May 26, 2022 Loot Box Lull Activision Blizzard is not releasing Diablo Immortal in Belgium and the Netherlands Both countries have banned loot boxes in games via gambling laws
May 26, 2022 Awards And Achievements Mobile wins big at the Finnish Game Awards 2021 Pako 3, Kitka Games, and HypeHype celebrated for Small Screen Game of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and Creative Achievement, respectively
May 26, 2022 The Lion's Share Mobile gaming to exceed 60% of entire games market in 2022 More than $1.6 billion spent weekly on mobile games in Q1 2022 alone
May 25, 2022 Plans For Pride Zynga donating $50,000 for Pride Month Employee resource group zPride donating to Brave Space Alliance, LGBT Foundation, and Gay Gaming Professionals
May 25, 2022 Double Digit Development Huuuge announces Q1 2022 results with $84 million in revenue Adjusted EBITDA percentage increase reaches double digits
May 25, 2022 Roblox Role Roblox hires former Zynga and Twitter exec Nick Tornow Former Zynga CTO joins Roblox as vice president of technology
May 25, 2022 Community Currency Former Gameforge CEO launches Web3 publisher Eleet Games Carsten van Husen to lead
May 24, 2022 Under A Union Employees from Activision Blizzard's Raven Software form the first gaming union Accepted by the National Labor Relations Board with 19 votes to 3
May 24, 2022 Big Fish Focus Former Amazon gaming manager Larry Plotnick appointed president at Big Fish Games Supporting innovation and development of casual games
May 23, 2022 Acquisition Interest Ubisoft holders want €60+ per share for potential sale At the time of writing, Ubisoft’s share price is €48.29 (roughly $51)
May 23, 2022 Alleged Acquisition Aspirations Electronic Arts sought acquisition from Disney, Apple, Amazon, NBC NBCUniversal came closest to deal thus far
May 23, 2022 Play Store Policy Google to permit third-party payment systems for Match Group Following lawsuit from Match regarding payment systems and revenue share
May 20, 2022 Pinpointing Popularity Deliver It 3D, Angry Birds Classic, and Football Manager are the fastest-growing iOS games in 2022 Mozillion reports on data for fastest-growing App Store mobile games
May 20, 2022 Collaborate And Cooperate Developing the metaverse must prevent harm, Meta's Nick Clegg states Former UK deputy prime minister shares outlook from virtual glasses to practising surgeries
May 20, 2022 Tiktok Testing TikTok wants to release in-app games this year Testing may be in progress in Vietnam
May 19, 2022 Directors And Developers Dr Jakin Vela appointed new IGDA executive director Founder of Games For Me, CEO of Astral Interactive, and more
May 19, 2022 Gearing Up For Germany Microids opens a new office in Germany in expansion plan Opening in its "second most important" European market
May 19, 2022 Hypercasual Heights Pangle and Newzoo’s hypercasual report explores the eastern and western market divide Audience variation between US, UK, Japan and South Korea highlighted
May 18, 2022 Alternative App Store Agreement Flexion to publish FunPlus’ King of Avalon on alternative app stores Releasing on Huawei App Gallery and Samsung Galaxy App Store Q2 2022
May 18, 2022 Gameloft Grows Gameloft’s newest studio opens near headquarters in Paris Developing free-to-play elements in console and PC games
May 18, 2022 Coasts And Climates Unity founder David Helgason launches climate initiative Transition Labs Partnering with oceans solution platform Running Tide
May 17, 2022 Spanish Studio Product Madness opening a new studio in Spain Its fifth international studio after expansion in UK, Ukraine, Israel and Poland
May 17, 2022 Meeting Milestones 57% of PUBG Mobile player spend comes from China Worldwide revenue reaches beyond $8 billion
May 17, 2022 China's Climb Chinese mobile games revenue surpassed $9 billion during Q1 2022 Revenue up 2.72% year-over-year
May 16, 2022 Foreshadowing Fableborne Pixion Games announces "Lunchtime Esports" game Fableborne Featuring "play-to-own" NFTs
May 16, 2022 Ip Integration Curve Games acquires Hue developer Fiddlesticks Games Acquiring all IP and assets relating to the Hue franchise
May 16, 2022 Crypto Curves Axie Infinity’s utility currency devalued to $0.004 Value has fluctuated since reaching $0.004 on May 12
May 13, 2022 Growing In Germany exmox acquires Testerheld to develop new portfolio features and content Developing platforms and generating new features
May 13, 2022 Rolling In Revenue Apple made more games revenue than Google in 2020 and 2021, Newzoo finds Top 10 companies saw conbined revenue totalling $126 billion last year
May 12, 2022 Rocky Roblox Report Roblox sees 54.1 million DAUs, despite sharp declines in engagement Per daily average user, average bookings were at $11.67 in Q1
May 12, 2022 Revenue Report Mobile game revenue decreased for first time ever in Q1 2022 Sensor Tower's State of Mobile Gaming 2022 report shows revenue and install variation by country
May 10, 2022 Meta Collections Facebook and Instagram to start NFT integration Meta and Etherium, Solana, Polygon, and Flow networks partner to build NFT platform
May 10, 2022 Revenue Results Higher revenue and lower costs for Zynga in Q1 2022 $691 million revenue marks a 2% increase over Q1 2021
May 10, 2022 Joining And Growing Blackstone hires former Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg Focusing on Blackstone Growth
May 9, 2022 Tools And Tokens Has Ready Games done the impossible: brought NFT gaming to iOS and Android? Developer tools to convert mobile Web 2.0 games into Web3 games and meet the store rules of Google and Apple
May 9, 2022 Liverpool Launch Tencent Games’ new UK studio is based in Liverpool Supporting development of titles for partner studios
May 9, 2022 Most Read Hot Five: Tilting Point bullish on blockchain, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, and Zynga’s Bernard Kim to join Match Group The hottest news articles on PG.biz
May 9, 2022 Download Deluge Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs The sole European member of the top six
May 6, 2022 Industry Insight Newzoo: a "breakthrough" in mobile game reach as revenue to surpass $100 billion in 2022 Latin America and Southeast Asia could be biggest contributors to mobile growth
May 6, 2022 The Gamekit Cometh AWS Gamekit support is coming to Android and iOS games developed with Unreal Features include cloud saves and achievements
May 5, 2022 Pac-man Packs A Punch 98% of Pac-Man Community players are choosing mobile Revamp of classic arcade game surpasses 6 million players in first four months
May 5, 2022 Rooms And Rebrands Piepacker rebrands as Jam.gg as its library spreads onto mobile Platform reaches 2 million users
May 5, 2022 Genshin Growing Genshin Impact surpasses $3 billion mobile revenue milestone The top-grossing mobile gacha averages $1 billion every six months
May 5, 2022 Stats From Sweden More than three-quarters of Stillfront’s Q1 revenue came from mobile games Q1 2022 interim report reveals net revenue of $172 million
May 4, 2022 Role Recruitment Social First’s new advisors aim to reach the next generation of Web3 gaming Koh Kim and Andy Chambers join the Finnish studio after funding round
May 3, 2022 Moving To Santa Monica Kong Studios moves HQ to Santa Monica following unicorn status The home of Naughty Dog, Respawn Entertainment and Infinity Ward
May 3, 2022 Hiring Hall-of-famer EA founder Trip Hawkins joins 110 Industries Bringing experience from mobile games and esports platforms
May 3, 2022 Apple Altercation EU Digital Markets Act could force Apple to open its payment system to competitors This second EU charge against the company could cost Apple up to $36.6 billion
April 29, 2022 Acquiring Axesinmotion Media and Games Invest acquires AxesInMotion in entirety for $58 million Up to $116 million additional earn-out payment
April 29, 2022 Apple Admonishes Apps As many as 7,000 apps could soon be purged from the App Store Sensor Tower finds between 3,000-7,000 apps at risk, with mobile games expected to see biggest impact