Monumental Deal
Miniclip to acquire Subway Surfers studio Sybo
Mobile acquisition is “the biggest deal in European mobile games this year”
Powerhouse Speakers
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Tech Scaler
Stepico announces acquisition of game art studio Inkration
Stepico brings together 200+ specialists in various fields focused on large-scale projects with the highest production values
Show Me The Billions
data.ai: Mobile players to spend $21.4 billion in Q2 2022
Of $33 billion spend on mobile apps, gaming will take the lion’s share
Hello Saga
Solana Labs is developing a Web3 mobile phone
Solana's Saga, an Android phone, will integrate Solana Pay to facilitate QR code-based payment, a mobile wallet adapter, and a Web3 decentralised app store
Happy Birthday!
Rec Room turns six with more rooms than there are apps on App Store
Platform enjoys a 640% year-over-year increase in player numbers on mobile devices
Charge!
Subset Games partner with Netflix with exclusive mobile release of Into the Breach
The firm's first mobile release since iPad port of FTL: Faster than Light, releasing on July 19
Triple Threat
Tripledot Studios is the third-fastest growing private company in the UK
Mobile games developer is the sole app developer to rank in FEBE’s The Growth 100 list, celebrating the UK’s fastest growing private companies
Track Rundown
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Tiking Along
TikTok owner ByteDance generates $1 billion in annual games revenue
Mobile titles by Ohayoo, Nuverse, Moontoon, and C4 Connect
Go West
Chinese studio XD prioritises US In expansion bid
Ragnarok Mobile and Human: Fall Flat port developer looks west to bypass China's regulatory restrictions
Bye Bye Beta
Unity Gaming Services tools now live for game developers
Introduced in October 2021, several Unity Gaming Services tools are now exiting open beta
Activision Blizzard Board Survives
Bobby Kotck voted to be re-elected to board by Activision Blizzard shareholders
Around 91 per cent of shareholders voted in favour of extending the board’s term until 2023
Moving Metaverses
Jon Vlassopulos steps from Roblox to join Dubit advisory board
Responsibilities include advising on metaverse strategies and brand partnerships, whilst retaining advisory capacity at Roblox
Blizzard To Blockchain
Former Activision Blizzard exec joins Catheon Gaming as co-CEO
Blockchain gaming firm Catheon Gaming has appointed former Activision Blizzard APAC Head Mark Aubrey as the company’s new co-CEO
Moba And Rpg Popularity Continues
Chinese game market revenue down 7 per cent in May
Sales revenue of Chinese game market reached $3.4 billion, down 6.74 per cent year-on-year, according to Gamma Data
Just Browsing
Parallelz raises $3 million for streaming tech that can purportedly run any mobile game or app
Will a browser service that can reportedly run any mobile game or app disrupt the walled gardens of the App Store and Google Play?
Everything Everywhere
There’s no such thing as the average mobile gamer
data.ai’s latest gaming spotlight highlights all the ways in which mobile games are conquering the world
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Meeting Time
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Brand Benefit
Layer aims to streamline processes between games and brands
Matchmaking IP holders with game developers within its platform
No Homers Club
Metaverse giants create standards forum – with considerable absences
Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants have formed a group to foster compatibility in the metaverse, so far without the presence of Apple, Roblox, and others
Bounty Hunting
CloudFeather Games raises $1.25 million in seed funding round
"Bounty Hunting" SDK aims to tap into competitive side of gamers
Success To Reinvest
Nordcurrent celebrates 20% growth in 2021
Largest games company in Lithuania has created temporary office in Poland to support its 20 Ukrainian employees
Reality Rebrand
Reality Gaming Group rebrands to Reality+ with move to full-service Web3
NFTs and blockchain using "side-chain" of Ethereum mainnet
Locked Into Mobile
Blizzard won’t extend Diablo Immortal’s microtransaction strategy beyond mobile
Although the firm’s mobile title made over $24 million in its launch, Blizzard has confirmed its monetisation strategy won’t extend to Diablo IV
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Web3 For All
Manticore opens up its Core platform for NFT projects
MekaVerse and 0N1 amongst the first to build
What Time Is It
TIME and The Sandbox partner to build metaverse destination, TIME Square
Environment will reportedly include TIMEpieces experiences, and screenings of TIME Studios projects
Subscription Prediction
Ericsson projects more than 1 billion 5G subscriptions in 2022
1.1 billion prediction tweaked following invasion of Ukraine
Coming To Pc
Supercell reveals PC-exclusive studio, Channel37
Former Ubisoft RedLynx team working on an unannounced PC title
Bright Spot
Lumi Interactive raises $6.74 million for “crowdhealing” mobile game
Andreessen Horowitz, 1Up Ventures, Galileo Ventures, Heracles Capital, and Emily Greer participate in funding round
Square Clouds
Square Enix invests in cloud gaming company Blacknut
Strategic investment intended to support Square Enix's "vision for the future of gaming"
Hardware Happenings
Tencent rumoured to have entered hardware space with XR ambitions
Three sources suggest an extended reality business is in the works
Get My Branding Iron
Gamers are increasingly positive towards in-game branding
Newzoo report indicates gamers show more positive response to in-game sport, luxury fashion, soft drink and alcoholic beverages, and automotive branding
New Frontiers
The Canadian games market is booming -- see how you can get involved this July 6-7!
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Advice Please
Nordisk Games appoints Audrey Leprince as senior advisor
Audrey Leprince, a veteran of 23 years in the gaming industry, has joined Copenhagen studio Nordisk games
May 2022 Downloads
Subway Surfers and Garena Free Fire top most downloaded games in May 2022
Second consecutive month that both titles have topped the chart
Diablo Declines
NetEase stock plummets following Diablo Immortal delays
Declines of more than nine per cent, from 151.50 HKD to 136 per share, as the firm announces a delay just days before its intended release date
Chipset Court Case
Qualcomm wins four-year battle against $1 billion fine from EU antitrust regulators
Following accusations of paying Apple for exclusive use of Qualcomm chipsets
Further Commitment For Indian Gaming Industry
Kunal Mordekar joins Bombay Play as chief operating officer
Previously held positions at Yoozoo Games India
Cause To Captivate
User acquisition to be dominated by three key factors: predictive analytics, automation, and data privacy
Tempr. report suggests casual mobile games will especially benefit from predictive analysis
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Track Rundown
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Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Genvid Entertainment hires Jerry Heinz as EVP of global publishing platforms
Working on monetisation and publishing platform for Genvid’s Massively Interactive Live Events
Latest Hires At Gadsme
Admix and Happydemics execs join Gadsme
Nina Mackie and Antoine Clairet to lead in-game ad sales and EMEA demand in French adtech company
Star-studded Lineup
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Competition
Publish Me! Festival announced by AppQuantum and WN Conference
Top three winners to receive publishing offers from AppQuantum