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Sentry begins catching and monitoring issues in Unity
More than 800 game development companies currently use Sentry
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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
Magical Launch
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened gives NetEase its first Tencent-beater since 2016
It's the biggest game of 2021 in China
News
IronSource acquires Tapjoy for $400 million
The intention is to increase IronSource’s SDK footprint
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
Thinking Differently
Supercell-invested startup Papukaya decloak, talks about making games for non-gamers
Now hiring too
Disputed
Kixeye shareholders file lawsuit against Stillfront over $30 million earnout
The allegation is breach of earn-out agreement
Deep Dive
Analytics platform Dive integrates with Roblox
40 million DAUs to mine
Already Growing
Ragnarok Origin reaches 400,000 pre-registrations
Adds Genshin Impact’s Lilypichu and ProZD as voice talent
Now Live
Tilting Point and Carry1st publish SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off in Africa
One game, 54 countries
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
Hypermoney
Homa Games raises $50 million to scale hypercasual
Series A was led by Northzone
Cracking
Trivia Crack Adventure does 10 million downloads
Launched in November 2020
Still Growing
MTG appoints Daniel Frechen as new Head of M&A and Strategy
Looking to continue its build-and-grow activity
New Entrant
MZ and Rovio vets launch Original Games with $6 million seed round
Investment led by Play Ventures
News
Zynga closes $525 million StarLark acquisition, expands portfolio with Golf Rival
Zynga’s international footprint expands with a studio in China
News
FeoFun and Black Candy are first winners of IronSource's Supersonic Superstars contest
The second group of winners will be announced in November
Xxxx
Supercell is the only dev with a top 10 strategy game that isn't 4X
Clash of Clans is the outlier
Deal Or Deal?
Game M&A and funding volume hits $71 billion in 2021 to-date
Volume is already more than double 2020
More Play
64% of Millennials spent more time mobile gaming in past year
Results from Tapjoy's survey
Boom Times
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis raises $152 million on a $3 billion valuation
Andreessen Horowitz leads the round
Perfect Deal
Reliance partners with Simteractive to publish Eden Isle: Paradise Resort
Building from beta to global publishing
Nextgen
Next Games' second Game Developer Academy kicks off 4 October
Learning with hands-on experience
News
Supercell-backed Trailmix releases its debut game Love & Pies
A recipe of puzzles and personalisation with a dash of mystery
Top Table
Joakim Achrén appointed Fingersoft's board
Finnish entrepreneur adds status
Funding Boom
Startup conglomerate Kepler Interactive raises $120 million from NetEase
Another roll-up player rolls up
Speaker Spotlight
Roblox's Morgan Tucker on designing for the Metaverse
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Bigger Screen
Genvid and Intel combine for 5G Project Monarch livestream gaming test
Downloads and installs not required
Word Up
Word Crack celebrates its tenth anniversary
Has surpassed 100 million downloads
Speaker Spotlight
Miikka Luotio discusses the expansion of in-app payments
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Speaker Spotlight
Facebook's Antonio Ribeiro on Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Speaker Spotlight
Metacore's Chris Hong on how games connect people
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
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
Speaker Spotlight
SocialPeta's Summer Liu on the power of innovative and unique ad creatives
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Best Shot
Big Buck Hunter: Marksman launches on Skillz platform
There's also a $5,000 competition
Speaker Spotlight
DappRadar's Skirmantas Januškas on the blockchain game explosion
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8