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Cyball raises $1.8 million for football-themed P2E NFT mobile game
Focused on reaching new audiences for blockchain gaming
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Live And Kicking
How localised experiences keeps Free Fire alive four years on
Garena producer Harold Teo talks a mobile-first approach and understanding the player's needs
Roblox Reprimanded
Roblox under fire for stock market-like collectibles and minimal safeguarding
YouTube channel People Make Games outlines four concerns with the platform's operations
Marketplace Dominance
Apple and Google hold a "vice-like grip" on UK consumers, says competition regulator
Suggests actions to decrease the mobile marketplace duopoly
Ai Innovation
Playtika opens new studio in Switzerland
Will focus on AI and R&D
Strategic Simplification
Donut Labs raises a further $2.3 million for Kids vs Zombies
"It’s a completely different game from what it was a year ago."
Green Guardians
Pixel Federation joins the Playing for the Planet Alliance
Will host multiple in-game eco-events across its portfolio
Making Of
How Adventure Chef: Merge Explorer was inspired by long drives and manga
The Pocket Gems team shares its mobile games recipe
Gallery Expansion
Socialpoint brings Dragon City and Monster Legends to Huawei’s AppGallery
Will gradually bring its remaining portfolio to the service
Swinging By
Tencent brings Spider-Man to PUBG Mobile
Comes with Version 1.8 update
Doubling Down
Vgames raises $141 million for second games investment fund
Firm to invest in game studios at various stages
P2e Mmorpg
Com2uS Holdings to add upcoming World of Zenonia to blockchain ecosystem
Scheduled for release in H2 2022
Back And Forth
PUBG Mobile reaches $254 million revenue, Genshin Impact $207 million in November 2021
Coin Master has its best month ever
Blockchain Bridge
Affyn raises $7 million for F2P P2E AR metaverse mobile game
All in-game characters will be represented as NFTs
Apple Awarded Appeal
Apple wins postponement to App Store changes from Epic ruling
Current policies in operation until Epic antitrust legal battle closes
Games Take Gold
Consumer spending on mobile games and apps will reach $135 billion
Google Play accounts for majority of downloads at over 100 billion
Socially Interactive Experience
Nexon partners with Games Workshop to develop Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
Bringing Warhammer to a "socially interactive" player-versus-environment world
Non-disruptive Ads
Frameplay raises $8 million for seamless, non-disruptive ads
Backed by Hiro Capital and Razer
The Money Man
Amber appoints former Disney and EA exec Roie Chizik as CFO
Brings over 20 years of financial expertise
Still Rising
Mobile games will generate $89.6 billion by the end of 2021
Honor of Kings earns $2.9 billion
Chocolate Frog Hunt
Jam City partners with No Kid Hungry for in-game event in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Players complete community goals to unlock charitable donations towards the campaign
Making Of
How Airport Radar began as a single sketch of an aeroplane
Vincent Borcard talks the challenges and lessons of a solo indie developer
Indie Investments
MGVC invests $2 million into Square Triangle and Talerock
Acquires minority stakes in both studios
Machamp Milestone
Pokémon Unite surpasses 50 million downloads in four months
Total downloads across iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch
Multiplayer Pac-man
Facebook and Genvid launch Pac-Man Community
A Facebook-exclusive multiplayer spin on the classic arcade game
Strengthening Studios
Tiplay Studio raises $500,000 at $25 million valuation
Funding to scale team and advance development
Redundancies And Redeployment
Lockwood Publishing makes 10% of staff redundant
Accused of unlawful redundancies by IWGB union
Mobile Master Chief
20% of Xbox Cloud Gaming subscribers use touch controls exclusively
Games include Hades, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest XI and more
Esports Expansion
Esports group 100 Thieves raises $60 million at $460 million valuation
Yearly revenue increases 111%
Fantasy Is Final
Japanese game sector to hit $22 billion in 2021
Players prefer single player RPGs within a fantasy setting
Time To Conquer
Lineage 2M launches in North America and Europe
Open world adventure with 10,000 player capacity
Don't Interrupt Me
Playstack launches Interact SDK for less interruptive mobile game ads
Offers three methods of non-interruptive ad monetisation
Breezy
Talewind raises $3.4 million for casual Roblox experience Breezy Bay
Animal Crossing meets Runescape in Roblox
Gotiva’s Got It
Sarajevo startup Gotiva Games raises $250,000 for NFT social puzzle games
Debut title scheduled for Q2 2022
Expanded Support
Game Insight to bring casual games portfolio to desktop and web
Currently has five games playable on its site
Apple Awards
League of Legends: Wild Rift voted Apple’s iPhone Game of the Year
Marvel Future Revolution wins iPad Game of the Year
There Was A Spark
Electric Manta partners with Sunday to create hypercasual games
Providing a one-stop-shop for casual, hybrid, and hyper games
Lowkey Hires
Niantic hires the majority of social platform Lowkey's staff
Hired the majority of the team
Blockchain Branding
Gamevil rebrands as Com2uS Holdings to focus on blockchain and NFT projects
Solidifies shift towards play-to-earn games
Beast Boosts Brawl Stars
Brawl Stars US downloads surge 350% following sponsorship of Mr Beast's Squid Game
Approximately 324 million lifetime downloads
What Matches Match 3
Dream Games' Royal Match leads match-3 D30 retention at 16.5%
App Annie takes a deep dive into retention
Sideswipe Soccer
Epic Games and Psyonix launch Rocket League Sideswipe worldwide
Soft launched in Oceania earlier this month with pre-season
Portfolio Expansion
Nexters launches casual title Island Questaway globally
Featuring a blend of farming a puzzle elements
Will It Fit?
Playstudios acquires exclusive rights to develop Tetris mobile games
Taking over from N3twork
Roblox Red Carpet
Roblox brings The Fashion Awards experience to the metaverse
Features exclusive in-game items designed by Gucci
A Steel Defence
Superplus partners with Denuvo to protect against cheaters
Integrated in Hills of Steel 2
Winner Winner Worldwide
PUBG Mobile Global Championships begins November 30
$6 million prize pool up for grabs
A Taste Of Premium
PUBG Mobile partners with Google to give players 3 month YouTube Premium trial
Part of the 1.7 version update
Growing Globally
Tencent appoints Zoran Roso as marketing director of global publishing
Continuing its overseas expansion strategy
Shining Brilliantly
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are Japan’s second-best physical Switch launch
Switch sales almost doubled