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Best Of 2024
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2024
The mobile movers and shakers of the last 12 months revealed!
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App Expansion
Are publishers leaving games behind?
EA, Krafton, IGG and Voodoo are each launching apps and investing in companies outside of games
Exclusive Deal
Voodoo signs partnership with Audiomob for audio ads
Deal sees ads provider become exclusive audio partner for the top 50% of the publisher's inventory
Battle Over Bots
Skillz files lawsuit against rivals Voodoo over alleged "straight-out lies", bots, and rigged tournaments
Their latest suit claims Voodoo has falsely advertised Blitz - Win Cash and harmed Skillz market share
Job Losses
BeReal hit by layoffs following Voodoo acquisition
Around 28 staff impacted by job losses; photo-sharing app maker reportedly had 60 employees earlier this year
Real Deal
Voodoo snaps up photo-sharing app BeReal in €500m deal
Games publisher plans to invest in product strategy, growth and infrastructure
Successful Defence
Homa wins Craft Island court case against Voodoo, ending almost three years of uncertainty
Voodoo had accused Homa of "maintaining confusion" through similarities between Homa's Craft Island and their own Lumbercraft
Hybridcasual Hype
A casual revolution: Why even console devs want in on hybridcasual
Mobile changes fast, and while brave devs lead the way, there are plenty more happy to follow the lead
Unity Runtime Fee
Developers issue collective ultimatum to Unity. "No more ironSource or Unity Ads until RunTime conditions are reviewed."
A brace of big names have banded together to shut off ads cash in protest against Unity's new pricing plans
Best Of 2023
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2023
The movers and the shakers of the last 12 months
Voodoo Strategy
Voodoo's hybridcasual strategy is working
The company has built a portfolio of ten hybridcasual games which are generating between $20 and $100 million a year
Growth In France
TapNation selected for French Tech 120 program
The program supports and promotes French start-ups
Pocket Gamer Connects
Voodoo’s Alex Shea: “Hypercasual is dead”
In his talk at PGC London 2023, Alex Shea of Voodoo made a convincing argument for how hypercasual may be going the way of the dodo
Crypto Coin Coming
Hypercasual goliath Voodoo is launching its own blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency
Approximately 10 blockchain games are currently in development
Academic Achievement
Voodoo Academy hits new highs
Voodoo Academy program celebrates admission milestone with new game artists track and opens to hybridcasual
Voodoo Style
Voodoo launches casual and midcore games publishing
Sign up now to find out more about the publishing giant's plans for the future of hybridcasual publishing - and submit your game now
Gotta Collect Em All
Collect Em All - From hyper to hybrid-casual hit
Voodoo outlines the company's new focus on hybrid-casual games and explains how it turned a hypercasual prototype into a success
Crowd Control
Mob Control: hybridising a hypercasual hit
Voodoo highlights the company's new 'DNA shift' from hypercasual to hybrid casual, and the impact it's had on the success of Mob Control
Acquisition Achieved
Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games after partnering on past projects
Value of the acquisition has not been disclosed
Best Of 2022
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2022
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Trial On Tiktok
TikTok launches HTML5 games with Voodoo, Nitro and more
Influencer Run, Tap the Difference and Basketball FRVR among mini games included
Download Deluge
Voodoo becomes the third-largest global company in app installs
The sole European member of the top six
Hypercasual School
Voodoo Academy is training the next generation of hypercasual developers
Launching April 14 with up to $3000 prizes for "high-potential" prototypes
Data Science For All
GameAnalytics Brings DataSuite to the Masses – Through AWS for Games
GameAnalytics is working with Amazon Web Services to support the AWS for Games initiative to put data analytics into the hands of every developer
Score And Earn
Update: Volt Games raises $1.5 million, led by Voodoo
Follows earlier pledge of $200 million to fund blockchain games
Upcoming Competition
Voodoo’s Spring Game Competition to reward studios with up to $1 million
Top prize for reaching five million downloads in four months
Starter For Six
Top tips: levelling up hypercasual partnerships in 2022
Voodoo's head of publishing, Alexander Shea gives his six top tips on creating more successful collaboration in hypercasual games in 2022
Making Milestones
Voodoo surpasses 6 billion downloads across games and apps
One billion downloads achieved in the past 9 months
Now That's Magic
Voodoo and MagicLab discuss building a successful hypercasual partnership
PocketGamer.biz interviews Ümit Boncukçu, the co-founder at MagicLab and Voodoo's Halil Kaftan about the companies partnership and success in the rapidly evolving hypercasual market
2021 In Review
Voodoo's Alexander Shea talks hitting 5 billion downloads and doubling down in 2022
Voodoo head of publishing on 2021's challenges and opportunity
Winter Games
Voodoo announces new winter game competition with coaching and resources on offer
Studios around the world can enter and access top coaching and resources from Voodoo, alongside exclusive up-to-date product knowledge
Platform Partnership
Voodoo launches 5 hypercasual titles on Facebook Gaming
Including Cube surfer and Paper.io 2
Backing Blockchain
Voodoo to invest $200 million into blockchain games
Bringing blockchain to casual mobile users
Inside Track
Voodoo shares the secrets of hypercasual development at Paris HQ
The mobile publisher's real-world educational events have returned
Israeli Investment
Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin
Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
Heating Up Hypercasual
Voodoo launches 'unlimited value' hypercasual development competition on 10 October
First prize guarantees a minimum of $1 million
New Way To Pay
Voodoo buys Beach Bum to diversify monetisation from ads to IAPs
Israeli startup did $70 million in past 12 months
Hyper Meets Casual
From hype to hyper to hybrid-casual
Voodoo talks about the birth of hybrid-casual
Hypercasual Help
Run of Life indie dev Tarek Mongy on how to have a hypercasual hit
Tarek Mongy explains how working with Voodoo helped him create more successful games
Voodoo Child
How Voodoo helped hone a hypercasual hit
Tummy Games' Nemanja Divjak reflects on its approach to hypercasual and the studio's relationship with Voodoo
Best Of 2021
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021
The movers, the shakers, and all those funky moneymakers
Hybridcasual
Electric Manta and Voodoo agree long-term publishing partnership
The companies aim to extend the lifetime and engagement of hypercasual games
Causing A Storm
Storms launch new game studio and partner with Voodoo
The studio has developed one game so far, AZ Run
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Sega, Activision Blizzard, Square Enix and Bandai Namco
Voodoo Voice
Voodoo president and COO joins Homa Games as senior strategic advisor
The announcement follows Voodoo’s former CFO’s appointment as Homa Games’ new VP of
finance and legal.
Pgc Digital #7
PGC Digital: Voodoo head of publishing Alexander Shea discusses 'the science of publishing'
Shea provides insight into how Voodoo has reached 5 billion hypercasual downloads
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from King, Zynga, Niantic and Playrix
Bid Accepted
Voodoo acquires user-acquisition expert Bidshake
Company launched in January 2020