Beta Only
IronSource opens up Facebook Audience Network to its in-app bidding platform LevelPlay
70 per cent of its mediation traffic expected to run through in-app bidding by the end of 2020.
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Europe, Middle East And Africa
Subway Surfers tops monthly average users for EMEA across Q1 2020
App Annie data points to Supercell duo and Sybo Games megahit
Stood Up
Konami's LovePlus Every to shut down 10 months after launch
Dating simulator will cease operations on August 5th, 2020
What Is Reality?
Pokemon GO rolls out "Reality Blending" AR functionality to limited devices
PokeStop scanning also made available to help map the in-game world
Pride
Netmarble sales up 11.6% as Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross starts strong
"We are anticipating significant growth in sales and profitability in our second quarter"
17% Overall Growth
SuperData: Games spending cracks $10.5 billion in April, mobile up 14%
Kongregate's Peacekeeper earns highest-grossing title for the month
Making Of
Making Of: How A Fold Apart used Lightning Rod Games co-founder Mark Laframboise's own long-distance relationship as its basis
"I was working at Disney Interactive/Playdom in California while my significant other was still living in Ontario, Canada"
93 In Total
Take-Two Interactive has 21 games "planned specifically" for mobile
Another seven will be launched across all platforms
Full-year Financials
Take-Two Q4 profit rises by 116% due to "people sheltering at home"
Net revenue reaches $3.09 billion for the year
Roundguard
Indie Spotlight: Wonderbelly Games on Apple Arcade and running a studio from home with a child
"I want to continue making games that make people smile, full of love and charm"
North American Growth
Update: Ubisoft game director Scott Warner joins Tencent's TiMi Studios
Will take the role of studio director effective immediately
118 Games In Development
Embracer Group's games division grows by 31% but total profit falls by 10% YoY
"I genuinely believe that we have one of the industry’s most exciting pipelines of upcoming games"
Scaling Up
Advertisement platform AdInMo secures $500,000 in funding
Former DeltaDNA co-founder Chris Wright appointed as CTO
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: King senior level designer David Briggs on maintaining Candy Crush Jelly Saga in the middle of a pandemic
Discussing the benefits and negatives of running a live ops game from home
Netease Financials
NetEase's mobile games catalogue pushes revenue to $2.4 billion
Mobile represented 70.3 per cent of all online games
Cracking Down
Nintendo files two lawsuits against Switch hackers
"Team Xecuter" face another court case
Rumble In The Jungle
Frogmind launches real-time multiplayer Rumble Hockey after short soft-launch
Anthropomorphic animal sports title is available on iOS and Android
Allo-homora
Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells debut trailer glimpses iconic locations
Zynga, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games for a new mobile game based on the Harry Potter license
I'm Ready, I'm Ready
Tilting Point rebrands as free-to-play publisher, launches SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off
Company looks to form relationships and work with developers on projects
Building Bank
Fortnite battles its way to $1 billion on mobile in two years
Free-to-play title generated $44.3 million in April alone
Back Of The Net
Live and Kicking: Nordeus CEO Branko Milutinović on a decade of Top Eleven
"Football is a pillar of Nordeus"
China Hit Worst
Nexon's revenue and profit falls year-on-year in Q1 due to Covid-19 pandemic
"Nexon has been spared the turbulence due to minimal physical contact with consumers"
Strong All Around
Sega profits rocket by 421%, video games up 50% too
"Strong competitive mobile enviroment"
Square Enix Financials
Dragon Quest Walk and Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe help lift Square Enix mobile revenues to almost $1 billion
Profits rise by 9.38% overall
Hard To Bell-ieve
Animal Crossing: New Horizons shifts nearly 4 million units in Japan
Best-selling Nintendo Switch game in the country yet
Winner Winner
App Annie: PUBG Mobile generates largest consumer spend overseas for China-based developers in Q1 2020
Rise of Kingdoms from Lilith follows in second
What A Save
Lion Studios' puzzler Save The Girl tops global downloads for April 2020
Mobile game accumulated more than 50 million installs
Component Shortages
Report: Nintendo Switch production facing delays due to Asia lockdown
"Nintendo wouldn't be able to produce enough units for the shopping season"
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: How Rovio's design director Timothy Coolidge is operating from his 10-year-old son's bedroom
"In the space of a few weeks, I sold everything and took the leap to join the games industry"
Enough To Afford A Butler
Gardenscapes helps grow Playrix's downloads to 1.1 billion
$1.9 billion revenue accumulated from player spending
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
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
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
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
Studio Closure To Million Seller
Indie Spotlight: Cornfox & Bros. co-founder details the five-year development behind Oceanhorn 2
"People expected all games to be free, and we were sitting on an almost finished 10-plus hour premium console-style adventure game"
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
Reshuffle
Embracer Group subsidiaries THQ Nordic and Koch Media trade IPs in new deal
Red Faction, Sacred, Risen, Painkiller and more all involved
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
Animal Talking
Interview: Why Rogue One screenwriter Gary Whitta started a talk show in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
"I honestly don't care if I ever make a penny out of it"
Remote Working
Remote Working: How Kolibri Games' Sebastian Reuther is dealing with QA from home
"QA benefits from an office for equipment reasons"
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Voodoo's Sophie Vo on the misconceptions of being a game lead
Vo has spent time at Gameloft, Wooga and Rovio before making the move to Voodoo.
Mamma Mia
No Nintendo E3-style Direct planned for the first time since 2013
Multiple sources suggest video presentation has been pushed until Summer
Gdc Summer
GDC scraps physical presence in favour of all-digital event
"Available to everyone with an internet connection"