Mini Tencent
Miniclip continues its own mini-rollup, acquiring Supersonic Software
Long time indie sells out
Making Of
$340 million and counting: How MLB Tap Sports Baseball is still growing strong
Every baseball season offers new opportunities
More To Come
Netmarble's Q1 2021 sales up 7% to $512 million
The Seven Deadly Sins drives growth
More Data
Sensor Tower acquires Pathmatics
Building out the pipeline
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Garena Free Fire publisher Sea’s earnings breakdown
Garena Free Fire boasts 100 million daily active users
Voodoo X Snapchat
Snapchat gaming is different: it's curated; it's hypersocial
Snap Games and Voodoo explain their partnership
Incredible Indies
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Network with publishers and investors, pitch your games and learn from top industry experts
All You Can Play
Netflix rumoured to be considering a game subscription service
Expansion into non-linear content?
More Games
NetEase Connect 2021 showcases new mobile games including Frostpunk: Rise of City
Chinese giant has a full slate
Tasty
Big Run launches Big Cooking, including Skillz integration
Includes real-money competitive elements
Most Read
Hot Five: Jam City's SPAC float and Google Stadia app hits 3 million downloads
Hottest articles of the week
Court Case Continues
Tim Cook set to testify at Epic vs Apple trial
CEO said to have prepared for numerous hours
Affordable Training
Hurry! Five essential MasterClass courses go up in price next week
Develop essential skills and discover new business practices from top games industry mentors - this is the time to book
14th Year
Nexon announces schedule for Nexon Developers Conference 2021
Running 9-11 June 2021
No Slowing Down
Embracer is looking to spend $2 billion on another 20 deals
Raised another $890 million in March
Milestone
Update: Free-to-play Switch hit Ninjala slashes through seven million downloads
Launched in June 2020
Snap Partner Summit 2021
Voodoo extends partnership with Snapchat, five more games coming to platform
Unity deal also in place regarding Bitmojis
Jam Tomorrow
Following Ludia deal and SPAC float, Jam City expects $868 million bookings in 2022
Will have $115 million in cash to flash
New Funding
Focus Home Interactive raises $86 million for further acquisitions
Company will look to "upgrade the range of games" produced
Mayor Of The Hill?
Toca Life: World battles Township to be top Simulation Builder
Crunching the data with App Annie
Spac Action
Update: Ludia confirms Jam City acquisition
Estimated offer of $175 million, Jam City merging with DPCM Capital
Blast Off
Pocket Gamer LaunchPad #4 starts TODAY!
World-exclusive mobile game revealed, news and live gameplay
Alpha To Omega
How Vungle’s M&A activity aligns with its wider platform vision
TreSensa deal is part of the process
On The Up
Leaf Mobile experiences record Q1 FY21 with revenue hitting $25 million
East Side Games deal provides boost
Chat Happy
Deepening company culture during Covid: 5 tips from Dodreams
Creating new watercooler normal
Sweet Music
Enthusiast Gaming to launch 'Higher Power' remix in partnership with Coldplay
Streaming on Luminosity Gaming's Twitch channel
They Drew First Blood
Rambo and Die Hard coming to Call of Duty: Mobile in '80s Action Heroes event
Available from May 20th to June 18th
Vertical Integration
Vungle's third big acquisition is cloud-based ad creative outfit TreSensa
Building out a complete platform
Masterclass
Xbox Game Studios’ Crystin Cox on designing for liveops success
Success is more and more focused on effectively operating and caring for a live game
Meet Us Online
Join the global games industry at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #7 on July 12-16
Conference returns for a seventh digital edition featuring the best of British
Indie Spotlight
Why Apple Arcade brought Spry Fox CEO David Edery back to mobile
"I'm glad Apple is making a major effort"
More Cash
Game Taco snaps up GSN Games' Worldwinner
Skill-based gaming consolidates
Out Of This World
May’s Beyond Games conference was epic, and there’s more to come…
Our debut event welcomed 700 industry professionals
What's Next?
New challenges ahead: The industry trends that will affect game developers most in 2021
Huawei’s Alexandre Salem, Global Head of Gaming Partnerships, explains
Out Swinging
The Game Band raises $3 million to launch Blaseball on mobile
Viral success gains momentum
Serious Stock
Devolver Digital gearing up for $1.4 billion IPO
Studio publishes Fall Guys, Reigns and Serious Sam
Growing
'Alive and well' Google Stadia breaks through three million app downloads
Big boost came in December 2020
Jobs In Games
Aspyr Media's Mallie Rust on the "happy accident" that lead to games
Marketing is a broad umbrella
New Vision
Reality Clash enables Admix's In-Play tech for advertising in AR
Mobile game demonstrates new monetisation
Cross-promotion
Summoners War: Lost Centuria generates $4.4 million in first ten days
Com2uS' new launch takes off
Expanding
Madfinger Games raises $6 million from Nuverse
"We are thrilled to have Nuverse on board..."
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Another beat for Unity
Unity generated $235 million in Q1 2021
Return Of The King
ESA launches E3 2021 dedicated app for "first-ever virtual experience"
Exhibitor Booths, Lounges, Forums, Leaderboards and more
Quiz Questions
Pokémon, Call of Duty, PUBG and which other 2 IP-based games generated $1.4 billion in the US during 2020?
Pokémon GO earned close to $480 million
Mystery Box
Microsoft partners with Call of Duty: Mobile developer Timi Studios on mysterious project
Is another Xbox franchise mobile-bound?
Diy
Hiberworld crosses 1 million user created games
UGC platform growing fast
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga's Chartboost deal, winning Gree may lose, and Turkish game riding high in the US
Hottest articles of the week
Imagine A New Logo
Discord's new branding is friendlier than ever
Growing pains
Working Your Pitch
Mediatonic’s Arran Topalian on building a pitch from concept to doc
A great pitch provides the foundation needed for incredible things to be built upon it
Faster, Faster
Hypercasual downloads grew 20% in Q1 2021, with Simulation leading the charge
Crunching the data with App Annie