Green Fingers
Sybo Games partners with Ecologi to plant 200,000 trees
Play 2 Plant event in Subway Surfers will see players contributing to tree planting goal
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Happy Campers
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp surpasses $250 million
Nintendo’s second best performing mobile title
Mark-up
AudioMob raises $14 million at $110 million valuation
Will scale recently opened offices in London and Abu Dhabi
Merging The Worlds
Niantic to license its Lightship ARDK dev kit to developers
Also establishes $20 million fund to invest in devs
Making Of
How Retro Bowl went from a simple RPG to a number one sports game
New Star Games' Simon Read talks the making of a touchdown mobile game
Millions For Mods
User-generated content platform Mod.io raises $26 million
Forecasts user-generated content will increase by 400% by 2025
Drowzee Delays
Pokémon TCG Live release pushed back to 2022
To provide players with a "more polished" experience
Israeli Investment
Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin
Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
Carry On Clashing
Clash Mini begins soft launch in Canada and Nordics
Supercell reveals more details about upcoming Clash titles
Firing Ahead
Free Fire continues to outpace PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile
Growth is accelerating
Another Partnership
Miniclip partners with Byss Mobile to scale Nitro Jump Racing
Will provide post-launch support and updates
Id Now
Niantic introduces Niantic ID allowing players to link accounts across titles
In-game usernames will not change
Usa Expansion
MPL appoints Xbox and Twitch veteran Matt McCloskey as GM of North America
Will oversee platform's growth in US
Pull Over
Kwalee’s Traffic Cop 3D tops App Store charts in USA, UK, and Canada
Top 10 casual game in 41 countries
Bank Shot
Miniclip partners with Coda Payments to expand 8 Ball Pool sales
Offers wide array of worldwide payment options
Accio Revenue
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened surpasses $228 million in less than two months since launch
Has best first month for Harry Potter mobile game
Milestone
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes hits $1.4 billion on 100 million downloads
EA Mobile's top game
Up And Up
EA reports "strongest second quarter" in company history for Q2 FY22
Net revenues increased 29%, reaching $1.8 billion
Social Sharing
Medal.tv acquires Gif Your Game and Fuze.tv
Solidifying presence as social network within the PC and mobile games space
Outage Outcomes
Users flocked to Among Us and Minecraft during Roblox Outage
Among Us saw sharp rise in downloads during the outage
Live Op Support
Live ops platform Beamable raises $5 million to expand service
Brings total capital raised in 2021 to over $10 million
Candy Crushing It
Spurred by Candy Crush Saga, Activision Blizzard see Q3 2021 growth up 6%
Blizzzard also on the up
Done Deal
Jam City’s Josh Yguado on why we're 'nowhere near peak mobile gaming'
Josh Yguado talks Ludia deal and the future of the mobile games industry
Turning Up The Volume
Splash raises $20 million for Roblox music game
Will improve virtual instruments and establish more partnerships
The New Meta
The Sandbox raises $93 million to grow open NFT Metaverse
Already over 500,000 connected wallets
Legendary
League of Legends: Wild Rift surpasses $150 million
Took just over 1 year
Making Of
Why Wildlife Studios' Sky Warriors is set to soar
Game director Luiz Piccini talks honing aeroplane controls
Positive Signs
Nazara reports H1 2021 revenue growth of 30%, reaching $35 million
EBITDA increased by 700%
Up And Coming
Ex-War Robots execs launch Kek Entertainment, raise $3 million for multiplayer mobile titles
Debut will be competitive mobile action game featuring deep tactical elements
Favourable Financials
MTG's Q3 2021 sales up 61% to $170 million
Significant growth from its games portfolio and esports earnings
Reputation Matters
Mobile games must do more to interact with users and manage their reputation, says AppFollow
Report highlights disconnect between companies and users
Prosperous Partnership
State of Survival gains 20 million new players from The Walking Dead partnership
Brought the zombie survival mobile title to over 100 million
Activision Acquisition
Activision acquires Digital Legends for unannounced Call of Duty mobile game
Will join the company's roster of wholly-owned independent studios
Good Fit
FunPlus appoints Ben Cousins as head of European studio operations
Bringing two decades of free-to-play and games-as-a-service experience
Touchdown
UK-based New Star Games takes US by storm with Retro Bowl
Number one free app on iOS in US, with 7 million downloads and zero UA spend
Steady Growth
My.Games reports steady YoY revenue growth of 2.3% for Q3 2021
Mobile games contribute 75% of overall quarterly revenue
Terraria Triumphs Again
Terraria Mobile sells over one million units three week after Chinese debut
Will roll out to Greater China territories starting next year
Live And Kicking
Five years on, how Gardenscapes changed the match-three market
The game hit 11.5 million DAU in 2020
Funding Fanatics
Thunderful Group acquires Robot Teddy for $13.7 million
Will lead newly established in-house investment arm, Thunderful Investment
Ka-ching
US social casino users still spending post-pandemic; Q2 2021 was a record $260 million
iOS social casino spending in US reached $1 billion during height of pandemic
Bloomin' Lovely
Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom
Will roll out globally, starting with Australia and Singapore
Done Deal
Behind the scenes of Sumo's $8.3 million acquisition of Auroch Digital
Sumo commercial director Dean Trotman and Auroch studio director Tomas Rawlings talk
Expansion
Outfit7 relocates head office to Limassol
Will scale team to support company growth
Forging New Alliances
Goodgame Studios launches in-house publishing arm, starting with mobile
Its debut is War Alliance from Magnific Games
Making Of
Why Heroes of the Dark is Gameloft Sofia's most ambitious project yet
Gameloft game lead Damian Damianov talks the difficulty of creating a hybrid mobile game
Marketing Magnification
IronSource acquires mobile marketing outfit Bidalgo
Second acquisition during October
Heir Apparent
PUBG: New State will launch worldwide on November 11
Has surpassed 50 million pre-registrations
Highlighting Diversity
Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity
63% of main cast come from BIPOC backgrounds, with 38% LGBTQ+
Slash & Earn
Play Store subscription rev share lowered to 15% from January 1
On-demand music streaming and eBook services eligible for 10% service fee
Play & Learn
Language learning game Influent lands on iOS devices
Brings new features and language packs