Bellionaires
Animal Crossing: New Horizons achieves third-best US launch ever for a Nintendo game
Best-selling entry in series to date
Under The Sea
NASA launches ocean research game dedicated to mapping coral reefs globally
Aiming to help preserve these environments and better understand threatened ecosystems
Digital Conference
What hot topics will you be talking about at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2?
Revealed: ten tracks covering essential games industry insight, from indie development skills to esports, coming your way in June
18 Months After Launch
Epic Games begrudgingly rolls out Fortnite on Google Play
"We hope that Google will revise its policies"
Remote Working
Remote Working: How NaturalMotion’s Tobi Fink is marketing CSR Racing from home
In the first weeks of Covid-19 most of the team has experienced greater productivity than in the office.
Party Bullet
Spike Chunsoft celebrating Danganronpa's 10th anniversary with mobile ports and Identity V crossover
New site launched for the celebrations
New Feature
GameRefinery adds new ad monetisation tracking feature
Users can see in-app monetisation trends
Rise Of The Bots
The shortage in Switch consoles can partly be blamed on bots
Nintendo wants to increase production by 10 per cent
Sharp Drop
Kickstarter experiences a 35% drop in live projects
"We must look more broadly at ways to restructure the business including potential layoffs"
For Charity
Games Done Quick raises $400k for coronavirus relief
Replaced summer 2020 show, all proceeds being donated to Direct Relief
Adjust Report
Mobile game downloads have shot up by 75% in Q1 2020 due to Covid-19 impact
132% rise in installs over the last week in March 2020
Consent Management
How consent and preference management can increase ad revenue and improve user retention
Ogury chief publishers and strategic data partnerships officer Christophe Bize talks us through it
Traction
Beamable launches its Unity-based commerce and social game toolkit
From the team at Disruptor Beam comes a new venture
Astronomical Event
Epic Games partners with US rapper Travis Scott for Fortnite virtual tour
Scott will debut his new song in-game
Fist Bump
Sonic Forces boosts through 50 million downloads globally
Surpasses $4.2 million in lifetime revenue
My Nintendo
Nintendo launches My Nintendo app in Japan
Offers services across Switch, Wii U and 3DS
Big Moves
Apple rolls out App Store to 20 new countries in Africa, the Middle East, and more
Apple Music similarly being expanded to same countries
A Good Deed
Playtika's Bingo Blitz is donating meals to Feeding America
10 meals for every virtual meal made by players
Welcome Aboard
Bigpoint appoints Qin Liu as its new managing director
Effective immediately
Streaming Competition
Facebook is launching a mobile gaming app to compete with Twitch and YouTube
Coming to Android devices first
Brawling Abroad
Supercell's Brawl Stars arrives in China this June
Multiplayer mobile shooter was approved in March by Chinese game regulator
Milestone
Devolver Digital confirms Gris has exceeded one million sales
Originally launched on mobile in August 2019
Openmediation For All
AdTiming on why it's made its OpenMediation platform completely open source
Chief product officer Yobo Zhang on what the platform can do for you
Let's Get Ready To
Supercell-owned Frogmind soft-launches animal sports game Rumble Hockey
Available across both iOS and Android in Finland, Canada, Australia, and more.
Most Read
Hot Five: How Roblox's CTO is adapting to remote work, Kabam soft-launches Disney Mirrorverse, and Mike Bithell launches an audiobook
The hottest articles of last week
This Week In China
This Week In China: Female-focused games are on the rise in China, while Code Dragon Blood is making waves in Japan
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Welcome Aboard
Niantic hires Megan Quinn as its new COO
She has a background in leadership and investment
Ride Or Die
Monster Hunter Riders surpasses five million downloads
It launched in February
Outta This World
Mike Bithell launches a six-part episodic audiobook about space
The episodes will drop weekly
Entering India
The next frontier in gaming: Entering India
Orange Rock CEO Kasturi Rangan and PTW senior manager of marketing and PR Kaley Hurst explore the opportunities that esports are bringing to India
Money Money Money
Keywords revenue was up 30% in 2019
Firm saw a higher adjusted EBITDA, but dividend payment dips
Digital Conference
Meet and learn from companies like Wargaming, Pokémon, Paradox, Gameloft and more - here’s what you can expect from Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
The leading mobile B2B games industry event goes online-only again for a week-long event of talks, pitches and networking
Time's Up
Sega Heroes and Crazy Taxi Idle Tycoon shutting down following Demiurge split from Sega
Servers close May 21st
Gamesdone
Gamescom and Devcom 2020 physical events pulled after Germany pushes lockdown restrictions to August 31st
Digital event for Gamescom "will definitely take place"
Making Of
Making Of: How Ubisoft shrunk down Rayman for Apple Arcade
"Ubisoft is always present on new platforms right from launch"
Kick Your Bot
Adjust's new survey finds that 41 per cent of mobile gamers have used bots
Bot spending is $65 on average
A Big Plus
Superplus raises $4.7 in funding for causal PVP games
Hills of Steel 2 and Brawls of Steel launch this year
Heating Up
Planet Entertainments hits back amongst Cooking Mama drama
"By contract Planet is fully within its rights to publish Cooking Mama: Cookstar"
Interview
Why Tencent thinks now is the right time to launch Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
Arena of Valor executive producer Ray Ning and TiMi Studios director Vincent Gao discuss the move
Global Expansion
Tencent launches hugely popular MOBA Arena of Valor in Russia and MENA
200 million players worldwide to date
Hero Dash
One year on: How Talking Tom Hero Dash continues to draw in 39 million players a month
Outfit7's Senior VP of Product Development Ante Odić on the collaborative efforts behind the endless runner
Make It Yourself
Roblox rules in self-isolated UK
Crunching the data with App Annie
Digital Conference
Don’t miss your second chance to do business online at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital
Cancel all other plans for June 8-12. The essential B2B games conference will return for another week after its amazing 2020 debut
Farewell
Indie Megabooth shuts down for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic
Will still be running a Steam sale in May
Four Of A Kind
Indie Spotlight: How Foursaken Media upped the ante for War Tortoise 2
"Knowing where to draw the line between polished enough to be great and over-polished is one of the most important things"
Slapping Downloads
Slap Kings racked up the most mobile downloads in March 2020
Voodoo had three entries
Cook Out
Office Create is "evaluating all legal action" against Planet Entertainment over unauthorised Cooking Mama title
"The quality of the game builds failed to meet the standards that our customers expect and deserve"
The Big Two-oh
Gameloft celebrates 20th anniversary with free Gameloft Classics collection
Play NOVA, Modern Combat 2, and High School Hook Ups on your smartphone
Independence
Demiurge becomes an independent studio after its co-founder buys it back from Sega
It will continue to run Marvel Puzzle Quest and Sega Heroes
Big Indie Pitch
Attractive Interactive's Paper Game is crowned the winner of the first ever digital Big Indie Pitch
We reveal the winners of the first ever digital Big Indie Pitch