Knockout
PGC Digital: Shadow Fight 3 brawls its way to 80 million downloads globally
600,000 daily average users
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Award-winning
PGC Digital: Mobile cinema experience Recontact: London featuring Game of Thrones star set to launch on Android
Will arrive on Google Play from April 20th, 2020
1.25% Of All Game Downloads
PGC Digital: Hypercasual specialist CrazyLabs accumulates more than 3 billion downloads worldwide
Run Sausage Run makes up 106 million downloads
Hypercasual Success
PGC Digital: Supersonic Studios' three newest releases have surpassed 35 million downloads
Ultimate Disc earned 16 million-plus installs
Casual Strong Too
PGC Digital: It's the"best time to launch" as a hypercasual, says IronSource director
The comment was made during PGC Digital 'Panel: Smart use of Data to Optimise' Performance
367 Million
PGC Digital: Tencent's largest player base is female in Honor of Kings
Up 6.47 per cent from January 2020
Monetization Methods
PGC Digital: How the right hybrid waterfall-bidding setup will help maximise revenue
"Working with a partner who can close the loop is key"
The Spy Who Jinxed Me
Epic Games reveals details of J.J. Abrams' mobile game Spyjinx, launches beta
Beta launched on iOS in Malaysia
App Annie
Mobile games just experienced its biggest week for downloads ever
1.2 billion across the week of March 22nd, 2020
"unprecedented Challenges"
Sony sets up $100 million Covid-19 global relief fund
Fund will go towards medical workers, first responders and more.
Digital Event
Call of Duty: Mobile and Sayonara Wild Hearts win big at BAFTA Game Awards 2020
Hosted by comedian Dara Ó Briain in his spare room
Making Of
Making Of: How Bossa Studio's love of game jams led to Apple Arcade title Hogwash
"Generally, we set aside two days a month for jamming"
Overwatch Goes Googly
April Fool's Day 2020: From a Fire Emblem Heroes spinoff to Pokemon GO pranksters
A round-up of the game's industry's pranks for the day
European Surge
Houseparty App sees nearly 3000% increase in downloads following coronavirus lockdown
16 million downloads for the month of March
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: How RAC7 Games earned two game approvals for Apple Arcade
"Until Apple Arcade came along, we weren't sure how much longer we'd even be making mobile games."
"no Evidence"
Epic offers $1 million bounty over "smear campaign" against Houseparty app
Follows circulation of rumours of Netflix and Spotify hacks
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Jam City's Sarah Wolf on transitioning from lawyer to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game director
"I believe a wide range of perspectives going into game development is the key to creativity and innovation"
44 Per Cent Growth
AppsFlyer: Google becomes number one for mobile app advertising
Facebook dominates retargeting
Testing Ip Impact
Rovio soft-launches turn-based RPG Angry Birds Legends
Available on Android in the UK, Sweden and Finland
"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
Not So Dumb Now
Dumb Ways to Die surpasses 360 million downloads across its games catalogue
500,000 to 600,000 daily average users
15 Million Tiktok Views
Live and Kicking: Seven years on, Dumb Ways to Die has turned from a marketing campaign to a standalone business
"360 million downloads across all our games and still counting"
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
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Pomelo Games on the doubts surrounding sustainability and how Apple Arcade helped create its "purest" game
"It’s a highly competitive market, and it’s getting even more competitive each year"
Keyword Field Trick
Update: Games are "exploiting" coronavirus SEO on the App Store
Plague Inc. continues top paid charts
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: AppLovin senior developer Kellie Knight explains the value of learning from failure
"I knew that as a woman going into a traditionally male-dominated field, there were going to be some eyes on me"
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.
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
Tom Nook Reportedly Ecstatic
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp sees revenues surge amid New Horizons launch
1.3 million downloads for March so far
Mobile Ua Spend
AppsFlyer: Mobile game marketers will spend $48.5 billion on user acquisition by 2022
More than double the current number
Squadding Up
Ubisoft soft-launches five-on-five battler Tom Clancy's Elite Squad
Available to download on Android in the Philippines
Local Community
MyTona, inDriver, and Arsen Tomsky pledge $500,000 to Russian hospitals amid coronavirus pandemic
Funds will be used to purchase lung ventilators
Pandemic Continues
Razer commits to donating up to one million surgical masks to fight COVID-19
Singapore authorities contributing too
Mmo In The Works
Finnish studio Mainframe Industries raises $8.1 million for cloud gaming
"We are starting from the ground up"
Player Well-known
PUBG Mobile crosses 600 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
50 million daily active users
Moving Up
Stillfront appoints Kixeye CEO Clayton Stark as new group chief technology officer
"Clayton has already contributed with his vast experience from the industry"
Sensor Tower
Mobile game players in the US spent an average of $53.80 in 2019
Up 54 per cent year-over-year
Summer In The City
GDC moved to three-day event in Summer 2020
Set to take place from August 4th to 6th in California
Exclusive Data
Google mobile downloads suggest Stadia has sold 107,000 units in the last two months
US tops group for the largest portion of installs
Half Price Sale
Nintendo confirms Octopath Traveler has surpassed 2 million sales
Mobile prequel in the works
Talent Mag-net
King senior developer Egill Antonsson joins MAG Interactive
One of a number of hires from the company as of late
Tencent Financials Q4 Fy19
Tencent revenue grows 21% year-over-year to $54.1 billion
Total profit jumped by 22 per cent too
Sky Is The Limit
Sky: Children of the Light and Untitled Goose Game triumph at GDC Awards 2020
Mutazione wins at IGFs
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Orbital Knight CEO Karol Drzymała shares how persistence is the key to survival as an indie
"We've been through some ups and downs over the years"
Delayed Smash
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC likely delayed by coronavirus
Director Masahiro Sakurai confirms work has been affected
"push The Boundaries"
Resolution Games adds Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth to board of directors
Will contribute towards upcoming VR titles from the studio
Crossplay Enabled
Riot launches first-ever mobile game Teamfight Tactics on March 19th
80 million downloads since debuting on PC
App Annie
China mobile game downloads skyrocketed by 80% in February 2020
63 million installs per week
"take Care Of Yourselves"
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot pens supportive letter to staff regarding coronavirus
Uplifting message sent to all employees worldwide