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Jun 01, 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

Saudi Arabia partners with Japan to create original anime and gaming content (pocketgamer.biz)
Activision and Meta sued by families of Uvalde school shooting victims (theverge.com)
How to choose the best MMP for your games (gameanalytics.com)
Supercell's Squad Busters - The Definitive Deconstruction (deconstructoroffun.com)
How Stumble Guys beat Fall Guys at its own game (mobilegamer.biz)
YouTube Playables are out now (pocketgamer.com)
Gamecity Hamburg funds five digital game prototypes (venturebeat.com)
What We Can Learn About LiveOps From the 2024 Mobile Gamedev Award Winners (gamerefinery.com)
Gamefam launches multi-million dollar fund for UGC creators (venturebeat.com)

Flexion reports strongest Q1 to date as revenue hits £18.3 million (pocketgamer.biz)
Sinn Studio secures $2.5m funding for VR combat game (gamesindustry.biz)
Play AI raises $4.3M to use AI for 'hyper-personalized gaming' (venturebeat.com)
Ten Square Games' Q1 profits beat the whole of 2023 as it powers up with AI (pocketgamer.biz)
New studio Juicy Button raises $3m in seed funding round (gamesindustry.biz)
GEM Capital commits $5 million investment to Weappy, VEA Games, and Game Garden (pocketgamer.biz)

Songs of Conquest sells 500k units (gamesindustry.biz)
Data digest: fresh stats on Royal Match, Outlets Rush, Rush Royale and Squad Busters plus marketing trends, NetEase numbers and more (mobilegamer.biz)
Fallout games stormed the US playtime charts in April (gamesindustry.biz)
US game spending experienced a 3% decrease in April (gamesindustry.biz)
Dungeon & Fighter Mobile picks up $66 million on China's App Store (pocketgamer.biz)
Reverse: 1999 celebrates one year in China with $74 million and "semi-anniversary" in the West (pocketgamer.biz)

New games now: Wuthering Waves and Dungeon Fighter top the charts, fresh Netflix releases and more (mobilegamer.biz)
Kamen Rider is an upcoming adventure based on the popular superhero franchise (pocketgamer.com)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Will Launch Day One On Game Pass (gameinformer.com)
Squad Busters hypes upcoming launch with star-studded teaser trailer (pocketgamer.com)
Fantasy MMORPG ‘Tarisland’ From Level Infinite Releases June 21st for iOS, Android, and PC (toucharcade.com)
‘Vampire the Masquerade – Coteries of New York’ Is Out Now on iOS From PID Games (toucharcade.com)
MultiVersus returns as free-to-play platform fighter in the Warner Bros. universe (venturebeat.com)
Zenless Zone Zero gets global release date (pocketgamer.com)
Tarisland is kicking off its closed beta test next month (pocketgamer.com)
Supercell launches Squad Busters worldwide with over 5m downloads from soft launch alone (mobilegamer.biz)
Harvest Moon is coming to mobile again with Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home (pocketgamer.com)
‘Riviera: The Promised Land Remaster’ Is Out Now for iOS and Android in Japanese Following Switch Launch (toucharcade.com)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - Northern War has released on iOS and Android globally (pocketgamer.com)

NetEase introduces new MuMu Player Pro Android emulator for MacOS (pocketgamer.com)
Fragbite Group CEO Marcus Teilman steps down (gamesindustry.biz)
Lightspeed Studios appoints Sony veteran as vice president of PC and console publishing (gamesindustry.biz)
Fall Damage Studio declared bankrupt by parent company Fragbite Group (pocketgamer.biz)
Epic Games Store and Fortnite set for UK iOS launch next year (mobilegamer.biz)
Genies nabs former Netflix Games creative director to run games (venturebeat.com)
Netflix is making a Minecraft animated series (polygon.com)
Stumble Guys creator Kitka takes aim at Fortnite with new casual battle royale (mobilegamer.biz)
Intercept Games facing layoffs by end of June (gamesindustry.biz)