Networking Heads
Here’s who you could meet at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
From talented indie studios to top investors, publishers and platform holders
Better Games
Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event runs 20-21 April
Learn to make better games
Speaker Spotlight
Snap Finger Click's Joanna Haslam on how Covid is changing social gaming
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
On The Horizon
Epic teams with Sony to bring Aloy to Fortnite
Deepening ties
Welcome To The Family
ByteDance snaps up Chinese developer C4games
Via subsidiary Nuverse
Up Close And Persona
Perfect World is bringing Persona to mobile
Confirmed for release in China
Indie Spotlight
How Studio Fizbin's Say No! More digs into our 'absurd, rotting relationship with work'
Studio Fizbin on coming back from the brink
New Thinking
AI and the future of gaming
How games are becoming clever
Pick Me Up
Testing platform PickFu launches PickFu for Games
Allowing developers to conduct consumer research
Goty Time
Nominate the best mobile game of 2020
Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards - now open
Idfa Reboot
Swaarm launches its Privacy Enabled Attribution Chain for fixing UA
Attribution throughout the chain with privacy
Back You Up
LEGO Ventures invests in learning platform Area9 Lyceum
Shared ideals
That's Epic
Epic raises $1 billion at a $29 billion valuation
To fuel its vision for the metaverse
Pgc Digital
Get competitive with the esports and influencers track at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Speaker Spotlight
How Kuato Studios' Gordon Ross support children's learning
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 kicks off on April 19th
Give More To Get More
Adjoe Advance: The smartest UA channel for hypercasual games you never heard of
How to get ahead
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