Hype Balance
Nitro Games' Maria Maunula on working with influencers
But maintaining your integrity
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Hot Five: Facebook UA playbook, Gameloft UK shuttered, and Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards 2020
The hottest stories
Japanese Gold Mine
Monster Strike leaps up global top grossing charts
Crunching the data with App Annie
Indie Winners
Mulled 2 takes the Very Big Indie Pitch crown in Jordan
Ball puzzle sequel from Hako Games headlines three great indie games from the heart of the Middle East
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Hot Five: Anticipation grows for Black Desert Mobile, NetEase x Bossa, and the sharp decline of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
The hottest stories
Gotta Splat Them Slimes
Japan-only location AR game Dragon Quest Walk becomes #2 top grossing global game
Crunching the data with App Annie
Indie Spotlight
Seawolf Studios on starting out as an indie developer straight out of university
Newcastle-based studio is headed up by a two-man development team
Jobs In Games
A career as long as the games industry: Team 17's Max Everingham
All about the people
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Hot Five: N3twork's $40 million raise, Zynga's home-grown future, and Free Fire shoots to $1 billion
The hottest stories
Foresight
Dead Cells' Steve Filby on why you need to design games with an audience in mind
Think about what you’re going to build before you build it
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Hot Five: Homescape's $1 billion, Voodoo in Montreal, and Candy Crush's art meets diversity
The hottest stories
Jobs In Games
Kiki Olofsson on building diversity and great art at Candy Crush Saga dev King
Dealing with the sweet and the sour
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Hot Five: Vainglory changes hands, what's next for Playtika? and Rush Wars' weak KPI revealed
The hottest stories
Unite We Play
Why casual games like Homescapes are adding midcore Guild community features
Play together, spend more
Indie Spotlight
Exospecies creator Eric Zinda on the move from Xbox to mobile
Finding the right way
Indie Mavens
Will subscription services be good for indie game developers?
The Indie Mavens share their thoughts
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Hot 5: A new Harry Potter game, Coin Master's $500 million and Gen Z loves Supercell
The hottest stories
New Channels
What Tencent, Amazon and Twitch’s great PUBG Mobile content giveaway means for game developers
Erick Fang discusses
Cultural Fit
The geographic fault lines of mobile game art style
GameRefinery on which games appeal where
No Magic Formula
What makes Summoners War a successful esport?
Gamevil Com2uS' David Mohr explains
Visit Jordan
What should I pack to attend Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan 2019? And other FAQs
A short guide to visiting Amman for Western attendees of our first full MENA conference
Putting The Pieces In Place
The potential of Bahrain’s fledgling games industry
The right environment for growth
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Hot 5: Empires & Puzzles does $500 million, Backflip's closing down, and EVE Echoes' December beta
The hottest stories
Region Focus
Despite geo-political tensions, Iran's mobile game industry is ready to scale
A sleeping giant
Lobbying Guide
Your guide to the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2020
How to submit a game and help us celebrate the best of the global mobile games industry
Going More Core
Monetization trends for casual mobile games
GameRefinery's Joel Julkunen on what's changing
Jobs In Games
How Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin got the gig
From film to games
Region Focus
Why Lebanon's game industry is less about opportunity and more about potential
What happens next
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Hot 5: Halfbrick returns, a new mobile gaming taxonomy, and 6 years of Marvel Puzzle Quest
The hottest stories
Liveop Learnings
How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay
Obsessed with fine tuning their teams
Indie Spotlight
Indie Michal Pawlowski on finding a fresh, happy mind to come up with OXXO
"There are weeks that I don't code at all. There are also weeks that I code for 12 hours a day."
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Hot 5: The rise of Roblox, Call of Duty is mobile's fastest ever launch, and you won't like Ilkka when he's angry
The hottest stories
False Start
Monetizer Mavens on what went wrong for Mario Kart Tour
Another Nintendo misfire?
Outward Bound
How Jordan is building on solid foundations to take its game sector global
At the heart of the MENA region
Jobs In Games
Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot
"My first job in the industry was a hodgepodge of lecturing on games art, indie development and contract work"
What's Next?
Snap Finger Click's Joanna Haslam on a unique career in social games
"2019 has been a difficult year for the games industry"
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Hot 5: IronSource's $400 million, Mario Kart Tour's weak monetisation, and Subway Surfers heads to Snapchat
The hottest stories
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Timo Ylikangas will be on a panel discussing the benefits of using existing IP vs creating your own
"It was and still is a forerunner industry"
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Hot Five: Mario Kart Tour's FTUE, Call of Duty Mobile's fps, and Apple Arcade's obscuration
The hottest stories
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Anette Staloy will be presenting a joint session of postmortems, as well as talking on a panel about making teams work
"We need a variety of skill sets and backgrounds"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Cuneyt Unar will be hosting a session about using blockchain technology in mobile gaming
"This is an ever-evolving and growing industry"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Zsuzsa James will be on a panel discussing funding strategies at the show
"We are truly spoiled for choice these days"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Alexey Sazonov from Panzerdog will be part of a panel discussing mergers and acquisitions
"The time to enter can't get any better"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Rosemary Lokhorst will be presenting a session called Leveling up to remission - A clinical study of playing toward your strength
"I hope that there will be more focus on serious games and alternative uses for gaming"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Thomas Kriebernegg will be leading a session about using Apple search ads to increase paid and organic installs
"Gaming is going to integrate itself into the least expected corners"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Luai Mahjneh will be discussing the problems that game companies face, and how to overcome them
"We are inspired by our mission: to make the best real money games in the world!"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Alina Gribanova will be on a panel discussing trends in global publishing and business
"It remains my favourite industry in the world"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Emilia Machuca will be part of a panel discussing being a foreign employee in a new country
"We need to improve diversity and inclusiveness within the games industry"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Sami Liukka will be part of a speed panel discussing the potential pitfalls game studios face
"Be ready to learn a tremendous amount of new information"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Helsinki: Marek-Martin Matyska will be talking about game design for competitive gaming and more
"Smaller indie studio are actively thinking about how to make the game better post-launch by utilising analytics"