Monstrous Success
Overcoming 60% ROI drop in TeaGames' Monsters: PvP Arena
Investment from Ducky and YouTube trends
World Domination
How hypercasual flop Clash of Dots became hit State.io
Azur reveals how to tweak for success
Gaze Into The Crystal Ball
Four trends to watch in 2022
Gamification and branding, the metaverse, and blockchain among others
Make That Money
Hypercasual mobile monetisation in 2021
Matthaus Krzykowski, Co-Founder of Growth FullStack, details the out-of-the-box options that led the charge for indie and mid-sized publishers to monetising hypercasual games in 2021
Mega Milestone
Gismart surpasses over one billion mobile games and apps downloads
Over 450 million mobile games downloads since 2019
Inside Track
Voodoo shares the secrets of hypercasual development at Paris HQ
The mobile publisher's real-world educational events have returned
There Was A Spark
Electric Manta partners with Sunday to create hypercasual games
Providing a one-stop-shop for casual, hybrid, and hyper games
What's Next?
What to do after a hypercasual game release: check out game support check-list
Ducky producer Nick Shapovalov ticks them off
What's Next?
Why hypercasual publishers should start exploring IAP monetisation
Matina Thomaidou explains the options
Winter Wonder Lab
CrazyLabs launches the Crazy Winter developer challenge
Cash prizes and publishing deals on offer for new hypercasual hits
Publishing Powerhouse
Kwalee appoints Sega and Ubisoft veteran William Cox as head of mobile publishing
Bringing over a decade of industry experience
Increasing Indian Operations
UK hypercasual firm Kwalee expands Bangalore operations
Follows recent expansion of Leamington Spa HQ
Pgc Digital Next
PGC Digital: Adding "real multiplayer" to hypercasual games
Photon Engine head of growth Mark Val shares hypercasual multiplayer tips and tricks
Mega Casual
3.5 billion hypercasual games downloaded in Q3 2021
Hypercasual games were the number one global genre in the third quarter of the year
More Eyeballs
Zynga sees Q3 FY21 sales up 40% to $705 million
Hypercasual games boost ad revenues
Hypercasual Hit Factory
Introducing PlayEmber - a new hypercasual heavy hitter
Join-venture between App Design Company and Boomhits is aiming to shake up the hypercasual games market
Israeli Investment
Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin
Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
Pull Over
Kwalee’s Traffic Cop 3D tops App Store charts in USA, UK, and Canada
Top 10 casual game in 41 countries
Business Time
Why Mamboo Games is making the leap from hypercasual to hybrid-casual
CEO Ivan Leshkevich talks about the studio's future as it focuses on hybrid-casual games
Time For Giving
IronSource’s SuperXmas campaign offers hypercasual holiday cheer
Games will receive cash prizes based on release date and CPI
Fashion Sense
Zynga's High Heels hits one hundred million downloads
The hypercasual hit has had over one hundred million downloads in only 11 months attracting leading fashion house Kenneth Cole as a partner
Hypermoney
Homa Games raises $50 million to scale hypercasual
Series A was led by Northzone
News
FeoFun and Black Candy are first winners of IronSource's Supersonic Superstars contest
The second group of winners will be announced in November
Heating Up Hypercasual
Voodoo launches 'unlimited value' hypercasual development competition on 10 October
First prize guarantees a minimum of $1 million
Capital Move
French hypercasual dev 8SEC opens Paris office
Lyon startup is growing fast
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: How to ideate in the hypercasual games space
Sunday Games' André Noller discusses standing out from the competition
Hyper Meets Casual
From hype to hyper to hybrid-casual
Voodoo talks about the birth of hybrid-casual
Papa Likes Mamboo
My.Games acquires hypercasual studio Mamboo Games for $2 million
Increases stake from minority to majority
Hypercasual Help
Run of Life indie dev Tarek Mongy on how to have a hypercasual hit
Tarek Mongy explains how working with Voodoo helped him create more successful games
Executive Appointment
Homa Games appoints new chief operating officer
Ambitious hypercasual publisher promotes Julien Bourhis after 18 months as VP Operations
Event Latest
Hyper Casual Jam Com goes live on September 24th to 26th
A brand-new international event for hyper casual game developers goes live this month
Voodoo Child
How Voodoo helped hone a hypercasual hit
Tummy Games' Nemanja Divjak reflects on its approach to hypercasual and the studio's relationship with Voodoo
Proliferating Portfolio
Qiiwi Games acquires Playright Games for $1.1 million
Initial purchase price of $540,000 for majority stake
Secrets Of Success
What goes into a successful hypercasual game? Find out in today's free RoundTable
Discover the secrets of a successful hypercasual game during this free expert roundtable discussion
Hybridcasual
Electric Manta and Voodoo agree long-term publishing partnership
The companies aim to extend the lifetime and engagement of hypercasual games
Causing A Storm
Storms launch new game studio and partner with Voodoo
The studio has developed one game so far, AZ Run
In It To Win It
App Annie and CrazyLabs partner for hypercasual game challenge with a $300,000 minimum guarantee
Any other published games promised $200,000
Emea Pivotal
Hypercasual downloads up 15% in Q2 2021 with Bridge Race leading the charge
Supersonic is best placed European publisher
Five-year Payout
Rovio acquires Turkish hypercasual studio Ruby Games
$10 million will first be paid for 20% of shares
Plugged In Publishing
From concept to creation: Plug Head, a hypercasual hit game
How Sunday supported the creators of Plug Head through rejection, to achieve their dream and build a hypercasual hit
Industry Veterans
Former PopCap staff form new studio Electric Manta
The new studio will focus on free-to-play mobile games
Rock And Roll(ic)
Hypercasual developer Rollic surpasses one billion downloads
"We are blown away by Rollic’s performance…"
Eager Embracer
Embracer makes eight acquisitions, including CrazyLabs
The company now operates over 60 games developers
Homa Hiring
Homa Games hires Carlos Mas Rodriguez as new vice president of gaming product
Former Scopely executive will lead the ambitious hypercasual studio's drive into new genres
Open Doors
CrazyLabs acquires Firescore Interactive to boost Indian hypercasual ecosystem
The companies launched a new hub together in July
Developers Wanted
Show us your game for a chance to win big in the new Big Hypercasual Pitch
With the help of Sunday we're expanding our pitching series with the Big Hypercasual Pitch, running digitally on September 29th
Lightning Round
Storm The World competition opens for entries
$560,000 on offer for winning developers
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: Industry pros discuss what defines a hypercasual game
Four industry pros explain their studio’s stance on developing hypercasual hits
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: Sunday Games on making hypercasual profitable
Developers of hit hypercasual games Cat Escape and Plug Head
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: Voodoo head of publishing Alexander Shea discusses 'the science of publishing'
Shea provides insight into how Voodoo has reached 5 billion hypercasual downloads