Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Five tips for developing hypercasual games
"You need to choose the right publisher for you"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 50% of Kukouri Mobile Entertainment downloads originated from player's friends
Social gaming was discussed at length during panel
Something New
Genshin Impact bests Pokémon Go as the top-grossing Core RPG
Crunching the data with App Annie
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Where hypercasual is going in 2021
"I don't think hypercasual is going anywhere"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Hypercasual market estimated to reach $2.5 billion from 2021
Tips for success shared by My.Games' Yana Vesnina
See You In Court
Former assistant to Riot Games CEO suing company over alleged harassment
O'Donnell claims that she was wrongfully terminated from her role for refusing to sleep with chief exec Laurent
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Preparing for Apple's ATT changes
Hot topic was discussed at length during Monetiser track
Thank You, Next
China approves League of Legends: Wild Rift, Super Mario Party, Diablo Immortal and 30 other games
Pokémon Quest and Rayman Legends also all make the cut
Money Money Money
Nexon experiences great year as it generates $2.8 billion in 2020
"Nexon looks forward to multiple catalysts in 2021, including new games, on new platforms, coming to new markets"
Extra Cheese Please
My.Games invests $1.5 million in Pizza Club Games
"We see great potential in the team and will support them with all the necessary resources and expertise for development"
It's About Time?
Crash Bandicoot 4 set to launch on Switch in March
Launch potentially coincides with Crash mobile game
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding the publishing process and trends
"We look for anyone that is doing something different, in a word innovation"
Acquired
TinyBuild acquires three new studios
We're Five Games, Hungry Couch, and Moon Moose are the publisher's latest additions
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Understanding player motivation
"I think the future of audience demographics is going to rely more on personality"
Take Two
Take-Two Interactive 'highly invested' in mobile space, could develop new IP
"We're very tapped into it and we're investing more and more"
Jobs In Games
Why Unity's Danny Lange believes AI is pushing the games industry forward
"There is a strong shift underway towards data-driven approaches to development."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 'Community management is a great support system towards monetisation,' says Gear Inc game producer Saumya Iyer
The advice was shared as part of a panel on 'Lessons Learnt in Game Monetisation'
Money Money Money
Glu Mobile hit $540 million in revenue last year
"Our financial results reflect the tremendous progress we made throughout the year"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: What 2020 taught the games industry
"We grew stronger, especially when we had to experiment with this new way of working"
Welcome To The Family
EA snaps up Design Home creator Glu Mobile
$2.1 billion will be exchanged for the developer
Under Attack
Witcher maker CD Projekt hit with cyber attack
Someone infiltrated the firm and has stolen source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 in addition to internal documents
Going Digital
ESA aiming for digital E3 2021
Follows the trade body cancelling last year's show
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Xsolla's Miikka Luotio on the benefits of going cross-platform
"In 10 years, you won't even think about a platform"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The state of mobile games in 2021
"People were hungry for new apps and new games"
Networking Heads
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Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The challenges and advantages of creating a game remotely
"Log out, go take care of yourself every now and then."
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: The real reason why AppLovin is acquiring Adjust
The MTM team takes a look at Applovin's motives in this billion-dollar deal
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: using the games as a service monetisation approach
"Gaming as a service is a pretty new monetisation model for the industry"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 28 million more people are playing mobile games in the US since the pandemic began
A 28 per cent increase year-over-year
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The impact of cheating in games
"It is an internal fight between security and those that are attempting to hack or cheat"
Touchdown!
Skillz secures multi-year deal with the National Football League
The pair will host a global game developer challenge
Welcome To The Family
Leaf Mobile snaps up East Side Games for $125 million
“We are tremendously excited to officially welcome East Side Games, a leading Canadian publisher and developer of mobile games, to the Leaf Mobile family"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Hypercasual specialist CrazyLabs nears four billion downloads globally
Approximately half a million in four months
On Brand
Performance vs. brand mobile marketing: Is it worth choosing?
Performance marketing is often perceived as an alternative to brand marketing. In fact, these two directions answer different requests
Match Set
Candivore raises $12m for match-three title Match Masters
To go towards user acquisition
Staying Private
Nope, it doesn't look like Epic Games is going public yet
Fortnite giant is seemingly focused on private investment for now
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Taking user acquisition and retention to the next level
"As UA managers, we have the tools to decide what KPIs we pursue"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why it's never too early to show a publisher a game
The topic was discussed in length during The Art of Publishing session
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: JUMP's Carlos De Las Heras Peña on the benefits of content micro-personalisation
"Becoming a data-driven gaming service is no easy task."
Welcome Aboard
FunPlus hires Chris Petrovic as new chief business officer
"Chris's career as an industry leader will empower our teams across the world to create, produce, and expand our brand of gaming experiences to wider markets and build upon our current ones"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Utilising in-game advertising with Adverty
"Imagine your game itself and advertising through the whole gameplay while still focused on the user experience. Making money without interruption"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Dimoso's Jacki Vause on bringing PR and UA together
"PR brings the added value you can't quite measure,"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Playdigious CEO discusses why practically any Nintendo Switch game can be brought to mobile
"There is pretty much only benefits to bring it to mobile"
Check Those Ads
Luna Labs partners with Adjust, tech allows studios to create self-optimising playable ads
"Being able to understand the user's entire playable experience, from initial impression, user interaction, to install, is extremely powerful for creative optimisation"
Rip
Bethesda co-founder and CEO Robert Altman has passed away
No cause of death has been given at this time, Altman was 73
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Bringing ASO and user acquisition together
"ASO is the process of improving an app's visibility in app stores throughout its lifetime and maximise its appeal to users"
Hot Five
Hot Five: AppLovin acquires Adjust, Clash Royale turns five, and Big Run Studios hires new producer
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Deja Vu
Blizzard confirms "multiple" free-to-play World of Warcraft games are on the way
"We intend to deliver more frequent premium content"
It's About Time
King president confirms Crash Bandicoot: On the Run launches in March
"We're super excited about working on this very iconic IP"