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As the four day work week trial continues we follow up with another member of staff from game development studio Hutch, who have been taking part in the trial. In this interview, we speak with Hutch’s chief technology officer James Levick. _________________________________________________________ Can you tell us a little about your role, and what your day-to-day […]

Candy Crush Saga is one of the biggest hits in mobile gaming history. Since its release in 2012, the game has generated $7.7 billion in revenue, making it the fifth highest-grossing mobile game of all time. This success isn’t simply due to the combination of gameplay mechanics and addictive gameplay. Many aspects of game design […]

This article was written by Appquantum game designers Oleg Alyautdinov and Oleg Lomakob. Not so long ago, our attention was caught by a rapidly growing project named Survivor.io — a mobile roguelike-action game from HABBY. With nearly $9,000,000 worth of in-game purchases and more than 8,000,000 downloads by the end of August, it was hard […]

Updated : August 31st, 2022 It’s no surprise that blockchain is becoming deeply intertwined with the mobile games sector. Innumerable mobile stalwarts have expressed a deep curiosity, such as Rovio , to a complete, company-wide overhaul as is in the case of Com2uS . However, there remain considerable barriers to widespread appeal and adoption. With […]

Updated ; August 29th 2022 Developers and publishers alike champion the need for thorough design documents at every stage of the development cycle, but it all counts for nothing if the players don’t want to, well… play! Now a near-essential part of the modern games-as-a-service approach, the soft launch process provides game creators with actionable […]

Updated: August 19th 2022 Apple launched its mobile game subscription service Apple Arcade on September 19, 2019, featuring a host of exclusive titles that were developed specifically for the platform. With the iPhone maker rolling out new games on an irregular basis, here at PocketGamer.biz we’ve created a list that includes every game currently available […]

At PocketGamer.biz, we happily sit between the world of business and consumer writing. You can consider it ‘biz-sumer’ or ‘consum-ness’, if you like. What that means in practice is that we write about the business of mobile games from the point of view of passion for mobile games. We’re not dry number crunchers (quite moist, […]

Following the announced merger of ironSource and Unity, AppLovin jumped in with an unsolicited acquisition offer for Unity. Although the offer has been unanimously rejected by Unity’s board of directors, we wrote earlier this week that AppLovin are in a position to up their offer should they decide to. We have received numerous comments from […]

When it comes to finance, games studios have different requirements than most other startups. The chief financial officer (CFO) role is not just about making payroll on time, but a much more strategic role which is very hands-on in nature, getting deep into the mechanics of user acquisition and monetisation as well as the headline […]

Developers and publishers alike champion the need for thorough design documents at every stage of the development cycle, but it all counts for nothing if the players don’t want to, well… play! Now a near-essential part of the modern games-as-a-service approach, the soft launch process provides game creators with actionable data based on the responses […]