Making Money
PUBG Mobile generated $176.3 million in revenue in January 2020
The top grossing game of the month
Getting Competitive
There was an 87% increase in esports jobs in 2019
The US offered the most opportunities
Talking Points
Conference tracks revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle partner event, Big Screen Gaming
17 terrific tracks covering mobile, PC, console, XR & blockchain games
Accelerating
Winners take more: The most successful mobile games are growing fastest
Insights from App Annie’s State of Mobile 2020 report
A New Contender
How Snap Games tackles exclusivity, monetisation, and competition from Apple Arcade
Snap Games head Will Wu shares his thoughts on the first 10 months
Umph And Wump
Update: King taps Crash Bandicoot license for new endless runner
12-year absence from the platform
Tenjin Free Api
Tenjin is releasing a new set of automation APIs and making it free
Campaign Management and Reporting APIs free for all
Free For All
Google Stadia free tier to launch over the next "few months"
""No money down, without having to put a box in your home"
Huge Growth
New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years
63 per cent of titles created are mobile apps
"significant Growth"
Call of Duty: Mobile shoots through 150 million downloads in three months
Mobile now leading platform for Activision
Long Player
Mobile drives Innogames’ FY19 sales to $208 million
Forge of Empires leads the charge
King Of The Hill
King accounted for 34% of Activision Blizzard's FY19 revenues
$2.3 billion in sales
Massive Savings
Just days left to save up to $375 on Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
Super Early Bird prices for May’s B2B games industry conference are set to end next Thursday
Shifting Gears
Rod Fergusson is leaving The Coalition to join Blizzard
He will oversee the Diablo franchise
Stuck The Landing
Glu Mobile returns to profitability with $8.9 million net income for 2019
Revenue increased by 12 per cent to $411.4 million for 2019
On The Up
Zynga's FY19 revenue soars to record $1.32 billion
"Live services are the foundation of our multi-year growth strategy"
Talking Heads
Wargaming, FunPlus, NCSOFT, Bandai Namco and Niantic confirmed to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
Second outing’s speaker roster already shaping up for something special
Join The Club
GameClub brings its subscription service to Android in March
It was released for iOS last year
Talking Points
Conference tracks revealed for Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2020
17 terrific tracks covering mobile, PC, console, XR & blockchain games
Top Media Sources
BlueStacks and TikTok offer substantial ROI for mobile game UA
So says new Singular report
Following Developments
Apple restricts employee travel as firm monitors coronavirus
iPhone production still looking to be impacted
Smarter Buying
How N3twork improved its UA performance by 25%
Automation does the heavy-lifting
Can't Catch 'em All
Pokemon GO is now for the hardcore, not the casual
Niantic has done wonders with Pokemon GO, but it's starting to feel overwhelming
Job News
EA DICE art director joins Metroid Prime 4 developer Retro Studios
"I’m leaving something that’s been part of my life for such a long time"
Infectious
Plague Inc. overtakes Minecraft as top paid app in the US due to coronavirus association
Minecraft lead chart for the majority of 2019
10 Years On
'We will never sell another 99c app': ustwo calls for a Braveheart moment
It just doesn't add up
Events
Where will you find us this year? Join the Steel Media 2020 world tour ONLINE!
Connecting the global games industry during this strange year with conferences, pitches, video round-tables and much more...
Soft Launch
Pocket Gems pushes into "mature" storytelling with soft-launched Ivy: Stories We Play
Available on iOS in Australia and New Zealand
Financials
EA's mobile digital net revenue decreased by $51 million last quarter
Company still "conscious" of Nintendo Switch
Question Time
What you think the UK games industry would look like after Brexit?
Burning question: we asked, you answered.
China Bound
EA confirms partnership for Apex Legends on mobile
"We're very excited about the opportunity"
China On The Up
Honour of Kings, PUBG Mobile and AFK Arena climb global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Mobile Game Marketing
Game of Phones: Why it's time for a smarter approach to mobile game app marketing
Mobile acquisition specialist Saikala Sultanova explains all
Fix It
The ESA is planning to "shake things up" for E3 2020
People are encouraged to get in touch with ideas
Synergies
Denali Publishing's Sabaa Rehmani on making Spies in Disguise: Agents on the Run
Providing focus and demographic overlap
Triple Deal
Scopely scores partnership with Mattel and Hasbro for new Scrabble mobile game
Scrabble GO is a new free-to-play experience
Sustainable Gaming Apps
Grow a sustainable gaming app: 2020 trends
How Facebook Audience Network's App Growth Academy can help your app this year
Developer Satisfaction
Conditions for working in the games industry are improving, according to the IGDA
Sexism and racisim are still giving the sector a bad name
Courtroom Drama
Riot Games slates the $400 million figure California state claims it own its employees
The lawsuit is for alleged gender discimination
Apple Q1 2020 Financials
Apple posts record quarterly sales of $91.8 billion thanks to iPhone and wearables growth
Profits grow 11.4 per cent year-on-year for Q1 2020
Rng Redundancies
Independent developer RNG Studios lays off four employees
Current project has been put in hiatus
Never Die
Com2uS is working on a new The Walking Dead mobile game
Has also invested in IP holder Skybound
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Capybara game director Dan Vader on the unlikely success of Grindstone
Why Apple Arcade was the place to be for the slice-and-dice puzzler
Battle 'em All
Niantic rolls out Pokemon GO Battle League preseason worldwide
Pikachu Libre exclusively found within
...what?
Atari pens deal to launch branded hotels across the US
First hotel breaking ground in Phoenix, AZ this year
Stateside Return
Find out what awaits you at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle
Two-day games industry conference makes its return Stateside - read on to see what it has to offer!
Five Years Of Adventures
Hyper Hippo’s Tristan Rattink on why AdVenture Capitalist is still here after 5 years
How the studio took "the least sexy idea" and made it into a global phenomenon
10 Years On
10 YEARS ON: iPad will be the meteor that finally wipes out small iPhone developers
Big dinosaurs will be conserved
Niche Success
KamaGames' Video Poker game boasts 49% Day-1 retention
US is the key market
Blizzard In The Cloud
Activision Blizzard and Google sign up for strategic "multi-year" streaming partnership
YouTube becomes exclusive streaming partner outside of China