Wanna Subscribe
Gameloft teams up with MTN for a subscription service in South Africa
“Subscription-based business models are increasingly trending in the market"
Laters Mixer
Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
Microsoft launched the platform in 2016
Join The Fight
Call of Duty: Mobile shoots through 250 million downloads
Eight months after release
Ua Boost
Admix launches $25,000 User Acquisition Boost program to jumpstart UA for developers
Open to all developers who want to use non-intrusive ads in their games
Welcome Aboard
Luna Labs makes six strategic hires
Across London and Belarus
Sniff 'em Out
Avast reports 47 HiddenAds apps to Google
17 can still be downloaded
Something For Everyone
EA details its diversity efforts in game development
Firm has created the Inclusion Framework to help studios create more inclusive characters
Outta Here
Epic Games removes police cars from Fortnite
Possibly due to the #BlackLivesMatter movement
Join The Team
Facebook acquires Lone Echo developer Ready At Dawn for Oculus Studios
No figure placed on the deal just yet
I Need U(no)
Mattel163 teams up with South Korean boy band BTS for UNO! Mobile event
Features card sleeves, icon borders and voice packs
No Go Phoenix Rangers
Rovio cancels in-development puzzle RPG Phoenix Rangers after seven months in soft launch
Team will be reassigned to different projects within the studio
When We Dropping?
Apex Legends may finally be soft-launched by the end of 2020
EA CEO Andrew Wilson bigs up the firm's mobile business
Digital Data
SuperData: Digital games spending dropped 3% to $10.2 billion in May 2020
A 14 per cent year-on-year increase for mobile
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: Supercell's Hay Day Pop designer Ayushman Datta Gupta on developing games from home
"Personally, I can't wait to go back to working in the office"
Milestone
Rumble Hockey skates its way to one million players
It was released on May 19th
All The Operators
Apple explores updates to iPadOS, WatchOS, and more at WWDC20
Hand washing detection, new Apple Pencil updates, and more
Ios 14
Apple unveils iOS 14 with App Library, improved widgets, and picture-in-picture mode
New details revealed at WWDC20 Keynote
Are We Live?
Xbox Game Studios' director of live operations Crystin Cox on the major trends to come in the next 12 months
"I think we will see community and social features take on a much greater importance in game design, especially for mobile games"
Pgbiz Roundtable
Join us on June 23rd for the next PocketGamer.biz RoundTable session
Discussing how to improve diversity in the games industry
Rogue Shuffle
Rogue Games appoints Matt Casamassina as new CEO
Co-founder and former chief strategy officer steps up to the top role
Just Like Magic
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened launches open beta in China
Players can sign up to the card-based RPG in the country
Sensor Tower Acquisitions
Sensor Tower acquires StayFree and ActionDash apps to bolster its data offering
StayFree developers join Sensor Tower's product engineering team
Sixth Time's The Charm
Report: Apple has rejected Facebook Gaming app at least five times already
App Store rules preventing HTML5 gaming app from launching
Job Opportunity
Steel Media is hiring for a new writer at PocketGamer France
Fluent in French? Know your way around a keyboard? Then step right up...
Making The Switch
Report: Nintendo to begin slowing down its mobile business to focus on Switch
No new games planned until the end of the fiscal year
Most Read
Hot Five: Brawl Stars starts strong in China, Apple is being sued over loot boxes, and Fallout Shelter Online launches outside of China
The hottest articles of last week
Entering Japan
Anzu teams up with industry veteran Takuya Banno to bring its ads platform to Japan
"The Japanese gaming market is bigger and more advanced than ever before"
This Week In China
This Week in China: Apple finally complies with new ISBN rules and Tencent rolls out its latest Juvenile Protection System
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Takin' Care Of Business
Mobile games jobs weekly: Square Enix and SockMonkey look to expand, while Tastypill ups recruitment
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming
Join The Team
Game Freak is looking to increase its headcount by 16%
Artists, designers and programmers
Digital Conference
Meet and learn from companies like Microsoft, DICE, Bandai Namco, Square Enix and more - here’s what you can expect from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020
Europe’s biggest mobile B2B games industry conference goes-online only for a week-long event of talks, pitches and networking
Understanding Gamers
Understanding gamer motivations
AppLovin senior director of marketing operations Alice Guillaume
For Charity
Skillz is hosting tournaments to raise money for the NAACP
From June 19th till June 20th
Event
Games Gathering Conference 2020 Odessa takes off on July 4th
A unique event for Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe
Switch It Up
Electronic Arts is releasing seven Switch games over the next year
Apex Legends lands later this year
Join The Club
Mobile subscription service GameClub launches on Android
Was released for iOS in October 2019
On Target
Konami's eFootball PES 2020 shoots through 300 million downloads
Developer launches in-game rewards to celebrate
Investment
Wings sets up new investment initiative for diverse teams
"The most impactful thing we can do is give access to resources"
Series A Funding
Admix raises $7 million in a Series A funding round
"We have spent the last two years building our platform and partnerships with publishers and advertisers"
Tonic Games Group
Mediatonic brings its brands together under new parent Tonic Games Group
Mediatonic, Fortitude Games, and The Irregular Corporation come together
Grab A Deal
Google reduces Stadia Premiere Edition price
Now costs $99, only comes with one free month of Pro tier
Looking At Liveops
What is live ops, anyway?
Oscar Clark breaks down an area he knows particularly well
Play Nice
EA outlines new community guidelines to tackle toxic players
Positive Play Charter lays out clear rules for using the company's services and the penalties for breaking them
Event Latest
Save the date! Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital launches September 14-18
Don’t miss out on your chance to do business online as the essential B2B games industry conference goes online once again with a very special Helsinki edition
Get Charged
New publisher ChargeUp Games enters the mobile games market
"ChargeUp Games aims to shake up the business model and create a fair deal between developer and publisher"
A Good Deed
Zynga launches a $25 million fund for educational and charitable purposes
"The focus of the fund is to increase diversity and inclusion within Zynga and the games industry"
#blacklivesmatter
Google pledges $175 million for aiding Black communites
"Google commits to translating the energy of this moment into lasting meaningful change"
Follow The Rules
Apple to reject any games without an ISBN in China from July 2020
Rumoured crackdown now looks set in stone
130 Million Players
Live and Kicking: How Plague Inc. took over the world
Ndemic Creations founder James Vaughan on the "unbelievable journey"
Big Indie Pitch
The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores build its way to The Big Indie Pitch crown
We reveal the top three from our recent Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2