Esports Growth
Esports Players League receives $1 million in funding
Led by VC 500 Startups
Words With Lawyers
Zynga struck with lawsuit regarding Words with Friends data breach
Estimated 173 million usernames and passwords hacked
Still Conquering
Five years on, Big Huge Games’ DomiNations generates $200 million
Mobile RTS rolling on
Keep It Simple
How to get your hypercasual game successfully published in 2020
Tamara Feiman from Gismart's seven top tips
Match-three Puzzler
Zynga partners with Portkey Games and Warner Bros. for Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
Soft-launched in the Philippines
Beach View
Google Stadia recruits former Sony Santa Monica studio head Shannon Studstill to lead new Playa Vista studio
"So excited to build and support a new team of creatives"
Still Happening
Update: E3 is still taking place despite LA declaring a state of emergency
ESA is keeping an eye on the situation
New Behaviour
Behaviour Interactive names former Microsoft director David Reid as chief marketing officer
"The company has a tremendous pedigree built on decades of success"
Massive Savings
Just one week left to save up to $275 on Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
Early Bird prices for May’s two-day B2B games industry are set to end at midnight next Thursday
Brains?
Call of Duty: Mobile is losing its Zombies mode
It leaves on March 25th
New Style
Nintendo teams up with Levi's for Mario clothing and accessory range
No launch date yet
"first Of Its Kind"
Indie Spotlight: How an unsolicited email led Frosty Pop founder Faisal Sethi to The Pinball Wizard
"Success would be equal to having the freedom to choose what to do with your time."
Tilting Timelines
Tilting Point acquires Star Trek Timelines from Disruptor Beam
Forms new studio Wicked Realm Games to run it
International Women’s Week
Women in Gaming: Kitfox Games' Victoria Tran on shifting from healthcare PR to the games industry
"I decided to just Google and email random people in fields I was interested in joining"
International Women's Week
Big Fish Games to feature influential women from history via Gummy Drop
Inspired by Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls book
Super Powered
Netmarble teams up with Marvel for Marvel Future Revolution
First Marvel open-world RPG on mobile
International Women’s Week
Women in Gaming: Rooster Teeth’s Alanah Pearce on making the leap from Australian to US games media
"I wrote a paragraph in this old diary saying I was going to move to San Francisco and work for IGN"
Home Run
Glu soft-launches MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2020 in Canada
Franchise reaches 40 million downloads
Lacking Indies
Developers and publishers are avoiding Stadia because Google isn't offering a big enough incentive
A lack of money and industry commitment
Gca Goes Ahead
Game Connection America 2020 will still go ahead
Offering support to Chinese companies who can't attend
Gdc Relief Efforts
Games industry joins together for GDC relief efforts and alternative conferences
From Gamedev.world to #notGDC
Share Your Expertise
Speak at the seventh Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this September
You could join the illustrious speaker roster at the two-day B2B games industry conference in the Finnish capital
Pause
GDC 2020 "postponed"
A GDC event will be hosted later in the summer
Starting Up
End Game Interactive raises $3 million seed funding from Makers Fund and Supercell
Working on auto-battler Fate Arena
Backing Out
Update: Wooga and IronSource become latest companies to skip GDC due to coronavirus
"Ultimately our highest priority is the health"
"questionable Methodology"
Epic Games disputes SuperData Fortnite performance numbers
"SuperData's reports do not align with reality."
Dig It
Plants vs. Zombies 3 rises from the dead in new soft launch trailer
Ireland, Romania and the Philippines can download now
Gdc 2020 Parties
Pocket Gamer's ultimate GDC 2020 party list
All the best shindigs to show up to
No Go
Epic and Microsoft join Unity, EA, Facebook and Sony in withdrawing from GDC 2020
Annual games conference loses more key companies
How Fun
New studio FunCraft raises $1.8 million in funding
Headed by industry veterans
Unity Out
Unity Technologies backs out of GDC 2020 due to concerns around coronavirus
"After much thought and deliberation"
Matchmaking
The Publisher SpeedMatch makes its return at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
The popular speed-dating style event features at the two-day B2B mobile games industry conference this May
"preventative Measures"
San Francisco declares "state of emergency" over coronavirus, GDC still going ahead
Mayor London Breed made the announcement
Doubling Down
Roblox raises $150 million in funding, platform now valued at $4 billion
Funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's Late Stage Venture
Event Disruption
Update: Square Enix, Capcom and more cancel appearances at PAX East due to coronavirus concerns
CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corp will have no attendance
Scan It
Mojang partners with Mattel on NFC-enabled Minecraft Earth toys
Releasing in Spring 2020
Esports Predictions
Esports revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020
China will generate the most revenue
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Why Klei Entertainment looks to stay with Apple Arcade going forward
Software engineer Mark Laprairie talks Hot Lava and subscription services
Get In Free
How to get into Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020 - FREE!
Four ways to get involved with the two-day mobile B2B games industry conference this May
Local Info Usa
Why the US mobile games market is more casual than the global market
Crunching the data with App Annie
Using Unity
Riot Games will use Unity for two upcoming projects
Legends of Runeterra and League of Legends: Wild Rift built using the engine
Mickey Misses Out
Disney picks Bob Chapek to succeed Bob Iger as CEO
Iger moves to executive chairman
10 Years On
Samsung: We'll have 1,000 bada apps in 2010
OS can draw in developers from word go
Here Comes The Boom
Facebook acquires VR and Sonic Boom developer Sanzaru Games
The studio will maintain its own independence
Shoot A Film
Eli Roth looks set to direct a Borderlands film
According to a deleted tweet from developer Gearbox's boss Pitchford
Courtroom Drama
Riot Games claims $10 million settlement for gender discrimination lawsuit is "fair and adequate"
Follows former employees pulling out of agreement
Red Card
EA issues permanent ban to FIFA pro Kurt0411
Follows initial ban in November 2019
Talking Figures
London Venture Partners, Agnitio Capital, Denali Publishing, Genvid Technologies and Giant Interactive set to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
The latest speakers for May’s two-day B2B conference are revealed
Joyconboyz
Desmond 'Etika' Amofah mural commemorated in Pokemon GO
Popular reacts YouTuber took his life in June 2019
Dropping Out
EA pulls out of GDC 2020 due to coronavirus concerns
Kojima Productions also cancels appearance