Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Italic Pig's Kevin Beimers on defining success and following butterflies
"That game you want to make? Make it."
Chat App Revolution
"Playing games on messaging platforms will definitely become as ubiquitous as playing downloadable apps"
Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten on developing HTML5 titles for chat apps
Destination Finland
How to get a job at Wargaming Helsinki
GM Antti Sten tells us about the company, its culture and jobs hiring process
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Three Dots Games talks about their 80s inspired rhythm-based platformer
We speak to Three Dots Games, the winner of the first ever Big Indie Pitch in Jordan
Fostering Innovation
How King's company culture and exclusive team events encourage creative game design
King VP of game design Stephen Jarrett on the Kingfomarket, diverse teams and how company execs get involved in real game design
Serving Up A Storm
Are casual games maturing part two: Lessons from Playrix
Om Tandon breaks down what makes Playrix's portfolio of mobile titles such huge successes
In-game Events
Why Rovio built Angry Birds Evolution from the ground up with in-game events in mind
Rovio Games VP Miika Tams on ensuring events are a 'natural fit' and what works best
Initiating Investment
How to fund your mobile game development
From the UK Games Fund to VCs and publishers, find out where to go to get money and support to develop and market your game
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Dumpling Design's Travis Ryan on financial challenges and exploring AR
"I’m not sure there is a ‘typical’ day as an indie, is there?"
Company Culture
What makes Traplight a great place to work?
Community and marketing manager Veera Rouvinen on life at the Finnish developer
Understanding Others
Manage your emotions, get better at your job
Rovio London's Will Luton on working
Top Of The World
How to get to the top of the App Store
The power of ASO and Search Ads
Time To Reflect
6 things we learned at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2018
What the show tells us about the big upcoming mobile games industry trends
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Rovio's Michail Katkoff shares insights on the role of a product manager
Advice on the skills you need to be a success in the role
Beyond Episodes And Choices
Why Ludia thinks What’s Your Story? can turn a new page in the competitive interactive fiction sector
Telling new tales
Sweet Incubator
Flaregames unveils Sweet Nitro as first partner from $21 million accelerator program
Flaregames CEO Klaas Kersting discusses its how its new publishing strategy is helping mobile developers get to market
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Fat Fish Games' David Lane on failing fast and prototyping faster
The Tiny Striker developer's CEO talks future partnerships and average days at the office
All In
Free-to-play: The devil’s in the detail
KamaGames' Sam Forrest delves into the world of free-to-play and how to make it work
Perfect Match?
How Gameway's 'Tinder for games' aims to improve mobile discoverability
CEO Ben Woolf discusses a rebrand, AI and crowdfunding
Event Highlights
What you CANNOT MISS at PG Connects London 2018
The editors speak: here's what our team is most looking forward to next week in London
Active Agent
The logic behind Disney’s new mobile strategy
A new approach again
Industry Diversity
How Duolingo achieved a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer recruits
Recruiter Jeesoo Sohn discusses changes in the hiring process to improve diversity
Mobile Games Trends
Vietnam Snapshot: Southeast Asia’s fastest growing mobile games market
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Survey Results
Indie attitudes to mobile game monetisation
YoYo Games shares insights from its latest survey on in-game monetisation
Playing Ads
2018 mobile advertising trends to watch: Playables and interactive ads
Applift CEO Tim Koschella looks at the benefits of different kinds of mobile advertising
Speaker Spotlight
PG Connects London speaker spotlight: Zorka.Mobi's Dmitry Liapin on how to prepare your influencer marketing campaign
Dmitry Liapin shares his insights on the influencer space
New Wine
Don’t stop believing: The reinvention of Grand Cru
CEO Markus Pasula discusses the past, present and future of the Finnish studio
Zplay Time
Next generation playable ads
ZPLAY on why playable ads will become more widespread in 2018
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Tinytouchtales' Arnold Rauers on working with constraints and the weight of expectations
The average day of an indie developer, and advice for aspiring devs
The Hardest Question
How will HQ Trivia monetise?
It's giving away thousands of dollars, but how will it turn a profit?
Bird Is The Word
Are casual games maturing? Lessons from Angry Birds 2
Om Tandon breaks down what makes Rovio's hit game such a success
Building A New Monster
How Seriously took a new IP and created a $100 million business
But there's still a lot of work to be done
Indie Mavens
Should aspiring indie games developers strike out on their own straight away or get experience at a studio first?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
User-generated Content
Can you merge social media and free-to-play games in a monetisable way?
Two approaches to user-generated content
Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight: Part Time Monkey's Tuomas Erikoinen on life as a one-man casual mobile games studio
Why he focused on hyper-causal and why he's now looking for the second monkey
New Year New Job
5 top tips for changing career in games
OPM's Nathan Adcock shares his advice for people looking to make a change in their career in 2018
The Year Ahead
5 mobile games industry predictions for 2018
What will the next year look like?
Top Tips
11 portfolio tips for game design graduates
Mojiworks game designer Kate Killick offers advice on structure, what to write and what employers are looking for
The Right Timing
Deep analysis of the best times of the year to launch your mobile game
We break down average downloads for games and their subcategories
Cooking Up A Storm
How StormX is using Bitcoin to power user acquisition
A look at the Storm Play app offering a new way to find users
Indie Mavens
How is 2018 shaping up for indie games developers on mobile?
We ask our Indie Mavens what they think the biggest trends were for 2017 and what the year ahead holds for them
Games Of The Year
PocketGamer.biz's Games of the Year 2017
The Editorial team picks their favourite games this year
Best Of The Best
Mobile Mavens' Games of the Year 2017
The big names in the industry tell us their top mobile games of 2017
On The Rise
Social casinos go East
KamaGames' Sam Forrest says there's money on the table right now as the Asia Pacific market grows
Wizarding World
A successful spell: How Jam City earned a deal with Harry Potter for Hogwarts Mystery
Head of marketing Andrew Green discusses its plans for the huge licence
Data Protection
App and game developers have only 60 days to comply with the new Google Play user privacy guidelines
Privacy is the new black! The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be upon us in May 2018
Back To The Features
The big 3 mobile game trends you need to know to boost rank and revenues
GameRefinery delves into the data on the most popular gameplay features right now
Pgc Speaker Spotlight
From missile defence to user acquisition: yellowHEAD’s Roy Leiser on advanced predictive technology
Ahead of his talk at Pocket Gamer Connects London, Leiser discusses the company's business and return on ad spend
Anti-fraud
The one thing that moves user acquisition the wrong way
Scalarr's Inna Ushakova delves into the complex issue of fraud
Passion Play
From Japan with a local twist: The making of The Secret Police's RPG Dragon's Watch
How a London startup improved the JRPG