Aligned Incentives
Tilting Point on synergistic growth by supercharging its developers' success
Samir Agili, Asi Burak and Jean-Sebastien Laverge discuss
Dead Good
N3twork scaled Idle Necromancer's DAUs by 970%
Surge in DAUs and revenue in the first month
Growing Globally
Tencent appoints Zoran Roso as marketing director of global publishing
Continuing its overseas expansion strategy
Plugged In
Plug In Digital raises $75 million for indie games publishing
Over 30 titles in the publishing pipeline
Forging New Alliances
Goodgame Studios launches in-house publishing arm, starting with mobile
Its debut is War Alliance from Magnific Games
Now Live
Tilting Point and Carry1st publish SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off in Africa
One game, 54 countries
Perfect Deal
Reliance partners with Simteractive to publish Eden Isle: Paradise Resort
Building from beta to global publishing
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: How to approach conflict with publishers
Six industry pros get together to talk best practices
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: What to expect from a publishing deal
Square Enix's Ed Perkins lists the dos and don'ts
Three Up
Big Idea Games, Golden Parachute and Mustard Games join N3twork's platform
More games, more scale
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
Diversification
Azur Games acquires minority stake in Neosus for $2.2 million
Setting sights on publishing future app development projects
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
Finding Value
Tilting Point acquires publishing rights to Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery
WhaleApp's hidden object game has generated $40 million
Next Level
Turkish indie studio Udo Games raises $420,000 to begin self-publishing
"We will take serious steps to raise qualified human resources…"
Don't Go Alone
Warriors of BizDev: A guide to raiding in the world of game development
How to make your business quests more successful
New Strategy
FunPlus appoints former NetEase director Michael Tong as chief strategy officer
"Tong will elevate our company’s strategic vision..."
Holistic Hypercasual
Publishing for all: CrazyLabs offers publishing for the other 99%
Hypercasual expert offers developers a revenue stream for games outside the top tier
Boom Boom
BoomHits announces world's biggest hypercasual competition with $2 million prize fund
BoomHits CEO Jon Hook talks about the label's plans to disrupt the hypercasual market
Gear Up
Looking for your mobile games studio to be acquired? Here's what recent M&A data is telling founders
Pollen VC's Martin Macmillan highlights the trend
Multiplayer Metaverse
233 Playground - the power of the platform
MetaApp looks to offer multiplayer titles a key to China
You Have My Sword
Phoenix Games takes over Knighthood publishing rights from King
Five million downloads since February 2020.
Out The Nest
IronSource launches Supersonic Graduate Program to help hypercasual devs self-publish
Learn how to operate independently
New Market
Carry1st secures $6 million in Series A funding to scale mobile games in Africa
Konvoy Ventures led the investment round
Long Term Hits
How Kwalee helps hypercasual developers to fail fast on the road to success
Giving developers the guidance and security to make hits
The Facts
Why collaborating with a mobile games publisher is so painful, it's good for you
AppQuantum lay down some home truths
Pgc Digital #6
PGC Digital: Publisher or self-publish?
It comes down to time and money
Pgc Digital #6
PGC Digital: Fundamentally Games' path to becoming a publisher
Our goal was to fill a gap in the market
Welcome To China
Supersonic Studios expands to bring hypercasual to China
Going global with extra bonuses
Staying Put
Starbreeze appoints Tobias Sjögren as permanent CEO
He has been acting chief exec since last October
Farewell
Activision Blizzard to make cuts throughout Europe
Only the publishing offices will be affected
Welcome To The Family
ByteDance snaps up Shanghai-based studio Moonton Technology
Best known for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Helping Hand
Fundamentally Games teams up with Buzz Capital for new User Acquisition Testing Program
The company will offer support to devs at an earlier stage
Get Hyper
My.Games invests in hypercasual publisher Espresso Publishing
It has a minority stake but could acquire controlling shares
New Venture
Sumo Group launches Secret Mode indie publishing arm
Head up by Sega vets James Schall and Derek Seklecki
Clear Intentions
Leaf Mobile submits letter of intent to acquire Truly Social Games
For a consideration of up to $29 million
International Women's Week
"Your career should not fully define your identity," says Popagenda co-founder Geneviève St-Onge
Women in Games week continues as Geneviève St-Onge highlights the need for identity.
Top Dog
Google tops the publisher download charts for February 2021
Half of the entries were games publishers
Top Dog
Kwalee is top British mobile games publisher by downloads
"Our outlook is truly global, and we strive daily to reach hundreds of millions of players around the world"
Yoohoo
Yooka-Laylee dev Playtonic launches Friends publishing label
Firm is already working with three studios, details of first projects coming "soon"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why Switch games need to hit a 70% rating or above for Nintendo to "deal with you"
The process was explained via Greenlight Games CEO and founder Dean Day
Proving Popular
Google tops the publisher download charts for January 2021
Voodoo, AppLovin and CrazyLabs were in the top five
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding the publishing process and trends
"We look for anyone that is doing something different, in a word innovation"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why it's never too early to show a publisher a game
The topic was discussed in length during The Art of Publishing session
Welcome Aboard
FunPlus hires Chris Petrovic as new chief business officer
"Chris's career as an industry leader will empower our teams across the world to create, produce, and expand our brand of gaming experiences to wider markets and build upon our current ones"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Playdigious CEO discusses why practically any Nintendo Switch game can be brought to mobile
"There is pretty much only benefits to bring it to mobile"
Top Of The World
Tencent and NetEase remain App Annie's top publishers for the fourth year running
A number of companies jumped up more than 10 places this year
On The Up
Haruki Satomi becomes Sega Sammy group CEO
Replaces his father in the top job
Welcome Aboard
Kwalee hires Max Everingham to lead its push into console and PC
"We're delighted to be welcoming Max to the team as we launch Eternal Hope, and we encourage PC and console developers of all sizes to start a conversation with us"
Come One Come All
Mamboo Games opens publishing applications to all developers
"We are confident that we will be able to achieve better results, so we decided to begin accepting applications from all mobile developers on the market"