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About Aaron is the News Editor at PG.biz and has an honours degree in Creative Writing.
Having spent far too many hours playing Pokémon, he's now on a quest to be the very best like no one ever was...at putting words in the right order.
Articles by Aaron Astle
Metasports
Dubit raises $8 million for esports in Roblox
Metaventures’ Jean-Charles Capelli leads the round
Pgc Digital Next
PGC Digital: How to make a top performing ad creative for any game
Adside VP of data and growth Sergei Riabov talks scaling ad creatives
Lock And Load
Free Fire Pro Series in US enters second stage, $50,000 up for grabs
More than 300 teams registered for the qualifiers
A-o-k
Tai Verdes and Roblox announce an exclusive avatar-led concert
Performance will include new single Let’s go to Hell
Winner?
Pokémon Go is the only mobile game shortlisted for Golden Joystick’s Ultimate Game
Other shortlisted games include Minecraft and Zelda: Breath of the Wild
New Boss
Saad Choudri appointed as Miniclip CEO
The role has been taken over from Jurgen Post
Tale Of Two Oses
UA cost for core games are rising, especially on iOS
But casual games are getting cheaper to advertise
Eyes On China
Swrve now gives Western mobile game devs a full picture of their performance in China
Swrve is fully operational in China on AWS
News
Playtertainment announces $5 million funding round
Previous seed funding round raised £3 million
Key Period
Tapjoy’s report highlights the importance of advertising to mobile gamers during the holidays
Two-thirds of users will play mobile games at least three times per day
On The Up
Roblox sees Q3 FY21 revenue rise 102% to $509 million
Roblox was played for more than 11 billion hours this quarter
Open All Hours
App Store developer submissions to remain open during Christmas
Previously Apple would close down for the holidays
Nfts Everywhere
Ready Games goes live with NFTs in Icon: Avatar Fashion Metaverse
Epik is the exclusive NFT technology provider
Easy Play
Zynga announces TikTok-exclusive music dance game Disco Loco 3D
Now entering soft launch
Vroom
Nascar’s crossover with Roblox sees the addition of next gen race car
Follows a contest held on Reddit
Steady Ship
G5's Q3 FY21 sales up 1% to $38 million
Gross margin up to 64%
Delayed Kickoff
Mobile release of Konami's eFootball 2022 postponed until spring 2022
The Premium Player Pack has been removed from sale
Lowered
Google Play Store tweaks payment terms in South Korea
Follows a new law passed in August
News
FarmVille 3 launches worldwide with special bonuses on offer for the first two weeks
Debuting on mobile and MacOS
Cash Up
Skillz sees sales jump 70% to $102 million
This is its 23rd consecutive quarter of revenue outperformance
Now Live
AppLovin partner studio Belka Games launches Bermuda Adventures
From the creators of Clockmaker
Mash Up
PUBG Mobile to add Arcane characters from Riot Games
In celebration of new League of Legends animated series
New Toys
The global rollout of Netflix Games begins
Starting on Android, it will come to iOS later
Booster
PUBG Mobile announces partnership with Koenigsegg
Two of Koenigsegg’s most innovative models now available in-game
Job News
Frauke Grabow joins FunPlus as Europe’s Head of HR
FunPlus continues to hire top talent
Bye-bye
China version of Fortnite is being shuttered
Playable test version had previously been live for almost three years
Growing Pains
Roblox servers are back online following three-day outage
Reportedly not due to external intrusion
On The Move
Nintendo is closing offices in California and Toronto
This is Nintendo's largest layoff since 2014
Rising
Rovio puts Darkfire Heroes into maintenance mode as it announces Q3 2021 sales of $83 million
Q3 2021 was Rovio’s best-performing period since 2019
Dungeonin'
Diablo Immortal closed beta now playable in Canada and Australia
And so it continues
Coming Soon
Arena of Valor offers $1 million in prize money at international championships
The event will be online and streamed on multiple platforms
25 Every Month
Pokémon Masters EX adds new in-app bundles
The recent dev letter outlines upcoming plans for the game
More Catching
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have a nostalgic early-purchase bonus
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has gifts for early purchasers too
News
Sentry begins catching and monitoring issues in Unity
More than 800 game development companies currently use Sentry
News
Chipotle is the first restaurant brand to open in Roblox
This comes as part of Chipotle’s 21st Boorito celebration
New Ways
Admix raises $25 million to monetise the metaverse
Advertising tech is moving with the times
News
Next Games and Netflix launch Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales
The game features exclusive content based on the Stranger Things series
Jumping The Baby Shark
PUBG Mobile partners up with Baby Shark
Players will be able to earn emotes and themed gear
U-turn
ByteDance lays off Ohayoo employees following CCP gaming crackdown
News follows restrictions on under 18s play time
Get Job
Nordic Game Talents aims to help game dev recruitment in Nordic region
Three day event starts 27 October
News
The Battle of Polytopia IAPs have generated $185,000 for African solar power investment
Investments made through Swedish company Trine
Buzzing
Garena leads $12 milllion round into Kazoo Games
It's building midcore casual games
Return To Source
Jagex Partners to publish RuneScape-inspired Melvor Idle
First game from Perth-based Games by Malcs
Time For Giving
IronSource’s SuperXmas campaign offers hypercasual holiday cheer
Games will receive cash prizes based on release date and CPI
It's Calling
Square Enix now actively recruiting for new London Mobile game studio
It's already working on Tomb Raider Reloaded and an Avatar: The Last Airbender title
Cutesy
Rovio and Billebeino launch limited-edition Angry Birds capsule collection
There’s even a dancing plushie
Good Games
MAG Interactive wants to save the ocean with mobile games
Via the UN's Playing For The Planet initiative
Snappy Games
Gismart’s three Snapchat games attract nearly 90 million players
New release Friends Quest has been played by 4.8 million people
Seeded
Order of Meta raises $1.5 million in a round led by Play Ventures
Will release its first game in 2022