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Moloco launches its personalised ad creative solution Dynamic Creative
Optimisation at scale
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Bandai Namco Barcelona
Building Better: Bandai Namco Mobile's new approach to development
Chief publishing officer Massimo Caporale discusses building its new Barcelona studio in the midst of a pandemic
Good To Go
What are the key KPIs for a successful hypercasual game?
Ducky’s CEO Ivan Fedyanin runs some numbers
Bountiful
Nintendo debuts new Metroid, WarioWare and Breath of the Wild 2 release date
Advance Wars, Mario Party Superstars, Smash Bros. and more
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Gearing Up
Yield Guild raises $4 million to expand its mobile-focused blockchain gaming model
Bitkraft led the Series A
Spinning Magic
Slots continue to boom post-COVID, accounting for 6% of mobile game spending
Crunching the data with App Annie
Recruitment Drive
Educational games platform Lingokids raises $40 million for expansion
Over 30 million families reached weekly
Alternative Androids
iOS uncertainty driving alternative Android stores
Tenjin offers an explanation and support for advertisers shifting their budgets from iOS to Android alternatives
Gen Z Crosshairs
Vungle acquires JetFuel to boost influencer marketing
This is the company's fourth deal in 12 months
Prehistoric Play
Why Ludia believes there's still an audience for Jurassic World Alive and location-based games
"There is still space to explore and experiment…"
Emergency Meeting
Among Us has generated $86 million on mobile in nearly three years
324 million downloads since launching on June 15th, 2018
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190% Faster
Update: Opera launches games browser designed for mobile, Opera GX
Building on desktop success
30% Rise
Over one billion mobile games were downloaded per week in Q1 2021
$1.7 billion in player spending
Ar Shark Repellent?
A new Batman AR game is in development from Warner Bros.
Available to download in Italy on iOS devices
Soft Launch, Roll Out
Niantic partners with Hasbro to launch Transformers: Heavy Metal in 2021
Studio confirms around a dozen games in development
Data-driven Insight
Optimising your mobile campaigns with data
Mintegral, Sensor Tower and Kooapps have partnered to host an online event exploring mobile advertising in 2021
Most Read
Hot Five: Boom Beach: Frontlines in development, Activision building mobile studio and how Brawl Stars made a $1 billion
The hottest articles of last week
Business Booming
5G will power mobile games industry to $272 billion by 2030
178% rise over 2020
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Bloc Party Cancelled
Update: Roblox responds to $200 million lawsuit over alleged music misuse
Ariana Grande, Deadmau5, Ed Sheeran and more
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Speed Machine
IronSource boosts playable ads toolset, launching Luna Elements
Integrates alongside Playable and Replay options
Adinmo Academy
Understanding in-game advertising
AdInMo shares its expertise and insight into the ways to make in-game ads pay
Bid Accepted
Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake
Company launched in January 2020
Here Comes The Boom
Update: Space Ape Games and Supercell collaborate for Boom Beach: Frontlines
Open to 15,000 players in North America and Europe
No Slowing Down
Honor of Kings tops global revenue for third consecutive month
$264.5 million from player spending
600 Million Users
App Store developers have been paid 48% more since 2020
Apple has paid out $230 billion since 2008
Multiplayer Metaverse
233 Playground - the power of the platform
MetaApp looks to offer multiplayer titles a key to China
Not So Sweet
Update: King investigated by PayPal for holding back funds via Royal Games portal
"The issue has proven more complicated than first anticipated…"
You Have My Sword
Phoenix Games takes over Knighthood publishing rights from King
Five million downloads since February 2020.
Presumably Late 2022
75% of mobile games activity growth under the pandemic is expected to stay
63% began playing more as a result
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Panel Smarts
PickFu streamlines testing services to provide better feedback
Pre-written poll questions speed the process
Sponsored
ByteBrew open beta attracts over 1000 developers
The ByteBrew platform offers a suite of features to help developers and publishers better understand their games and players.
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40 Million Players
Black Desert franchise exceeds $2 billion revenue, Pearl Abyss expands Western presence
Amsterdam and Los Angeles growing
Most Read
Hot Five: Honor of Kings lawsuit, Jurassic World Alive generates $100 million and Take-Two takes home Nordeus
The hottest articles of last week
Warzone Mobile?
Activision building internal mobile games studio for "triple-A experiences"
New studio is based in Santa Monica, California
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Growing Space
Quicksave Interactive raises $1.3 million to scale its HTML5 games
Konvoy Ventures led the round
Take The Opportunity
iOS 14.5 is live: Are you ready?
Bidalgo's Alon Tvina explains what to do
Indie View
Big Indie Pitch Finalist Forgotten Machine discusses ideas, inspirations and creating Arenas of Ryst
Ali Husain placed third in the competition with Arenas of Ryst
Move Over, Glastonbury
Niantic confirms Pokémon GO Fest 2021 will be music-themed
Taking place on July 17th and July 18th
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527 Individual Deals
Game deals in 2021 have reached $49 billion in value so far
Drake Star Partners digs into the data
Poc In Mobile
"It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make meaningful change in this industry"
Zynga's Keisha Krainer on the issue of diversity
Data Is Power
Skillz acquires Aarki for $150 million
First move since joining the New York Stock Exchange