- Loom Video games is the story of the night time, sweeping Finest Developer, Recreation of the 12 months (Pixel Circulate!) and Rising Star.
- Arknights: Endfield wins Folks’s Selection and AudioVisual Excellence.
- Scopely completes a treble: Finest Writer, Finest Perpetually Franchise and Firm Tradition Champion.
- María Sayans is called Cell Legend.
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The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2026, in partnership with Samsung Gaming Hub, has topped this yr’s winners of the Mobile Games Awards.
Held throughout Gamescom week, the ceremony introduced the perfect of the cellular video games enterprise again to the Gürzenich Köln venue in Cologne for its ninth version.
The large winners
Istanbul studio Loom Video games was the story of the night time, named Finest Developer as its debut title Pixel Circulate! took each Recreation of the 12 months and Finest Recreation Innovation.
The Rising Star award additionally went to Loom Video games co-founder and CEO Kübra Gündoğan – the driving pressure behind that very same Pixel Circulate! success.
The hybrid-casual puzzler launched in 2025, raced previous 10 million gamers and prompted Scopely to purchase a majority stake within the studio at a $1 billion-plus valuation.
Elsewhere, Arknights: Endfield received the Pocket Gamer Folks’s Selection Award. Hypergryph’s 3D open-world spin-off from the studio’s hit tower-defence collection launched again in January off the again of greater than 30 million pre-registrations. The sport additionally received AudioVisual Excellence.
Scopely, in the meantime, was named Finest Writer, on a robust night time that additionally noticed it elevate Finest Perpetually Franchise for Monopoly GO! and Firm Tradition Champion.
The Cell Legend award went to María Sayans, CEO of ustwo video games and chair of UK commerce physique Ukie. This lifetime achievement award recognises Sayans’ in depth profession spanning greater than twenty years, together with senior roles at EA’s DICE, Fenris Creations and ustwo video games.
Listed below are all of the winners from the night time.
Pocket Gamer Folks’s Selection Award 2026
Winner: Arknights: Endfield
Honourable mentions: Neverness to Everness; Racing Grasp
Finest Promoting & UA Service
Winner: adjoe
Honourable mentions: Almedia; Exmox
Finest Recreation Innovation
Winner: Pixel Circulate!
Honourable mentions: Arknights: Endfield; Mindset GO!
Finest Analytics / Knowledge Software
Winner: Sensor Tower
Honourable mentions: GameAnalytics; Ktrl by Kohort
Webstore of the 12 months
Winner: Supercell Retailer (Supercell)
Honourable mentions: June’s Journey (Wooga); Monopoly GO! (Scopely)
AudioVisual Excellence
Winner: Arknights: Endfield
Honourable mentions: Hatch Dragons; Star Trek: Fleet Command
Finest Help Software
Winner: AmberMark by Amber
Honourable mentions: Metaplay; PlaytestCloud
Finest Improvement Companion
Winner: Amber
Honourable mentions: Key phrases Studios; Room 8 Group
Finest Internet Recreation
Winner: Think about Island
Honourable mentions: Lethal Descent; Dig Out of Jail
Finest Developer
Winner: Loom Video games
Honourable mentions: SciPlay; Snowprint Studios
Finest Cost Service Supplier
Joint winners: Appcharge and Xsolla
Honourable point out: Tebex
Rising Star
Winner: Kübra Gündoğan (Loom Video games)
Finest Use of IP or Licence
Winner: Free Fireplace x NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Chapter 2: Ninja Struggle
Honourable mentions: Monopoly GO! x Hiya Kitty and Buddies; RAID: Shadow Legends × Alien & Predator
Finest Advertising Marketing campaign
Winner: Jackpot Get together x Carnival: Cruise A Day (SciPlay)
Honourable mentions: MARVEL Strike Pressure ‘Is not That Incredible?’ (Scopely); Toon Blast x Giancarlo Esposito (Peak)
Finest Trending AppGallery Recreation
Winner: Petal Paws
Honourable mentions: Final Asylum: Plague; MapleStory R: Evolution
Main App Retailer Expertise
Winner: HUAWEI AppGallery
Honourable mentions: Epic Video games Retailer; Samsung Galaxy Retailer
Finest Indie Developer
Winner: Tech Tree Video games
Honourable mentions: Itatake; Runaway Play
Firm Tradition Champion
Winner: Scopely
Honourable mentions: Geeklab; SciPlay
Finest Perpetually Franchise
Winner: Monopoly GO!
Honourable mentions: CSR Racing 2; Pokémon GO
Finest Use of AI
Winner: Meshy
Honourable mentions: Amazon Recreation Studios / Amber; Layer.ai
Finest Writer
Winner: Scopely
Honourable mentions: SayGames; Unico Studio
Recreation of the 12 months
Winner: Pixel Circulate!
Honourable mentions: Arknights: Endfield; Block Blast!; Kingdom Rush Battles
Cell Legend
Winner: María Sayans
An enormous congratulations to everybody who walked away with a trophy – and to each finalist who made the shortlists.