Winning Combinations
Very accessible, highly competitive: the top grossing Bingo games
Crunching the data with App Annie
Making Of
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure's journey to plant one million trees around the world
"We’ve already planted over 450,000 trees so we’re almost halfway there!"
Welcome Aboard
Room 8 hires Eric Williams as senior director of business development
"Eric Williams shares the team’s values to the fullest"
Your Next Event
Mark it in your calendars! Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 goes live on April 19-23
Make new connections and learn from the games industry’s top experts as the biggest mobile games B2B conference returns online this Spring!
Pgc Digital
2021 off to a flying start with last week's Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5
Connecting the global games industry to network, do business and learn from experts
On The Hunt
Zynga set to enter console market with Star Wars: Hunters
The FarmVille maker appeared during last night's Nintendo Direct
Switch Direct
Skyward Sword, Splatoon 3, Mario Golf and more coming to Nintendo Switch
Announced as part of the latest Nintendo Direct
Money Bags
Netmarble saw substantial growth in 2020
It generated $2.25 billion in FY2020
Webinar
Webinar: Join Tenjin, Gamejam and Mintegral as we look forward to mobile in 2021
The webinar kicks off on February 18th at 6pm GMT
Keep Watching
Twitch and Facebook Gaming break viewership records
More than two billion hours were viewed on Twitch in January
Top Of The World
Honor of Kings reigns as top-grossing mobile title in January 2021
Followed by PUBG Mobile
This Instant
Artie secures $10 million in seed funding to make instant games
It will eliminate the need for additional app downloads
The Epic Continues
Epic takes case against Apple to EU antitrust regulators
The company wants to "restore competition on iOS"
Let's Get Creative
IGDA teams up with Grant for the Web to create the Diverse Game Developers Fund
$300,000 will go towards aiding with prototypes, scholarships and game jams
Book Your Place
Develop your existing skills and learn new ones with the next series of PocketGamer.Biz MasterClasses
Access essential insight from the finest games industry mentors with these deep-dive workshops
Cold Feet
Microsoft acquiring Bethesda gave Google cold feet about Stadia games business
Search giant talked up how well everything was going just five days before announcing it was closing its first-party studios
Cloud Nine
Gamestream partners with Telekom Slovenije and Bouygues Telecom
"The Gamestream telecommunications partnership network continues to expand at a rapid rate across the globe"
Indie Spotlight
BeautiFun Games studio head Aniol Alcaraz and the adventure of Professor Lupo: Ocean
"It’s difficult for indies to survive nowadays"
Dream Team
AdInMo partners with digital out of home network Lemma Technologies
"Our partnership with AdInMo is an attempt to offer advertisers easy access to multi-screen audiences across DOOH as well as the mobile ad realm"
Dream Team
Newzoo forms partnership with Apptopia
"Together, we aim to create unique and valuable insights into the world of mobile games and beyond"
Trainers Unite
Pokémon Unite regional beta set to launch in Canada
Players must be over the age of 16 and can only be accessed on Android devices
Welcome Aboard
Admix makes two additions to its global leadership team
"Rob Norman and Nigel Morris foresaw the dramatic shifts to digital and social, long before others in the industry were ready"
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Why Electronic Arts is acquiring Glu Mobile
The MTM team explains EA's decision to snap up Glu for an eye-watering $2.1B
Top Dog
Kwalee is top British mobile games publisher by downloads
"Our outlook is truly global, and we strive daily to reach hundreds of millions of players around the world"
Remote Relationships
Virtual but not distant: Building strong relationships remotely
Square Enix Montréal producer Derrick Aynaga shares his top tips for remote management
The Best In Mobile Games
Tell your community! Voting is OPEN for the Pocket Gamer Awards 2021
Nominations have closed and the next stage is here: make sure your games are put in the spotlight
Phone Case Study
The hypercasual publishing process: The story of Phone Case DIY
CrazyLabs takes a look at the success of developer Crikey's creative design game
In The Clouds
Microsoft is testing xCloud streaming via browsers
Public trial coming in the near future
Money Money Money
Colossi Games secures $2.5 million in seed funding
"This new funding will enable us to bring the game to life in a more advanced state and create more game-changing entertainment"
That's Just Super
Supercell saw great success in 2020, despite COVID-19 pandemic
"We, of course, are incredibly lucky to work in the games business"
Jobs In Games
"Investors will not give fuel to a fire that isn't already burning," says Shotcall CEO Thomas Gentle
Shotcall CEO and co-founder Thomas Gentle discusses his route into games.
Big Indie Pitch
Behind The Frame paints its way to victory at the Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5
We explore the top games from our recent Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5
Check Those Ads
In-play ads dubbed 'most exciting format' for developers in 2021
According to a report from Admix
Come One Come All
Link's Awakening dev Grezzo is hiring for "medieval" and "stylish" project
Looking for a programmer, effects designer and UI designer
Game On
Google to bring "more than" 100 games to Stadia this year
"Over the next few weeks and months, players can expect to see everything from action-filled RPGs to competitive co-op titles and nimble platformers"
Competition
Unity claims its "real competition" is companies still making own engines, not Epic
But CFO Jabal points out the firm's dominance over the Fortnite maker in many areas
Welcome Aboard
The N3twork Scale Platform partners with Emerald City Games
It is set to publish its 10th game
Yoohoo
Yooka-Laylee dev Playtonic launches Friends publishing label
Firm is already working with three studios, details of first projects coming "soon"
Money Money Money
US consumers spent $4.71 billion on games products in January 2021
The Nintendo Switch proved to be the most popular hardware
Straight To The Top
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury experiences better launch than the original
It had the third best Switch release in the Mario franchise
On The Up
Roblox increases its US market share to nearly 5%
Just behind Playrix and King
Most Read
Hot Five: Blizzard working on free-to-play World of Warcraft, China approves 33 games, and Crash Bandicoot launches in March
The hottest articles of last week
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: "Gamers with disabilities have extra challenges on top of what you have already built"
Microsoft is set to re-launch its new Xbox Accessibility Guidelines on February 16th
Check Those Ads
Gadsme enters the in-game ads market
First company to enable CPC, CPA and CPI performance campaigns
A Good Deed
Solitaire Grand Harvest forms partnership with WWF
More than $100,000 will be donated throughout 2021
Poc In Mobile
LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country
"It was easier to offer someone with less experience that was based locally"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Designing games with infleuncers in mind
"As each year passes it has become more imperative for influencers to be involved at each stage of a game"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why Switch games need to hit a 70% rating or above for Nintendo to "deal with you"
The process was explained via Greenlight Games CEO and founder Dean Day
Making Of
How Rivengard looks to breathe new life into mobile turn-based strategy titles
"We felt that there was still a segment that was under-represented on mobile."
Helping Hand
Niantic launches Black Developers Initiative
To aid Black game and AR creators