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As the hypercasual mobile games market expands there has been a flow of original games, and of unoriginal, copycat products trying to squeeze into the market.Speaking at PGC Digital #8, Sunday Games game lead André Noller explains how to ideate for a hypercasual game and avoid the risk of becoming another dead end copycat.Noller proposes that the first question you need to ask is why should you work in the hypercasual market?Hit games have already been released and tested and you risk running behind the competition with a copycat product.He suggests analysing the market that you wish to ideate in,…

At a glanceExpert’s Rating ProsEpic battery lifeProMotion finally on iPhoneGreat camera systemConsNo USB-CNo always-on displayIt’s time for a selfie camera upgradeOur VerdictThe iPhone 13 Pro Max is the same exact great phone as the iPhone 13 Pro, only bigger. And more expensive. With the larger battery, this iPhone lasts a lot longer than any iPhone before. Last year, the iPhone 12 Pro Max was more than just a larger version of the iPhone 12 Pro. Apple gave it a slightly different camera system, which meant if you wanted the best iPhone you also had to get the biggest iPhone. With…

Trailmix’s debut game Love & Pies is now available on the App Store and Google Play Store.During testing the game boasted strong performance metrics and positive qualitative feedback, with Day 30 retention being above 20%.“Long term retention is the most important metric for us here,” said Trailmix CEO Carolin Krenzer.“We are tremendously proud of our team’s achievements.”Co-founders Krenzer and Tristan Clark meet at King where they set up the studio that developed and operated the $1 billion hit game Farm Heroes Saga.An early investor, Supercell has also invested further into Trailmix and is also providing capital for marketing the game; something it…

Gaming entrepreneur Joakim Achrén has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors at Fingersoft.He has 15 years of experience from two venture-backed gaming startups and now runs Elite Game Developers, helping new entrepreneurs with starting their first games company.In 2020, Achrén has also taken on a role at Play Ventures as a Venture Partner.“I’m thrilled to be joining Fingersoft’s Board of Directors,” Achrén says.“I’ve been visiting Oulu for close to ten years now, meeting gaming studios and getting more involved with the local game scene, and I’m really happy to get more involved with the leading game…

Kepler Interactive has raised $120 million from Chines gaming giant NetEase.Formed from seven independent companies, Kepler is run and co-owned by its developers and founders.Those companies areA44,Alpha Channel,Awaceb,Ebb Software,Shapefarm,Sloclap, andTimberlineKepler’s CEO Alexis Garavaryan (ex Ubisoft, Tencent and Microsoft) is also CEO of Kowloon Nights.It’s a funding outfit which has previous relationships with some of the developers involved such as Canadian developer Alpha Channel and Paris outfit Sloclap,Whilst Kepler currently focuses on PC and console gaming, it is looking to expand into mobile games.It’s also in talks with animation studios over the potential to adapt some of intellectual properties into series.Funding…

“The methodology is not fit to provide statistical estimates for the correlation between Instagram and mental health or to evaluate causal claims between social media and health/well-being,” Facebook writes in an introduction annotation on one of the slide decks. Aka “nothing to see here”. Later on, commenting on a slide entitled “mental health findings” (which is subtitled: “Deep dive into the Reach, Intensity, IG Impact, Expectation, Self Reported Usage and Support of mental health issues. Overall analysis and analysis split by age when relevant”), Facebook writes categorically that: “Nothing in this report is intended to reflect a clinical definition of…

Genshin Impact has generated $2 billion in worldwide player spending via Apple App Store and Google Play Store in its first year since launch.According to Sensor Tower, since the game’s release on September 28th, 2020, it was the third-highest revenue generating mobile game behind Honor of Kings at $2.9 billion and PUBG Mobile at $2.8 billion.Pokémon Go and Roblox tied for fourth place at $1.4 billion. It is worth noting that these figures are not inclusive of third-party Android stores.Genshin Impact has had one of the most successful launches of a mobile game ever.Within six months since launch, the game…

ASUS’s Vietnameses sales representative has confirmed the existence of GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card featuring Noctua cooling solution. ASUS’s GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics Card With Noctua Cooling Solution Pictured Listed over at EEC last month, it looks like ASUS themselves have confirmed that they are working with Noctua in developing a new custom lineup of graphics cards that will feature Noctua cooling. Not only is it confirmed but ASUS’s Sales Representative for the Vietnamese market has shared pictures of the custom cooling solution over at the ASUS ROG Vietnam Facebook page. Intel Core i9-12900 Alder Lake CPU Tested on…

At WWDC in June 2021 Apple announced iOS 15, the latest major update for the company’s iPhone operating system. iOS 15 eventually arrived on iPhone on 20 September 2021 and bought interface changes, security fixes and a raft of new features. If your iPhone supports the update, you can install it for free. In this article we outline everything you need to know about the iOS 15 software update: details of the interface changes and new features coming to your iPhone – as well as features Apple is still working on that will arrive in later updates; the devices (both…

Morgan Tucker is Senior Director of Product at Roblox, where he brings cross-functional teams together through a vision for the future of collaborative, expressive, spatial experiences.With groundbreaking projects like Spatial Voice chat, Roblox’s immersive virtual concerts with Twenty One Pilots and Lil Nas X, and The Gucci Garden virtual exhibition, Morgan and his team continue to push the boundaries of social experiences in the Metaverse.Morgan’s presentation at Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #8 is titled ‘Designing for the Metaverse’.It will explore how Roblox is ushering in the Metaverse through groundbreaking immersive and innovative technologies.He will also discuss some best practices of…