What does a day in the life of a junior game designer at Gameloft Toronto look like? And why choose a career in the mobile games industry?

"We’re not naïve in thinking that we’ll be able to snap our fingers and make this work overnight"

Indie dev lowiro's Anton Prydatko discusses development, monetisation models, and weathering changes in the mobile games industry over the last five years

Following Supercell’s $37 million investment, Space Ape Games founder Simon Hade outlines the developer’s scaling plans, including expanding its publishing division with three Beatstar-equivalent titles

Utopia Analytics and Star Stable outline the importance of content moderation and the challenges around moderating younger communities, following the 2022 launch of the mobile version of horse-themed MMORPG

The PocketGamer.biz team talk to Jackie Jin, founder and CEO of Squid Games, about the challenges and opportunities facing small studios in today’s mobile games market

Ducky's Denis Prokudin walks through a two-step design process for ensuring visual clarity in the fast-paced hypercasual genre

Fundamentally Games' Glyn Fairweather looks at one of the most infamous examples of early in-game monetisation, Elder Scrolls Oblivion's Horse Armour, understanding value, and how to exchange it with your players

Rovio’s Claire Rozain looks at the myriad benefits of accessible, progressive mobile games ads in her weekly column, UA Eye

Publishing platform's debut is #1 app on Flow blockchain

Drake Star partner Michael Metzger speaks with PocketGamer.biz on the highs and lows of games industry deals in H1 2022, and why IDFA is driving deals in the mobile sector

Salary transparency is a matter of fairness, says COO Michael Zillmer

Mintegral's Hector Almeida details the allure that gaming has for tech companies including TikTok and Netflix in the face of economic uncertainty

Unity's John Riccitiello and Marc Whitten discuss the merger with ironSource, demystifying monetisation and feedback, and bullishness towards the mobile market

Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls investigates the anticipated downfall in the global games market: a reversal in fortune after the market’s 26% expansion during the pandemic

Hypercasual development, like the games themselves, moves rapidly. Ludo.ai's Tom Pigott outlines how a Game Design Document can support your hypercasual title, no matter the turnover.

Gaming is on the cusp of exciting change - Hut 8's Josh Rayner explores the growing impact of Web 3.0 technologies on the games of tomorrow.

Miniclip and SYBO CEOs Saad Choudri and Mathias Gredal Nørvig discuss the seismic acquisition, Subway Surfers IP, and why hands-off is the best approach for support

Garawell Games' Nebih Başaran and Supersonic's Mark Ratchin share their tips on combatting the stereotypes surrounding hypercasual games from their developer and publisher perspectives

LifeStreet’s Levi Matkins believes advertisers and marketers can maintain their gains through the tools available in an in-app environment – particularly, the right DSP

Studio E's Gabrielle Heyman and Matt Sharpe speak with PocketGamer.biz on Studio E's decade of playable ads design, and why the format is gaining popularity

"The mobile market is in a weird place for 'premium' titles"

How can writers and narrative designers maintain quality and engagement in games over the long term? Brunette's Dexter Woltman investigates...

Marta Velasco and Justin Jones speak to PocketGamer.biz on Moon Tavern Games' desire to create nostalgic RPG experiences with modern mobile sensibilities

Meet the mobile games and Web3 experts at Pocket Gamer Connects Toronto on July 6-7 2022

Rovio's Claire Rozain details the egregious missteps made in some mobile games ad, particularly directed towards women and the LGBTQ community

With the traditional UA script becoming increasingly fruitless, wappier's Ted Verani offers his guidance on making next-best-action marketing your portfolio-driven growth strategy

Our conversation with Hay Day’s Stephan Demirdjian, Camilla Avellar and Sari Latvala continues, as we discuss development through the pandemic, burnout at Supercell, and the years ahead as the team changes

Freeverse.io’s Alun Evans wants the middle-ground between play-to-earn advocates and players looking for pure entertainment

We talk to Pixel Play about indie development and The Big Indie Pitch

Following its release on June 23, Zynga game design director Tatum Clanton shares her thoughts on the earliest days of WWF's new guild system, Clubs

The second phase of the in-game brand collaboration pushed the popular battle game to new heights of revenue and pushed it up the app store listings worldwide

The mobile games industry is experiencing a skills shortage. Meet the people helping to bring fresh perspectives onboard.

Rovio's Claire Rozain explores a host of ads including Supercell, Peak, IGG, and, yes, Rovio to determine whether summer or winter imagery is what players want to see

How Ten Square Games turned their hobby games into a source of eco-education

Hay Day’s Stephan Demirdjian, Camilla Avellar and Sari Latvala share their thoughts on Supercell’s overshadowed success story, which released two months before breakaway hit Clash of Clans

Vungle's Scott Silverman provides his step-by-step advice on securing in-game brand advertising deals that are ripe within the mobile games ecosystem and beyond

The mobile audience is increasingly identifying as gamers – opening new marketing opportunities, says Xsolla's Nick Yama

AppQuantum's Julia Kara looks at Lilith Games' latest RPG team battler, and whether its streamlined onboarding and polish will provide the same sustainability as its mid-core competitors

Rovio's Claire Rozain looks inward to an ad campaign with Angry Birds Journey, and how vital it is to reflect the players' own interests

Miu provides a brief snapshot into how the Wordscapes creator is committing to faster iteration and the true appeal of word browser games

Devsisters' Kilhyeon Cho, Eunji Lee, and Danny Huh discuss the team's success with Cookie Run: Kingdom following its first English-language award

Is Web3 coming? Is it already here? What does crypto bring to the world of games? PocketGamer.biz sat down with the Storms CEO for his take on the future of games

"A happy team also means a productive one, but that's often neglected in games"

Flexion CEO Jens Lauritzson explains how the company helped Top Games give their game a revenue boost

Rovio's Claire Rozain takes a look at Dream Games' renowned flagship title, Royal Match, and the myriad influences beyond the Match 3 genre

Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls explores the rapid explosion and caution of gaming subscription services, and if it will be the dominant form of monetisation

Žiga Sedovnik, Principal Data Scientist at Outfit7, shares how his idea for a new strategy RPG turned into the company’s newest game, Mythic Legends

Funday Factory's new head of publishing shares his thoughts on the latest challenges in the mobile games industry, and gazes into the cross-platform future

Olivier Madiba, CEO of Cameroon’s Kiro'o Games, speaks to PocketGamer.biz about opportunities in Africa