March 5, 2025 Recruitment Report Who has pet projects in the games industry and what drives them? InGame Job CEO Katya Sabirova analyses the findings from the Big Games Industry Employment Survey 2024
February 21, 2025 Trends Report Developer Trends Survey: Layoffs, rising UA costs and lack of investment key concerns as industry hopes for better 2025 We delve into our Mobile Games Developer Trends Survey Winter 2024/25 report for key insights and industry sentiments
February 14, 2025 Trends Report Download your free copy of PocketGamer.biz’s Mobile Games Industry Trends Survey report Industry professionals open up on layoffs, threats to the industry, and the lack of new game releases
February 5, 2025 Voting Value Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes: eight years, $1.3bn revenue and the value of player voting Fire Emblem Heroes celebrates its eighth anniversary with latest Choose Your Legends poll results
November 7, 2024 Games Industry Survey 21% of game developers in Europe hit by layoffs with 54% now utilising AI in daily work New employment survey shows that 39% of developers work on pet projects, but 10% have left game development for other industries
July 31, 2024 Trends Survey What are the hottest trends right now? Let us know in the 2024 Mobile Games Industry Survey All participants will get a 30% discount on tickets to PGC London. You'll also be in with the chance to receive a £200 Amazon gift voucher, a free ticket to PGC, and promotion on our sites worth up to $8,000
May 28, 2024 Masterclass PocketGamer.biz MasterClass 2024 survey - what do you want covered? From liveops to monetisation - which subjects would you like covered - and in what format?
May 23, 2024 Backend Burnout Top mobile devs spend a "startling" $21 million on game backends A Metaplay survey finds that deploying game developers to backend development leads to higher crunch rates and staff turnover
April 11, 2024 Spring Survey Values Value and InGame Job launch the Big Games Industry Employment Survey 2024 The survey is looking to understand how layoffs are affecting confidence in the future of the games industry
April 3, 2024 State Of Play 72% of women play video games with half of female players being payers Meanwhile diversity in games is a key issue with 65% of men and 62% of women affirming the point
February 26, 2024 App Marketer Insights What game marketers need to know about driving user acquisition through ad campaigns Liftoff's VP of Global Sales, Joey Fulcher dives into the results of the company's recent survey to lift the lid on why App Marketers are optimistic about the future - despite market challenges
January 19, 2024 Week That Was Week in Views - Developers speak their minds, Apple gets sneaky, and why old games are the best The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
November 22, 2023 Tumultuous Times Almost half of all mobile games are axed in development and 83% don’t last three years SuperScale’s new report reveals the vast majority of mobile games are shuttered by their third anniversary
November 8, 2023 Making Money The Big Games Industry Employment Survey explores salaries, satisfaction and AI use across Europe Median salaries across professions reveal today's most lucrative gaming roles
October 25, 2023 French Findings French foresight: Only 3% of France’s games were hypercasual last year The SNJV’s survey reflects upon 2022’s state of play in France
September 15, 2023 Survey Signs Half of all game development could be done by AI within 10 years Bain & Company survey gives insight into current developer mindsets when it comes to generative AI
September 5, 2023 The Crunch Cometh Is mass games industry unionisation on the horizon? Survey reports devs working up to 95-hour weeks A new IATSE survey reveals that only 42.9% of game devs believe they are in sustainable careers, and most experience crunch
August 8, 2023 Mindful Of Mental Health 79% of devs are increasingly pressured to release unfinished games New data from Sauce Labs reveals the state of play from the game dev frontlines with staff exposed to bullying and threats online
July 12, 2023 Reconsidering Remote Is remote working losing its luster? Michail Katkoff shares thoughts on new survey Deconstructor of Fun’s survey looks at hybrid and remote working within the games industry
June 19, 2023 Play With Pride 38% of Finnish gaming professionals identify as LGBTQIA+ The country had a higher proportion of LGBTQIA+ workers in the game industry than the worldwide average
May 3, 2023 Maximising Game Revenue Maximising game revenue: the role of rewarded surveys and offerwalls in revenue diversification Diversify your monetisation and maximise your game revenue with expert insight and advice from the team at TapResearch
March 31, 2023 Report 81% of adults in Türkiye play mobile games And there's an even spread of players across gender and age
March 20, 2023 British Gaming Study finds one in three Brits are gaming during remote working hours Ages 35 to 44 most likely to use work devices for personal activities
February 15, 2023 Immersion And Ai Inworld AI’s report finds 99% of gamers are excited for AI NPCs 78% of players would talk to NPCs more if they were smarter
October 19, 2022 Making The Most Of Mobile Moments Digital Turbine’s Mobile App Habit Report highlights what gamers want to see before installing an app Positive reviews, a good brand image and maintaining attention are all especially significant
October 13, 2022 Survey Findings Hyper-sexualisation in video games Which character designs do gamers actually prefer? A recent survey from PickFu analysed sexualisation in video games, here are the results
September 16, 2022 Racing To Success Animoca Brands begins acquisition proceedings of WePlay Media The intended acquisition is largely due to the success of the MotoGP™ brand
September 12, 2022 Making Money Matters Survey: Making money in mobile games Help Wappier understand more about the ways in which developers are monetising mobile games with this online survey
July 14, 2022 Life, The Metaverse, And Everything 44% of gamers would accept advertising in exchange for free services in the metaverse Globant and YouGov polling reveals gradually escalating interest in advertising and play-to-earn models in the metaverese
April 13, 2022 The Cloud's Acclaim Amdocs: 85% of UK gamers would give up new hardware for cloud gaming Biggest draws are the option to play on any device in any location
March 31, 2022 Marketing Melancholy Tenjin: 39% of mobile devs have lost money due to IDFA changes Tenjin's Roman Garbar speaks to PG.biz on how 55% of respondents are finding mobile marketing harder in 2021 than 2020
March 10, 2022 #raisethegame Ukie: 56% of games industry professionals prefer a hybrid working model The firm's second UK games industry census examines the effects of the pandemic on working attitudes and diversity of workforce
November 15, 2021 Minting Majority of game developers considering using blockchain New survey shows speed of change
November 10, 2021 Key Period Tapjoy’s report highlights the importance of advertising to mobile gamers during the holidays Two-thirds of users will play mobile games at least three times per day
October 13, 2021 Ad Insight 81% of media buyers plan in-game ad spending increase over next 12 months Results of Admix survey of 400
October 6, 2021 More Play 64% of Millennials spent more time mobile gaming in past year Results from Tapjoy's survey
October 6, 2021 What's Next? Get future trends now with our Mobile Game Developer Trends Survey 2021 Our 2021 trends survey has all the answers
September 16, 2021 Surveying The System Ukie launches new UK games industry census Will expand upon previous survey to cover additional areas of interest
May 6, 2021 All About Context Data: Why mobile and console players like loot boxes but PC gamers don't PickFu co-founder John Li asks the questions
March 23, 2021 Jobs In Games "Monetisation outside traditional ad formats in the games industry is sometimes received with a lot of scepticism" Pollfish COO Andres Vourkos discusses his route into games
September 2, 2020 Industry Survey LAST CHANCE to have your say on how you will publish and finance your game with our industry survey There's only a few days left, but there’s still a chance to win free conference tickets for sharing your views, hopes and observations
February 13, 2020 Spend Up Mobile gamers are a key target market for consumer brands Results from Tapjoy's latest annual report
January 29, 2020 Developer Satisfaction Conditions for working in the games industry are improving, according to the IGDA Sexism and racisim are still giving the sector a bad name
November 8, 2019 Ro-block? Roblox survey says 60% of teens don’t report inappropriate online behaviour to parents Information asymmetry
September 4, 2019 Diversity Survey UKIE launches new diversity survey for the games industry “This new Census will give us for the first-time a crucial understanding of the diversity make-up of the games industry”
May 13, 2019 Survey ESA: 60 per cent of US gamers are playing on smartphones, survey finds Almost three-quarters of games played are in the mobile-dominated casual genre
June 27, 2018 Pay To Play Mobile is the most popular platform for gaming, but the least for paying customers Newzoo study finds the platform has a lower player-to-payer ratio than console or PC