Earth Is Closed
Mojang confirms Minecraft Earth is officially shutting down today
Half a million in player spending
Levelling Up
Wildlife unveils third US studio partnership in Foxbear Games
Headed by Marvel Strike Force director
Holistic Hypercasual
Publishing for all: CrazyLabs offers publishing for the other 99%
Hypercasual expert offers developers a revenue stream for games outside the top tier
Done Deal
Jam City president Josh Yguado speaks out on Ludia acquisition and going public
"It will provide us access to a permanent source of capital…"
Multiple Events
Time is running out to sign up to our fringe events at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Connect with developers and publishers, meet with investors and get expert advice
Strong Performance
Update: Konami is working with Tencent's TiMi Studios to bring Contra Returns to the West
Debuted in China in June 2017
Thumbs Up
Increasingly more mobile gamers 'like' than 'hate' rewarded video ads
Crunching the data with App Annie
Pgc Profile
EverdreamSoft CEO Shaban Shaame on the value of NFTs in games
The blockchain pioneer talks about the tribalism of technologies and his presentation on NFTs at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Scoped Up
Scopely appoints former Activision Blizzard president Coddy Johnson to board of directors
Morgan Stanley executive Marcie Vu joins board too
Lights Camera
Update: Despicable Me producer Chris Meledandri joins Nintendo as outside director
First western director
Launch Better
Miraculous RP: Quests of Ladybug and Cat Noir hits one million players on Roblox
Zag's IP expands and finds more fans
Event
Join us today for our free RoundTable on in-play advertising
Discover how to monetise your game without disrupting player experience today
Still Growing
Mobile games revenue rises by 18% to $44.7 billion in first half of 2021
$26 billion from the App Store alone
New Datacenters
Xbox Cloud Gaming is now available on iOS devices
"Today marks a key milestone in our journey…"
The Gang's All Here
Kongregate and Nickelodeon soft launch SpongeBob’s Idle Adventures
"We're very excited to be working in partnership with Nickelodeon once again…"
Pgc Profile
Bytro's David Westerman Talks TikTok
Everything you ever wanted to know about marketing on TikTok but didn't know to ask
End-to-end Ua
BidShake optimises ad creative management
Creative Manager promises seamless cross-channel creative management and reporting
Boom Times
Indian esports app Loco raises $9 million via seed round
Krafton leads the investment
Tune In
Introducing the all-new PocketGamer.biz Podcast
Welcome to episode one of the brand new PocketGamer.biz audio podcast with special guest Pollen VC founder and CEO Martin Macmillan
Most Read
Hot Five: EA buys Playdemic, Rovio gains exclusive rights to Moomin and BoomHits $2 million hypercasual competition
The hottest articles of last week
Pgc Profile
Facebook's Michael Bertaut talks the future of app monetisation
PocketGamer.biz profiles Facebook Audience Network's EMEA regional director as a speaker at PocketGamer Connects
580,000 Nfts Sold
Marvel partners with mobile collectables app VeVe for NFTs
Superheroes are inbound with added AR
Culture Counts
Fairytale in Montreal - Bingo Story developer going for growth
Clipwire CEO Ritesh Khanna tells PocketGamer about building a new studio in Canada's creative capital
Open Windows
Windows 11 to support Android apps via Amazon Appstore
Tech uses Intel Bridge
Event
The unmissable sessions you need to see at next month's PG Connects Digital #7
Our pick of the 250 plus speakers across 24 tracks, July 12th to 16th
Pandemic Push
Continuing COVID-19 boom predicted to boost mobile gaming to $120 billion in 2021
Crunching the data with App Annie
Grass Tacks
Golf Clash scores $780 million in lifetime revenue, tops US player spending
$185 million in 2020 alone
Rub Of The Green
EA acquires Golf Clash developer Playdemic for $1.4 billion
Warner Bros. agrees to part with UK-based studio
Shake Your Moneymakers
Introducing MoneyMaker, an exciting new fringe event for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7
Pairing developers and publishers with monetisation companies
Big The Cat Missing
Mojang and Sega partner to bring Sonic the Hedgehog to Minecraft
Two-week Sonic-themed event
Booming Event
Full schedule revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7, running 12th to 16th July
24 conference tracks feat 250+ speakers from the likes of King, Rovio, Supercell...
Boom Boom
BoomHits announces world's biggest hypercasual competition with $2 million prize fund
BoomHits CEO Jon Hook talks about the label's plans to disrupt the hypercasual market
Smarter
DeepMind's AI now being tested on Android version of The Battle of Polytopia
Part of the AndroidEnv release
Indie View
How Compiled World's Anton Kasabutski built Nimble Dash after work
Nimble Dash placed second at The Big Indie Pitch
Authenticity Is All
Games as a luxury product: the opportunity for brands
Brotherhood of Brand's Lucy Rissik on the growing opportunities for brands in games
Slam Dunk
AdVenture Capitalist co-creator Tristan Rattink joins blockchain outfit Dapper Labs
Becomes GM of NBA Top Shot
Get Moving
Pokémon GO starts to reset for a post-lockdown world
Changing coming to US and New Zealand in July
Gear Up
Looking for your mobile games studio to be acquired? Here's what recent M&A data is telling founders
Pollen VC's Martin Macmillan highlights the trend
Ua Ok Hun?
User acquisition masterclass for app marketers on July 1st
Learn the trade secrets of successful mobile marketing from experts including Bango, Appvertiser, Adikteev and Uptime
Winners Take All
Top 100 mobile games accounted for 54% of global revenues in 2020
Percentage is even higher in the US
Mass Marketing
InMobi's Saurav Dutta on rethinking in-game advertising
The ongoing evolution of in-game ads
Six Year Deal
Rovio gains exclusive rights for Moomin mobile games
Also invests in Gutsy Animations
Most Read
Hot Five: Krafton's $5 billion IPO, KPIs for hypercasual success and Batman goes AR
The hottest articles of last week
Fast Forward
Pollen VC now allows devs to borrow four times their game's monthly revenue
Lending outfit has refined its revenue model
Geopolitical Games
Geogrify's Kate Edwards on power of game culturalisation
"Games are the current evolution of human narrative"
Event Latest
Games Gathering 2021 Odessa takes place on June 30th to July 4th
The next Games Gathering takes place both online and in-person in Odessa
In-play Ad Opportunities
Explore the opportunities of in-play advertising with PGbiz RoundTable on 29 June
Discover how to monetise your game without disrupting player experience
Expansion
Nazara buys a majority stake in MENA publisher Publishme
Spends $3 million for a 70% stake
Granular Games
GameIntel offers new insight into the global games market
Search across hundreds of thousands of games tagged with new contextual metadata
Everywhere
RuneScape goes cross-platform with mobile release
Hit 1.8 million pre-registrations