Jump In
Fortnite draws in over 350 million players
As of April, people have spent 3.2 billion hours in the battle royale game
Finns Are In
Posting record sales thanks to Empires & Puzzles, Zynga pays $122 million earnout to Small Giants
Q1 2020 financials are booming
Covid-19 Impact Report
Free gifts, campaign support and adapting AR help mobile game engagement during pandemic
"COVID-19 has profoundly affected all of our lives, and no industry has gone unaffected"
Gardenscapes Growth
Playrix's Gardenscapes dethroned Candy Crush Saga for monthly global consumer spend in April 2020
App Annie confirms this is the first time Candy Crush Saga has been toppled by another match-3 game since 2012
Hells Bells
Animal Crossing: New Horizons shifts 11.77 million units in 11 days
Fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game ever
Nintendo Financials Q4 Fy19
Nintendo's mobile business grows by 11.5% year-over-year, Switch tops 55 million
Revenue up nine per cent year-on-year
Discount Ends
LAST CHANCE to save with Early Bird prices for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Prices go up at midnight TONIGHT for June’s week-long online conference - book your tickets now!
Keep Your Headup
Headup Games founder and CEO Dieter Schoeller on how the games industry has changed over the last 15 years
"The biggest change is still the switch from retail to digital"
Claim A Freebie
Amazon Prime members in India to get free in-game content for mobile titles
Variety of titles included
Indie View
The Big Indie Interviews: Huey Games runs us through mixing old and new with Wreckout
We sit down with Rob Hewson from Huey Games to talk all things Wreckout and pitching
Round The Track
Forza Street races onto mobile devices after nine months of soft launch
The game was first teased back in March 2019
In The 80s
East Side Games teams up with Sony for The Goldbergs mobile game
Based on the TV show
Reshuffle
Embracer Group subsidiaries THQ Nordic and Koch Media trade IPs in new deal
Red Faction, Sacred, Risen, Painkiller and more all involved
Ollie Ollie
Rumour: Skate 3 could be grinding its way to mobile
As revealed by pro skater Jason Dil
A Good Deed
IGDA Foundation launches Stay in the Game Relief Fund
"The work of our organisations is more important than ever right now"
Digital Conference
Save the date: Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital online-only conference, July 13-17
Early Bird discounts available now for July's blockchain gaming industry event premiere
Lockdown Analytics
Covid-19 lockdown prompts in-app purchases to spike by 30%
Data from GameAnalytics’ Benchmarks+ shows the profound effect that Covid-19 is already having on player behaviour around the world
Candy Crush Growth
Activision Blizzard revenue drops but profit increases over Q1 2020
Two new games utilising existing IP revealed too
Saved By The Bells
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp clears $150 million in lifetime revenue
$7.9 million generated and seven million installs in April 2020
"prove The Value"
EA's faith in live services rewards a nearly 200% increase in profit
Revenue rise of 11.9 per cent year-over-year
The Art Of Publishing
Discover the Art of Publishing with the pros at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Dedicated content for developers looking to get their games out there delivered by top publishers at June’s online-only conference
Ai And Games
Dr. Tommy Thompson on why he turned his attention to AI in video games
"The challenges for AI in the video game industry are quite unique compared to many other sectors"
Guess Who's Back
PewDiePie grabs exclusive streaming deal with YouTube
The creator has ditched DLive to return to his first home
Bolt From The Blue
Unity acquires scripting tool Bolt
"Bolt becoming an official Unity product is a major and exciting leap forward for visual scripting"
Animal Talking
Interview: Why Rogue One screenwriter Gary Whitta started a talk show in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
"I honestly don't care if I ever make a penny out of it"
Sweet Investment
AppLovin invests in Supercell-backed developer Redemption Games
Terms were not disclosed
Remote Working
Remote Working: How Kolibri Games' Sebastian Reuther is dealing with QA from home
"QA benefits from an office for equipment reasons"
Dazzling
Dazzle Rocks raises $6.8 million in Series A funding round
Funds to be used in developing new social mobile MMO
Remote Working
Kwalee is opening its vacancies to remote workers
COVID-19 has taught some lessons
Learning From China
What western publishers can learn from China's Coronavirus response
Nativex's general manager of EMEA Leticia Ye takes a closer look
Streaming Month
It's streaming month on PocketGamer.biz!
Tell us about why you're interested in the future of streaming - or why you aren't even slightly bothered
10 Years On
Infinite Lives on dropping CastleCraft's subscription model and going freemium
Players just didn't like it
Another Direction
Wargaming appoints David Smit as new creative director
Previously worked with King, Happy Tuesday, Crytek, Bigpoint, and more
Ea Play
EA Play goes digital-only for 2020
Now part of Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest
Masomo Insight
Masomo VP of product Sertac Picakci on the big trends to come in the next 12 months
"We will see that roadmaps will be more evolved based on player feedback rather than KPI pressure"
Open For Buisness
Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organisation reopens on May 7th
It was shut due to the coronavirus
Game Down
Honor of Kings crashes on Chinese Labor Day
Tencent blamed the AI
Money Money Money
iPad in-app consumer spending hit $2.1 billion in Q1 2020
With 1.11 billion new installs
Helping Veterans
Activision Blizzard donates $2 million to help veterans find employment during the COVID-19 pandemic
"We've seen a huge increase in veterans asking our partners for assistance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic"
Sensor Tower Funding
Sensor Tower secures $45 million investment from strategic partnership with Riverwood Capital
First investment since 2013
Knocked Out
Fighting games tournament Evo 2020 gets cancelled
Due to – you guessed it – coronavirus
Worthy Cause
Roblox is donating up to $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts
Limited-edition items are on sale until June 30th
Hyper-casual Design
Five things to consider when designing hyper-casual games
Hyper-casual publishing experts, JoyPac, share key things any developer should know when creating hit casual games
Most Read
Hot Five: Jagex sold to Macarthur Fortune, Jens Begemann leaves Wooga, and Gameloft chiefs reflect on 20 years at the company
The hottest articles of last week
Excited Yet?
Sega Europe, Tencent, King, Nordeus and NCSOFT all join the talented lineup for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Revealed: Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2 adds more top industry speakers to the already incredible line-up of talent
Realer Than Real
So Real head of game development Kelly Vero on how the industry has changed over the last 25 years
"People may come and go but games are the things that make us."
New Relationships
Azur Games: building a strong relationship between a developer and its publisher
A chat with founder Artem Nikolayev on what the studio can do for you
Series A Funding
Guilded raises $7 million for gaming chat platform
"We're building the world's best platform for connecting communities"
This Week In China
This Week In China: Wind Fantasy returns on mobile, and an Animal Crossing: New Horizons grey market is growing
The biggest stories direct from Beijing
Summer Party
Games companies band together to create the Summer Game Fest
Featuring news, announcements, interviews and more