Early Bird ends tonight: last chance to save more than $420 on next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7

Early Bird Savings

Early Bird ends tonight: last chance to save more than $420 on next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7

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Minion Rush races to one billion downloads and 90 trillion bananas collected

All That Potassium

Minion Rush races to one billion downloads and 90 trillion bananas collected

The runner was launched in June 2013

Riot Games is bringing hero shooter Valorant to mobile

One-year Anniversary

Riot Games is bringing hero shooter Valorant to mobile

14 million active players

Has your game made the Pocket Gamer People's Choice Award 2021 finalists?

Has your game made the Pocket Gamer People's Choice Award 2021 finalists?

Get your players to vote for it until June 30th if so

Take-Two scores Top Eleven developer Nordeus for $378 million

Transfer Market

Take-Two scores Top Eleven developer Nordeus for $378 million

$225 million paid upfront

See into the heart of Tencent, Ubisoft, Zynga, Miniclip and more at next month’s top B2B games industry conference - all online

See into the heart of Tencent, Ubisoft, Zynga, Miniclip and more at next month’s top B2B games industry conference - all online

The first set of speakers for next month’s Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7 event has been revealed, with the full lineup set to be a scorcher

Comunix raises $30 million to scale video chat mobile game Pokerface

Tel Aviv Hold’em

Comunix raises $30 million to scale video chat mobile game Pokerface

Series A was led by March Capital

Dark Horse Comics launches gaming division, Dark Horse Games

Dark Horse Comics launches gaming division, Dark Horse Games

Hellboy, The Umbrella Academy, 300 and more

Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision

Taking social networks multiplayer: How Noice raised $5 million for its vision

Jussi Laakkonen is back

From filing for bankruptcy to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game to the future of Mad About Pandas

Indie Spotlight

From filing for bankruptcy to Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game to the future of Mad About Pandas

"We never saw a penny from it..."

Dead Cells mobile publisher Playdigious acquired by Fragbite Group

Deal To Die For

Dead Cells mobile publisher Playdigious acquired by Fragbite Group

100 per cent of shares purchased

Master The Meta: Sony’s emerging ecosystem

Broader Perspective

Master The Meta: Sony’s emerging ecosystem

How the PlayStation maker is building a formidable games business

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City battle strategy games are up 60% - $2.5 billion in Q1 2021

City battle strategy games are up 60% - $2.5 billion in Q1 2021

Crunching the data with App Annie

Perfect game balance: The Thanos Fallacy

Creative Tension

Perfect game balance: The Thanos Fallacy

Glyn Fairweather discusses the value of imbalance

What is CFO Resources?

What is CFO Resources?

How to better understand your game's finance

SpecialEffect's One Special Day will return in October 2021

SpecialEffect's One Special Day will return in October 2021

Building up for the big day

Hot Five: Double Loop and Noice raise millions while Jetpack Joyride returns

Hot Five: Double Loop and Noice raise millions while Jetpack Joyride returns

Hottest articles of the week

Jobs available! Come and work with the Pocket Gamer family

Jobs available! Come and work with the Pocket Gamer family

Flexible entry-level contracts are available on our websites and events now

Jurassic World Alive roars to $100 million-plus revenue and 25 million downloads in three years

Life Finds A Way

Jurassic World Alive roars to $100 million-plus revenue and 25 million downloads in three years

Over 300 million dinosaurs unlocked

Sonic Central debuts Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Sonic 2022 and mobile partnerships

Sonic Central debuts Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Sonic 2022 and mobile partnerships

Sonic Dash, Sonic Forces and Sonic Racing all receive new content

Seeing Is Believing

Unreal Engine 5 is now in early access

Full launch in 2022

Ten Square Games' Q1 2021 revenue up 83% to $46 million

Ten Square Games' Q1 2021 revenue up 83% to $46 million

Fishing Clash continues to drive growth

Nintendo Switch Pro unveiling imminent

Nintendo Switch Pro unveiling imminent

Reportedly launching in September or October

Admix In-Play: An interview with Paul West, VP partnerships at Admix

Admix In-Play: An interview with Paul West, VP partnerships at Admix

Bridging the gap between mobile games and advertising

Celia Hodent on the importance of cognitive science and a UX framework to improve your game

There is no guaranteed formula for crafting games but clear ingredients do exist

Double Loop raises $8 million for its first game for unconsidered gamers

Krongregational

Double Loop raises $8 million for its first game for unconsidered gamers

Takes total funding to $10.5 million

Applications now open for Carry1st and CrazyLabs' Cape Town-based hypercasual accelerator

Applications now open for Carry1st and CrazyLabs' Cape Town-based hypercasual accelerator

First companies will start in September

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The intersection of psychology and games with PeopleFun director Matt Streit

The intersection of psychology and games with PeopleFun director Matt Streit

"I think psychology gets misunderstood a lot"

Undoing the duopoly in mobile game distribution

Undoing the duopoly in mobile game distribution

GameBake's Michael Hudson makes the case

New social gaming platform Noice raises $5 million from Supercell, Unity and Remedy founders

Big Social Beasts

New social gaming platform Noice raises $5 million from Supercell, Unity and Remedy founders

Come on feel the...

Homa Games lands in Lviv, opening its fourth office

Homa Games lands in Lviv, opening its fourth office

Ambitious hypercasual publisher opens new Ukraine studio

Indian politician calls for Battlegrounds Mobile India ban

Indian politician calls for Battlegrounds Mobile India ban

Union Minister Ninong Ering is not happy

Pocket Gamer LaunchPad #4 showed 43 games to 2 million viewers

Our two-day mobile gaming extravaganza reached over five million socially

Update: Halfbrick Studios soft-launches Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush

Update: Halfbrick Studios soft-launches Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush

Available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Spain

Valve to announce portable PC based on Nintendo Switch?

Codename Steampal

Valve to announce portable PC based on Nintendo Switch?

Expected to run Steam games via Linux

Kristian Segerstrale launches Game Founders for Climate 2021

Kristian Segerstrale launches Game Founders for Climate 2021

Matching up to $500,000 in climate change funding

Free Fire announces collaboration with McLaren Racing

Go-faster Stripes

Free Fire announces collaboration with McLaren Racing

Cross-promotion meets in-game items

Facebook's global director of games Leo Olebe joins Google

Facebook's global director of games Leo Olebe joins Google

Departs after more than five and half years

Sony confirms it's exploring

For The Players

Sony confirms it's exploring "mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises"

CEO Jim Ryan spoke about the move in a corporate strategy meeting

From book club to YouTube: The rise of Star Stable Online

From book club to YouTube: The rise of Star Stable Online

CEO Johan Sjöberg tells the story

PlayX4 2021 opens Korean gaming to the world

New Korean Games

PlayX4 2021 opens Korean gaming to the world

Online event brings together developers, publishers, distributors, marketers and more

Why the Subnautica series has turned to Switch to make a big splash

Switching It Up

Why the Subnautica series has turned to Switch to make a big splash

Project lead David Kalina explains the technical challenges

CGC|NFT 2.0 - the non-fungible token conference goes live on June 10-11

CGC|NFT 2.0 - the non-fungible token conference goes live on June 10-11

One month left until the next CGC|NFT event, featuring the likes of Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, TRON and more.

Hamburg Mobile Summit LIVE! goes online on June 16-17

Hamburg Mobile Summit LIVE! goes online on June 16-17

A fully online 2 days event featuring top speakers

Sega unveils Sonic 30th anniversary event and celebratory video

Sega unveils Sonic 30th anniversary event and celebratory video

Sonic Central will take place on May 27th, 2021

FunPlus appoints Dianne Schepers as new general counsel

FunPlus appoints Dianne Schepers as new general counsel

Building out the management team

Shadow based puzzle-platformer In My Shadow wins The Digital Big Indie Pitch (Mobile Edition) #7

Big Indie Pitch

Shadow based puzzle-platformer In My Shadow wins The Digital Big Indie Pitch (Mobile Edition) #7

Winner breakdown

How mobile game developers are using football sponsorship to reach new audiences

The Game Has Changed

How mobile game developers are using football sponsorship to reach new audiences

SportQuake explores the ongoing evolution of the beautiful game