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Bytro's David Westerman Talks TikTok
Everything you ever wanted to know about marketing on TikTok but didn't know to ask
End-to-end Ua
BidShake optimises ad creative management
Creative Manager promises seamless cross-channel creative management and reporting
Boom Times
Indian esports app Loco raises $9 million via seed round
Krafton leads the investment
Tune In
Introducing the all-new PocketGamer.biz Podcast
Welcome to episode one of the brand new PocketGamer.biz audio podcast with special guest Pollen VC founder and CEO Martin Macmillan
Most Read
Hot Five: EA buys Playdemic, Rovio gains exclusive rights to Moomin and BoomHits $2 million hypercasual competition
The hottest articles of last week
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Facebook's Michael Bertaut talks the future of app monetisation
PocketGamer.biz profiles Facebook Audience Network's EMEA regional director as a speaker at PocketGamer Connects
580,000 Nfts Sold
Marvel partners with mobile collectables app VeVe for NFTs
Superheroes are inbound with added AR
Culture Counts
Fairytale in Montreal - Bingo Story developer going for growth
Clipwire CEO Ritesh Khanna tells PocketGamer about building a new studio in Canada's creative capital
Open Windows
Windows 11 to support Android apps via Amazon Appstore
Tech uses Intel Bridge
Event
The unmissable sessions you need to see at next month's PG Connects Digital #7
Our pick of the 250 plus speakers across 24 tracks, July 12th to 16th
Live And Kicking
How Nexon adapted KartRider Rush Plus for mobile
23 million players and counting
Asia B2b
PlayX4 Online emerges as alternative event for global business
South Korea's leading business-to-business games event found success with its first online only conference
Jackpot
Azerion acquires social casino developer Whow Games
"We will take our game distribution platform to the next level"
Pandemic Push
Continuing COVID-19 boom predicted to boost mobile gaming to $120 billion in 2021
Crunching the data with App Annie
Grass Tacks
Golf Clash scores $780 million in lifetime revenue, tops US player spending
$185 million in 2020 alone
Rub Of The Green
EA acquires Golf Clash developer Playdemic for $1.4 billion
Warner Bros. agrees to part with UK-based studio
Back From Bird Heaven
Rovio looking to reintroduce classic Angry Birds games to storefronts
"We will find a way to bring these classic experiences…"
Shake Your Moneymakers
Introducing MoneyMaker, an exciting new fringe event for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Pairing developers and publishers with monetisation companies
Big The Cat Missing
Mojang and Sega partner to bring Sonic the Hedgehog to Minecraft
Two-week Sonic-themed event
Booming Event
Full schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7, running 12th to 16th July
24 conference tracks feat 250+ speakers from the likes of King, Rovio, Supercell...
Boom Boom
BoomHits announces world's biggest hypercasual competition with $2 million prize fund
BoomHits CEO Jon Hook talks about the label's plans to disrupt the hypercasual market
Smarter
DeepMind's AI now being tested on Android version of The Battle of Polytopia
Part of the AndroidEnv release
Indie View
How Compiled World's Anton Kasabutski built Nimble Dash after work
Nimble Dash placed second at The Big Indie Pitch
Authenticity Is All
Games as a luxury product: the opportunity for brands
Brotherhood of Brand's Lucy Rissik on the growing opportunities for brands in games
Slam Dunk
AdVenture Capitalist co-creator Tristan Rattink joins blockchain outfit Dapper Labs
Becomes GM of NBA Top Shot
Making Of
How Huntdown looks to embody the best parts of 80s arcade shooters
"We're convinced these types of games don’t age..."
Get Moving
Pokémon GO starts to reset for a post-lockdown world
Changing coming to US and New Zealand in July
Gear Up
Looking for your mobile games studio to be acquired? Here's what recent M&A data is telling founders
Pollen VC's Martin Macmillan highlights the trend
Ua Ok Hun?
User acquisition masterclass for app marketers on July 1st
Learn the trade secrets of successful mobile marketing from experts including Bango, Appvertiser, Adikteev and Uptime
Winners Take All
Top 100 mobile games accounted for 54% of global revenues in 2020
Percentage is even higher in the US
Mass Marketing
InMobi's Saurav Dutta on rethinking in-game advertising
The ongoing evolution of in-game ads
Six Year Deal
Rovio gains exclusive rights for Moomin mobile games
Also invests in Gutsy Animations
Flying Solo
How Portal, Little Nightmares and Limbo inspired Nakul Verma
The Playbae founder won The Big Indie Pitch with In My Shadow
Most Read
Hot Five: Krafton's $5 billion IPO, KPIs for hypercasual success and Batman goes AR
The hottest articles of last week
Fast Forward
Pollen VC now allows devs to borrow four times their game's monthly revenue
Lending outfit has refined its revenue model
Geopolitical Games
Geogrify's Kate Edwards on power of game culturalisation
"Games are the current evolution of human narrative"
Event Latest
Games Gathering 2021 Odessa takes place on June 30th to July 4th
The next Games Gathering takes place both online and in-person in Odessa
More Than Silver Linings
The importance of storytelling with Silver Lining Studio
"Stories are the heart of our games"
In-play Ad Opportunities
Explore the opportunities of in-play advertising with PGbiz RoundTable on 29 June
Discover how to monetise your game without disrupting player experience
Expansion
Nazara buys a majority stake in MENA publisher Publishme
Spends $3 million for a 70% stake
Granular Games
GameIntel offers new insight into the global games market
Search across hundreds of thousands of games tagged with new contextual metadata
Everywhere
RuneScape goes cross-platform with mobile release
Hit 1.8 million pre-registrations
Just For You
Moloco launches its personalised ad creative solution Dynamic Creative
Optimisation at scale
Last Chance To Save
Prices go up at midnight - last chance to save $196 on July's top B2B games industry conference
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7’s mid-term discounts end at midnight tonight
Bandai Namco Barcelona
Building Better: Bandai Namco Mobile's new approach to development
Chief publishing officer Massimo Caporale discusses building its new Barcelona studio in the midst of a pandemic
Indie View
Gamedia founder Dittmar Tukker discusses Big Indie Pitch finalist HIX
Gamedia HIX placed third at The Big Indie Pitch
Good To Go
What are the key KPIs for a successful hypercasual game?
Ducky’s CEO Ivan Fedyanin runs some numbers
Bountiful
Nintendo debuts new Metroid, WarioWare and Breath of the Wild 2 release date
Advance Wars, Mario Party Superstars, Smash Bros. and more
Audio Opportunities
Make more money from your game with audio ads - watch our free video session here now
Our latest official RoundTable is available free to watch now
Gearing Up
Yield Guild raises $4 million to expand its mobile-focused blockchain gaming model
Bitkraft led the Series A