Backbone Backed
Backbone raises $40 million to bring console and PC games to mobile
Back by Kevin Hart, Post Malone, The Weeknd, and more
Time To Celebrate
Join us at this year’s Mobile Games Awards in London!
The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards return to London in 2022 to celebrate the businesses and individuals driving the mobile games industry
Dynamic Segmentation
IronSource launches new feature to change ad strategy in real-time
Claims will improve user engagement and maximise revenues
Upcoming Competition
Voodoo’s Spring Game Competition to reward studios with up to $1 million
Top prize for reaching five million downloads in four months
Garena Going Strong
Free Fire was the most downloaded game for January 2022
Subway Surfers comes in close second
Join Us
Europe’s leading mobile games conference is coming to Seattle in May!
Pocket Gamer Connects, the leading global mobile games industry conference series, is coming to Seattle in May
Pushed Back
CGC X postponed to March 3 and 4 due to unexpectedly high attendance
Extra time needed to address bandwidth issue
Get Golfing
Playlinks launches Kitty Golf on Facebook Instant Games
Latest game from the South Korean developer to join the platform
Hypercasual Cash
Three casual and hypercasual monetisation strategies in 2022
Meta’s Yuthida Donnelley, Strategic Partner Manager, delves into monetisation strategies for hyper/casual games, and what opportunities will arise from the evolution of the hybrid-casual genre
Premium Brand Ads
Bidstack partners with Game Tap Studios to bring in-game and in-menu ads
Will be included in 3 Game Tap titles, including Flying Car Real Driving
Pg Connects Interviews
PG Connects London: Xsolla on the return to live events and supporting the mobile games industry
Xsolla's Sebastian Zechel discusses the need to return to live events, reaching new players and markets, and more at PG Connects London
Making Of
Making Call of Antia stand out from the crowd
The Match 3 RPG genre is popular and well populated. FunPlus' Leon Zhou talks to PocketGamer.biz about differentiating yourself from the crowd
Fifth Time's A Charm
Dutch antirust regulator serves Apple fifth $5.7 million fine
ACM claims Apple's suggestions are "unnecessary and unreasonable"
Digimon Discontinued
Bandai Namco to shut down Digimon ReArise from April 21 2022
In-game currency sales discontinued from today
Starting To Slow
PUBG Mobile hits $237 million for January 2022
Global mobile games market generated $7.4 billion, a 7% fall
Welcome Back
Riot Games appoints co-founder Marc Merrill as president of games
Former co-CEO will oversee current and future projects, as well as R&D
Most Read
Hot Five: Supercell's 45% revenue increase, Garena Free Fire banned in India, and FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores
The hottest news articles on PG.biz
It's A Secret
Secret Society Games appoints Andreea Enache as chief business officer
Formerly of Sony, Konami, Namco, Marvel, and more
Vamoosed
FIFA Mobile pulled from Vietnamese app stores
"Local regulations issues" lead to complete service shutdown
Revving Up
Animoca Brands acquires Torque Burnout dev Grease Monkey Games
Indie dev will align focus with P2E, NFT, and blockchain operations
Starter For Six
Top tips: levelling up hypercasual partnerships in 2022
Voodoo's head of publishing, Alexander Shea gives his six top tips on creating more successful collaboration in hypercasual games in 2022
Compiling Cards
Pokémon TCG Live is getting a limited launch in Canada next week
The Pokémon Company keeps to its promise following delay
Investor Encouragement
Supercell highlights excitement for external developers and importance of young talent
The Level Up program begins
Master Monetisation
Why hypercasual gaming app marketers need their own playbook
Adjust's Alexandre Pham breaks down the monetisation of hypercasual games, player retention, and in-game ads in a new world of privacy
Angered Attorneys
Attorneys seeking $27 million for securing $100 million settlement against Apple
Fallout of the Apple antitrust class action suit
Tech Tool Titan
Company Profile: Unity Technologies
Find out more about Unity Technologies, the San-Francisco headquartered company powering the next generation of games, animation, film, transport, architecture, engineering, and more...
Mobile Merger
Netmarble US studio to join Kabam in merger
Simon Sim to become Kabam COO
Over 1,900 Live And Digital Attendees
PG Connects London Live was back with a bang, with over 1,900 delegates!
The UK’s leading mobile game show saw over 230 expert speakers and 900 companies from 60+ countries connecting in c. 6,000 meetings!
Avia Expands
AviaGames brings in Scott Leichtner and Weiming Lu
Hires industry veterans to aide in global expansion
Blending Ads
Anzu to bring in-game ads to Dakar Desert Rally
Will integrate in-game ads onto vehicles, roadside signs, and more
Won't Melt In Hands
Tilting Point to launch M&M’s Adventure on iOS and Android in Spring 2022
Developed by Vietnam-based mobile studio Gear Inc.
Metaverse Music
Yahaha partners with Spitfire to bring The Dead Daisies into the metaverse
Making rock music more accessible through the metaverse
Adios Achievements
Microsoft to switch off Xbox Live services on Windows Phones in May
Achievements and cloud saves will discontinue from May 16 2022
Company Profile – pangle
Company profile – Pangle
Learn more about Pangle, the Singapore headquartered mobile app marketing platform
Post-pg Connects Thoughts
Mobile Mavens: the future of live events
PG Connects London attendees share their thoughts on future live events
For The Future
FunPlus and Creative Art Works launch second character design apprenticeship
Targeting "underserved" NYC teenagers and young adults
Time To Celebrate
Your guide to the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2022
Celebrate the best of the industry in 2022 with us!
Company Profile – xsolla
Company profile – Xsolla
Explore Xsolla, the Los Angeles-headquartered games industry sevice provider that has partnered with games luminaries including Epic, NetEase, and Roblox
Still Growing
Stillfront revenues rise 37% to over $586 million
Planning to soft launch 15 titles in the first half of 2022
Entertainment Veteran
Scopely adds Salaam Coleman Smith to board of directors
Bringing over 20 years of entertainment industry experience
Ar Audio
Niantic and Sony partner for bring hi-fidelity audio AR
Starting with AR mobile game Ingress
Insight On India
The Financial Budget brings the spotlight to India’s gaming industry
Nazara Technologies’ Manish Agarwal shares his optimism for the Indian mobile games industry following the 2022 Union Budget
Annie Goes Ai
App Annie rebrands to data.ai with focus on unified data AI
Partnered with Similarweb to provide unified mobile and web market dataset
Invested Growth
Gameloft Toronto appoints Michael Stolls as studio head
Will lead the studio's "aggressive expansion" over the next few years
Sharks Eating Chickens
PG Connects London: a quick-fire green game jam
Mensah-Bonsu, Muntean, and Esteris' Green Live Ops panel prompts a lo-fi game jam
Look At This
PG Connects London: the untapped artistry of UI
Edd Coates, founder of Game UI Database, brings Sonic, Joker, and Link to his panel discussing the aesthetics and function of user interfaces
Hard Questions At Supercell
Supercell's 45% revenue increase in 2021 follows staff burnout
2021 revenue reached $2.24 billion, and a message about sustainable working from Supercell CEO
Building Blockchain
Animoca Brands opens new subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan
Expanding business
Under Observation
PG Connects London: The regulations surrounding free-to-play
Wiggin associate Isabel Davies talks the changes in regulation that affect the monetisation and marketing of F2P
Pg Connects London
Can't make PG Connects London? Check out what our speakers have been discussing
F2P regulations, off-trend games, and raising investment in your studio among hundreds of topics