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PGC Digital: How to build a good company culture
"I believe a lot of time and investment is needed on building and training for healthy team dynamics"
New Studio
Ten Square Games set to open Berlin studio, ex-Wooga Patrick McGrath at helm
Fast-growing studio adds third Euro location
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PGC Digital: Making lasting changes to company culture
"For changes to be lasting it has to change the company DNA"
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PGC Digital: Why gaming is useful for activism
"Video games themselves can be political"
Welcome Aboard
Jacob Krüger joins Miniclip as head of user acquisition
"Looking forward to helping to drive growth, solve challenges and learn a lot in the years ahead"
Money Bags
Zynga experiences record breaking year with $1.97 billion in revenue
"In an unprecedented year, our talented and resilient teams finished Q4 strong, delivering our highest quarterly revenue and bookings in Zynga's history"
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PGC Digital: 'A big part of live ops is being able to react,' says Square Enix's Albert Custodio Martinez
Topic discussed at length during Live Ops Landscape track
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PGC Digital: What to expect from esports in 2021
"It has always been the year for esports. It sees phenomenal growth year-on-year"
So Life Like
Epic's MetaHuman allows you to create digital people quickly
“Up until now one of the most arduous tasks in 3D content creation has been constructing truly convincing digital humans"
It's A Match
Tilting Point to invest up to $60 million in Match 3D
"The potential of Match 3D was always incredible"
Switching It Up
Why the Asphalt series always made sense for Nintendo hardware
"The game’s performance on Nintendo Switch surpassed all our expectations."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The benefits of adding a social influencer to an esports roster
"There are not enough negatives to outweigh any of the positives"
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PGC Digital: King business manager Luka Jackson breaks down the importance of in-game events
"It's really important to understand the overall impact of your event"
Out Of Town
Sony to shut down Toro and Friends: Onsen Town
"We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our players who have supported us so far. We will try our best to come back with a better game and with better service"
Such Discipline
Take-Two says it lost Codemasters to EA due to its "disciplined approach"
CEO and chair Zelnick admits that it was "disappointing" to not snap up the UK racing specialist
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PGC Digital: What to consider with M&A
"You can think about the price on what you are acquiring by looking at its potential,"
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PGC Digital: The benefits of Google Firebase
The platform is utilised by over 2.5 million apps and games
Proving Popular
Google tops the publisher download charts for January 2021
Voodoo, AppLovin and CrazyLabs were in the top five
In The Clouds
Gamestream teams with Chunghwa Telecom to launch iOS cloud gaming app in Taiwan
"At Gamestream, we're pleased to see the Hami 5G iOS app available now in the App Store. This perhaps indicates greater receptiveness to cloud gaming on the part of Apple"
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PGC Digital: What makes everlasting hypercasual experiences?
"The moment when you find yourself stuck into rules, that's when you're doing it wrong in a sense."
Say What?
SayGames surpasses two billion downloads
As it launches $10 million developer growth initiative
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PGC Digital: Five tips for developing hypercasual games
"You need to choose the right publisher for you"
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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
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PGC Digital: Where hypercasual is going in 2021
"I don't think hypercasual is going anywhere"
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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PGC Digital: Xsolla's Miikka Luotio on the benefits of going cross-platform
"In 10 years, you won't even think about a platform"
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PGC Digital: The state of mobile games in 2021
"People were hungry for new apps and new games"
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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"
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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