July 7, 2022 No Longer Niche Anime games make up 20% of all app store spending, says data.ai Over $17 billion in consumer spending generated in 2021 alone
April 22, 2022 Cohen Comes On Homa Games brings on Jeff Cohen as VP of Corporate Development Will handle the firm's "aggresive" M&A and partnership operations
April 21, 2022 Puzzle Players Sensor Tower: US puzzle game spending increased 4.2% to $5 billion Decline in downloads witnessed across the board
April 21, 2022 Getting Serious Moonlighter is Netflix Games' first non-exclusive title Moonlighter delisted from App Store and Google Play in February 2022
April 20, 2022 Joining The Ranks Netflix partners with East Side Games Group to bring Dragon Up to service Coming to the service in May 2022
April 20, 2022 Mobile Game Dev Veteran Chimera Entertainment hires Stefan Dieckmann as head of development Brings over 15 years of mobile games development experience to lead and grow Chimera's dev team
April 20, 2022 Leading The Front Anzu appoints former Yahoo director Chris Vincelli as VP of Business Development Brings over a decade of partnerships experience to secure in-game ads partnerships
April 20, 2022 Party In The Usa Fusebox appoints Michael Cinquemani to lead new LA-based studio TV and mobile games veteran writer and producer to spearhead US operations
April 19, 2022 Play To Win Monster League Studios raises $2 million for blockchain-based esports platform Will feature a series of sports-based games, starting with soccer and later tennis, hockey, basketball, and more
April 19, 2022 Growing Esports Engagement Mobile esports finding its audience in emerging markets, says Newzoo Esports expected to generate $1.38 billion by the end of 2022
April 19, 2022 F In Chat China halts unauthorised games livestreaming Latest regulations apply to unauthorised and non-domestic games
April 19, 2022 Tacocat Netflix unveils exclusive Exploding Kittens mobile game Will launch in May, with animated series to come at later date
April 19, 2022 Bring The Spoilz Saudi Arabian Spoilz Games raises $693,000 in pre-seed funding Will expand portfolio and look to target global games market
April 14, 2022 Real-time Multiplayer coherence raises $8 million for real-time multiplayer creation platform Led by former Playdead CEO Dino Patti
April 14, 2022 Hypercasual On Top Adjust: hypercasual made up 27% of global mobile downloads in 2021 2021 saw CPI increase, but retention rates followed
April 14, 2022 Web-based To Web3 Kongregate unveils upcoming blockchain game Blood Vessels Will feature playable vampire NFTs
April 14, 2022 Curtailing Tencent shuts down Chinese gamers access to overseas games Incoming update to network acceleration app will halt users playing foreign games and accessing foreign online servers
April 13, 2022 Hypercasual On Top Sensor Tower: Merge Master was the most downloaded game for March 2022 Free Fire in second place with 25.5 million downloads
April 13, 2022 Made Its Way Zynga launches FarmVille 3 in Japan Comes six months after global release
April 13, 2022 Ad Acceptace Anzu: 70% of US gamers respond well to in-game ads Players value ad relevance and dislike being interupted
April 13, 2022 The Never-ending Search ironSource launches Luna Search Ads to tackle App Store ad campaigns Allows marketers to streamline and automate ad campaign creation
April 13, 2022 Two In Pune SuperGaming opens second office in Pune Will support development of upcoming battle royale Indus
April 12, 2022 One In Four Playstack: one in four players click on charitable interactive billboard ads Follows recent charity campaign to raise awareness for charity:water's 'Clean Water Pledge'
April 12, 2022 Tencent On Top Again Mobile games spending continued to fall by 6.3% to $7 billion in March 2022 Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the highest grossing games worldwide
April 12, 2022 Turkey's Silicon Valley Turkish hypercasual studio Tiplay joins Snap Inc's accelerator programme "A very important step towards our goal of making Denizli the Silicon Valley of Turkey"
April 12, 2022 The Top Publishers data.ai reveals the top mobile publishers in 2021 Prominant publishers in 2021 included Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo/HoYoVerse, and CyberAgent
April 11, 2022 Best Q2 Yet MAG Interactive Q2 2022 revenues reach $8.1 million, up 6 per cent Strongest second quarter in company history
April 11, 2022 Open For Business China lifts games licence freeze, 45 new games approved New games from XD Inc, Yoozoo Games, and more after nine month standstill
April 8, 2022 Reach For The Skies Cloud gaming will quadruple to $6.3 billion by 2024, says Newzoo Large media companies predicted to join the sector
April 8, 2022 Search Stats data.ai: Roblox was the most searched game on the App Store in 2021 Non-specific keywords were surprisingly common and yielded regional based results
April 8, 2022 Cousens Comes Aboard Huuuge Games appoints Rod Cousens as co-CEO Brings over four decades of experience, including leadership roles at Jagex, Codemasters, and Activision
April 8, 2022 Update Or Disappear Older Android apps must update to remain discoverable and downloadable New rules come into effect in November
April 7, 2022 Galactic Funding Gadsme raises $8 million for non-intrusive ads, backed by Ubisoft Will invest in "key people" to scale business operations
April 7, 2022 Hypercasual Downloads Merge Master - Dinosaur Fusion was the most downloaded hypercasual game in Q1 2022 Homa Games latest title scores big in India according to AppMagic
April 7, 2022 Shifting Focus Miniclip commits to mobile games publishing, pivots from web browser games Only 8 Ball Pool and Agar.io will remaining on website after Summer 2022
April 6, 2022 Reaching For The Sky Sky Mavis raises $150 million, gears up for launch of Axie Infinity: Origin Funds will be used to reimburse users that suffered from recent Ronin network hack
April 6, 2022 Talk Around Town Mobile games continue to dominate Twitter’s games chatter Genshin Impact leads the way, followed by Wordle and Ensemble Stars
April 6, 2022 Gameoff Amazon is shutting down mobile games capture platform GameOn Service will end on June 18 2022
April 6, 2022 Blizzard To Amazon Amazon hires former World of Warcraft designer to ramp up mobile games efforts Former Blizzard designer Kurt Sparkuhl joins as lead games designer for mobile
April 6, 2022 Niantic Adds Nzxr Niantic acquires New Zealand-based AR studio NZXR Will become "integral part" of design and development teams for location-based AR titles
April 5, 2022 Gamification Socios.com and Wave partner to bring mobile games to blockchain rewards platform 13 "bite-sized' sports games will come to the service in mid-April
April 5, 2022 Siege On The Go Ubisoft unveils Rainbow Six Mobile for iOS and Android Will bring the Rainbow Six Siege experience to mobile devices later this year
April 5, 2022 Brought To The Board iCandy Interactive appoints four new execs New appointments come from subsidiaries Storms and Lemon Sky Studios
April 4, 2022 Expanding Execs Kongregate appoints three executive team members to support blockchain operations Max Murphy, Michelle Shaw, and Patrick Moran step into CTO, CBOO, and CPO respectively
April 4, 2022 Ceasing Operations Wargaming pulls out of Russia and Belarus World of Tanks operations will be overseen by Lesta Studio, which it is no longer affiliated with
April 4, 2022 Marketing Movement InnoGames appoints Felix Janzen as chief marketing officer Former CMO moves up to lead Modern Times Group’s games marketing efforts
April 1, 2022 Growing Gameplay Casual games adding more features to beat competition, says GameRefinery Renovation, construction, and minigames are popping up across the top 100 grossing casual titles
April 1, 2022 In The Blue Corner Roblox voices support for Apple in Epic Games legal dispute Metaverse platform states that the App Store provides "greater legitimacy" for users
April 1, 2022 Stifled Spending Sensor Tower: Q1 2022 mobile games spending dropped 7.1% to $21 billion Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile, and Genshin Impact were the highest grossing games
March 31, 2022 Smith Retires Women in Games founder David Smith retires from role Founded the non-profit in 2009 to bring more women in the industry