Welcome Aboard
The N3twork Scale Platform partners with Emerald City Games
It is set to publish its 10th game
Yoohoo
Yooka-Laylee dev Playtonic launches Friends publishing label
Firm is already working with three studios, details of first projects coming "soon"
Money Money Money
US consumers spent $4.71 billion on games products in January 2021
The Nintendo Switch proved to be the most popular hardware
Straight To The Top
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury experiences better launch than the original
It had the third best Switch release in the Mario franchise
On The Up
Roblox increases its US market share to nearly 5%
Just behind Playrix and King
Most Read
Hot Five: Blizzard working on free-to-play World of Warcraft, China approves 33 games, and Crash Bandicoot launches in March
The hottest articles of last week
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: "Gamers with disabilities have extra challenges on top of what you have already built"
Microsoft is set to re-launch its new Xbox Accessibility Guidelines on February 16th
Check Those Ads
Gadsme enters the in-game ads market
First company to enable CPC, CPA and CPI performance campaigns
A Good Deed
Solitaire Grand Harvest forms partnership with WWF
More than $100,000 will be donated throughout 2021
Poc In Mobile
LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country
"It was easier to offer someone with less experience that was based locally"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Designing games with infleuncers in mind
"As each year passes it has become more imperative for influencers to be involved at each stage of a game"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why Switch games need to hit a 70% rating or above for Nintendo to "deal with you"
The process was explained via Greenlight Games CEO and founder Dean Day
Helping Hand
Niantic launches Black Developers Initiative
To aid Black game and AR creators
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: How to build a good company culture
"I believe a lot of time and investment is needed on building and training for healthy team dynamics"
New Studio
Ten Square Games set to open Berlin studio, ex-Wooga Patrick McGrath at helm
Fast-growing studio adds third Euro location
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Making lasting changes to company culture
"For changes to be lasting it has to change the company DNA"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why gaming is useful for activism
"Video games themselves can be political"
Welcome Aboard
Jacob Krüger joins Miniclip as head of user acquisition
"Looking forward to helping to drive growth, solve challenges and learn a lot in the years ahead"
Money Bags
Zynga experiences record breaking year with $1.97 billion in revenue
"In an unprecedented year, our talented and resilient teams finished Q4 strong, delivering our highest quarterly revenue and bookings in Zynga's history"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 'A big part of live ops is being able to react,' says Square Enix's Albert Custodio Martinez
Topic discussed at length during Live Ops Landscape track
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What to expect from esports in 2021
"It has always been the year for esports. It sees phenomenal growth year-on-year"
So Life Like
Epic's MetaHuman allows you to create digital people quickly
“Up until now one of the most arduous tasks in 3D content creation has been constructing truly convincing digital humans"
It's A Match
Tilting Point to invest up to $60 million in Match 3D
"The potential of Match 3D was always incredible"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The benefits of adding a social influencer to an esports roster
"There are not enough negatives to outweigh any of the positives"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: King business manager Luka Jackson breaks down the importance of in-game events
"It's really important to understand the overall impact of your event"
Out Of Town
Sony to shut down Toro and Friends: Onsen Town
"We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our players who have supported us so far. We will try our best to come back with a better game and with better service"
Such Discipline
Take-Two says it lost Codemasters to EA due to its "disciplined approach"
CEO and chair Zelnick admits that it was "disappointing" to not snap up the UK racing specialist
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What to consider with M&A
"You can think about the price on what you are acquiring by looking at its potential,"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The benefits of Google Firebase
The platform is utilised by over 2.5 million apps and games
Proving Popular
Google tops the publisher download charts for January 2021
Voodoo, AppLovin and CrazyLabs were in the top five
In The Clouds
Gamestream teams with Chunghwa Telecom to launch iOS cloud gaming app in Taiwan
"At Gamestream, we're pleased to see the Hami 5G iOS app available now in the App Store. This perhaps indicates greater receptiveness to cloud gaming on the part of Apple"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What makes everlasting hypercasual experiences?
"The moment when you find yourself stuck into rules, that's when you're doing it wrong in a sense."
Say What?
SayGames surpasses two billion downloads
As it launches $10 million developer growth initiative
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Five tips for developing hypercasual games
"You need to choose the right publisher for you"
Something New
Genshin Impact bests Pokémon Go as the top-grossing Core RPG
Crunching the data with App Annie
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Where hypercasual is going in 2021
"I don't think hypercasual is going anywhere"
See You In Court
Former assistant to Riot Games CEO suing company over alleged harassment
O'Donnell claims that she was wrongfully terminated from her role for refusing to sleep with chief exec Laurent
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Preparing for Apple's ATT changes
Hot topic was discussed at length during Monetiser track
Thank You, Next
China approves League of Legends: Wild Rift, Super Mario Party, Diablo Immortal and 30 other games
Pokémon Quest and Rayman Legends also all make the cut
Money Money Money
Nexon experiences great year as it generates $2.8 billion in 2020
"Nexon looks forward to multiple catalysts in 2021, including new games, on new platforms, coming to new markets"
Extra Cheese Please
My.Games invests $1.5 million in Pizza Club Games
"We see great potential in the team and will support them with all the necessary resources and expertise for development"
It's About Time?
Crash Bandicoot 4 set to launch on Switch in March
Launch potentially coincides with Crash mobile game
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding the publishing process and trends
"We look for anyone that is doing something different, in a word innovation"
Acquired
TinyBuild acquires three new studios
We're Five Games, Hungry Couch, and Moon Moose are the publisher's latest additions
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding player motivation
"I think the future of audience demographics is going to rely more on personality"
Take Two
Take-Two Interactive 'highly invested' in mobile space, could develop new IP
"We're very tapped into it and we're investing more and more"
Jobs In Games
Why Unity's Danny Lange believes AI is pushing the games industry forward
"There is a strong shift underway towards data-driven approaches to development."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 'Community management is a great support system towards monetisation,' says Gear Inc game producer Saumya Iyer
The advice was shared as part of a panel on 'Lessons Learnt in Game Monetisation'
Money Money Money
Glu Mobile hit $540 million in revenue last year
"Our financial results reflect the tremendous progress we made throughout the year"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What 2020 taught the games industry
"We grew stronger, especially when we had to experiment with this new way of working"