching - sign up now!
Registration for Investor Connector, Big Indie Pitch, Publisher SpeedMatch, Games Jobs Live and IGDA Mentor Café closing soon - sign up now!
Welcome To New Gateway
Rovio soft-launches new narrative puzzle game Supernatural City
Available across US, Canada, Finland, Sweden and more
Welcome Aboard
Morgan McGuire joins Roblox as chief scientist
Previously worked for Nvidia
Proving Popular
PUBG: New State exceeds 10 million pre-registrations on Google Play
The game will launch later in 2021
Card Play
Konami launches open beta for new soccer game Pitch Clash until 20 April
A card-based strategy game
Speaker Spotlight
Covid is driving a shift in recruiting says ggLocators Niccole Minka
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
Dot Dot Dot
Tripledot Studios closes $78 million in Series A funding
Takes total raised to $86 million
Poc In Mobile
"Visibility means promoting more developers of colour to leadership positions"
Wimo Games' Walter Hill on the challenges of POC
Bandicoot Bonanza
Update: Crash Bandicoot: On the Run sprints to nearly 33 million global downloads
29.5 million installs since official launch day
That's Crazy
CrazyLabs exceeds 4 billion downloads
Launches its fifth CrazyHub in Warsaw
Be Safe
Twitch could suspend or delete accounts for actions outside of Twitch
To keep the platform safe and inclusive
War Good For?
Garena Free Fire does $100 million in US in Q1 2021
Growing faster
Pgc Digital
Dive into hypercasual and social games at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Hot Topic Discussion
Debate what's next with experts during May's Beyond Games conference
Explore how games intersects with other creative industries
Smarter Moves
With Clash expansions, Supercell is rewriting the mobile game playbook - again
Making sense of changing circumstances
New Tricks
Mastering Monetization: Using Facebook solutions to build resilience and sustainable growth
An industry conversation with Facebook Audience Network - 22 April at 2pm BST
Lotta Loot
UK charity GambleAware claims loot boxes "akin to gambling"
Causation or correlation?
Making Of
Why Small Giant followed up its $1 billion hit Empires & Puzzles with Puzzle Combat
CEO Jose Saarniniem explains
Getting Competitive
Apple insists it faces fair competition in Fortnite row with Epic
The companies are due in court next month
Speaker Spotlight
Fingersoft's Markus Vahtola on what it means to run a games company
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
King Of The Hill
Honor of Kings top-grossing mobile title in March 2021 generating $257 million
Followed by PUBG Mobile and Genshin Impact
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Walking Dead
PUBG Mobile studio working on cross-platform zombie survival game Undawn
Coming to mobile and PC later this year
Game On
Mobile games platform Struckd surpasses one million games
With more than six million players
A Lot Of Loot
Brazil considers whether to make loot boxes illegal
Could define them as gambling
Pgc Digital
Discover Incredible Indies at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Speaker Spotlight
NumberEight's Abhishek Sen on the value of "untapped first-party data" in the post-IDFA era
PGC Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
Smarter Thinking
How AI is disrupting the game creation process
Learn more from this video roundtable
It's A Goal
Konami's eFootball PES 2021 Mobile scores 400 million downloads
Celebrating with a Lionel Messi interview
Going Digital
E3 returns with an all-digital format for 12-15 June 2021
Takes place in June
Clash(ic)
Supercell soft-launches Clash Quest in Scandinavia
First of three Clash spinoff games in development