Play To Win
Monster League Studios raises $2 million for blockchain-based esports platform
Will feature a series of sports-based games, starting with soccer and later tennis, hockey, basketball, and more
Growing Esports Engagement
Mobile esports finding its audience in emerging markets, says Newzoo
Esports expected to generate $1.38 billion by the end of 2022
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F In Chat
China halts unauthorised games livestreaming
Latest regulations apply to unauthorised and non-domestic games
Ruby To Red
Rovio CEO commits to future acquisitions
Following the acquisition of Ruby Games in 2021, Rovio’s Alex Pelletier-Normand is bullish about acquisitions remaining “an important part of our strategy moving forward”
Investment Incoming
Coda Payments receives $690 million in further funding
Investments from Smash Capital, Insight Partners and GIC
Tacocat
Netflix unveils exclusive Exploding Kittens mobile game
Will launch in May, with animated series to come at later date
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Flight To Five Billion
Rovio surpasses five billion lifetime mobile game downloads
Angry Birds creator continues to soar
Bring The Spoilz
Saudi Arabian Spoilz Games raises $693,000 in pre-seed funding
Will expand portfolio and look to target global games market
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Real-time Multiplayer
coherence raises $8 million for real-time multiplayer creation platform
Led by former Playdead CEO Dino Patti
Hypercasual On Top
Adjust: hypercasual made up 27% of global mobile downloads in 2021
2021 saw CPI increase, but retention rates followed
Pokemon To Peridot
Niantic unveils latest AR game Peridot
Pokémon Go creator's latest AR title harness original IP
Analysis Of Ad Creatives
Liftoff: playable ads are most "cost-effective" ad format
Analysis of over 200 million instals and 12.6 billion clicks
Web-based To Web3
Kongregate unveils upcoming blockchain game Blood Vessels
Will feature playable vampire NFTs
Curtailing
Tencent shuts down Chinese gamers access to overseas games
Incoming update to network acceleration app will halt users playing foreign games and accessing foreign online servers
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Tennis Tournament
Wildlife Studios to bring The French Open eTennis event to Tennis Clash
Fifth anniversary of annual tennis esports event moves to mobile
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Hypercasual On Top
Sensor Tower: Merge Master was the most downloaded game for March 2022
Free Fire in second place with 25.5 million downloads
Made Its Way
Zynga launches FarmVille 3 in Japan
Comes six months after global release
Expanding Overseas
WonderPlanet opening Singapore subsidiary to explore blockchain
Following discussions on NFTs and the metaverse
Ad Acceptace
Anzu: 70% of US gamers respond well to in-game ads
Players value ad relevance and dislike being interupted
Game On 2022
Korea’s PlayX4 games event returns as a hybrid in 2022
The 2022 event will build upon the success of the virtual 2021 event which attracted 329 companies and delivered over $110 million of business
The Cloud's Acclaim
Amdocs: 85% of UK gamers would give up new hardware for cloud gaming
Biggest draws are the option to play on any device in any location
The Never-ending Search
ironSource launches Luna Search Ads to tackle App Store ad campaigns
Allows marketers to streamline and automate ad campaign creation
Platform Play
Wemade brings Valofe’s Bless Unleashed to Wemix blockchain platform
Will feature play and earn elements
Two In Pune
SuperGaming opens second office in Pune
Will support development of upcoming battle royale Indus
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One In Four
Playstack: one in four players click on charitable interactive billboard ads
Follows recent charity campaign to raise awareness for charity:water's 'Clean Water Pledge'
Racing To Release
Supercell backed Ultimate Studio launches Hot Lap League
First mobile title from EA and Firemonkeys alumni Tony Lay and Mark Zaloumis
Tencent On Top Again
Mobile games spending continued to fall by 6.3% to $7 billion in March 2022
Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the highest grossing games worldwide
Epic Investment
Sony and Lego invest $1 billion each in Epic Games’ metaverse development
Fortnite creator valued at $31.5 billion
Turkey's Silicon Valley
Turkish hypercasual studio Tiplay joins Snap Inc's accelerator programme
"A very important step towards our goal of making Denizli the Silicon Valley of Turkey"
The Wheels Of Eden
Animoca Brands acquires Eden Games to bring blockchain to racing games
Will bring additional utility to Animoca's NFT Race Passes
The Top Publishers
data.ai reveals the top mobile publishers in 2021
Prominant publishers in 2021 included Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo/HoYoVerse, and CyberAgent
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Best Q2 Yet
MAG Interactive Q2 2022 revenues reach $8.1 million, up 6 per cent
Strongest second quarter in company history
Engine Enhancements
Cocos raises $50 million in Series B ahead of metaverse development project
Plans to improve open-source engine
Open For Business
China lifts games licence freeze, 45 new games approved
New games from XD Inc, Yoozoo Games, and more after nine month standstill
Build A Better Business
Appodeal Stack introduces a new round of its Accelerator Program
To celebrate two years of its successful accelerator program, Appodeal Stack is opening a new round, with more features and opportunities for mobile game developers
Selling Senior Notes
Take-Two unveils funding strategy for Zynga acquisition
Selling $2.7 billion in senior notes on April 14
Reach For The Skies
Cloud gaming will quadruple to $6.3 billion by 2024, says Newzoo
Large media companies predicted to join the sector
Search Stats
data.ai: Roblox was the most searched game on the App Store in 2021
Non-specific keywords were surprisingly common and yielded regional based results
Cousens Comes Aboard
Huuuge Games appoints Rod Cousens as co-CEO
Brings over four decades of experience, including leadership roles at Jagex, Codemasters, and Activision
Update Or Disappear
Older Android apps must update to remain discoverable and downloadable
New rules come into effect in November
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