Charitable Ads
Miniclip, MAG Interactive, Kwalee and more to donate a portion of their advertising inventory to charities
Free ad space for Make-A-Wish (UK), SpecialEffect, BuildAid and more
Lion's Roar
Lion Studios business development manager Eugen Quiring on mobile gaming becoming an essential part of everyday life
"The industry talent also knows no boundaries when it comes to creativity!"
Mages;acquisition
Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million
Bolstering the mobile publisher with a raft of niche IPs
The Growth Track
Learn more about growing your mobile games at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
One of seven tracks to feature at the event
Testing Ip Impact
Rovio soft-launches turn-based RPG Angry Birds Legends
Available on Android in the UK, Sweden and Finland
Whole New World
How TerraGenesis developer Edgeworks attracts players who have never played games before
The developer talks realism in game design, player engagement and smart monetization tactics
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Every online-only games industry conference and event happening in 2020
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Assassin's Creed: Origins actor Abubakar Salim founds new UK studio Silver Rain Games
Now hiring for a "growing team of developers"
Play Apart Together
World Health Organisation teams up with games industry for #PlayApartTogether campaign
Zynga, Playtika, Kabam, Snap Games, Wooga, Glu, and more are on board
Keep Running
Update: Om Nom: Run sprints past five million downloads in a month
Launched on February 27th
Most Read
Hot Five: Coin Master's best monthly revenue ever, Brawl Stars grows amid coronavirus, and King offers unlimited lives across its games
The hottest articles of last week
Leadergamer Launch
Leadergamer launches international edition Leadergamer.net
Gamer Media pushes its brand outside of Turkey
Turn It Up
Sample Rate Audio Production composer and sound designer Taras Terletskyy on what he loves about the games industry
"I really feel myself comfortable there"
Hypercasual Domination
Hypercasual titles accounted for 78 per cent of downloads in 2019
16 of the top 20 most-installed titles were hypercasual
Jumping Ship
TT Games welcomes new president and studio head
Micheal Denny was a senior vice president for Sony
Play Inside
Minecraft Earth receives gameplay tweaks to encourage indoor play
Adventures Crystals that can be played at home have been added, along with increased Tappables
"global Fight"
Enthusiast Gaming joins forces with Twitch to raise money against COVID-19
12-hour charity stream for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO
This Week In China
This Week in China: Chinese gamers are spreading anti-coronavirus messages in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A look back at the biggest stories direct from China
Schedule Revealed
Conference schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
Check out what’s happening at next month’s online-only games industry conference
Coronavirus Impact
Recap: How has the coronavirus impacted the mobile games industry?
Your hub for all the latest information on Covid-19's affect on mobile games
Gameinfluencer Ceo
GameInfluencer appoints David An as new CEO
Former MD and VP of BD at Aeria Games
Another One?
Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform
Service called GameMatric, powered by Kunpeng processor
Not So Dumb Now
Dumb Ways to Die surpasses 360 million downloads across its games catalogue
500,000 to 600,000 daily average users
15 Million Tiktok Views
Live and Kicking: Seven years on, Dumb Ways to Die has turned from a marketing campaign to a standalone business
"360 million downloads across all our games and still counting"
Talking Heads
App Annie, Sony Pictures Entertainment, AppLovin, NCSOFT and Zynga to take part in Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
Speaker lineup for next month’s online-only conference continues to grow exponentially
Another Dive
Capcom's Shinsekai: Into the Depths is the latest Apple Arcade exclusive to jump to Switch
Adds new game modes to the original release and new port
Summer Madness
Angry Birds is coming to Netflix in 2021
40 episodes have been ordered
Esports Partnership
ESL partners up with PUBG Mobile to host competitions for the game
It is also a commercial partner
Esports Funding
Tribe Gaming raises $1 million in funding for mobile esports growth
Investors include an NBA player and WWE star
Cancelled Event
The Taipei Game Show 2020 cancelled due to the coronavirus
Some of it will be put online
Revenue Spike
Pokemon Go sees huge increase in revenue during coronavirus outbreak
An increase of 66.7 per cent week-on-week
A Legendary Deed
Riot Games gives $1.5 million to help coronavirus relief efforts
$400,000 will go to the Los Angeles food bank
Designing Screenshots
Designing mobile game screenshots that actually convert players
App Radar marketing manager Genie Patrathiranond on how to make the most of your screenshots
Develop:brighton Delayed
Develop:Brighton delayed until November 2nd-4th as coronavirus uncertainty continues
Todd Howard still locked in as keynote speaker
Super Supercell
Supercell's Brawl Stars grows by 35% amid COVID-19 outbreak
Mobile games across the board have seen a jump of 25% too
Nvm Needs Your Help
National Videogame Museum turns to fundraising to prevent closure caused by coronavirus
Sheffield-based museum looking to raise £80,000 from donations
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Pomelo Games on the doubts surrounding sustainability and how Apple Arcade helped create its "purest" game
"It’s a highly competitive market, and it’s getting even more competitive each year"
Oh Dear
Keywords Studios accused of insisting its staff still come to work despite the coronavirus outbreak
It has since began to practice social distancing
Money Money Money
PixelFederation brought in €31 million in revenue last year
A drop of five per cent year-on-year
A Good Deed
Facebook and Nintendo donate masks to aid against the coronavirus
720,000 and 9,500 respectively
Shaking It Up
Candy Crush Soda Saga splashes onto global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Emerging Strategy
Covid-19 crashes MTG’s esports business but gaming revenues performing well
Difficult decisions in a dynamic situation
Hypercasual Boom
BoomBit shifts its focus to hypercasual games after success with Ramp Car Jumping
It has several games ready for Q2
Teamwork
Crytek teams up with Google to bring the Cryengine to Android
It's expected to launch later this year
Could you win the first digital Big Indie Pitch next month?
International competition goes online as part of Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1, April 6-10
Escape Reality
Update: Animal Crossing: New Horizons breaks Switch sales records in Japan and UK
The game's producer hopes it is an "escape" for people
Ninja Generosity
Ninja has donated $150,000 to help those affected by the coronavirus outbreak
Money goes to Feeding America to ensure school kids can still eat
Keyword Field Trick
Update: Games are "exploiting" coronavirus SEO on the App Store
Plague Inc. continues top paid charts
Network With Speed
Publisher SpeedMatch makes its online debut as part of the first Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
The popular speed-dating style networking event jumps to the digital realm at the week-long online B2B games industry conference next month