Capital Move
French hypercasual dev 8SEC opens Paris office
Lyon startup is growing fast
Perfect Deal
Reliance partners with Simteractive to publish Eden Isle: Paradise Resort
Building from beta to global publishing
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: The Roblox approach to designing in the metaverse
"We incorporate the player and their uniqueness into the composition"
Nextgen
Next Games' second Game Developer Academy kicks off 4 October
Learning with hands-on experience
No Play
No new games were approved for release in China during August or September
Banhammer is swinging
Pgc Digital #8
Jam City's Josh Yguado talks acquisitions, IP integration and the future of mobile games
Nowhere near peak gaming, he says
New Way To Pay
Voodoo buys Beach Bum to diversify monetisation from ads to IAPs
Israeli startup did $70 million in past 12 months
Powers Up
Product Madness acquires Polish mobile developer Playsoft
Looking to power-up its mobile games pipeline
Going For Growth
AppFollow update promises increased insight
New update to AppFollow toolkit for optimised app growth is live
News
Supercell-backed Trailmix releases its debut game Love & Pies
A recipe of puzzles and personalisation with a dash of mystery
Funding Boom
Startup conglomerate Kepler Interactive raises $120 million from NetEase
Another roll-up player rolls up
Speaker Spotlight
Roblox's Morgan Tucker on designing for the Metaverse
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Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: How to approach conflict with publishers
Six industry pros get together to talk best practices
Staffing Up
Admix expands, hiring Stefan Adamczyk as VP of Global Partnerships
Ex-AdColony SVP moves on
We're Jamming
Cookie Jam Blast breaks $100 million in lifetime spending
Data from App Annie
Bigger Screen
Genvid and Intel combine for 5G Project Monarch livestream gaming test
Downloads and installs not required
Word Up
Word Crack celebrates its tenth anniversary
Has surpassed 100 million downloads
Plain Speaking
Panivox decloaks its RichCast voice-driven interactive platform
Next generation of narrative audio experiences
Three Up
Big Idea Games, Golden Parachute and Mustard Games join N3twork's platform
More games, more scale
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: What do players want today that they will want tomorrow?
Admix CEO Samuel Huber discusses a resilient player-centric business model
Looking Good
Sulake launching 12,500 Habbo avatar NFTs
Auction for 10,000 will take place this week
Live Events 2022
Steel Media to return to live events in 2022, join us for the Pocket Gamer world tour!
Where will you connect with the global games industry next year?
Continue Spending
Weekly consumer spend on mobile games increases 35% in Q3 2021
Led by Roblox, Genshin Impact and Pokémon Go
It’s Today
It’s here - Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8 is live today
The leading B2B mobile games industry conference starts today and there’s still time to get involved
Speaker Spotlight
Miikka Luotio discusses the expansion of in-app payments
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Speaker Spotlight
Facebook's Antonio Ribeiro on Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
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Special Thank You
We’re giving a special thank you to the sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Meet and connect with the amazing companies supporting us for our online conference next week
Speaker Spotlight
Metacore's Chris Hong on how games connect people
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A Delectable Direct
Bayonetta 3, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak showcased at Nintendo Direct
Bringing a plethora of remastered classics to Nintendo Switch
Speaker Spotlight
Sam Watts on the broadening of retro and rise of immersive technologies like VR
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Speaker Spotlight
SocialPeta's Summer Liu on the power of innovative and unique ad creatives
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11% Cagr
Global mobile gaming market to exceed $116 billion by 2024
Still going strong
We Are Venom
Garena partners with Sony to bring Venom to Free Fire
Free Fire’s first-ever movie crossover event
New Studio
Rovio opens new studio in Canada
Will focus on free-to-play casual mobile titles
Best Shot
Big Buck Hunter: Marksman launches on Skillz platform
There's also a $5,000 competition
Hyper Meets Casual
From hype to hyper to hybrid-casual
Voodoo talks about the birth of hybrid-casual
Go With The Flow
Game blockchain outfit Dapper Labs raises $250 million on a $7.6 billion valuation
Over 600 projects building on Flow blockchain
Better Together
How $1.4 billion Playdemic deal accelerates EA's future mobile success
Jeff Karp and Paul Gouge on more games and synergies
Meet And Network
You could meet Google Play, Epic Games, Microsoft at next week's PGC Digital #8
Meet and network with the games industry’s top companies at the leading B2B mobile games conference
Listen Learn Love
PGbiz Podcast #5 - The future of app monetisation with Facebook
Imran Khan from Facebook Audience Network joins the team
Speaker Spotlight
DappRadar's Skirmantas Januškas on the blockchain game explosion
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Speaker Spotlight
Erinrose Sullivan on the convergence of gaming, art and culture
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Idfa Impact
Overcoming the impact of IDFA: How to survive and thrive
Attend these must-see talks at PG Connects Digital #8
Time To Unite
Pokémon Unite lands on iOS and Android
Brings new update and battle pass
Chasing The Indie Dream
FuzzyBot raises $3.5 million for co-op games starting with Switch
LA studio is up and funding
Speaker Spotlight
PeopleFun's Jason Leary on the rise of integrated storytelling, highly polished theming and vanity collectables
Find out more at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Expert Minds
Learn from Facebook, Square Enix and App Annie at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8
Revealed: the final speakers for the leading mobile B2B games industry conference
Data For Developers
Tenjin and GameAnalytics partner to launch Growth FullStack
Provides access to collect and store data
Quicker, Better
Pollen VC launches its dCPM calculator for better ad revenue transparency
The value of future money demonstrated
Finding Your Roots
Snip. Snip. Snip. But how long should a digital haircut actually take?
Lockwood's Filipe Duarte Pina talks more than short back and sides