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Link's Awakening dev Grezzo is hiring for "medieval" and "stylish" project
Looking for a programmer, effects designer and UI designer
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Kayleigh Partleton
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Articles by Kayleigh Partleton
Game On
Google to bring "more than" 100 games to Stadia this year
"Over the next few weeks and months, players can expect to see everything from action-filled RPGs to competitive co-op titles and nimble platformers"
Welcome Aboard
The N3twork Scale Platform partners with Emerald City Games
It is set to publish its 10th game
Money Money Money
US consumers spent $4.71 billion on games products in January 2021
The Nintendo Switch proved to be the most popular hardware
Straight To The Top
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury experiences better launch than the original
It had the third best Switch release in the Mario franchise
On The Up
Roblox increases its US market share to nearly 5%
Just behind Playrix and King
Check Those Ads
Gadsme enters the in-game ads market
First company to enable CPC, CPA and CPI performance campaigns
A Good Deed
Solitaire Grand Harvest forms partnership with WWF
More than $100,000 will be donated throughout 2021
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Designing games with infleuncers in mind
"As each year passes it has become more imperative for influencers to be involved at each stage of a game"
Helping Hand
Niantic launches Black Developers Initiative
To aid Black game and AR creators
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: How to build a good company culture
"I believe a lot of time and investment is needed on building and training for healthy team dynamics"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Making lasting changes to company culture
"For changes to be lasting it has to change the company DNA"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why gaming is useful for activism
"Video games themselves can be political"
Welcome Aboard
Jacob Krüger joins Miniclip as head of user acquisition
"Looking forward to helping to drive growth, solve challenges and learn a lot in the years ahead"
Money Bags
Zynga experiences record breaking year with $1.97 billion in revenue
"In an unprecedented year, our talented and resilient teams finished Q4 strong, delivering our highest quarterly revenue and bookings in Zynga's history"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What to expect from esports in 2021
"It has always been the year for esports. It sees phenomenal growth year-on-year"
It's A Match
Tilting Point to invest up to $60 million in Match 3D
"The potential of Match 3D was always incredible"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The benefits of adding a social influencer to an esports roster
"There are not enough negatives to outweigh any of the positives"
Out Of Town
Sony to shut down Toro and Friends: Onsen Town
"We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our players who have supported us so far. We will try our best to come back with a better game and with better service"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What to consider with M&A
"You can think about the price on what you are acquiring by looking at its potential,"
Proving Popular
Google tops the publisher download charts for January 2021
Voodoo, AppLovin and CrazyLabs were in the top five
In The Clouds
Gamestream teams with Chunghwa Telecom to launch iOS cloud gaming app in Taiwan
"At Gamestream, we're pleased to see the Hami 5G iOS app available now in the App Store. This perhaps indicates greater receptiveness to cloud gaming on the part of Apple"
Say What?
SayGames surpasses two billion downloads
As it launches $10 million developer growth initiative
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Five tips for developing hypercasual games
"You need to choose the right publisher for you"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Where hypercasual is going in 2021
"I don't think hypercasual is going anywhere"
Money Money Money
Nexon experiences great year as it generates $2.8 billion in 2020
"Nexon looks forward to multiple catalysts in 2021, including new games, on new platforms, coming to new markets"
Extra Cheese Please
My.Games invests $1.5 million in Pizza Club Games
"We see great potential in the team and will support them with all the necessary resources and expertise for development"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding the publishing process and trends
"We look for anyone that is doing something different, in a word innovation"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding player motivation
"I think the future of audience demographics is going to rely more on personality"
Money Money Money
Glu Mobile hit $540 million in revenue last year
"Our financial results reflect the tremendous progress we made throughout the year"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What 2020 taught the games industry
"We grew stronger, especially when we had to experiment with this new way of working"
Welcome To The Family
EA snaps up Design Home creator Glu Mobile
$2.1 billion will be exchanged for the developer
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The state of mobile games in 2021
"People were hungry for new apps and new games"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: using the games as a service monetisation approach
"Gaming as a service is a pretty new monetisation model for the industry"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The impact of cheating in games
"It is an internal fight between security and those that are attempting to hack or cheat"
Touchdown!
Skillz secures multi-year deal with the National Football League
The pair will host a global game developer challenge
Welcome To The Family
Leaf Mobile snaps up East Side Games for $125 million
“We are tremendously excited to officially welcome East Side Games, a leading Canadian publisher and developer of mobile games, to the Leaf Mobile family"
Match Set
Candivore raises $12m for match-three title Match Masters
To go towards user acquisition
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Taking user acquisition and retention to the next level
"As UA managers, we have the tools to decide what KPIs we pursue"
Welcome Aboard
FunPlus hires Chris Petrovic as new chief business officer
"Chris's career as an industry leader will empower our teams across the world to create, produce, and expand our brand of gaming experiences to wider markets and build upon our current ones"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Utilising in-game advertising with Adverty
"Imagine your game itself and advertising through the whole gameplay while still focused on the user experience. Making money without interruption"
Check Those Ads
Luna Labs partners with Adjust, tech allows studios to create self-optimising playable ads
"Being able to understand the user's entire playable experience, from initial impression, user interaction, to install, is extremely powerful for creative optimisation"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Bringing ASO and user acquisition together
"ASO is the process of improving an app's visibility in app stores throughout its lifetime and maximise its appeal to users"
Going Public
Nexters to go public through merger with Kismet Acquisition One SPAC
"Nexters is one of the fastest-growing mobile gaming companies in the world"
What A Strike!
EA working on six football mobile titles as its extends UEFA license
"Our vision is to create the most authentic, social and connected football experience by bringing our games to more devices"
Pgc Digital
Be in the know with the Esports & Influencers track at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #5
One of 14 featured tracks
Spac
Playstudios to go public after merging with Acies Acquisition Corp
"They know how to make engaging and enduring games..."
Top Of The World
Tencent and NetEase remain App Annie's top publishers for the fourth year running
A number of companies jumped up more than 10 places this year
Money Money Money
Pocket Worlds secures $7 million in Series A funding
“At Pocket Worlds, every feature we create and product we build is intentionally designed to cultivate a social-first gaming experience for our users"
Shifting Focus
Google to close Stadia Games and Entertainment studios
Studio head Jade Raymond has departed the company too