Luigi Time!
Nintendo is releasing an interactive Luigi LEGO set
Adventures With Luigi Starter Course will retail for $59.99
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PGC Digital: 5 billion downloads of Unity-developed apps are made every month
94 of the top 100 development studios by revenue use the software
Check Those Ads
Vulcron partners with ADInMo for Pixel Strike 3D monetisation
Earning more plus better retention
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PGC Digital: Can your mobile game go hyper?
"You will have to fail many times in order to win"
Going Public
Master the Meta: Reflecting on AppLovin’s $2 billion IPO
The past, present, and future of this business
Get Hyped
Supersonic hosting its second hypercasual contest with a $200,000 prize from 1 May
Runners up will be awarded $150,000
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PGC Digital: Publisher or self-publish?
It comes down to time and money
In The Clouds
Microsoft rolls out Xbox Cloud Gaming beta for iOS
Via web browsers
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Boomzap's Christopher Natsuume discusses losing money and time on passion project Last Regiment
Boomzap's Christopher Natsuume dives into his most recent failure
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PGC Digital: Fundamentally Games' path to becoming a publisher
Our goal was to fill a gap in the market
Beyond Idfa
iOS 14.5 is (very) nearly here! Are you ready for the mobile marketing implications?
Free ticket offer to today's PocketGamer.biz Summit: Beyond IDFA
Save The Planet
Wooga pledges up to $20,000 to reforestation charity TreeSisters
Through its Root to Rise campaign
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PGC Digital: Fingersoft's Markus Vahtola on what it means to be a CFO in games
"We love high velocity and enjoy our relaxed yet professional culture"
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PGC Digital: Imperia Online closes in on six million mobile downloads
Android accounted for 3.9 million or 66% of total
Apex Predator
Apex Legends Mobile entering soft launch in India and the Philippines on Android
Won't include cross-play
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PGC Digital: Leveraging game jams for brands
"Game jams are a special kind of opportunity for brands"
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PGC Digital: When to monetise and acquire users in Asia
Each country has different seasonal events
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PGC Digital: Valheim publisher Coffee Stain on 5 factors for virality
Working on making it fun to watch
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PGC Digital: What is gaming's post-Covid normal?
"I think that our industry is uniquely positioned... to overcome challenges"
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PGC Digital: People 45 years and older make up nearly a third of mobile gamers
43% of women play more than five times a week
Building
Hiber's funding hits $4.5 million, also adds Eros Resmini to board
Swedish UGC platform scaling
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PGC Digital: MENA games market to hit $6 billion in 2021
So saysArslan Kiran, Yoozoo Games' CEO of YooZoo and MENA
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PGC Digital: China will be 32% global games revenue in 2021
"China's gaming market is growling larger and larger"
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PGC Digital: The evolution of casual games
"Casual gamers in terms of mastery and experience have moved on"
Special Shoutout
Massive thank you to our amazing sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
Shining the spotlight on the finest companies supporting us for our next online conference - meet them next week!
Crash Cow
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run generated $700,000 in first week
Runner nears 38 million global downloads
On And On
Now coming to Xbox, Gameloft announces one billion Asphalt installs
First launched in 2005 for DS and N-Gage
Just Fantasy?
Update: Square Enix dismisses acquisition rumours
"This report is not based on any announcement"
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Thank The Skate Gods
Nintendo's Indie World Showcase spotlights Oxenfree 2, Olli Olli World and Road 96
21 games giving new looks or debuted in presentation
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Good Lord
Lords Mobile revenue surpasses $2 billion following battle pass introduction
Now doing +$80 million a month
My Hero
Rovio launches midcore strategy game Darkfire Heroes
First game from Copenhagen studio
Head2head
Jambox Games raises $1.1 million for its competitive casual gaming platform
Targeting southeast Asia
Cashin
AppLovin IPO raises $2 billion
25 million shares sold
Making Bank
Pixel Federation generated $56 million in 2020, up 52%
Diggy's Adventure was top seller
Get Brainstorming
Jet Play launches its AI ideation platform Ludo
From $20 a month
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Discover Industry Visions and Values at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Networking Heads
Here’s who you could meet at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
From talented indie studios to top investors, publishers and platform holders
Better Games
Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event runs 20-21 April
Learn to make better games
On The Horizon
Epic teams with Sony to bring Aloy to Fortnite
Deepening ties
Welcome To The Family
ByteDance snaps up Chinese developer C4games
Via subsidiary Nuverse
Up Close And Persona
Perfect World is bringing Persona to mobile
Confirmed for release in China
Pick Me Up
Testing platform PickFu launches PickFu for Games
Allowing developers to conduct consumer research
Goty Time
Nominate the best mobile game of 2020
Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards - now open
Idfa Reboot
Swaarm launches its Privacy Enabled Attribution Chain for fixing UA
Attribution throughout the chain with privacy
Back You Up
LEGO Ventures invests in learning platform Area9 Lyceum
Shared ideals
That's Epic
Epic raises $1 billion at a $29 billion valuation
To fuel its vision for the metaverse
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Get competitive with the esports and influencers track at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6
One of 17 featured tracks
Play Time
One year on, games industry recommits to #PlayApartTogether
Zynga is one of many partners