Expanding
Madfinger Games raises $6 million from Nuverse
"We are thrilled to have Nuverse on board..."
Return Of The King
ESA launches E3 2021 dedicated app for "first-ever virtual experience"
Exhibitor Booths, Lounges, Forums, Leaderboards and more
Quiz Questions
Pokémon, Call of Duty, PUBG and which other 2 IP-based games generated $1.4 billion in the US during 2020?
Pokémon GO earned close to $480 million
Mystery Box
Microsoft partners with Call of Duty: Mobile developer Timi Studios on mysterious project
Is another Xbox franchise mobile-bound?
Diy
Hiberworld crosses 1 million user created games
UGC platform growing fast
Imagine A New Logo
Discord's new branding is friendlier than ever
Growing pains
New View
Rovio teams up with Burger King to offer Angry Birds plushies and AR game
Uses Zappar's tech
Another Add
Krafton snaps up mobile games studio Dreamotion
Building out the plan
Sweet Numbers
Animoca Brands raises $88,888,888 to fuel blockchain game growth
Values the company at $1 billion
Doubling Down
Nexon's 2021 Q1 revenue grows 7% to $806 million
Generating $420 million profit
Risky Business
Apple App Store rejected 1 million apps in 2020
The walled garden remains high
Tricky Times
EA's 2021 mobile revenue was $781 million
Total revenue rises to $5.6 billion
Streaming
Blacknut releases cloud gaming service for iOS
Progressive web app is live
Over 450 Staff
Jagex expands product, analytics and data science teams
"We are thrilled to be in a position where we can continue to expand..."
Not For Sale
Why Life is Strange dev Dontod rejected several M&A proposals
But did sell a minority stake to Tencent
Lobbying Time
10 days left to submit your game or team to the PG Mobile Games Awards 2021
Nominations close midnight Friday May 21st, people
Mansion Life
Word Mansion surpasses one million installs
Word puzzle game launched in September 2020
New Direction
Ubisoft to focus on triple-A free-to-play games going forward
"This is purely a financial communication evolution..."
Private Beta
Niantic renames Real World Platform to Lightship, offering more access
Access to suite of tools that power Niantic games
Dark Horse
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby storms mobile revenue chart for April 2021, Honor of Kings still top
CyberAgent developed title launched in February 2021
Incoming
Case filed against Apple in the UK to compensate 20 million iOS users
Claims of monopolistic behaviour
More Data
Apptopia raises $20 million in Series C funding
Expanding tech for more nuaunced insights
Blox Party
Roblox revenue up 140% to $387 million in Q1 2021
Looking to hire more engineering talent
Au Revoir
Simon Prytherch exits Kwalee to return to "deeper games"
But enjoyed his 18 months in hypercasual
Full Vision
Supersonic launches new hypercasual analytics plaform LiveGames
Part of its new business-focused initiative
Teaching
YoYo Games launches game-making tutorial Little Town for students
A new way to learn Game Maker Studio 2
Beyond Games
Roblox: In the metaverse, we can improve on reality
Roblox's Morgan Tucker on that Lil Nas X concert
Voluntary Organisation
UK video games charity GamesAid raises $85,000
Multiple small charities to benefit
Delight
Turkish-developed mobile games accounted for 20% of US top 100
10th largest country for angel and VC investments
"financial Stability"
Nintendo willing to utilise $9 billion war chest for acquisitions - when needed
Next Level Games purchase was first in a decade
Staffing Up
Outright Games announces mobile division
Six new senior roles for fast-growing company
Boom Times
BoomBit Group tripled revenues to $35.7 million in 2020
Net proft rose to $3.7 million
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The Big 5
Voodoo crossed five billion downloads
Hypercasual keeps on growing
Big Brain Time
BigBrain raises $4.5 million in funding to launch real-money trivia game
Going live later in 2021
Upside
Fyber's 2020 revenue soars 76% to $255 million
And continues to grow during Q1 2021
Watching
Twitch mobile app hits 22 million installs in Q1 2021, up 62%
81 million total installs made in 2021
Division Multiplied
Tom Clancy's The Division coming to mobile
New free-to-play title and movie still in works
Got Your Number
China announces a new playtime logging system for all gamers
CCP tightening the screws
Bigger Cash
Zynga pays Small Giant $240 million in second performance earn-out
And one more payment is due
New Blood
Ace Games raises $7 million in seed funding
Ex-Peak co-founder starts again
Testing Times
Post-Covid, Newzoo expects games market to decline (slightly) in 2021
But mobile will rise to $90 billion
One Game One Country
Krafton announces Battlegrounds Mobile India
New version following original's ban
Mobile First
Mobile to drive Brazil games market to $2.3 billion in 2021
Largest market by games revenue in Latin America
Exit Strategy
Stadia sees talent exodus as multiple executives join Jade Raymond's Haven
Jumping ship
Watch Out Wii
As Switch nears 85 million units sold, Nintendo FY21 revenue grows 37% to $16 billion
Set to overtake Wii in next financial year
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Big Deal
Zynga acquires adtech outfit Chartboost for $250 million in cash
Vertical consolidation happening
More Jobs
Kwalee plans to invest $30 million into India over the next five years
Hypercasual co continues to grow
Upsell
Skillz's Q1 FY21 revenues jumps 92% to $84 million
Raises full year guidance