Gaming For Good
Fishing (and hunting) for awareness
How Ten Square Games turned their hobby games into a source of eco-education
No Homers Club
Metaverse giants create standards forum – with considerable absences
Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants have formed a group to foster compatibility in the metaverse, so far without the presence of Apple, Roblox, and others
Bounty Hunting
CloudFeather Games raises $1.25 million in seed funding round
"Bounty Hunting" SDK aims to tap into competitive side of gamers
Success To Reinvest
Nordcurrent celebrates 20% growth in 2021
Largest games company in Lithuania has created temporary office in Poland to support its 20 Ukrainian employees
Reality Rebrand
Reality Gaming Group rebrands to Reality+ with move to full-service Web3
NFTs and blockchain using "side-chain" of Ethereum mainnet
Locked Into Mobile
Blizzard won’t extend Diablo Immortal’s microtransaction strategy beyond mobile
Although the firm’s mobile title made over $24 million in its launch, Blizzard has confirmed its monetisation strategy won’t extend to Diablo IV
Making Hay
Supercell: looking back on 10 years of Hay Day – part one
Hay Day’s Stephan Demirdjian, Camilla Avellar and Sari Latvala share their thoughts on Supercell’s overshadowed success story, which released two months before breakaway hit Clash of Clans
Track Rundown
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Web3 For All
Manticore opens up its Core platform for NFT projects
MekaVerse and 0N1 amongst the first to build
What Time Is It
TIME and The Sandbox partner to build metaverse destination, TIME Square
Environment will reportedly include TIMEpieces experiences, and screenings of TIME Studios projects
Get That Brand
How to land your first in-game brand advertising partnership
Vungle's Scott Silverman provides his step-by-step advice on securing in-game brand advertising deals that are ripe within the mobile games ecosystem and beyond
Subscription Prediction
Ericsson projects more than 1 billion 5G subscriptions in 2022
1.1 billion prediction tweaked following invasion of Ukraine
Coming To Pc
Supercell reveals PC-exclusive studio, Channel37
Former Ubisoft RedLynx team working on an unannounced PC title
Bright Spot
Lumi Interactive raises $6.74 million for “crowdhealing” mobile game
Andreessen Horowitz, 1Up Ventures, Galileo Ventures, Heracles Capital, and Emily Greer participate in funding round
Square Clouds
Square Enix invests in cloud gaming company Blacknut
Strategic investment intended to support Square Enix's "vision for the future of gaming"
Hardware Happenings
Tencent rumoured to have entered hardware space with XR ambitions
Three sources suggest an extended reality business is in the works
Get My Branding Iron
Gamers are increasingly positive towards in-game branding
Newzoo report indicates gamers show more positive response to in-game sport, luxury fashion, soft drink and alcoholic beverages, and automotive branding
Pg Connects Seattle
Post-lockdown period led to an increase in mobile gamers, says Xsolla's Nick Yama
The mobile audience is increasingly identifying as gamers – opening new marketing opportunities, says Xsolla's Nick Yama
New Frontiers
The Canadian games market is booming -- see how you can get involved this July 6-7!
Don’t miss out on your chance to get ahead of the curve in two weeks at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto, July 6-7
Hot Five
Hot Five: Diablo Immortal makes over $24 million in first two weeks, a third of gaming app businesses expect to close, and Beatstar's exclusive over Spotify
The hottest news articles on PG.biz
Advice Please
Nordisk Games appoints Audrey Leprince as senior advisor
Audrey Leprince, a veteran of 23 years in the gaming industry, has joined Copenhagen studio Nordisk games
May 2022 Downloads
Subway Surfers and Garena Free Fire top most downloaded games in May 2022
Second consecutive month that both titles have topped the chart
Diablo Declines
NetEase stock plummets following Diablo Immortal delays
Declines of more than nine per cent, from 151.50 HKD to 136 per share, as the firm announces a delay just days before its intended release date
Chipset Court Case
Qualcomm wins four-year battle against $1 billion fine from EU antitrust regulators
Following accusations of paying Apple for exclusive use of Qualcomm chipsets
Further Commitment For Indian Gaming Industry
Kunal Mordekar joins Bombay Play as chief operating officer
Previously held positions at Yoozoo Games India
Cause To Captivate
User acquisition to be dominated by three key factors: predictive analytics, automation, and data privacy
Tempr. report suggests casual mobile games will especially benefit from predictive analysis
Track Rundown
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Register Now
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Track Rundown
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Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Genvid Entertainment hires Jerry Heinz as EVP of global publishing platforms
Working on monetisation and publishing platform for Genvid’s Massively Interactive Live Events
Latest Hires At Gadsme
Admix and Happydemics execs join Gadsme
Nina Mackie and Antoine Clairet to lead in-game ad sales and EMEA demand in French adtech company
Star-studded Lineup
Connect with powerhouses from King, Space Ape, Nitro Games and more at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki!
Meet just some of the speakers of our Helsinki show this September, and don’t forget to book your Super Early Bird ticket before prices rise next week!
Competition
Publish Me! Festival announced by AppQuantum and WN Conference
Top three winners to receive publishing offers from AppQuantum
More Transparency
Apple ATT policies under investigation by Germany’s cartel office
Cartel office proceedings follows investigation against Google in January 2022
Welcome To Hell
Diablo Immortal has made over $24 million in first two weeks
Five million downloads for the first F2P title in the Activision Blizzard franchise
Android Out
Android games struggle to retain players, states Pushwoosh report
A new study revealed that 75.4 per cent of Android players uninstall gaming apps within 30 days
Netflix Numbers
Netflix mobile games exceed 13 million downloads
Subscription service titles have seen five million downloads since January 2022
Track Rundown
Blockchain experts share their priceless insight this July at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto!
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Multimedia... Maybe?
Nexon eyes a multimedia western expansion for its biggest franchises
Discussions between the publisher and independent film and television production company AGBO to translate MapleStory and Dungeon & Fighter beyond games
Find Your Funding
Secure funding for your game at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto with Investor Connector!
Are you a game maker looking for investment for your next project? Let us pair you with your dream investor this July.
Liveops Unleashed
Heroic Labs releases LiveOps service Satori
Alim Jaffer, the Vice President of Product at Heroic Labs tells PocketGamer.biz about the company’s new LiveOps service, Satori.
Deep Dive In Dislyte
How Dislyte took over half of the battler market in its first weeks of release
AppQuantum's Julia Kara looks at Lilith Games' latest RPG team battler, and whether its streamlined onboarding and polish will provide the same sustainability as its mid-core competitors
About An Acquisition
Uncapped acquires gaming finance provider Sugar for undisclosed amount
New brand name "Sugar powered by Uncapped"
Prediction Positivity
McKinsey & Company report predicts $5 trillion in metaverse earnings by 2030
Between $2 trillion and $2.6 trillion could come from e-commerce
App Extinction
Almost a third of gaming app businesses may close due to new regulations, says Bango
Around 31% of games dev respondants believe their businesses will cease to exist when new ad regulations and privacy changes come into effect
Track Rundown
What do top developers keep in their toolkit? Find out at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto this July!
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Ua Eye
Will yoga influencers entice you to play Angry Birds Journey?
Rovio's Claire Rozain looks inward to an ad campaign with Angry Birds Journey, and how vital it is to reflect the players' own interests
Wild At Heart
Words with Friends, Age of Empires devs launch Web3 game franchise
Wildcard Alliance, a hybrid MOBA, RTS, and CCG, will involve a live audience "spectator sport" component
Word Up
PeopleFun’s Carol Miu: “It’s been exciting to see and experience the success of browser-based games like Wordle”
Miu provides a brief snapshot into how the Wordscapes creator is committing to faster iteration and the true appeal of word browser games
Investment With Intent
MSA Novo invests in Tamatem Games' Chinese expansion
New partnership forged between companies to bring "top-tier" mobile games to the Arabic-speaking market