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July 3, 2026 Week In Views Game ownership, Love and Deepspace controversy, Pikmin Bloom's record revenue and WeChat's mini-game boom | Week in Views The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
June 29, 2026 Mini-game Mania What the West can learn from China's WeChat mini-games SocialPeta CMO and head of overseas business Summer Liu on how WeChat mini-games scale into global franchises pulling over $10m a day and what that means for studios abroad
June 9, 2026 Pgc Summit Shanghai China gaming 2026: Key trends and market catalysts The key trends we'll cover in next month’s PGC Summit Shanghai including AI, mini games, super apps and a thriving PC market
June 5, 2026 Milestone WeChat Mini Games crosses 500m monthly active users as Tencent shifts focus to retention The platform's developer base grew to 500,000, up from 400,000 in 2024
September 1, 2025 Inside Look Scaling Screw Master 3D from WeChat to global markets The CEO of EOGAMES discusses how its partnership with Supersonic and new strategies helped to scale the game
August 15, 2025 Everyone Wants A Piece Everything is a games platform: Part two Duolingo, Spotify, Netflix and others make moves in gaming
June 26, 2025 New Partnerships Supercell launches Brawl Stars as minigame on Tencent’s WeChat, Clash Royale following soon The Squad Busters maker wants to leverage the market’s growth and the rising popularity of lightweight, instantly playable games
December 26, 2024 Best Of 2024 Paige Cook's top stories of 2024: Layoffs, Ubisoft woes, WeChat Minigames' boom, Monopoly Go's $4bn push, and Unity's next move PocketGamer.biz deputy editor Paige Cook highlights some of the top stories of 2024
October 25, 2024 Games, Everwhere Everything is a games platform Discord, LinkedIn, Telegram - everyone wants in on gaming
September 21, 2024 Podcast | Episode 29 Playtika acquires SuperPlay, and the secret multi-billion dollar games platform WeChat Minigames | Week in Mobile Games podcast The PocketGamer.biz podcast team give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and and what's inside this week's episode 29...
September 19, 2024 Mini Games Big Numbers Behind the scenes of WeChat Minigames and how it has generated $2.3 billion in the first half of 2024 Jakub Remiar shares insight into the current state of WeChat Minigames and its prominence in the Chinese mobile market