January 9, 2024

Monetisation Strategy

Aggressive monetisation isn’t fun for players so here's how to fix things

Midjiwan's Christian Lovstedt discusses how roughshod monetisation methods such as forced ads and tough-to-earn in game currencies are creating a negative experience for players

January 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions

Why making marginal gains should be every developer's prime strategy for 2024

LifeStreet, CEO Levi Matkins gives us his simple but effective, six-step game plan to deliver substantial results

January 4, 2024

Mena Focus

Savvy Games Group: “Approximately 75 percent of our capital allotment has not yet been invested”

We speak to Savvy Games Group CEO Brian Ward about the accomplishments of the past year, what we can expect to see next from the MENA region and Savvy’s new games ambitions

December 21, 2023

Ad Strategy

Upping your game with integrated ads

AdInMo’s head of supply Lewis Horgan shows how immersive ad placements can take your game to the next level

December 19, 2023

Top Tips

Top tips: How to optimise ad placements to boost your game

Unity’s Anna Popereko is back with more tips on how to maximise your ad strategy

December 13, 2023

Horror Hits

Behind the Scenes: Creating the viral hit Baby in Yellow

Team Terrible’s CEO Greg Lee shares a closer look at the game's development and what they have coming up next

December 12, 2023

Ad Strategy

New Year - New Ad Strategy: Expert tips and predictions for mobile game advertising in 2024

Nexters Murad Khalilov offers top tips to take into 2024 to maximise your advertising strategy

December 8, 2023

Emerging Markets

Africa’s gaming market: How to make a profit with F2P games

Carry1st Senior UA and admonetisation manager Claire Rozain discusses the African games market opportunity for F2P games

December 7, 2023

Tales To Tell

"It was surreal to see our little brainchild win a Google Play Award and be nominated for a BAFTA!"

Other Tales Interactive founder Tanja Tankred tells us about the success of Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, being an inclusive studio and what's next

December 5, 2023

A Winning Team

Korea shoots and scores with huge surge in soccer-themed mobile game sales

Despite the FIFA rebranding, EA FC Mobile continues to dominate the soccer-themed mobile games market

November 22, 2023

Industry Insights

Publishing perfection: Making the most of today's landscape: Part two

Kwalee’s John Wright discusses some of the common challenges developers are facing and how to combat them by finding the right publisher

November 21, 2023

Q&a

"All the stars aligned. Now it’s full steam ahead!" MTG's CEO Maria Redin looks back at 2023

With a busy year almost in the rear view mirror, Maria Redin talks Modern Times Group's success and the challenges ahead

November 20, 2023

Industry Insights

Publishing perfection: Making the most of today's landscape: Part one

Kwalee’s John Wright takes a look at mobile games publishing today, offering insight and advice on how to combat the challenges ahead

November 14, 2023

Interview

Christian Lövstedt on The Battle Of Polytopia’s journey to 20 million downloads

Originally releasing in 2016, Midjiwan’s smash hit is now on multiple platforms with 20 million installs on mobile. Here's how they did it

November 2, 2023

Mena Market

The MENA Opportunity in a post-ATT mobile games market

Sandsoft's Ratko Bozovic discusses how the MENA market is on the rise despite privacy policies changes shaking mobile’s foundations

October 30, 2023

Feature

Market analysis: How behavioural data is helping to bust stereotypes in the world of gaming

Measure Protocol’s Christie Hartbarger shares an overlook into consumer digital behaviour

October 27, 2023

Feature

Game analysis: The evolution of hypercasual runner Jelly Run 2048

Azur Games' Milana Gelmanova shares of taking the game from suboptimal metrics to a stand out project

October 27, 2023

Top Tips

Top Tips: Five key steps for building your mobile gaming community

Pixel Gun 3D's head of community Nikita Glazkov details the different types of gamers developers can appeal to and how to engage with them

October 25, 2023

Feature

Exploring Africa's games market opportunity

Carry1st Senior UA and Admonetisation Manager Claire Rozain examines the huge potential of the African games market

October 18, 2023

Interview

Industry veterans create The Experimentation Group to boost industry growth

The consultancy group are offering their expertise for free

October 5, 2023

Acquisition

Modern Times Group acquires Pocket Gamer Award winner Snowprint Studios

Snowprint Studios are behind the strategy title Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus

October 4, 2023

Milestones

My.Games' Grand Hotel Mania reaches four-year anniversary and hits $100m in revenue

Grand Hotel Mania joins a highly performing game catalogue including Rush Royale and Left to Survive

September 27, 2023

Mobile Growth

Gaming is the fastest growing app category worldwide

Action, hypercasual, and sports are among the top-ranked gaming subverticals

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 8, 2023

Mega Mobile

Mobile is gaming’s strongest platform in a market set generate $187.7 billion this year

Newzoo's 2023 Global Games Market Report expects mobile games to generate $92.6 billion

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 24, 2023

Investment

GameStake Technologies raises £630,000 in seed funding for “rewarded play” gaming

The company is pursuing the “rewarded play” style of monetisation

July 5, 2023

Partnership

Homa to form strategic partnership with mobile studio 8sec

The partnership aims to benefit from the popularity pivot from hypercasual to hybridcasual

May 11, 2023

Financials

What part does mobile play in Capcom's record-breaking financials?

While their latest financial results are driven mainly by console and PC releases, mobile is beginning to play its part

May 11, 2023

Financials

Pixel Federation 2022 report 7% drop in sales in latest financials

The dip is attributed to post-Covid slowdown

May 11, 2023

Financials

Roblox revenue and DAU up by 22%

The game platform turned metaverse darling continues to grow

May 11, 2023

Financials

Unity hits $500m of revenue in Q1 financials

John Riccitiello: “The very nature of our platform will benefit from AI tools”

April 4, 2023

Report

The UK’s gaming market was valued at £7.05 billion in 2022

The UK Interactive Entertainment association’s latest report analyses Britain’s gaming market

March 29, 2023

Appointments

Room 8 appoints David Lalonde as head of mobile service line

Will oversee growth strategy for growing portfolio of studios

March 28, 2023

Data

Mobile game spend up almost 30% compared to pre-pandemic levels

Mobile bounces back after a dip in 2022

March 20, 2023

Anniversaries

Netflix Games one year on

As the anniversary of Netflix’s robust gaming catalogue comes round, more information arrives about their plans for 2023

February 20, 2023

Africa’s Mobile Boom

Africa poised for explosion in mobile gaming

The continent’s unique place in the market offers wide-ranging opportunities for mobile gaming

January 27, 2023

New Hires

Adjoe plans to open up new markets as they hire fresh management team

Mobile advertising platform Adjoe has made three new key hires, concentrating on growing their business in new markets and leading the overall team

January 27, 2023

Pocket Gamer Connects 2023

Nour Khrais on MENA: "This is an opportunity for small developers to reach a huge audience.”

If you're not in MENA then you're not doing business. That was the message from the Maysalward founder and CEO at PGC London 2023

January 18, 2023

Mobile Success

Which five mobile hits generated $7.2 billion in revenue in 2022?

Incredibly, these globe-conquering games raked in eight percent of total revenue. And the winners are…

January 17, 2023

Grow Your Game

Ready to scale your game? Learn from top experts at Pocket Gamer Connects London

It’s time to take your game to the next level - get the top strategies to accelerate your growth

January 16, 2023

Joint Ventures

Mattel and NetEase partnership announces rapid growth going into 2023

Mattel163, the studio formed as part of a partnership between Mattel and NetEase has announced rapid growth and success going into 2023

January 11, 2023

Advertising

Mobile ad spend predicted to hit $362bn in 2023

Data.ai’s State of Mobile report shows the continuous growth of mobile ad spend over the past 4 years, and predicts it will hit a new high in 2023

November 21, 2022

Awards

Tripledot Studios growth strategy pays off with Deloitte Award

Mobile developer Tripledot received the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 Award for its rate of growth

November 7, 2022

Studio Move

Miniclip expands Miniclip Netherlands in move to new offices in Zoetermeer

Miniclip has expanded and moved Gamebasics, now Miniclip Netherlands, to purpose-designed refurbished offices in the city of Zoetermeer

October 31, 2022

Chinese Market

Chinese mobile market revenue to decline for first time in two decades

China’s lucrative mobile sector, has been forecast to decline for the first time in twenty years

October 31, 2022

Interview

Barclays and Ukie on how their Mobile Games Growth Program will provide a boost to the industry

Daniel Wood of Ukie and David Gowans of Barclays discuss the support available through their investment program

October 14, 2022

The Growth Of Mobile Gaming

Mobile gaming market to exceed $175 billion by 2027

China’s strong growth is projected to continue over the period

October 3, 2022

Helsinki Highlights

Building a company with vision

Jussi Tähtinen on how crystallising the company you want to be can help you succeed

August 19, 2022

Job Openings

Mattel to grow its digital gaming sector with new job openings

New managerial positions include head of business development and licensing, senior manager of mobile licensing, and senior manager of PC/Console licensing