Cracking The Puzzle
Digital Bros, parent company of 505 Games, acquires Puzzle Quest publisher
Acquisition of D3 Go! to bolster 505’s F2P capabilities
Roe Vs. Wade
Mobile games developers come out in support of abortion rights
Niantic, Innersloth, Ubisoft and more speak out, while Activision Blizzard, Apple, Netflix, and others add financial support for affected employees
Brand Booster
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Hot Five
Hot Five: Miniclip to acquire SYBO, Supercell reveals PC-exclusive studio, and TikTok owners reach $1 billion
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Show Overview
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Monumental Deal
Miniclip to acquire Subway Surfers studio Sybo
Mobile acquisition is “the biggest deal in European mobile games this year”
It's Clubberin' Time
Join our Club: Zynga’s Tatum Clanton details Words With Friends 2’s new guild system
Following its release on June 23, Zynga game design director Tatum Clanton shares her thoughts on the earliest days of WWF's new guild system, Clubs
Powerhouse Speakers
Get a sneak peek at the star-studded speaker lineup for Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto!
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Tech Scaler
Stepico announces acquisition of game art studio Inkration
Stepico brings together 200+ specialists in various fields focused on large-scale projects with the highest production values
Show Me The Billions
data.ai: Mobile players to spend $21.4 billion in Q2 2022
Of $33 billion spend on mobile apps, gaming will take the lion’s share
Hello Saga
Solana Labs is developing a Web3 mobile phone
Solana's Saga, an Android phone, will integrate Solana Pay to facilitate QR code-based payment, a mobile wallet adapter, and a Web3 decentralised app store
Happy Birthday!
Rec Room turns six with more rooms than there are apps on App Store
Platform enjoys a 640% year-over-year increase in player numbers on mobile devices
Charge!
Subset Games partner with Netflix with exclusive mobile release of Into the Breach
The firm's first mobile release since iPad port of FTL: Faster than Light, releasing on July 19
Triple Threat
Tripledot Studios is the third-fastest growing private company in the UK
Mobile games developer is the sole app developer to rank in FEBE’s The Growth 100 list, celebrating the UK’s fastest growing private companies
Track Rundown
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Save Big
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Tiking Along
TikTok owner ByteDance generates $1 billion in annual games revenue
Mobile titles by Ohayoo, Nuverse, Moontoon, and C4 Connect
Go West
Chinese studio XD prioritises US In expansion bid
Ragnarok Mobile and Human: Fall Flat port developer looks west to bypass China's regulatory restrictions
Sharkticons Assemble
Stage Two of Transformers x Top War: Battle Game crossover breaks records once again
The second phase of the in-game brand collaboration pushed the popular battle game to new heights of revenue and pushed it up the app store listings worldwide
Bye Bye Beta
Unity Gaming Services tools now live for game developers
Introduced in October 2021, several Unity Gaming Services tools are now exiting open beta
Activision Blizzard Board Survives
Bobby Kotck voted to be re-elected to board by Activision Blizzard shareholders
Around 91 per cent of shareholders voted in favour of extending the board’s term until 2023
The Mobile Games Glossary
The mobile games industry glossary
A living A-Z of mobile games industry terms you should know
Pgc Seattle
Know someone who wants to get into the games industry? Hashbang and AIE can help
The mobile games industry is experiencing a skills shortage. Meet the people helping to bring fresh perspectives onboard.
Moving Metaverses
Jon Vlassopulos steps from Roblox to join Dubit advisory board
Responsibilities include advising on metaverse strategies and brand partnerships, whilst retaining advisory capacity at Roblox
Blizzard To Blockchain
Former Activision Blizzard exec joins Catheon Gaming as co-CEO
Blockchain gaming firm Catheon Gaming has appointed former Activision Blizzard APAC Head Mark Aubrey as the company’s new co-CEO
Moba And Rpg Popularity Continues
Chinese game market revenue down 7 per cent in May
Sales revenue of Chinese game market reached $3.4 billion, down 6.74 per cent year-on-year, according to Gamma Data
Just Browsing
Parallelz raises $3 million for streaming tech that can purportedly run any mobile game or app
Will a browser service that can reportedly run any mobile game or app disrupt the walled gardens of the App Store and Google Play?
Everything Everywhere
There’s no such thing as the average mobile gamer
data.ai’s latest gaming spotlight highlights all the ways in which mobile games are conquering the world
Ua Eye
Are you Team Summer or Team Winter in your Q2 game advertising? UA Eye explores nine campaigns to find out
Rovio's Claire Rozain explores a host of ads including Supercell, Peak, IGG, and, yes, Rovio to determine whether summer or winter imagery is what players want to see
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Meeting Time
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Brand Benefit
Layer aims to streamline processes between games and brands
Matchmaking IP holders with game developers within its platform
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
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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