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Assassin's Creed: Origins actor Abubakar Salim founds new UK studio Silver Rain Games
Now hiring for a "growing team of developers"
Play Apart Together
World Health Organisation teams up with games industry for #PlayApartTogether campaign
Zynga, Playtika, Kabam, Snap Games, Wooga, Glu, and more are on board
Keep Running
Update: Om Nom: Run sprints past five million downloads in a month
Launched on February 27th
Most Read
Hot Five: Coin Master's best monthly revenue ever, Brawl Stars grows amid coronavirus, and King offers unlimited lives across its games
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Leadergamer Launch
Leadergamer launches international edition Leadergamer.net
Gamer Media pushes its brand outside of Turkey
Hypercasual Domination
Hypercasual titles accounted for 78 per cent of downloads in 2019
16 of the top 20 most-installed titles were hypercasual
Jumping Ship
TT Games welcomes new president and studio head
Micheal Denny was a senior vice president for Sony
Play Inside
Minecraft Earth receives gameplay tweaks to encourage indoor play
Adventures Crystals that can be played at home have been added, along with increased Tappables
"global Fight"
Enthusiast Gaming joins forces with Twitch to raise money against COVID-19
12-hour charity stream for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO
Schedule Revealed
Conference schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
Check out what’s happening at next month’s online-only games industry conference
Gameinfluencer Ceo
GameInfluencer appoints David An as new CEO
Former MD and VP of BD at Aeria Games
Another One?
Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform
Service called GameMatric, powered by Kunpeng processor
Not So Dumb Now
Dumb Ways to Die surpasses 360 million downloads across its games catalogue
500,000 to 600,000 daily average users
Talking Heads
App Annie, Sony Pictures Entertainment, AppLovin, NCSOFT and Zynga to take part in Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
Speaker lineup for next month’s online-only conference continues to grow exponentially
Another Dive
Capcom's Shinsekai: Into the Depths is the latest Apple Arcade exclusive to jump to Switch
Adds new game modes to the original release and new port
Summer Madness
Angry Birds is coming to Netflix in 2021
40 episodes have been ordered
Esports Partnership
ESL partners up with PUBG Mobile to host competitions for the game
It is also a commercial partner
Esports Funding
Tribe Gaming raises $1 million in funding for mobile esports growth
Investors include an NBA player and WWE star
Cancelled Event
The Taipei Game Show 2020 cancelled due to the coronavirus
Some of it will be put online
Revenue Spike
Pokemon Go sees huge increase in revenue during coronavirus outbreak
An increase of 66.7 per cent week-on-week
A Legendary Deed
Riot Games gives $1.5 million to help coronavirus relief efforts
$400,000 will go to the Los Angeles food bank
Develop:brighton Delayed
Develop:Brighton delayed until November 2nd-4th as coronavirus uncertainty continues
Todd Howard still locked in as keynote speaker
Super Supercell
Supercell's Brawl Stars grows by 35% amid COVID-19 outbreak
Mobile games across the board have seen a jump of 25% too
Nvm Needs Your Help
National Videogame Museum turns to fundraising to prevent closure caused by coronavirus
Sheffield-based museum looking to raise £80,000 from donations
Oh Dear
Keywords Studios accused of insisting its staff still come to work despite the coronavirus outbreak
It has since began to practice social distancing
Money Money Money
PixelFederation brought in €31 million in revenue last year
A drop of five per cent year-on-year
A Good Deed
Facebook and Nintendo donate masks to aid against the coronavirus
720,000 and 9,500 respectively
Emerging Strategy
Covid-19 crashes MTG’s esports business but gaming revenues performing well
Difficult decisions in a dynamic situation
Hypercasual Boom
BoomBit shifts its focus to hypercasual games after success with Ramp Car Jumping
It has several games ready for Q2
Teamwork
Crytek teams up with Google to bring the Cryengine to Android
It's expected to launch later this year
Could you win the first digital Big Indie Pitch next month?
International competition goes online as part of Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1, April 6-10
Escape Reality
Update: Animal Crossing: New Horizons breaks Switch sales records in Japan and UK
The game's producer hopes it is an "escape" for people
Ninja Generosity
Ninja has donated $150,000 to help those affected by the coronavirus outbreak
Money goes to Feeding America to ensure school kids can still eat
Keyword Field Trick
Update: Games are "exploiting" coronavirus SEO on the App Store
Plague Inc. continues top paid charts
Network With Speed
Publisher SpeedMatch makes its online debut as part of the first Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1
The popular speed-dating style networking event jumps to the digital realm at the week-long online B2B games industry conference next month
Play Cards!
Gwent conjures on to Android devices
It was released on iOS last year
App Annie Top Publishers
Tencent reigns supreme as the top-grossing mobile publisher for 2020
NetEase and Activision Blizzard finish the top three
Bloxy Awards
Roblox's Bloxy Awards brings in 600,000 spectators
At is peak there were four million concurrent players
Ukiepedia
Ukie launches its own online wiki for the games industry
It has a specific section for the coronavirus
A Good Deed
Plague Inc. creator Ndemic Creations donates $250,000 to coronavirus relief efforts
New anti-virus game mode added too
Plenty Of Play
Google Play gathered 116 billion downloads of games and apps in 2019
New developer tools are coming, including Google Play Asset Delivery, Android GPU Inspector and Android Performance Tuner.
Secure Funding
Investor Connector at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #1 - applications end this Sunday
The ever popular investor matchmaking event makes the digital jump at next month’s week-long online games conference
Sweet
King offers UK Candy Crush players unlimited lives to distract from coronavirus
Offer lasts until 11pm GMT on March 29th
Stay At Home
UK government closes all "non-essential" shops including electronics and video games to prevent coronavirus spread
Stores closed for three weeks minimum
Hit Me
KamaGames and Hard Rock join forces to launch Hard Rock Blackjack
Social casino hook up
Heading West
SINoALICE to be self-published by Pokelabo in the West in July 2020
Nexon reverts publishing rights outside of Asia to the developer
Tom Nook Reportedly Ecstatic
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp sees revenues surge amid New Horizons launch
1.3 million downloads for March so far
Money Money Money
Coin Master saw its best month for revenue ever in February 2020
Mobile revenue for February 2020 was up 16 per cent year-on-year
Mobile Ua Spend
AppsFlyer: Mobile game marketers will spend $48.5 billion on user acquisition by 2022
More than double the current number
Gamestopped
Report: GameStop shuts its doors after claims it is "essential retail"
Now offering "delivery at the door" service for stores that remain open