Highlights from PGC Aqaba 2025

Pocket Gamer Connects Aqaba 2025 successfully gathered local, regional, and global games industry professionals to explore the world’s fastest growing games market.

Descending on the shores of the Red Sea on November 8–9, over 2,400 delegates representing 300 companies, and 50 international speakers met to gain key insight, build connections, and share ideas across the mobile, PC, console, and XR game sectors.

MENA’s growing momentum as a global games hub was highlighted yet again as the return of the PGC event series, this time at this brand new Jordan location, connected the region’s foremost games industry delegates with global experts for two busy conference days at the Arab Revolt Plaza and historic Aqaba Fort.

The diverse lineup of bigger and smaller studios, from international breakout names like Maysalward and Mad Hook, to global hitters like Xsolla and Xbox, and local stars including Tamatem and Chickmania, contribute to the strength of MENA’s game ecosystem and the reason it can’t be ignored.

Aqaba, sitting as a strategic cog between Asia, Africa and Europe, is not only historically significant, but its technological advancements position the city as a corporate gateway into Jordan and the wider MENA region – which continues to outpace global growth, with projections suggesting a significant uptick in the coming years.

And that’s the very reason PGC Aqaba will continue to return, bigger and stronger each time.

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