Yesterday saw hundreds of developers once again descend on Helsinki, Finland (not long after PGC Helsinki, of course) to gather insights from top speakers and network with industry peers at ...

As Halloween approaches, we're thrilled to unearth an exclusive offer on Pocket Gamer Connects London tickets - using the code LBDL-HALL-LON-25 - which stacks on top of the current Super Early Bird ...

“If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.” This quote from animator Chuck Jones, who worked at Warner Bros. on Looney Tunes cartoons with characters like Bugs Bunny, ...

“We have seriously broken business models that are very frustrating,” says former EA CEO and founder Trip Hawkins. Speaking during a talk at Games First Helsinki today, Hawkins covered a number of ...

Did we need to iterate, or did the illusion of iteration take over? That was the central question for Ustwo Games and Monument Valley 3 game director Jennifer Estaris’s talk at Games First Helsinki ...

Hill Climb Racing studio Fingersoft has laid off 14 staff. In a statement to PocketGamer.biz, CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja said the redundancies were spread across the company and were not tied to a specific ...

Supercell’s annual Games First event is currently underway in Helsinki, Finland, and two panels in particular have highlighted the potential of emerging markets in the games industry. The first ...

Facebook Instant Games finally has in-app purchases enabled for titles on iOS. Apple's App Store rules meant that, for years, Meta could not enable microtransactions for developers on the Instant ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment has cancelled Neon Koi’s mobile game and is closing down the studio. The decision was made after evaluating the "potential" of the game to reach global audiences and ...

Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now hosted its first-ever major in-person event earlier this month with the Monster Hunter Now Carnival on October 12th and 13th. Less than a month later, Niantic is expanding ...

Net bookings for EA's mobile games portfolio fell 3% year-over-year to $270 million in Q2 FY2025. For the trailing 12 months ending September 30th, 2024, net bookings for the division declined by 4% ...

Konvoy led the pre-seed round with participation from 1AM Gaming, 1Up Ventures, GFR Fund, Goodwater Capital, and Wheelhouse Venture Venture Capital firm Konvoy has invested an undisclosed sum into ...