Igda Insight
Free mentorship available to indies with IGDA Finland and Pocket Gamer Connects Digital
Register now for online advice at the IGDA Finland Mentor Café on Thursday 11 June
Event
Blockchain games - unmissable expert insight & practical advice with Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital #1
6 Sensational seminar tracks, 60+ stunning speakers and 600+ spectators for July's online-only event
Chinajoy Goes Ahead
ChinaJoy 2020 is still taking place despite the coronavirus pandemic
Shanghai event still scheduled to take place from July 31st to August 3rd.
Welcome Aboard
Retro Studios hires Adad Morales as its new VFX lead artist
Known for Battlefield and Star Wars
Island Living
Animal Crossing: New Horizons experiences 135% increase in UK sales
It shifted 13.41 million copies in six weeks
Allons-y
BBC partners with Maze Theory and Kaigan Games for new Doctor Who mobile game
Set to materialise next year
Three-day Event
Media Indie Exchange partners with Kinda Funny for digital indie event Guerrilla Collective on June 6th-8th
Part of IGN's Summer of Gaming
Ubisoft Forward
Ubisoft to host digital showcase on July 12th
Exclusive game news, reveals and more
Special Milestone
Top Eleven celebrates 220 million downloads and seven-year partnership with José Mourinho
Developer Nordeus reveals stats surrounding 10-year anniversary of football management game
Digital Calendar
Steel Media goes online! Join us at our upcoming digital events
Connecting the global games industry through our digital conferences, pitches, round-tables and more
Safety First
Tokyo Games Show and Paris Games Week become latest victims of Covid-19
TGS moves to digital while PGW looks ahead to 2021
Newzoo Report
China games revenue set to exceed $46 billion in 2024
Mobile games revenue generated an estimated $18.5 billion in 2019
Free Webinar
Free online PG.biz RoundTable discussion series launches tomorrow
Register for a Work From Home panel featuring experts from King, Tilting Point, Voodoo, Tamatem and more
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga posts record sales, Gary Whitta discusses his Animal Crossing talk show, and Gardenscapes dethrones Candy Crush Saga
The hottest stories from the mobile games industry over the last week
Level Up
Rogue Games raises $2 million to expand to console games
Also announces new title Coreupt
This Week In China
This Week In China: Mahjong Soul sees success in Japan while Love and Producer scores its own anime
The biggest stories straight from Beijing
Welcome Aboard
Annapurna Interactive hires Capybara Games co-founder Nathan Vella
"I'm really excited to leverage my experience to help these awesome creators make the best games they can."
Uncertain Times
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick thinks people will turn to free mobile games during economic uncertainty
"Having free games on phones is going to probably be a big way to grow the audience"
Jump In
Fortnite draws in over 350 million players
As of April, people have spent 3.2 billion hours in the battle royale game
Finns Are In
Posting record sales thanks to Empires & Puzzles, Zynga pays $122 million earnout to Small Giants
Q1 2020 financials are booming
Covid-19 Impact Report
Free gifts, campaign support and adapting AR help mobile game engagement during pandemic
"COVID-19 has profoundly affected all of our lives, and no industry has gone unaffected"
Gardenscapes Growth
Playrix's Gardenscapes dethroned Candy Crush Saga for monthly global consumer spend in April 2020
App Annie confirms this is the first time Candy Crush Saga has been toppled by another match-3 game since 2012
Hells Bells
Animal Crossing: New Horizons shifts 11.77 million units in 11 days
Fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game ever
Nintendo Financials Q4 Fy19
Nintendo's mobile business grows by 11.5% year-over-year, Switch tops 55 million
Revenue up nine per cent year-on-year
Discount Ends
LAST CHANCE to save with Early Bird prices for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Prices go up at midnight TONIGHT for June’s week-long online conference - book your tickets now!
Claim A Freebie
Amazon Prime members in India to get free in-game content for mobile titles
Variety of titles included
Round The Track
Forza Street races onto mobile devices after nine months of soft launch
The game was first teased back in March 2019
In The 80s
East Side Games teams up with Sony for The Goldbergs mobile game
Based on the TV show
Reshuffle
Embracer Group subsidiaries THQ Nordic and Koch Media trade IPs in new deal
Red Faction, Sacred, Risen, Painkiller and more all involved
Ollie Ollie
Rumour: Skate 3 could be grinding its way to mobile
As revealed by pro skater Jason Dil
A Good Deed
IGDA Foundation launches Stay in the Game Relief Fund
"The work of our organisations is more important than ever right now"
Digital Conference
Save the date: Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital online-only conference, July 13-17
Early Bird discounts available now for July's blockchain gaming industry event premiere
Candy Crush Growth
Activision Blizzard revenue drops but profit increases over Q1 2020
Two new games utilising existing IP revealed too
Saved By The Bells
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp clears $150 million in lifetime revenue
$7.9 million generated and seven million installs in April 2020
"prove The Value"
EA's faith in live services rewards a nearly 200% increase in profit
Revenue rise of 11.9 per cent year-over-year
The Art Of Publishing
Discover the Art of Publishing with the pros at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #2
Dedicated content for developers looking to get their games out there delivered by top publishers at June’s online-only conference
Guess Who's Back
PewDiePie grabs exclusive streaming deal with YouTube
The creator has ditched DLive to return to his first home
Bolt From The Blue
Unity acquires scripting tool Bolt
"Bolt becoming an official Unity product is a major and exciting leap forward for visual scripting"
Sweet Investment
AppLovin invests in Supercell-backed developer Redemption Games
Terms were not disclosed
Dazzling
Dazzle Rocks raises $6.8 million in Series A funding round
Funds to be used in developing new social mobile MMO
Remote Working
Kwalee is opening its vacancies to remote workers
COVID-19 has taught some lessons
10 Years On
Infinite Lives on dropping CastleCraft's subscription model and going freemium
Players just didn't like it
Another Direction
Wargaming appoints David Smit as new creative director
Previously worked with King, Happy Tuesday, Crytek, Bigpoint, and more
Ea Play
EA Play goes digital-only for 2020
Now part of Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest
Open For Buisness
Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organisation reopens on May 7th
It was shut due to the coronavirus
Game Down
Honor of Kings crashes on Chinese Labor Day
Tencent blamed the AI
Money Money Money
iPad in-app consumer spending hit $2.1 billion in Q1 2020
With 1.11 billion new installs
Helping Veterans
Activision Blizzard donates $2 million to help veterans find employment during the COVID-19 pandemic
"We've seen a huge increase in veterans asking our partners for assistance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic"
Sensor Tower Funding
Sensor Tower secures $45 million investment from strategic partnership with Riverwood Capital
First investment since 2013
Knocked Out
Fighting games tournament Evo 2020 gets cancelled
Due to – you guessed it – coronavirus