Nerf This
Homa Games partners with Hasbro on NERF Epic Pranks! and more
First of several games to be released
Welcome Aboard
Double Eleven hires Ian Ng as Malaysian studio head
Used to work for Ubisoft Singapore
Streaming
Microsoft is bringing Project xCloud streaming service to Western Europe
11 countries will get access
Take Two
GDC Summer registrations are now open
It is being held between August 4th and 6th
Making Of
Making Of: How Shantae and the Seven Sirens found its way to being an Apple Arcade launch title
"This was our shortest dev cycle for a Shantae game"
Try It Out
Google Stadia Pro is free for two months
1080p is now the default resolution in order to not take up too much bandwidth
Family & Friends
Words With Friends booms in troubled times
Crunching the data with App Annie
Hyprmx Interviews
15 exclusive one-on-one chats with games industry experts from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020
The HyprMX interview sessions return for another year
Aso In China
ASO for China: Intro to localisation practices
Yodo1 breaks down some best practices
Will Mama Fix It?
Cooking Mama: Cookstar launch spoiled by cryptocurrency mining rumours and potential lawsuits
Game still available in physical form
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why you shouldn't just "follow your GPS" and listen to your audience when designing live ops
GamePoint live ops manager Wouter Schrijvershof looks at the studio's work on GamePoint Bingo
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Looking at live ops from an analytics perspective
Small Giant Games lead data analyst Peitsa Hynninen
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: East Side Games on how it handles live ops, even when working remotely
CEO Joshua Nilson outlines the company's strategy
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Using AWS to make the most of live ops
AWS Game Tech's Chris Finch and Tabitha Graves dig into the specifics
Missing Gravity
World of Tanks Blitz gives players chance to win a piece of the moon in new Gravity Force game mode
"This is one small step for man, but one giant leap for Tank-kind."
Money Money Money
Embracer Group raises $164 million in investment
Will be used for acquisitions and expansion
Jetfuel
N3twork launches $50 million growth fund to scale tomorrow’s hit mobile games
Get 10,000 ad campaign for free
Sky Soaring
Indie Spotlight: How thatgamecompany transitioned from console to mobile with Sky: Children of Light
"We wanted to make the essence of Journey accessible to a broader audience"
What A Shame
ESA confirms that E3 2020 digital event won't be taking place
But trade body says it will be supporting companies who were meant to be at the show
Helping Out
EA will donate up to $2m to support coronavirus relief efforts
Publishing giant to match funds raised by staff
Not So Idle
How Kolibri Games is adapting to the challenge of remote working
Entrepreneur in residence Dennis Gräf details the initiatives in place to help with the change
Grab A Patty
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off surpasses 14 million pre-registrations
Due out this Spring
Cancelled Event
Slush 2020 gets cancelled due to coronavirus concerns
The team will still help founders that are struggling
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Come together for the You Are Not Alone campaign
It takes place on May 2nd
Transformers Roll Out
China’s largest sandbox game sees sales spike with Hasbro brand
Mini World sold 360,000 Transformers character skins in just three months
Data Driven
Five Chinese and Japanese mobile gaming myths investigated
GameRefinery gets out its magnifying glass
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Tips for creating a diverse narrative
"Bring darkness out"
Soft Launch Benefits
PGC Digital: "Platform featuring is not as strong as it used to be," says former Disney and Zynga PM
As part of a panel on 'Learning from Mistakes – What Should we Have Done Before we Launched?'
Remote Working Month
Remote Working: How Wooga's Marco Rizzotti is developing character designs from home
"The quiet environment at home helps me to focus"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Interactive streaming will be the future of gaming
"Viewers are able to contribute monetarily and experientially"
Words Of Caution
PGC Digital: META Games COO believes KPIs are the "best way to align teams and people towards a goal"
META Games co-founder Philipp Karstaedt shared tips on metrics
Knockout
PGC Digital: Shadow Fight 3 brawls its way to 80 million downloads globally
600,000 daily average users
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Comparing Clash of Clans and Clash Royale's battle pass implementation
Tiazu CEO Joseph Kim tells a tale of two cities
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Chris Heatherly on the state of the global games market
"You're gonna see video games evolve from this core-gamer focused, kinda geeky activity to something that's more culturally accepted broadly"
New Opportunity
In-game ads firm Anzu hires Jeremy Taylor as its new Vice President of EMEA
Taylor joins from DOOH.com
Word Up
Scrabble Go experiences the best launch ever for a mobile word game
Two million people play daily
Competitive Connection
Facebook Gaming Tournaments launches worldwide for all users
Another way to stay connected
Beyond The Office
Beyond the office: What remote work can teach us about the strength of our culture
Kwalee head of development Simon Platt on keeping your staff healthy and happy while adjusting to work-from-home life
Ding Ding Ding
LEGO Super Mario Adventures secures August release date and two expansion sets
Now available for pre-orders
Matchland
Create your fantasy amusement park in this relaxing match-3 game from Dream Team and Huuuge Games
Matchland - Build Your Theme Park is now in soft launch
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What BoomBit learned from mid-core games to create new hypercasual titles
"Every game is completely different so don't port learnings"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Top tips for free-to-play game distribution
Imperia Online's Mariela Tzvetanova talks us through a range of strategies and partnerships you should be looking into
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: A brief overview of the Chinese mobile gaming market
TopOn's Harry Yang takes a glance at one of the biggest markets in the world
Award-winning
PGC Digital: Mobile cinema experience Recontact: London featuring Game of Thrones star set to launch on Android
Will arrive on Google Play from April 20th, 2020
Emergency Rescue
Vainglory’s surprise shutdown averted by Super Evil Megacorp
Rogue Games was pulling the plug
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: How to work from home effectively
Companies should embrace the changes
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What investors in Europe and Asia want in the current climate
Fundamentally Games' Ella Romanos leads the chat
1.25% Of All Game Downloads
PGC Digital: Hypercasual specialist CrazyLabs accumulates more than 3 billion downloads worldwide
Run Sausage Run makes up 106 million downloads
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Learn about the status of 5G worldwide with GSMA
It is expected that there will be 1.3bn 5G connections worldwide in 2025
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Learn key strategies from Mixi for creating a successful game
"Thinking about your target audience in terms of user behaviour"