Fertile Battlegrounds
Krafton: PUBG Mobile accounted for 75% revenue in Q1 2022
Of record-high $405.7 million revenue for the period, mobile title recorded $307.1 million alone
Crypto Curves
Axie Infinity’s utility currency devalued to $0.004
Value has fluctuated since reaching $0.004 on May 12
Very Big Indie Pitch
Shift Shaft awarded first place at The Big Indie Pitch after offering a new spin on a classic genre
Winners breakdown
Eyes On Netflix
For tech giants, all roads lead to mobile gaming
GameBake's Michael Hudson looks at Netflix's nascent steps into mobile gaming and sees the future reflected in his eyes
Growing In Germany
exmox acquires Testerheld to develop new portfolio features and content
Developing platforms and generating new features
King Moves
King’s Diversity Space Tool to be utilised across Activision Blizzard by Q3 2022
Tool to prevent unconscious bias in game character roster will now be used in Call of Duty and Overwatch 2 teams
Rolling In Revenue
Apple made more games revenue than Google in 2020 and 2021, Newzoo finds
Top 10 companies saw conbined revenue totalling $126 billion last year
Football And Fighting
Nexon predicts doubling of mobile revenue following Q1 2022 financials
Record year for FIFA ONLINE 4 M and launch of Dungeon&Fighter Mobile bolster Nexon's mobile confidence
Infinite Appointments
Infinite Arcade appoints former Visa exec Andrew Dubatowka
Dubatowka held senior positions in Intel, Google, Visa, and AdColony among others
Ua Eye
How important is the jelly mechanic in your ad campaigns?
Rovio’s Claire Rozain casts a meticulous lens over Rivergame’s user acquisition strategies, and breakdowns the key points in her new weekly column, UA Eye
Prepare For Launch
Jeremy Bondy named new CEO of Liftoff
Bondy will succeed founder Mark Ellis, who will remain as senior advisor
Frvr Pitch
FRVR acquires F2P first-person shooter Krunker.io
Title acquired for an undisclosed amount
Live On Tv
Exclusive industry interviews from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022
Hear from the industry leaders, professionals, and pioneers across the global mobile games market about the latest trends, case studies, best practice, and business opportunities
Rocky Roblox Report
Roblox sees 54.1 million DAUs, despite sharp declines in engagement
Per daily average user, average bookings were at $11.67 in Q1
Gimme That
Despite record Q1 2022 for declared M&A, value of closed deals decreased
23 per cent decrease in closed deals over 2021, although significant spike throughout rest of 2022 anticipated should MS/Acti, Take-Two/Zynga, and Sony/Bungie deals complete
Revenue Report
Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022
Sensor Tower's State of Mobile Gaming 2022 report shows revenue and install variation by country
Ubisoft Alone
Ubisoft to bet on mobile, F2P as annual sales fall
CEO Yves Guillemot moves to quash acquisition rumours in investors call
Join Us In Toronto
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Take Me On A Journey
Rovio targeting one major, Angry Birds Journey-scale, release annually
Alex Pelletier-Normand and René Lindell, CEO and CFO of Rovio respectively, open the Rovio capital markets day 2022 with a profile of Rovio’s growth opportunities
Supporting Indigenous Storytelling
East Side Games joins programme for Canadian Indigenous games scholarship
Blackbird Interactive, East Side Games, and Timbre Games Studio will partner with the Vancouver Film School on bringing Indigenous voices to the games industry
Thank You For Attending
PG Connects Seattle was our biggest North American show yet – here’s what you missed!
Our first hybrid U.S. show welcomed 950 delegates from over 50 countries with 70% of attendees representing the U.S. and Canada
Progressive Play
Building an LGBTQ team requires "an environment where everyone feels comfortable being and expressing themselves"
Anarch Entertainment's Ken Tang details how creating an open and accepting space led to the creation of an all-LGBTQ dev team
Likely More Than 5v5 Lawyers
Riot Games sues Moonton over sustained Wift Rift copyright infringement
Riot Games is again suing Shanghai Moonton Technology Company (Moonton), but this time is alleging infringement on its mobile MOBA, Wild Rift
Fi-fuh?
Electronic Arts sees 82% increase in mobile revenue in fiscal year 2022
FIFA Mobile sees 80% growth in new players, as EA ends partnership with the football association
Dolla Dolla Bills
Monetising music games is an uphill battle. Here are Beatstar's strategies
Space Ape Games' Simon Hade and Charmie Kim discuss the importance of ad monetisation and Beatstar's take on the battle pass
Where Is The Money
Call of Duty Mobile’s $1 billion consumer spend attributed to China despite highest spend in US
Activision Blizzard states 650 million downloads for mobile title now rivals console/PC player bases
Monetiser Summit
The new wilderness of mobile game monetisation
AdInMo’s Chris Wright shares his insight from the Pocket Gamer Monetiser Summit, including his excitement at the seismic disruption the ad industry is experiencing
Running Up That Hill
Fingersoft brings Hill Climb Racing 2 to cloud gaming
Sequel to Finnish studio’s most popular title now playable on Facebook Gaming
Meta Collections
Facebook and Instagram to start NFT integration
Meta and Etherium, Solana, Polygon, and Flow networks partner to build NFT platform
App-ocalypse Now?
How to survive a user acquisition nightmare
The App-ocalypse is here. Here's a handy guide on how to survive the chaos of audience targeting
Revenue Results
Higher revenue and lower costs for Zynga in Q1 2022
$691 million revenue marks a 2% increase over Q1 2021
Designer Acquisition
Mobile game marketers can use game design to build better UA campaigns
Liftoff's Dennis Mink wants mobile game marketers to take inspiration from a source close to home: game design itself
Joining And Growing
Blackstone hires former Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg
Focusing on Blackstone Growth
Indie View
Hurley Games discuss offering something new to the word-based game genre
We talk to Hurley Games' Jack Hurley about The Big Indie Pitch
One Game To Rule Them All
EA partners with Middle-earth Enterprises on new Lord of the Rings mobile game
Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth is latest title in EA’s push to expand mobile portfolio
Tools And Tokens
Has Ready Games done the impossible: brought NFT gaming to iOS and Android?
Developer tools to convert mobile Web 2.0 games into Web3 games and meet the store rules of Google and Apple
Liverpool Launch
Tencent Games’ new UK studio is based in Liverpool
Supporting development of titles for partner studios
Speaker Spotlight
$15 billion is spent on UA, only for 90% of players to fall off by day 30, says Snapyr's Manu Gambhir
Meet the mobile games and Web3 experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle right now
Most Read
Hot Five: Tilting Point bullish on blockchain, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, and Zynga’s Bernard Kim to join Match Group
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Download Deluge
Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs
The sole European member of the top six
It’s Go Time
It’s now or never – Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle is kicking off today, and you can still join us digitally
There’s still time to join us at the most highly anticipated b2b mobile games industry conference of the summer!
Speaker Spotlight
Play-to-earn is key, but security issues must be dealt with now, says Edgegap's Jeff Tremblay
Meet the mobile games and Web3 experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle, May 9-10
Meet Our Sponsors
Pocket Gamer Seattle kicks off this Monday – there is still time to get involved!
A massive thank you to our sponsors and partners that make Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle possible!
Speaker Spotlight
With the crumbling of the walled gardens, now is the time to market directly to players, says Xsolla
Meet the mobile games and Web3 experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle, May 9-10
No Change In Nxc Leadership
Correction: no change in CEO responsibilities for Nexon or NXC
No change in CEO responsibilities for Nexon or NXC
Let's Jam
The new HomaJam offers participants a 50/50 publishing revenue share
Homa Games announces the 5th edition of the games jam together with Google to continue on the mission of educating & supporting the developer community.
Upstream
Upstream: the mobile games streaming and esports digest – May 6 2022
PocketGamer.biz and Stream Hatchet break down the monthly stats on mobile games making waves on streaming platforms and esports events
Industry Insight
Newzoo: a "breakthrough" in mobile game reach as revenue to surpass $100 billion in 2022
Latin America and Southeast Asia could be biggest contributors to mobile growth
The Gamekit Cometh
AWS Gamekit support is coming to Android and iOS games developed with Unreal
Features include cloud saves and achievements
Cloud Nine
Fortnite returns to iOS and Android through Microsoft Game Pass
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney continues his broadside against Apple as the battle royale returns to mobile, playable through browser