Mobile Masterworks
Mobile Masterworks: Clash of Clans
Supercell’s flagship title brought mobile strategy into the third-dimension
Equity In Gaming
Zynga India’s Divya Nair on gender equity in the mobile games space
Zynga recently held a tech meet-up for women in the gaming industry
Prototyping Unpacked
justDice’s mobile game prototyping process unpacked!
Breaking down the rewarded games and apps studios' mobile game prototyping methodology
Appointments
Room 8 appoints David Lalonde as head of mobile service line
Will oversee growth strategy for growing portfolio of studios
Game Accelerators
Wings Interactive announces Elevate mobile game accelerator in collaboration with Netflix
As with other projects from Wings, the aim will be to elevate indie game development
Dev Tools
Unity take the next step, teasing AI development tools in new video
While developing with Unity has always been fast, it looks like it might be about to get a whole lot faster…
Croquet X Unity
Croquet for Unity makes multiuser games “automatically”
The new 'no netcode' JavaScript framework makes multiplayer development easier than ever before
Creation Operating System
Fragnova unveils Creation Operating System to revolutionise game creation
Fragnova unveils its network and exclusive games creation system that will shape how future generations create User Generated Content
Unity Gaming Report
Marc Whitten of Unity: "There are more players… But payers are in decline."
Released today, the 2023 Unity Gaming Report serves up both solutions and challenges for developers both big and small
Q&a
Tom Van Dam on the success of Marvel Snap and what’s next for Nuverse
The senior director of global business offers his thoughts on the reason for Snap’s success and how they helped
Analytics
Apex Legends Mobile was trailing heavily behind CoD Mobile prior to its axe
New data indicates that EA’s culling of Apex Legends Mobile may be more warranted than was previously assumed
Financials
Playtika to halt development of new games following rocky financials
Playtika’s Q4 2022 financials revealed a few key victories, and losses
Artificial Intelligence Intrigue
Are AI chatbots coming to Tencent and NetEase games?
Many technology firms are considering services like that of ChatGPT
Company Culture
Supercell CEO lays out “the defining challenge” for mobile gaming
Ilkka Paananen explains Supercell’s philosophy and keys to success in his annual blog post
Intrinsic In Game Ads
A recipe for success: bringing intrinsic in-game ads to Cooking Diary
As game developers continue to explore ways to monetise their titles, intrinsic in-game advertising has emerged as a popular solution that isn’t going anywhere.
Mobile Masterworks
Mobile Masterworks: Subway Surfers
More than ten years and billions of downloads after its initial release, Sybo’s Subway Surfers remains an enduring classic of the mobile genre. So what’s the story behind it?
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Troy Drysdale on exploring the evolution of games and games technology
Meet the industry pioneers and business leaders who are speaking at Pocket Gamer Connects London on January 23rd and 24th 2023.
Opera Gx
Gaming browser Opera GX surpasses 20 million monthly active users
Opera GX acts as a marketplace for games created using the GameMaker platform
Game Funding
Take-Two’s Private Division marks fifth anniversary with unveiling of new development fund
The Private Division Development Fund will support independent development teams
Make Your Games Greater
Cheat codes to master the hybridcasual genre
Homa reveals the secret design and development 'cheat codes' for creating a successful hybridcasual game
Milestones
Homa’s Merge Master reaches 100m downloads
Homa, formerly Homa Games, announce that it and developer Fusee's title Merge Master had accrued 100m downloads
Mobile Moves
PlayStation Mobile team continues hiring spree
Veterans of Kabam, Apple, Meta and Niantic are among the team members fleshing out PlayStation's ever-expanding mobile department
Sunsetting
Gwent sees the end of further card development as CD Projekt Red aims to hands its keys to fans
Gwent will cease adding new cards at the end of 2023 but ‘Project Gwentfinity’ will hand control of the game to its fans
Hybrid Casual Help
Hybridcasual: a winning formula?
In the first of a new Knowledge Base series, Homa offers insight into the emerging Hybridcasual genre, highlighting opportunities and challenges for developers
Building For The Future
Homa readies web3 tech for game creators and players as community skyrockets
Following its $100M raise, Homa is adding web3 tools to its tech stack, enabling game creators to provide new experiences & versions of Homa’s characters to players
Studio Collabs
Capcom to collaborate with Tencent’s TiMi studios for Monster Hunter mobile game
Capcom will work alongside TiMi to produce a game based off the popular Monster Hunter franchise for mobile
Easier Everything 3.0
Appodeal unveils its enhanced SDK 3.0
Appodeal updates its SDK, offering enhanced metrics, improving compliance tools improving distribution and more
Hypercasual On The Move
Azur Games: How hypercasual games development has changed through the pandemic
In Azur Games’ latest blog post they describe how the last three years of hypercasual has gone from popping bubbles to intricate level design
Indie Development
Mobile game designer James Senter talks about the highs and lows of being an indie developer
Maker of text-based adventure games such as Pocket Reality, James Senter on finding a place on the mobile market
Gotta Collect Em All
Collect Em All - From hyper to hybrid-casual hit
Voodoo outlines the company's new focus on hybrid-casual games and explains how it turned a hypercasual prototype into a success
Mwm Expansion
MWM opens new business unit focused on US markets
The company aims to create a suite of creative apps for mobile devices
Collaborative Working
Calypte on creating a collaborative environment
The studio’s leadership team discuss their vision
A Downhill Battle
Jay Fernandes: We experimented with a lot of different layouts. I mean a lot. Like even more than you’re thinking.
Plastic Fern Studios' Jay Fernandes on the struggles of adapting The Descenders to mobile
Room For Growth
Room 8 Group introduces mobile game development brand Solid Bash
The brand will be a part of the newly-established Mobile Service Line
Make Marketing Matter
Big or small - marketing must be part of your plan
Where does marketing sit within game development? Behaviour Interactive's Luc Duchaine argues that it's at the heart of the core team, from the very beginning of production
Introducing Madness Ventures
Product Madness unveils game development incubator program
The program will help developers, build, test, and market their free-to-play games
Listen! Learn! Love!
PocketGamer.biz Podcast - the realities of developing hypercasual games for indie studios
Join the PocketGamer.biz team as we speak to the awesome Riley Andersen, CEO of Umami Games about the studio's experience in the hypercasual games sector
Good News For New Devs.
Xsolla launches systems to help new developers accelerate growth
Xsolla Accelerator and Xsolla Payout offers educational programs, funding, and streamlines payments
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Thought Leader
How to make a great Free-to-Play game in three steps [UPDATE]
Director of Product Chase Shi says that 'monetisation is a part of the gameplay'
Getting Musical
"Players really appreciate having constant access to what they’ve paid for"
Indie dev lowiro's Anton Prydatko discusses development, monetisation models, and weathering changes in the mobile games industry over the last five years
Working On Web3
Mighty Bear Games raises $10 million to launch Web3 games
Investment led by Framework Ventures
Opportunity
F2P publisher 10K Riders secures half-a-million dollar investment
Cypriot company seeks new mobile game developers
Creating Connections
Dream Games, thatgamecompany: building iconic IP creates essential emotional attachments
Royal Match and Sky creators Soner Aydemir and Jenova Chen share their views on connecting with players at Index Gaming Summit
Ottowa Opens For Outsourcing
Pingle Game Studio opens Canadian office
The Ukrainian outsourcing expert has followed its recently opened London office with a new location in Ottowa
Tech Scaler
Stepico announces acquisition of game art studio Inkration
Stepico brings together 200+ specialists in various fields focused on large-scale projects with the highest production values
Director Deluge
Annapurna Interactive makes multiple hires to internal development studio
Helmed by game director Chelsea Hash, the new additions – Brett Lajzer, Evan Hembacher, and Cosimo Galluzzi – will push forward with an unannounced project
Co-development Deal
Mighty Kingdom and Lion Studios partner to develop unnamed title
Partnering for 12 months of co-development
Pg Connects Seattle
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle – the editor's picks for unmissable sessions
Editor Khai Trung Le gives his lineup of essential talks, panels, and sessions in PG Connects Seattle, taking place on May 9-10
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
Engine Enhancements
Cocos raises $50 million in Series B ahead of metaverse development project
Plans to improve open-source engine