Money Money Money
ByteDance wants to value TikTok at $60 billion in its US deal
Oracle and Walmart would acquire 12.5 per cent and 7.5 per cent respecitvely
Funding
Mobile Premier League raises $90 million in Series C funding
"Even in an environment as challenging as the current one, we are impressed with the success and accessibility of the platform concept"
Temporary Protection
Judge protects WeChat from Trump's executive order
"It has put in scant little evidence that its effective ban of WeChat for all US users addresses those concerns"
Most Read
Hot Five: PUBG Mobile revenue tops August, Storm8's Amber Okamura talks remote working, and everything you need to know about IDFA changes
The hottest articles of last week
Takin' Care Of Business
Mobile games jobs weekly: Stillfront acquires Nanobit, Keywords picks up Heavy Iron Studios, and Embracer pushes into VR
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming
Switch It Up
Kwalee is jumping onto Nintendo Switch with updated version of TENS! later this year
Was first released in 2017 on mobile
Series A Funding
Bunch secures $20 million in Series A funding
"At Bunch, we are creating one way for players to connect with friends inside and outside of their favourite games"
Money Money Money
Unity makes $1.3 billion through its IPO on NYSE
Company valued at $13.7 billion
"life-work Balance"
PGC Helsinki Digital: "It's not about working from home, it's about freedom of location," says former Sony director Shahid Ahmad
Commented was made during 'Going Indie After Covid' panel
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The current state and the future of mobile esports
"Mobile esports will mainstream esports. Mobile reaches a larger and more diverse audience than PC and Console Games
"push The Boundaries"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Why video games are "empathy machines"
Nyamakop producer Limpho Moeti spoke about the importance of subversion
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The role of esports in education
"The opportunity to engage the demographic of young people"
This Week In Asia
This Week in Asia: Black Desert franchise hits $1.7 billion revenue as Nintendo ceases 3DS production
The biggest stories from across Asia
Pgc Helsinki Digital
PGC Helsinki Digital: Forming partnerships with brands
"Logo placement is 50 per cent of the battle. But in an esports and a gaming world, an audience is far more savvy and will not necessarily be convinced by a logo on a website"
"hilarious Failure"
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Fall Guys' success was built off the feeling of schadenfreude
Mediatonic senior game designer Arran Topalian on the psychology of players
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Virtualising esports and how it shapes the future of competitive gaming
"Esports is already quite a virtual thing"
Metawear
Metacore secures $29.6 million from Supercell as it rebrands from Everywear Games
Also launches Merge Mansion with impressive day-30 retention
Stillfront Acquisition
Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million
$100 million now, up to $48 million in 2023
Downloads
Scribble Rider secures the most downloads for August 2020
It racked up 44.6 million
Farewell
Nintendo says goodbye to 3DS production
"We can confirm that the manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended"
New Hardware
Facebook officially reveals Oculus Quest 2
Hardware starts shipping next month, comes with $299 price tag
Heating Up
Apple asks the court to prevent Epic's Fortnite injunction
"Epic is a saboteur, not a martyr"
Welcome To The Family
Keywords acquires Heavy Iron Studios
Developer has worked on Marvel's Avengers, the Call of Duty series, and Disney Infinity in the past
Pgc Helsinki Digital
PGC Helsinki Digital: The future of live streaming and interactive gaming
"In order for games to be successful in this space, we need to look at the success from other media"
Rovio Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Get your next job with Rovio
UX and server developer roles featured
Pgc Helsinki Digital
PGC Helsinki Digital: Making sales predictions for premium PC Games
"If the game is a success, making some predictions on DLC could bring money in"
Pgc Helsinki Digital
PGC Helsinki Digital: Plotting a path in interesting times
"The actual transition over the first couple of weeks was okay"
Boogie Down
PGC Helsinki Digital: Things to consider when running music events in your game
Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples
Designing Live Ops
PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind
Starting with, does your game really need live ops?
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PGC Helsinki Digital: What is happening at ID@Xbox
"We have a lot of developers reaching out to us to discuss Game Pass"
Proving Popular
Nintendo's mobile games library hits 650 million downloads
Across seven apps
All In One
Apple to roll all services into one subscription
Apple One will have a starting price of $14.95 per month
Acquisition
Gameloft acquires interactive series specialist The Other Guys
"The unique style and the highly immersive stories make the interactive series app increasingly popular"
Sponsored
Huawei commits to AppGallery as applications continue growth
Since launching, AppGallery has exceeded 400 million monthly active users
Join Us
Among Us hits 86.6 million downloads two years after release
It had a huge spike in downloads in August and September
New Acquisition
Embracer Group picks up VR firm Vertigo Games
THQ Nordic parent company made the acquisition through its Koch Media subsidiary
"speed Is Essence"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Kwalee accumulates 425 million lifetime downloads
Milestone was confirmed by Kwalee publishing manager Allan Adham
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Five things about autonomous teams
"If we give our games team the freedom to try new things, they also have to accept the responsibility that goes with that"
Time Is Money
PGC Helsinki Digital: The common missteps of an indie hypercasual studio
Umami Games CEO Riley Andersen shared the struggles of her early free-to-play career
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Why Crazy Labs thinks now is the time to get into hypercasual
"It takes a lot of time and tries and failure on the way. But with talented teams, you can do it very fast"
Two Billion Users
PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming
Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Designing compelling narratives for a mobile audience
"We should make sure that we invest the same amount of time into our characters as we are expecting from our players"
Apple Special Event
Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 6 and eighth-generation iPads
September Special Event adds a handful of new products
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Data Breach
Razer accidentally leaks info of over 100,000 customers
Data including phone numbers, email and mailing address were made public on website
Money Money Money
Pearl Abyss' Black Desert franchise breaks $1.7 billion in lifetime revenue
"We've reached dizzying heights and continue to strive towards making the best games in the world"
Not In The Clouds
Take-Two's Zelnick continues to play down cloud gaming hype
Exec says that the market for video games isn't going to expand in the way people think thanks to this new tech
Money Money Money
PUBG Mobile shoots through the most revenue in August 2020
It generated $221 million
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Learning from Fingersoft's new game development funnel
"The best part about this whole funnel is that we can give everyone that works for us equal opportunities to create games"
"dominant"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Loot boxes are still the "number one monetisation method used in core games" globally on mobile
App Annie senior insights market manager Lexi Sydow confirmed this during a Superstar Session