Heroes Heights
Nintendo pulls out the stops for Fire Emblem Heroes' billion-dollar future
Nintendo’s biggest mobile game gears up for its next major update and Book 8’s opening chapters
Christmas Shopping
AppsFlyer closes the year with second acquisition in less than a month
The company plans to harness the full capabilities of AI to optimise its growth and monetisation strategies
American Ascent
The US accounted for 53.5% of casual game installs in Q3, but what are the hottest genres globally?
Monopoly GO and Subway Surfers prove to be the quarter’s most downloaded games
A Winning Team
Korea shoots and scores with huge surge in soccer-themed mobile game sales
Despite the FIFA rebranding, EA FC Mobile continues to dominate the soccer-themed mobile games market
Make A Difference
Games For Change announce new 'Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge'
Mobile game creators across the globe can submit their work and help players discover games that feature diverse characters, voices, and stories
Real Results
Mobile AR users are projected to reach 1.7 billion by 2024
The cross-platform development platform is providing users with tools and support to build, collaborate and publish WebAR content
Download Disparity
Q3's biggest genres saw 700% more downloads on Google Play than Apple App Store
A total of 12.36 billion downloads across top three Android genres VS 1.54 billion on iOS
Industry Stories
Jobs in games: Breaking into animation with Hutch’s Lucia Gentile
Gentile studied 2D and 3D animation and has since gone on to work at the likes of Whatwapp and Hutch
Platform Psychology
Former Activision Blizzard CEO supports GameTree's $1.7M seed round for AI app to unite gamers
The funding round saw support from Ukraine’s former president and a former Activision Blizzard CEO
Activision App Store
Activision Blizzard, Epic Games and Supercell considered forming a Google Play competitor
The Epic vs Google case reveals past plans for an app store alliance
Beastly Balancing
Monster Hunter Now enters new season with "major update" promised every quarter
New balancing, monsters and weapons are on their way to Niantic’s second-biggest game
Unity No More
"Unity - I'm done" Why Fundamentally Games’ CEO Oscar Clark is switching platforms
After backing the platform 100%, this former Unity evangelist has had enough. Here's why
A High Breed
Hybridcasual conquers the $2 billion mark in 2023
The hybridcasual genre is projected to reach $2.1 billion in annual revenue this year
Hot Five
Hot Five: Supercell’s path to fame, a Chinese gacha hit and 20M in Web3 funding
Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
New Horizons
Babil Games co-founders AJ and MJ Fahmi depart for new ventures
After 11 years building the mobile company, the COO and CEO are now on a new path to find new opportunities and challenges
Week That Was
Week in Views - What caught our eyes in the last seven days
The Pocketgamer.biz team take their pick of this weeks big news, including games tech making movies, Microsoft's app store aspirations and procuring prize Pokémon…
Ad Mo Metrics
Ten reasons why eCPM is the most useless metric in ad monetization
GameBiz Consulting's Božo Janković goes in hard on one of ad mo's favourite, but most misunderstood metrics. Think you understand eCPM? Think again
Podcast
NSPCC’s Kevin Antao and Andy Sallnow on the challenges of safe gaming for children | Podcast
The PocketGamer.biz podcast team and guests give you the state of play every week. Here's where to get it and and what's inside this week's episode…
Five New Games
New release roundup: From the return of Dynasty Warriors to a 'brand new' retro-fuelled 16-bit kart racer
We highlight five new games that have broken cover and are all set to do big business
Microsoft Mobile
Microsoft in discussions with potential partners over mobile app store for games
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer hints its launch may not be far off
Best Of The Best
Google Play reveals its Best of 2023 award winners
Familiar names such as Honkai: Star Rail and Monopoly GO lead the charge in Play's round up of 2023's great and the good
Apple Picking
Apple unveils App Store Award winners. These are the best apps and games of 2023
It's that time again. After picking its shortlist last month, Apple now reveal which games and apps have come out on top for 2023
Crossplay Clarity
KEK Entertainment's Georgy Egorov talks crossplay's new prominence as gaming’s "new reality"
The KEK Entertainment founder and ex-Pixonic CEO Georgy Egorov discusses the past decade’s industry changes and the challenges of developing crossplay games
Fundraising Partnership
Pocket Gamer Connects London teams up with SpecialEffect for fundraising initiative
Pocket Gamer Connects, the leading mobile games industry conference, is delighted to announce its partnership with SpecialEffect for its upcoming flagship show in London on January 22 - 23.
State Of Play
Game Analysis: Decoding the Live Ops strategy of Monopoly GO
We go under the hood with one of the year's biggest hits to reveal what makes it tick and what lessons can be learnt from its success
About Accessibility
RovioCon 23 sees unveiling of new industry inclusivity guide
Diversity, equity and inclusion are among Rovio’s focuses in its new playbook
Next For Netflix
Grand Theft Auto remastered trilogy is on its way to mobile with Netflix
Netflix has been increasing its gaming presence, with this latest move the biggest yet
Pokemon Persuasion
Pokémon Go changes tack and adds Pokémon Legends for cross-platform promo
Hisuian Decidueye, Typhlosion, Samurott and Wydeer are on the way from Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Tech Splash
Video games add £1.3 billion to UK economy in "spillover technology"
Ukie and FTI Consulting have partnered for a new report into games tech’s influence on other industries
Partnership Power
Sony sets sights on mobile in strategic partnership with NCSoft
A strategic deal has been secured by CEOs Taekjin Kim and Jim Ryan
Valorant Valiance
Riot Games’ Social Impact Fund raises $50 million in five years for charities, education and more
Almost $15 million raised in Valorant alone in three years
Marketing Magic
Supercell's marketing head Iwo Zakowski: "We need to make our games f**king famous and become part of pop culture"
68% of Clash players discover via word of mouth, Chess.com promotion drives 1M+ additional players and more insights from RovioCon 23
Plaice No More
Fishlabs is laying off around 50 employees as Embracer Group restructure continues
The German games developer was bought out by Embracer subsidiary Plaion 10 years ago
Job Losses
Unity lays off 265 as it restructures its deal with digital effects creator Weta
Unity's upheavals continue with a "company reset" on their existing deal with Weta, resulting in the loss of key digital effects talent
Roviocon 23
Sega teases the 'Segaverse' with Rovio acquisition central to its transmedia strategy
Rovio already working on Sonic and Yakuza games and Angry Birds coming to PC/console?
Big Exclusive
Why Gamescom merged with BIG Festival to bring the expo to Brazil
PocketGamer.biz asks Gamescom LATAM CEO Gustavo Steinberg and Game MD Felix Falk why we need another Gamescom
Gamescom Latam
First-ever Gamescom LATAM heads to Brazil in 2024 after merger with BIG Festival
Gamescom LATAM will head to Sao Paulo on June 26th to 30th
Venerable Ventures
Laton Ventures is a new venture capital firm investing in early-stage game makers
Founding partner Görkem Türk has started the firm after more than six years at Google
Taxation Explained
TIGA explains the state of VGEC after UK government’s Autumn Statement
Amendments to draft rules mean companies will be required to disclose connected party transactions when claiming tax relief
Platform Power
KEK Entertainment raises $8M in seed round to build "platform-agnostic IP"
The round was led by Korea Investment Partners with participation from Woori Technology Investment Co, Kona Venture Partners and others
Special Spectacular
Half a million raised for disabled gamers during SpecialEffect’s One Special Day 2023
The annual fundraiser seeks to support gamers with physical challenges via personalised controllers and more
Ten Square Turnaround
Ten Square Games sees record quarterly growth with Hunting Clash MAU up 82%
After a difficult start to the year, performance is looking back on track at Ten Square Games
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: Greg Lee of Team Terrible reveals the REAL 'secret of success'
The founder and CEO of Team Terrible is just one of the star developers, publishers and industry insiders who'll be appearing at Pocket Gamer Connects London in January 2024.
Indian Insight
Are core games the road to success? 49% yearly revenue growth projected in India until 2028
Lumikai and Google’s new report projects a $7.5 billion valuation for Indian gaming by 2028
1999 Reasons To Play
Bluepoch’s debut time travel game Reverse: 1999 reaches $15 million
The latest Chinese gacha game is coming out of stealth with impressive early figures
In Depth
Game Analysis: Deconstructing Idle Bank Tycoon by Kolibri Games
AppQuantum’s Oleg Aliautdinov takes a deep dive into Idle Bank Tycoon. What does get right? What can be improved? And what you can learn from its secrets?
Nft Now
NFTs incoming: Matr1x doubles funding to $20M ahead of its debut Web3 mobile launch
Matr1x Fire is an upcoming NFT shooter on mobile, bolstered by new $10 million funding round
Not So Monkey Dory
One Piece: Thousand Storm is the latest Japanese mobile game reaching end of service
Bandai Namco and DeNA first released the IP adaptation in 2016
Hot Five
Hot Five: AI funding, UK development turmoil and a new player in livestreaming
Our quick-fix roundup of the hottest stories on PocketGamer.biz
Tactical Turnaround
ByteDance to pull back from games and pull the plug on Nuverse plans
ByteDance is now looking to divest from its existing titles and halt production of new Nuverse games