Cfo To Consultant
Thunderful CFO Anders Maiqvist steps down
Will continue to consult the firm on games M&A
London Time
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Starting To Spread
AviaGames begins global expansion, starting with UK
Bringing Solitaire Clash and Bingo Tour to the App Store
Apac Advertising
Anzu partners with Livewire to boost APAC ad reach in Roblox
Follows the increasing MAUs on the platform
Rising Arpdau
MAG Interactive Q1 sales increase 11%, despite decline in users
Boosted by strong performance of liveops
Aspiring Aspirants
Moonton launches Mobile Legends: Bang Bang NFTs on Binance
Featuring popular MLBB characters Layla and Fanny
Garena Of Africa
Carry1st raises $20 million to create the "Garena of Africa"
Will expand into the co-development of mobile games
Track Rundown
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Sporty Expansion
Nifty Games promotes Tom Shoenhair, hires Chris Rausch
Looking to create more "authentic" sports mobile games
Industry's Best
Nominations for the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2022 are now live
Lobbying for the 23 categories – the largest number yet – closes on March 1st
Requiescat In Pace
Free Fire World Series to be held on Singapore island, Sentosa
Welcomes first collaboration of the year with Assassin’s Creed crossover event
Real World Racing
Adverty launches In-Play ad technology in first major racing title from Wolves Interactive
Adverty’s multi-patented In-Play ad technology is coming to Wolves Interactive global hit Motorbike - Traffic Racer.
Royally Funded
Royal Match sees Dream Games raise $255 million
Valued at $2.75 billion
Still Completely Free
Rocket League Sideswipe swiped 20 million downloads in 40 days
Reached number one in US and UK for December 2021
To Toronto
Ogury opens a new office in Toronto
Sandra Mackechnie joins as Country Manager
Track Rundown
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Microsoft Monopolises
Microsoft: mobile gaming key to Activision Blizzard acquisition
Firm puts mobile at the forefront of the acquisition
Schedule Reveal
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Deep Breaths
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for almost $70 billion cash
Aims to bring its franchises to players "virtually anywhere"
Another One
Nukebox Studios launches blockchain branch
Looking to invest in new evergreen franchises
Building Blockchain
Loop Games to invest $100 million to expand Pethereum.io blockchain metaverse
Initial coin offering coming soon
Adding Adtech
Nazara acquires majority stake adtech firm Datawrkz
An initial 33%, with the option to acquire a further 22% by Q4 2023
Mellowed Moba
Kabam to shut down Marvel Realm of Champions
One last hurrah before the game taken offline on March 31st
Sumo's Sold
Tencent closes acquisition of Sumo Group
Will operate under Tencent subsidiary, Tencent Bidco
Repositioning
Kabam appoints Seungwon Lee as CEO
Former CEO Tim Fields to assist in the transition
Daily Track Rundown
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Mobile In Menat
WePlay Ventures invested in more mobile companies in 2021 than console or PC
60% of portfolio is mobile games studios
Mon-thurs
Armor Games implements four-day working week
Follows announcement of Crush the Castle: Legacy Collection
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Tencent’s Aras Şenyüz on PUBG Mobile’s localization strategy
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Yet To Impress
Netflix brings three more casual games to iOS and Android
Plans to add more genres in the future
Curtailed Copycats
Update: Apple shuts down Wordle clones on App Store
App Store guidelines tell developers to "come up with your own ideas"
Protecting Pandora
Avatar: Reckoning heading to iOS and Android in 2022
Closed beta coming soon
Action Advances
Genshin Impact drove US Action mobile game spending in 2021
Hypercasual was the most downloaded genre
Providing Predictions
Newzoo: Apple and Google will open up app marketplaces in 2022
Expectations for the next year
Boosting Blockchain
Forte acquires N3twork tech platform to boost blockchain growth
Will form new games focused studio, N3twork Studios
Breaking New Ground
Adverty adds two new mobile first-person shooter games through partnership with Blayze Games
In-Play ads bring new revenue to Bullet Force and Forward Assault, which have more than 30 million combined global downloads
Metaverse Making Together
Yahaha Studios secures $50 million to build "no-code" UGC metaverse
Aimed at users with all levels of skill to create games
Prevailing Partnership
Anzu and Ubisoft extend partnership after 'exceptional results'
The 2020 partnership continues
Four New Games
Mighty Kingdom and East Side Games partner to co-develop four mobile games
Two-year partnership will leverage original and existing IP
At It Again
Krafton sues Garena, Apple, and Google over Free Fire copyright infringement
Demands the app be removed and damages paid
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Airnow Acquires
Airnow acquires mobile growth firm Lab Cave
CEO Luis Bertó will continue to lead
B2c Pro
Thunderful brings on former Playstation exec Kathrin Strangfeld
Reshuffles executive team
Almighty Acquisitions
Mobile games deals reached $15.5 billion in 2021, says Drake Star
Topped $85 billion in games deals across the board
Apple Alterations
Apple to make third-party payments available in South Korea
In accordance with change in law
Crypto Jam
Homa Games brings Sorare’s NFT Legend Cards to mobile gaming in new jam edition
Homa Games is building on Sorare's blockchain infrastructure to give life to legends like Cruyff and Platini in mobile games. Registration is now open.
Now With Nfts
Sulake enables use of NFT avatars in Habbo
Distributing in-game perks through Immutable X
Goat
App Annie: consumers spent $116 billion on mobile games in 2021
App Annie report Roblox and Genshin Impact boost player spending
Broadening The Board
Playtika brings Dana Gross and Hong Du onto the board
Brings total board members to seven
Getting Comfortable
PUBG Mobile takes top spot in December 2021 at $244 million
China makes up over half of all revenue for the battle royale