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Slush Hires
Slush appoints former COO and head of program as new CEO and president
Miika Huttunen and Oona Poropudas take the top spots
Soft Launch
Pocket Gems pushes into "mature" storytelling with soft-launched Ivy: Stories We Play
Available on iOS in Australia and New Zealand
Job News
Yoan Joncheret joins Homa Games as its new head of design
Former Ketchapp publishing lead jumps to new hypercasual studio
The Prodigal Son
Playstack brings back product manager Aaron Ludlow as new head of product
Overseeing an "exciting game franchise" and new growth area
Cut To The Race
ZeptoLab soft-launches Om Nom: Run following Cut the Rope success
Available on Android in the Philippines
Keep It Safe
The BBC launches its first online mobile game for children
No microtransactions or loot boxes
Big Indie Pitch
Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 sees Mousetrap Games become a two time winner of The Big Indie Pitch
Check out the top 5 from our flagship Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020
Subscription Service
Fire Emblem Heroes looking to bolster revenues with new subscription pass
The Feh Pass is coming for $9.49 a month
Mediatonic Leamington
Gears Pop developer Mediatonic to open new studio in Leamington Spa
Hiring for artists and engineers right now
Wild Investment
Supercell invests $1.1 million in new Stockholm-based developer Wild Games
CEO Robert Wasser tells us why he's moving from console AAA to mobile indie
Ubisoft Goes Idle
Ubisoft moves further into mobile with acquisition of Kolibri Games
75 per cent stake purchased
Big Business
Barclays offering $130,000 minimum loans to games developers
Companies in the UK can register now
Financials
EA's mobile digital net revenue decreased by $51 million last quarter
Company still "conscious" of Nintendo Switch
Follow Your Heart
Update: Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road arrives on iOS and Android this Spring
More details to arrive in February
China Bound
EA confirms partnership for Apex Legends on mobile
"We're very excited about the opportunity"
Sensor Tower
Sony's Fate/Grand Order accumulates over $4 billion in lifetime revenue
Top grossing title in Japan for 2019
Give Back
House House to donate at least 1% of its profits to Australia's Indigenous groups
It's part of the Pay The Rent initiative
Fix It
The ESA is planning to "shake things up" for E3 2020
People are encouraged to get in touch with ideas
Here's The Facts
Coin Master was the top-earning mobile title in Europe in 2019
Overall mobile games brought in $7.4 billion
Gotta Catch 'em All
Pokemon Masters exceeds 20 million trainers
1,500 gems are being given to players to celebrate
Triple Deal
Scopely scores partnership with Mattel and Hasbro for new Scrabble mobile game
Scrabble GO is a new free-to-play experience
Blue Shelled
Unofficial Mario Kart experience ordered to pay $458,000 in damages to Nintendo
Mari Mobility Development must pay five times originally cost
Refining Reflections
GameRefinery acquires app developer market insight firm Reflection.io
Platforms will be integrated for better analysis
Nintendo Q3 2019 Financials
Nintendo Switch tops 52 million sales, surpasses SNES
Over 300 million software sales in less than three years
Developer Satisfaction
Conditions for working in the games industry are improving, according to the IGDA
Sexism and racisim are still giving the sector a bad name
Courtroom Drama
Riot Games slates the $400 million figure California state claims it own its employees
The lawsuit is for alleged gender discimination
Apple Q1 2020 Financials
Apple posts record quarterly sales of $91.8 billion thanks to iPhone and wearables growth
Profits grow 11.4 per cent year-on-year for Q1 2020
Rng Redundancies
Independent developer RNG Studios lays off four employees
Current project has been put in hiatus
Never Die
Com2uS is working on a new The Walking Dead mobile game
Has also invested in IP holder Skybound
Minor Adjustments
Adjust appoints Bill Kiriakis and Silvia Buermann to senior global sales team
Experience from App Annie, Adobe, Zignal Labs and more
Staffing Up
Lockwood Publishing expands into Lisbon with new office
Applications are now open for those interested in joining
Simple, Faster
Hypercasual mobile game publishing platform Coda raises $4 million from LVP
London startup closes large seed round
Battle 'em All
Niantic rolls out Pokemon GO Battle League preseason worldwide
Pikachu Libre exclusively found within
Good Eggs
Ustwo gains 'business for good' B Corp status
Business synergies
Daunting Acquisition
Free Fire studio Garena acquires Phoenix Labs for an estimated $150 million
100 developers now under "Garena family"
Nintendo's Billion
Nintendo's mobile games have cleared $1 billion in revenue combined
Fire Emblem Heroes still leads the pack at $656 million
...what?
Atari pens deal to launch branded hotels across the US
First hotel breaking ground in Phoenix, AZ this year
Stateside Return
Find out what awaits you at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle
Two-day games industry conference makes its return Stateside - read on to see what it has to offer!
Rolling Out
Huawei approved for 5G across the UK in restricted capacity
"Reassured by the UK government's confirmation"
Partnership
Square Enix and Suntory partner for Dragon Quest Walk missions via Japanese vending machines
14,000 can be found across the country
Job News
Miniclip appoints Tencent's Jurgen Post as new CEO
Former CEO Rob Small moves to board president
Ukie Report
UK game companies employ over 16,000 people and contribute $1.75 billion to the local economy
Data collated from 2,100 games businesses in 2016
Sales Spike
Plague Inc. developer Ndemic Creations warns players to look elsewhere for coronavirus information
"Not a scientific model"
Indie Investor Pitch
Sign ups for Interactive Futures' Indie Investor Pitch closing soon
Get 20 minutes of undivided attention on your game
New Deal
US and China proposed console tariffs postponed indefinitely
"There's a lot of work to do ahead"
Niche Success
KamaGames' Video Poker game boasts 49% Day-1 retention
US is the key market
Blizzard In The Cloud
Activision Blizzard and Google sign up for strategic "multi-year" streaming partnership
YouTube becomes exclusive streaming partner outside of China
Kwalee Pr Hires
Hypercasual studio Kwalee shakes up PR team with two new hires
Richard Paul and Matt Suckley join the team
Amplified River
Leo's Fortune creator opens new studio River End Games with Amplifier Game Invest
Anders Hejdenberg heads up the new developer with Karl Broström