October 18, 2021 Magical Launch Harry Potter: Magic Awakened gives NetEase its first Tencent-beater since 2016 It's the biggest game of 2021 in China
October 15, 2021 News IronSource acquires Tapjoy for $400 million The intention is to increase IronSource’s SDK footprint
October 14, 2021 Spread The Load Lucid Sight raises $2.6 million to bring Colyseus Arena multiplayer tech to the cloud The service handles server management, infrastructure and scaling
October 14, 2021 Thinking Differently Supercell-invested startup Papukaya decloak, talks about making games for non-gamers Now hiring too
October 14, 2021 Disputed Kixeye shareholders file lawsuit against Stillfront over $30 million earnout The allegation is breach of earn-out agreement
October 12, 2021 Already Growing Ragnarok Origin reaches 400,000 pre-registrations Adds Genshin Impact’s Lilypichu and ProZD as voice talent
October 12, 2021 Now Live Tilting Point and Carry1st publish SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off in Africa One game, 54 countries
October 11, 2021 Tangled Web Apple files appeal against in-app links to alternative payments ruling The federal judge has ruled in favour of Apple for nine of ten counts
October 11, 2021 Hypermoney Homa Games raises $50 million to scale hypercasual Series A was led by Northzone
October 8, 2021 Still Growing MTG appoints Daniel Frechen as new Head of M&A and Strategy Looking to continue its build-and-grow activity
October 7, 2021 New Entrant MZ and Rovio vets launch Original Games with $6 million seed round Investment led by Play Ventures
October 7, 2021 News Zynga closes $525 million StarLark acquisition, expands portfolio with Golf Rival Zynga’s international footprint expands with a studio in China
October 7, 2021 News FeoFun and Black Candy are first winners of IronSource's Supersonic Superstars contest The second group of winners will be announced in November
October 7, 2021 Xxxx Supercell is the only dev with a top 10 strategy game that isn't 4X Clash of Clans is the outlier
October 7, 2021 Deal Or Deal? Game M&A and funding volume hits $71 billion in 2021 to-date Volume is already more than double 2020
October 6, 2021 More Play 64% of Millennials spent more time mobile gaming in past year Results from Tapjoy's survey
October 5, 2021 Boom Times Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis raises $152 million on a $3 billion valuation Andreessen Horowitz leads the round
October 4, 2021 Perfect Deal Reliance partners with Simteractive to publish Eden Isle: Paradise Resort Building from beta to global publishing
October 1, 2021 Nextgen Next Games' second Game Developer Academy kicks off 4 October Learning with hands-on experience
September 30, 2021 News Supercell-backed Trailmix releases its debut game Love & Pies A recipe of puzzles and personalisation with a dash of mystery
September 30, 2021 Top Table Joakim Achrén appointed Fingersoft's board Finnish entrepreneur adds status
September 30, 2021 Funding Boom Startup conglomerate Kepler Interactive raises $120 million from NetEase Another roll-up player rolls up
September 30, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Roblox's Morgan Tucker on designing for the Metaverse Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 29, 2021 Bigger Screen Genvid and Intel combine for 5G Project Monarch livestream gaming test Downloads and installs not required
September 28, 2021 Word Up Word Crack celebrates its tenth anniversary Has surpassed 100 million downloads
September 27, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Miikka Luotio discusses the expansion of in-app payments Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 24, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Facebook's Antonio Ribeiro on Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8 Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 24, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Metacore's Chris Hong on how games connect people Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 24, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 24, 2021 Speaker Spotlight SocialPeta's Summer Liu on the power of innovative and unique ad creatives Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 23, 2021 Best Shot Big Buck Hunter: Marksman launches on Skillz platform There's also a $5,000 competition
September 23, 2021 Speaker Spotlight DappRadar's Skirmantas Januškas on the blockchain game explosion Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 23, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Erinrose Sullivan on the convergence of gaming, art and culture Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 22, 2021 Speaker Spotlight PeopleFun's Jason Leary on the rise of integrated storytelling, highly polished theming and vanity collectables Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 22, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Bellyfeel's Krishna Stott on running live role player story games Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 21, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Tamar Polak on the shift from user-level to aggregated data Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 21, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Orbital Knight's Karol Drzymala on why you should just make more games Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 20, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Katerina Burbela on falling in love with the games industry Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 20, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Azarus’ founder Alexander Casassovici on a new form of streaming Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 17, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Execution Labs entrepreneur Keith Katz on investing in game studios Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
September 16, 2021 Speaker Spotlight Kristina Miles on the importance of user experience on mobile Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8