It's Happinying
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl new details emerge
Pokémon Legends: Arceus given spotlight too
Very Onix-pected
Pokémon Unite mobile launch, Pokémon GO introduces Galar region and Pokémon Café Mix gets rebrand
Latest Pokémon Presents goes big on mobile
One Block At A Time
Roblox sees Q2 2021 revenue up 127% to $454 million
Player growth particularly strong in APAC
The Very Best
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Ads Aid Acquisition
The value of Apple Search Ads
In a post-IDFA world will advertising on Apple Search become more valuable for user acquisition?
Three Of A Kind
More acquisitions made by Embracer with Demiurge Studios, Fractured Byte and SmartPhone Labs
The trio was purchased through Embracer subsidiary Saber Interactive
Recruitment Drive
Activision staffing up for "huge unannounced triple-A mobile project"
"Engineering, design, production, product, marketing, data - you name it…"
Investigation Underway
Update: Riot Games accused of delaying sexual discrimination and harassment investigation
The company is being investigated by the Department of Fair Housing and Employment
Destruction Directive
Nintendo awarded permanent injunction against illegal ROM site, RomUniverse
"Plaintiff’s evidence demonstrates a threat of continued infringement..."
Building Communities
Updated: Roblox acquires online communities platform Guilded for $90 million
Guilded will continue to operate as an independent product
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Hot Five: Digimon: New Century soft launch, Xsolla layoffs and highest-grossing mobile games ever
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Winner Winner
PUBG Mobile dethrones Honor of Kings for July global revenue
The battle royale jumped ahead by almost $70 million
Hail Satin
Louis Vuitton's mobile NFT game hits 500,000 downloads in first week
"China is the biggest market to date driving downloads..."
Emea Pivotal
Hypercasual downloads up 15% in Q2 2021 with Bridge Race leading the charge
Supersonic is best placed European publisher
Fringe Events
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Over The Moon
Former King and Z2 developers raise $5 million for Starform studio
The funding round investment will be used to scale the company to work on upcoming and future projects
Here We Go Again
Rockstar Games rumoured to be remastering GTA trilogy for mobile
Set to include Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Expert Minds
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First speakers announced for our next online conference - find out who you’ll be learning from next month
Indie View
How Summoners Fate is trying to build a new kind of turn-based tactics/deckbuilding game
Summoners Fate placed second at The Big Indie Pitch
New Strategy
Glu Mobile CEO Nick Earl and COO Eric Ludwig leave company
Both will depart by the end of August
Everything Everywhere
From console blockbusters to mobile indies, how Genvid's streaming tech is creating mass engagement gaming
The shaping of a new way to play
Intriguing Indies
Nintendo Indie World Showcase - all 19 games shown off
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Toem, Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, Gang Beasts and more
25% Rise
Over 800 mobile games make more than $1 million every month
Data was confirmed by App Annie as part of its "2021 Mobile Gaming Tear Down"
Direct To Mobile
NCSoft reveals new Lineage entry, Lineage W
The game will come to mobile alongside the PC release
Scanning The Market
Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse
Scaniverse founder and CEO will join Niantic’s AR engineering team
Reformed Raccoon
Typhoon Studios reforms as Raccoon Logic, backed by Tencent
The founding team consists of veterans from Ubisoft, WB Games, EA and more
"rocket Ship"
Unity picks up remote working and streaming firm Parsec for $320 million
Deal looks to close for an estimated $320 million
Countdown To Launch
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Multiple world exclusive reveals, news and gameplay shared over our two day consumer event
Representation
Microsoft joins Take-Two as a Gerald A. Lawson Fund contributor
Looks to increase support for Black and indigenous students in the games industry
"golden Opportunity"
Glu Mobile's Vicky Spachis joins Big Run as VP of people operations
The hiring of Spachis is the latest in a series of recent appointments
Pax Postponed
PAX Australia 2021 called off with digital event set to replace
Organisers state the in-person event will return next year
Smart Money
People, talent and teams - MGVC's winning formula for investment
My.Games Venture Capital discusses the company's approach to investment and the new $30M game drive campaign
Blox Party
UK rapper KSI to host album launch party via Roblox
The artist will perform several of the songs from his second studio album
Publishing Power Up
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Huawei's AppGallery marketplace offers developers and publishers an array of tools to enhance games and improve functionality
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Reality Bites
Apple removes Rosie's Reality from Apple Arcade after dev becomes unable to support game
"We're focusing our efforts on different topics…"
41 Million Dau
Zynga Q2 revenue up 59% to $720 million
Net income equalled to $28 million
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Hot Five: More Embracer acquisitions, a Louis Vuitton NFT mobile game and Tencent stock plummets
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The Big Apple
Monster Hunter Stories pushes Apple Arcade to over 200 games
Service launched on September 19th, 2019
Rocket Ship
Axie Infinity breaks one million DAUs and approaches $1 billion lifetime trading volume
Blockchain game expanding fast
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Epic Games, Respawn Entertainment, Alpha Dog Games and Riot Games
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Rivals No More
Zynga acquires Golf Rival developer StarLark for $525 million
Also completes Chartboost deal
Funplus Likes This
Facebook Gaming director Bob Slinn joins FunPlus as VP of business development
Fifth management signing in recent months
Baring Claws
Nintendo settles five-year court battle with White Cat Project developers
Colopl are ordered to pay for future use of Nintendo’s patents
Stream For Success
Why the mobile games industry should start caring about cloud gaming
GameStream co-founder explores the rapidly evolving streaming games market
On The Up
EA Mobile bookings rise by 20% to $272 million in Q1
Figures include Glu Mobile but not yet Playdemic
Eager Embracer
Embracer makes eight acquisitions, including CrazyLabs
The company now operates over 60 games developers
Gaining On Wii
Nintendo Switch sales close on 90 million, revenue drops nearly 10%
More sales than PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360