October 26, 2020

Investor Summit

Explore the latest developments, trends and investment opportunities in the games industry with the Games Industry Investment Summit 2020

Your essential guide to the latest trends and opportunities in the world's fastest growing entertainment industry

October 26, 2020

Money Money Money

VSPN raises $100 million in funding round led by Tencent

"VSPN's long-term company vision and leading position in esports production is vital for Tencent to optimise the layout of the esports industry's development."

October 26, 2020

Ip Expansion

Webzen to release popular webtoon Slave B in France through Delitoon

October 26, 2020

Most Read

Hot Five: EA Removes Plants vs. Zombies 3, Playtika going public, and Dragalia Lost director talks two-year anniversary

The hottest articles of last week

October 23, 2020

This Week In Asia

This Week in Asia: Dragalia Lost nears $150m global revenue and Honor of Kings is September's top earning title

Keep up to date with the hottest stories and developments from Asia

October 23, 2020

Friends!

Admix partners with Fumb Games for player-friendly advertising

"Admix is full of passionate engineers that love playing games and building scalable platforms"

October 23, 2020

Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight: EA's Chong Anh on how China is set to launch its first AAA experiences

PGC Digital #4 kicks off November 9th

October 23, 2020

Pgc Digital

Be in the know with the Marvelous MENA track at Pocket Gamer Connects Digtial #4

One of 16 featured tracks

October 23, 2020

Takin' Care Of Business

Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Sumo appoints Codemasters vet, Rovio looking for more hires, and Devolver acquires Serious Sam maker

The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming

October 23, 2020

Sponsored

How to maximise mobile revenue on Android

Engage fans while saving time, money and resources

October 23, 2020

Moving On

Minecraft players will need a Microsoft account from 2021

To increase account security

October 23, 2020

Welcome To The Family

Scopely snaps up match-three developer Genjoy

Will join Scopely's operations in Spain

October 23, 2020

Put Em Up

Call of Duty: Mobile shoots its way through 300 million downloads

In just over one year

October 23, 2020

Welcome Aboard

Riot Games welcomes Jason Bunge as its first-ever CMO

"I'm thrilled to join Riot, a company with an unwavering commitment to players and one of the leaders in gaming and entertainment"

October 23, 2020

Pay Up

Stadia creative director Hutchinson insists streamers should pay royalties

Google has distanced itself, the tweets "do not reflect those of Stadia, YouTube or Google"

October 22, 2020

Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight: CCP Games brand manager on how the games industry can thrive despite COVID

PGC Digital #4 kicks off November 9th

October 22, 2020

Lost In Translation?

Dragalia Lost nears $150 million worldwide revenue, Japan accounts for 50%

Action RPG now sits at fourth spot for top-grossing Nintendo mobile titles

October 22, 2020

Play Time

Gen Z mobile users more likely to play games, but spend less time in top titles

Those 25 and over are more likely to stick with the same game

October 22, 2020

Yodo1

Yodo1’s guide to publishing your mobile game in China, part 1: ISBN, copyright, and taxes

Part one of Yodo1's short series on how to publish in China

October 22, 2020

Welcome Aboard

AppsFlyer welcomes Adam Smart as its new director of product for gaming

"We recognised the need to add even more depth to our Gaming team and Adam has this experience in spades"

October 22, 2020

Two Become One

Devolver picks up Serious Sam developer Croteam

No figure placed on the deal, first acquisition for the indie publisher

October 22, 2020

Pgc Digital

Get up to speed with Global Trends at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

One of 16 featured tracks

October 22, 2020

Welcome Aboard

Devolver Digital welcomes Fée Heyer as its new head of licensing

"I am delighted to join Devolver and Mediatonic to assist them in finding the right partners for what is starting to look like a phenomenon rarely seen before"

October 22, 2020

Partnered Up

Unity partners with Playing for the Planet to further its commitment to social responsibility

As well as Pledge 1% and Rare Beauty

October 22, 2020

Quibye

Streaming platform Quibi shuts down after six months

"Likely for one of two reasons: because the idea itself wasn't strong enough to justify a standalone streaming service or because of our timing"

October 22, 2020

Building Up

Roblox surpasses $2 billion in player spending on mobile

Generated $500 million in five months

October 22, 2020

Unmissable

The speakers you won't want to miss at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

Our most anticipated highlights from the 20+ expert speakers and 16 themed tracks, Nov 9-13

October 21, 2020

Money Money Money

MAG Interactive brought in nearly $25 million over 12 months

"Q4 revenues grew more than 28 per cent compared to the same period last year"

October 21, 2020

Loot Boxes

EA faces Canadian class action lawsuit over loot boxes

Publisher facing legal action over its implementation of the business model

October 21, 2020

Coming Through

Project Cars is racing its way on to mobile devices

“We’re working closely with the masters of racing sims and true fans of the sport at Slightly Mad Studios to meld the ultra-realism of Project Cars Go with streamlined mechanics and design"

October 21, 2020

Talking Strategy

Blizzard veterans raise $4.7m to fund new studio Frost Giant

Venture to focus on real-time strategy titles

October 21, 2020

Pgc Digital

Learn how to grow your games at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

One of 16 featured tracks

October 21, 2020

Lacking Trust

The US government files an antitrust lawsuit against Google

"Countless advertisers must pay a toll to Google's search advertising and general search text advertising monopolies"

October 21, 2020

Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight: Call of Duty: Mobile associate product manager on how publishing will evolve

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital kicks off November 9th

October 21, 2020

It's A Party

Latin Grammy winner J Balvin will headline Epic's Fortnitemares event

"I am always looking for innovative ways to connect with fans that have been so incredibly supportive of my career and music, as well as gain exposure to future fans"

October 21, 2020

Catch Em All

Niantic partners with Verizon for US exclusive Pokémon Go content

The Special Weekend event will take place on November 7th

October 21, 2020

Fringe Events

Find the next step in your career, or meet your next business partner, publisher or investor online at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

Fringe benefits: beyond the conference talks and panels, there are multiple events for networking with over 1,500 industry professionals over the internet next

October 20, 2020

Get Angry!

Angry Birds are invading Topgolf to offer a new interactive experience

Across all US venues

October 20, 2020

Blast Off

Nokia to deploy 4G/LTE network in space

"The mission-critical LTE network we have developed has been specially designed to withstand the extreme temperature, radiation and vacuum conditions of space"

October 20, 2020

Helping Hand

DreamHack partners with Sweden Game Arena to support the Sweden Game Conference

"Coming together as a community is one of the key components of gaming culture"

October 20, 2020

Huge Digital Events

All three of our online conferences have been amazing - find out why you should attend Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

4,000+ attendees, 2,000+ companies, 8,000+ meetings conducted and 88 unique countries represented from all of our digital events so far...

October 20, 2020

Getting Competitive

UK trade body Ukie outlines ways to increase esports sector

New research shows that country's pro-gaming sector saw 8.5% jobs increase annually between 2016 and 2019

October 20, 2020

Schedule Revealed

Conference schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

Find out what’s happening at next month’s online-only mobile games industry conference

October 20, 2020

Welcome Aboard

Sumo Leamington appoints Codemasters vet as technical director

“Although a lot has changed during my time in the industry, my commitment to video games remains the same"

October 20, 2020

Come One Come All

Update: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Twitch stream peaks at 430,000 viewers

A range of popular streamers will join her

October 20, 2020

It's An Honour

Honor of Kings reigns supreme as the top-earning mobile game in September

Followed by fellow Tencent title PUBG Mobile

October 20, 2020

Riddle Solver

June's Journey saw 178,000 try to solve its Railway Riddles campaign

"We are incredibly grateful to our dedicated community of players for their continued enthusiasm and could not be prouder of their in-game achievements yet again"

October 19, 2020

Born To Be Wild

Riot Games is launching a regional open beta for League of Legends: Wild Rift

In Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand on October 27th

October 19, 2020

Flying High

Alliance Entertainment acquires US games rental service GameFly

"We're intensely focused on listening to what our customers are telling us"

October 19, 2020

Talking Heads

Zynga, Mediatonic, EA and Raw Fury all confirmed to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4

Revealed: the third set of speakers for the fourth online-only conference in the series, this November 9-13