[Last week in games] 500+ World of Warcraft developers unionise, Monopoly Go has passed $3bn in revenue, and more!

Jul 27, 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Tencent's mobile games vanish from Huawei app store rankings (pocketgamer.biz)
Implementing Ads Without Cannibalizing Subscription Conversions (is.com)
What’s the deal with Royal Match-alike Piggy Kingdom? (mobilegamer.biz)
World Technology Games announced for Q3 2026 (venturebeat.com)
Outfit7’s Talking Tom series has quietly become a colossal media empire (mobilegamer.biz)
What do publishers do for mobile games? (gameanalytics.com)
Deadpool and Wolverine movie marketing blitz hits video games (venturebeat.com)
Overcoming the 20% feature usage challenge (mindtheproduct.com)
Dubai is confirmed as Games of the Future host in 2025 (pocketgamer.biz)

Nazara completes acquisition of Paper Boat Apps (pocketgamer.biz)
Artificial Agency raises $16 million to alter NPC behaviour in games (pocketgamer.biz)
NPC Labs raises $18M to bring mainstream games to Web3 (venturebeat.com)
Games VC funding keeps declining, 90% goes to early stage (venturebeat.com)
Warner Bros Games acquires MultiVersus studio Player First (venturebeat.com)
Mobile market intelligence platform AppMagic raises $3 million (pocketgamer.biz)
Igloo, Inc. raises $11M for new consumer blockchain, Abstract (venturebeat.com)
Agora Gaming Partners raises $600K to launch publishing and fundraising advisory service (venturebeat.com)
PlayCap is a "pioneering" angel investment syndicate "led by women" (gamesindustry.biz)
Freestyle Chess debuts with $12M in funding for tournament series (venturebeat.com)
Look North World raises $2.25M for its Fortnite UGC games and creator label (venturebeat.com)
UGC platform developer Look North World raises $4.5 million in seed funding (pocketgamer.biz)

Honor of Kings surpasses a whopping 50 million downloads since its global launch (pocketgamer.com)
EA Sports College Football 25 sold 2.2m $100 copies with early access (gamesindustry.biz)
Hero Wars shoots to 150 million installs following successful Tomb Raider collab (pocketgamer.com)
Pokémon Unite catches $83 million on mobile as it celebrates first three years (pocketgamer.biz)
Hero Wars: Alliance celebrates $1.5 billion in revenue (pocketgamer.biz)
Data digest: Honor of Kings’ western launch, Peak hits $5bn, Monopoly Go's lucrative live op, Japan market stats and more (mobilegamer.biz)
Monopoly Go has passed $3bn in revenue, says Hasbro (mobilegamer.biz)
German games market increases 6% to €10bn in 2023 (gamesindustry.biz)
Elden Ring climbs to Top Five in revenue charts for June (gamesindustry.biz)

Illuvium will launch 3 Web3 games on July 25 (venturebeat.com)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory roars out onto iOS, taking you into a new heart of darkness (pocketgamer.com)
Play by Play Studios unveils 3v3 street basketball game The Run: Got Next (venturebeat.com)
HoYoverse’s next game Astaweave Haven among 105 Chinese approvals this July (pocketgamer.biz)
Sonority is the latest iOS release from Ash Games in a world where music is magic (pocketgamer.com)
‘Hidden Through Time 2: Discovery’ releases on August 13th for iOS, Android, PC, Switch, and More (toucharcade.com)
‘Primrows’ is a Cozy Gardening Puzzler from the Makers of ‘The Day We Fought Space’, Heading to Mobile and PC (toucharcade.com)
New games now: Game of Thrones, Scopely goes gardening, Dark and Darker, Mortal Kombat and more (mobilegamer.biz)
Arranger, the puzzle RPG, is out now for iOS and Android through Netflix (pocketgamer.com)

The Tesla Cybertruck Will Be Added To Fortnite Tomorrow (gameinformer.com)
Almost 250 Bethesda Game Studios developers unionise (gamesindustry.biz)
Netflix has over 80 games currently in development (pocketgamer.com)
Perfect World CEO and co-CEO resign after mass layoffs (pocketgamer.biz)
Former Pixelberry devs band together to form Candlelight Games (gamesindustry.biz)
Forte shuts down Rumble Entertainment, its second studio closure in two months (gamesindustry.biz)
Former Epic VP Alain Tascan is the new boss at Netflix Games (mobilegamer.biz)
Updated: Humble Games lays off all employees after failed attempts to sell (venturebeat.com)
Roblox reported over 13,000 incidents to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2023 (gamesindustry.biz)
500+ World of Warcraft developers unionise (gamesindustry.biz)
Monster Hunter Now looks to bring "meaningful integration" with MrBeast collab (pocketgamer.biz)
Fortnite is coming to AltStore, but is being pulled from Samsung’s Galaxy Store (mobilegamer.biz)
Paradox Interactive profits drop 90% due to Life By You cancellation (gamesindustry.biz)