Sio2
Ubisoft launches Quartz NFT platform
Available from 9 December strictly for Ghost Recon Breakpoint on PC
Exploring The Metaverse
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Covid-19 Safety
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Socially Interactive Experience
Nexon partners with Games Workshop to develop Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
Bringing Warhammer to a "socially interactive" player-versus-environment world
Non-disruptive Ads
Frameplay raises $8 million for seamless, non-disruptive ads
Backed by Hiro Capital and Razer
Revenue Riser
Developers on Flexion's platform see a 10% boost in revenue
Google Play games can be brought to Huawei, Amazon, Samsung and more
The Money Man
Amber appoints former Disney and EA exec Roie Chizik as CFO
Brings over 20 years of financial expertise
Global Gaming
Tencent launches new publishing division Level Infinite
Bolstering with Warhammer and Arena of Valor
Still Rising
Mobile games will generate $89.6 billion by the end of 2021
Honor of Kings earns $2.9 billion
Exciting Reveal
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Chocolate Frog Hunt
Jam City partners with No Kid Hungry for in-game event in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Players complete community goals to unlock charitable donations towards the campaign
Gen X Gamers
Tapjoy finds 77% of Gen X play mobile games daily
Match-3 is the generation's preferred genre
Indie Investments
MGVC invests $2 million into Square Triangle and Talerock
Acquires minority stakes in both studios
Machamp Milestone
Pokémon Unite surpasses 50 million downloads in four months
Total downloads across iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch
A Joint Journey
Green Grey invests up to $1.1 million in Megu Games
The fifth Green Grey public deal in mobile games since June
Multiplayer Pac-man
Facebook and Genvid launch Pac-Man Community
A Facebook-exclusive multiplayer spin on the classic arcade game
Strengthening Studios
Tiplay Studio raises $500,000 at $25 million valuation
Funding to scale team and advance development
Redundancies And Redeployment
Lockwood Publishing makes 10% of staff redundant
Accused of unlawful redundancies by IWGB union
Mobile In Mena
Tamatem Games raises $11 million for MENA expansion, backed by Krafton
Brings total funding to $17 million
Exciting Events
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Mobile Master Chief
20% of Xbox Cloud Gaming subscribers use touch controls exclusively
Games include Hades, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest XI and more
Esports Expansion
Esports group 100 Thieves raises $60 million at $460 million valuation
Yearly revenue increases 111%
Mega Milestone
Gismart surpasses over one billion mobile games and apps downloads
Over 450 million mobile games downloads since 2019
Fantasy Is Final
Japanese game sector to hit $22 billion in 2021
Players prefer single player RPGs within a fantasy setting
Excluding Exclusives
No exclusive titles for Steam Deck, says Valve
Steam Deck front page will feature only deck verified titles
Dead Good
N3twork scaled Idle Necromancer's DAUs by 970%
Surge in DAUs and revenue in the first month
Building On Bingo
AviaGames' new Bingo Tour allows players to win cash in online tournaments
Bringing bingo to a new generation of social gamers
Time To Conquer
Lineage 2M launches in North America and Europe
Open world adventure with 10,000 player capacity
Inside Track
Voodoo shares the secrets of hypercasual development at Paris HQ
The mobile publisher's real-world educational events have returned
Don't Interrupt Me
Playstack launches Interact SDK for less interruptive mobile game ads
Offers three methods of non-interruptive ad monetisation
Breezy
Talewind raises $3.4 million for casual Roblox experience Breezy Bay
Animal Crossing meets Runescape in Roblox
Gotiva’s Got It
Sarajevo startup Gotiva Games raises $250,000 for NFT social puzzle games
Debut title scheduled for Q2 2022
European Expansion
Wildlife Studios is opening a new mobile games studio in Sweden
Heading to Europe in search of the best developers
Expanded Support
Game Insight to bring casual games portfolio to desktop and web
Currently has five games playable on its site
Making Millions
Mobile blockchain game Guild of Guardians raises $5.3 million
Raised $18.8 million in total
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Apple Awards
League of Legends: Wild Rift voted Apple’s iPhone Game of the Year
Marvel Future Revolution wins iPad Game of the Year
There Was A Spark
Electric Manta partners with Sunday to create hypercasual games
Providing a one-stop-shop for casual, hybrid, and hyper games
Lowkey Hires
Niantic hires the majority of social platform Lowkey's staff
Hired the majority of the team
Create To Dominate
Sneaky Panda raises $6 million for novel 'luck-puzzler' mobile games
Debut title scheduled to release next year
Ad Asia
Adverty partners with Livewire to continue growth of in-game advertising across Asia Pacific
Brings Adverty's in-game ad inventory locally to Asia Pacific
Blockchain Branding
Gamevil rebrands as Com2uS Holdings to focus on blockchain and NFT projects
Solidifies shift towards play-to-earn games
Character Crossover
Plarium partners with Navi to bring S1mple to Raid: Shadow Legends
In-game event lasting two months
Beast Boosts Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars US downloads surge 350% following sponsorship of Mr Beast's Squid Game
Approximately 324 million lifetime downloads
In-game Commerce
Sayollo launches direct-to-consumer in-game marketplace gComm
Allows users to purchase products without leaving games
What Matches Match 3
Dream Games' Royal Match leads match-3 D30 retention at 16.5%
App Annie takes a deep dive into retention
Innovative Tracks
20 tracks revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022
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Sideswipe Soccer
Epic Games and Psyonix launch Rocket League Sideswipe worldwide
Soft launched in Oceania earlier this month with pre-season
Crossover Celebration
Free Fire crossover with Money Heist gets a second run
Includes new missions, themed items and social media engagement activities
Ad Analysis
37 second video ads are most effective for hypercasual games
So claims Liftoff Vungle