February 13, 2024 Lead Layoffs Popcore undergoes "wave of layoffs" impacting key staff Employees appear to have been let go on February 12 2024
November 29, 2023 Plaice No More Fishlabs is laying off around 50 employees as Embracer Group restructure continues The German games developer was bought out by Embracer subsidiary Plaion 10 years ago
November 16, 2023 Major Milestone June’s Journey’s $1billion revenue makes German gaming history Wooga’s flagship has reached the $1 billion mark just after sixth anniversary - the first game from Germany to do so
October 11, 2023 Parental Perception UK kids are most likely to make in-game purchases, but only 4% spend on loot boxes Ipsos’ latest report for Video Games Europe finds in-game spending among children is highest in the UK
September 4, 2023 Interview Nai Chang of Wooga: “One of the key parts of success is understanding your players” Wooga’s managing director gives his thoughts on building the hugely successful June’s Journey and the studio’s presence at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
August 7, 2023 Major Milestone InnoGames' Forge of Empires surpasses $1 billion in lifetime revenue Forge of Empires is responsible for half of all revenues
July 31, 2023 Germany Grows Germany on the rise with 46% growth in games companies since 2020 A 15.5% rise in games companies was observed in 2022
July 11, 2023 Prospering Poland Poland enters top three European countries in games industry workforce size A new report finds Poland has overtaken Germany in workforce size, though remains behind in revenue
June 19, 2023 Summer Celebration Genshin Impact to host real-world summer events in Paris, New York and Berlin The game’s first-ever summer festival is coming this July
May 22, 2023 Interview CipSoft’s Manuel Roth discusses TibiaME’s past, and its future The mobile MMORPG recently celebrated its 20th anniversary - but what’s the secret to its success?
March 23, 2023 German Gamers Graded Mobile Gamers of Germany 2023: Who’s a Heavy Player? adjoe and Appinio report reveals that over a quarter of German mobile gamers play for more than five hours per week
March 20, 2023 Audio Ads Odeeo and Any Ever partner to offer new touchpoint for audio campaigns Establishing in-game audio ads in Germany
February 23, 2023 Acquisition Thunderful acquires Studio Fizbin The studio, known for their title “Say No! More” has been bought by Headup
December 1, 2022 Newzoo Report UK and Germany on track to generate a combined $12.1 billion to the global gaming market in 2022 Almost 75 percent of the population of both countries engage in gaming
November 25, 2022 Week In Views Week in Views - What caught our editorial eyes in the last seven days The PocketGamer.biz team give their take on what happens when a game dies and why the UK is so behind on games funding?
November 17, 2022 Investment Germany increases funding for game industry support to $72m The overall funding for game industry support in Germany will now total €70m or $72m, the funding is awarded to game developers to assist with development and other services
November 17, 2022 Acquisitions Zynga subsidiary Rollic acquires hypercasual games studio Popcore The Turkish studio Rollic has closed the acquisition of Berlin-based Popcore games
August 17, 2022 Mobile Supremacy Official: Germany is the biggest gaming market in Europe And 55% of the country's gaming revenue came from mobile markets
July 5, 2022 Rising Up The Ranks Michael Lenz promoted to newly created CAO role at InnoGames Responsibilities range from video ads to data science
June 17, 2022 More Transparency Apple ATT policies under investigation by Germany’s cartel office Cartel office proceedings follows investigation against Google in January 2022
May 25, 2022 Community Currency Former Gameforge CEO launches Web3 publisher Eleet Games Carsten van Husen to lead
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 13, 2022 Growing In Germany exmox acquires Testerheld to develop new portfolio features and content Developing platforms and generating new features
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 5, 2022 Based In Bavaria fivefingergames announces turn-based blockchain game Knights of Cathena Support coming from ComboStrike
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
February 11, 2022 Run By Rollic Zynga acquires German hypercasual dev NanoTribe Will be managed by Zynga subsidiary Rollic
February 4, 2022 Germanic Growth Exmox has acquired Empfohlen.de, aiming to take German platform worldwide Acquired for an undisclosed amount
January 31, 2022 Under The Influence Flexion invests in influencer marketing startup Liteup Media Acquiring an initial 20% to boost revenue for partnered developers
January 27, 2022 Closing Cloud MagentaGaming cloud service is shutting down next month More than two years since launch
January 6, 2022 Green Footprint Kolibri Games partners with Planetly to attain carbon neutrality Makes contribution for past two years of business operations
January 4, 2022 Exmox Executive Exmox appoints Caglar Eger as CEO Will be responsible for the expansion of the company
November 17, 2021 Libenssimulation Stillfront devs Goodgame and Candywriter to launch German version of BitLife Will culturally adapt
October 26, 2021 Forging New Alliances Goodgame Studios launches in-house publishing arm, starting with mobile Its debut is War Alliance from Magnific Games
October 22, 2021 Highlighting Diversity Wooga's Switchcraft leads the way for casual puzzle mobile game diversity 63% of main cast come from BIPOC backgrounds, with 38% LGBTQ+
October 11, 2021 Switchcraft Sorceress Wooga launches magical themed match-3 Switchcraft worldwide Features wider diversity in narrative, such as sexuality and disability
October 8, 2021 Big Backing Bitkraft Ventures launches $75 million fund for blockchain gaming Will invest in cryptocurrency, NFTs and blockchain equity
September 30, 2021 Pgc Digital #8 PGC Digital: How to ideate in the hypercasual games space Sunday Games' André Noller discusses standing out from the competition
August 19, 2021 Gamescom 2021 Over 30 titles will feature in Gamescom 2021’s Opening Night Live Host Geoff Keighley will return with a new co-host
August 10, 2021 Casual Acquisition Softgames sells off web business to Azerion Azerion will be responsible for publishing all current and future web-based games released by Softgames
August 3, 2021 New Skills Acquired Skillz partners with multiplayer tech company Exit Games, invests $50 million "Expanding into these new areas will grow our total universe of players..."
July 6, 2021 Howdy Partner(ship) InnoGames relaunching partnership programme for mobile and browser markets The new programme is said to offer a "personalised approach"
June 24, 2021 Jackpot Azerion acquires social casino developer Whow Games "We will take our game distribution platform to the next level"
May 25, 2021 Recruiting Now Gamigo hires Simon Prytherch as new head of mobile development Two games set to launch in the near future.
May 7, 2021 Upside Fyber's 2020 revenue soars 76% to $255 million And continues to grow during Q1 2021
April 30, 2021 More Store GoodGame Studios releases Empire: Four Kingdoms via Huawei's AppGallery Second title to hit that app store
April 27, 2021 Privacy Laws As iOS 14.5 goes live, German businesses file antitrust complaint against Apple "Apple is effectively shutting out all competitors"