King Of Live Events
How King runs live in-game events in Candy Crush Saga
Producer Andra Petrosan on keeping players of one of the world most popular games playing
Featured Features
Top 5 features games developers should consider to crack the Chinese mobile market
GameRefinery’s tool identifies the most popular gameplay mechanics
One Special Day
"It's gone up a whole new level": SpecialEffect on its most significant One Special Day yet
Fundraiser Nick Streeter talks bringing in developers and raising awareness
Rewarded Surveys
Rewarded surveys: A new way to monetise your mobile game
A potentially lucrative additional revenue stream
Roll The Dized
Rewriting the rules of board game manuals with Dized
Playmore's Tomi Vainikka talks crowdfunding and combining digital with physical
Decrypting Cryptocurrency
What the hell is cryptocurrency and how does it work for mobile games?
Reality Gaming Group co-founder Tony Pearce explains
Through The Pain Barrier
The slow, steady progress of Zombies, Run! from mobile game to fitness platform
CEO Adrian Hon explains
Par For The Course
Why in-game events are the best way to revitalise your mobile game
AppLovin's Johannes Heinze on how to utilise events to improve player engagement
One Minute Heroes
Panzerdog on distilling the essence of console shooters into its 5v5 mobile game Tacticool
Fast-to-start, quick-to-end
Ar Rises
Augmenting the undead: Next Games, mobile AR and The Walking Dead: Our World
Next Games CMO Saara Bergström on the studio's latest title to utilise The Walking Dead IP
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Ether Games on Z War 1: The Great War of the Dead
We speak to the runner-up from the Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco
Gone In A Flash
Developers start your engines: The race to transition your game off Flash has officially begun
FlowPlay CTO Doug Pearson on how to leave Flash behind
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Highkey Games on making music composition accessible in Audio Sky
We speak to the runner-up at the VBIP from Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco
Indie View
The Big Indie Pitch interviews: Edgeworks Entertainment on planetary colonisation in TerraGenesis
We speak to the winner of the Very Big Indie Pitch in San Francisco
Ready For Ipo?
What makes Indian mobile publisher Nazara Games worth $550 million?
Nazara could be gearing up for IPO, but why should you take notice?
Pocket Star Trek
More shooting, fewer discussions: SPYR Games on bringing Star Trek to its MMO Pocket Starships
Creator Lars Koschin discusses the task of merging two universes together
Paradise Lost
Where is mobile gaming’s PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds?
Have we gone too clever, got too niche?
Data Quest
Overcoming data hurdles to develop a mobile game for a worldwide audience
VC Mobile Entertainment on development journey of Creature Quest
Taking Flight
Deconstructing Rovio’s pragmatically Finnish IPO
Angry Birds dev going public
Ar Trumps Vr
Augmented reality is the next frontier for smartphones as VR falters
Apple’s ARKit and iPhone 8 and X show AR has left VR in the dust, and there's a lot more to come
Speaker Spotlight
PG Connects Helsinki speaker spotlight: Zorka.Mobi's Dmitry Liapin on influencer marketing
What to expect at PGC Helsinki
Staying Competitive
Building a mobile eSports giant: Super Evil Megacorp reflects on creating Vainglory
CEO Kristian Segerstrale on what it takes to make a competitive game
Hyper-casual
From Commodore 64 to hyper-casual: David Darling on the resurgence of simple games based on elegant ideas
The Codemasters Co-founder and Kwalee CEO on how design and development in the mobile space brings back memories and lessons from his days coding in the 80s
Post-launch Advice
5 tips for running effective live operations
Tag Games' Robin Smith offers useful advice on maximising post-launch performance of your game
Ad Play
3 reasons you should outsource production of your playable ad
IronSource's Daniel Herman discusses the benefits
Live And Kicking
Three years on: Indian developer 99Games on the evolution of Star Chef
99Games VP of Games Shilpa Bhat on the game's life so far
Iap By The Gram
Settling in and exploring new avenues: Gram Games on moving from a small studio to a mid-size company
Culture Developer Erin O'Brien talks IAP and settling down after a year of expansion
Funding Advice
Tips on securing funding for your gaming start up
Gamee CEO Bozena Rezab offers advice based on her own experiences pitching for investment
Managing Risk
The risk business
Managing risk is key to success in the mobile games business, says Spil Games CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac
Insert Credit
Lessons from coin-op: What do arcades have to teach mobile games design?
A look at whether mobile developers could embrace arcade-like monetisation
Wooga's New Focus
Live ops and long soft-launches: Wooga's CEO Jens Begemann on its renewed focus for 2017
From casual to midcore and back again
Market Tips
How to launch your mobile game in India
Jitesh Bisht, Head of Tappx India, dishes out some sage advice
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Esports Blitz
Why Wargaming is doubling down on mobile eSports with World of Tanks Blitz
This years Blitz Twister Cup triples prize pool
Servers Up
Why Heroic Labs built its Nakama real-time server technology for an open source future
Product VP Alim Jaffer offers his thoughts on open-sourcing and games-as-a-service
Skin In The Game
Bitter decisions Disruptor Beam hopes will sweeten The Walking Dead: March To War
Only the smart survive
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part three: Monetisation and the future of 4X games
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Decoding Design
A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye
Exclusive currencies and limited gachas don't stop this game from being fun
Refining Features
Back to the Features Part II: How to utilise feature data to improve mobile game revenue
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your game's design
Competitive Gaming
Super Senso and sensibility: GungHo on embracing the growth of mobile eSports
GungHo and Turbo CEOs offer their thoughts on eSports and discuss new strategy game Super Senso
Big Bets
Stick or twist: What’s next for the mobile social casino sector?
Stick within a $3 billion market or twist for $40 billion?
The Gamer's Brain
How the rise of UX has brought cognitive science to mainstream game development
Epic's Director of UX Celia Hodent opens the book
Kamagames Interview
KamaGames on why it's developing for HTML5 and VK's new Direct Games platform
Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Daniel Kashti discusses the opportunities that await with HTML5 and social networks
Talent Development
How the Outplay Academy has created a centralised hub for learning at the studio
Outplay's Emma Purvey discusses the studio's new initiative to educate staff and the wider games industry
Full House
The lessons learned from making a virtual reality casino
Alea Co-founder Alexandre Tomic shares some of the lessons learned while bringing SlotsMillion to market
East Meets West
There's been a radical market shift for foreign games in China
Pascal Clarysse on why Western publishers now need Chinese distributors more than China needs them
Making Of
Aiming high: The making of Guns of Boom
Game Insight CEO Anatoly Ropotov tells the story behind the hit mobile shooter
Mobile Game Trends
China mobile game trends in H1 2017: Tencent and NetEase dominate iOS charts
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Decoding Design
Deconstructing the secrets of MZ's success part two: The game design
Anil Das-Gupta uncovers just how the developer is able to make hit after hit
Retention Tool
How Summoners War’s unexpected success disrupts conventional wisdom about mobile eSports
Audience comes first