"hilarious Failure"
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Fall Guys' success was built off the feeling of schadenfreude
Mediatonic senior game designer Arran Topalian on the psychology of players
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Virtualising esports and how it shapes the future of competitive gaming
"Esports is already quite a virtual thing"
Metawear
Metacore secures $29.6 million from Supercell as it rebrands from Everywear Games
Also launches Merge Mansion with impressive day-30 retention
Stillfront Acquisition
Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million
$100 million now, up to $48 million in 2023
Downloads
Scribble Rider secures the most downloads for August 2020
It racked up 44.6 million
Gladiators Ready
Indie Spotlight: How Colossi Games is taking on the survival genre
"I don't believe in borders and know that there are talented people everywhere"
Farewell
Nintendo says goodbye to 3DS production
"We can confirm that the manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended"
New Hardware
Facebook officially reveals Oculus Quest 2
Hardware starts shipping next month, comes with $299 price tag
Heating Up
Apple asks the court to prevent Epic's Fortnite injunction
"Epic is a saboteur, not a martyr"
Welcome To The Family
Keywords acquires Heavy Iron Studios
Developer has worked on Marvel's Avengers, the Call of Duty series, and Disney Infinity in the past
My Little World
Hasbro's My Little Pony IP engages millions of fans in prominent Chinese mobile game
Yodo1 details how it brought the iconic IP to Mini World
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The future of live streaming and interactive gaming
"In order for games to be successful in this space, we need to look at the success from other media"
Rovio Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Get your next job with Rovio
UX and server developer roles featured
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Making sales predictions for premium PC Games
"If the game is a success, making some predictions on DLC could bring money in"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Plotting a path in interesting times
"The actual transition over the first couple of weeks was okay"
Boogie Down
PGC Helsinki Digital: Things to consider when running music events in your game
Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples
Designing Live Ops
PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind
Starting with, does your game really need live ops?
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PGC Helsinki Digital: What is happening at ID@Xbox
"We have a lot of developers reaching out to us to discuss Game Pass"
Jobs In Games
Remote Working: "Love the games you want to be hired to make," says Storm8's Amber Okamura
"What works for one person isn't going to work for another and find your own flow."
Proving Popular
Nintendo's mobile games library hits 650 million downloads
Across seven apps
All In One
Apple to roll all services into one subscription
Apple One will have a starting price of $14.95 per month
Acquisition
Gameloft acquires interactive series specialist The Other Guys
"The unique style and the highly immersive stories make the interactive series app increasingly popular"
Sponsored
Huawei commits to AppGallery as applications continue growth
Since launching, AppGallery has exceeded 400 million monthly active users
Join Us
Among Us hits 86.6 million downloads two years after release
It had a huge spike in downloads in August and September
Arcade Anniversary
Apple Arcade is a "welcome alternative to the free-to-play title", says Sega Hardlight's Neall Jones
Sonic Racing and ChuChu Rocket both launched with Apple Arcade
New Acquisition
Embracer Group picks up VR firm Vertigo Games
THQ Nordic parent company made the acquisition through its Koch Media subsidiary
"speed Is Essence"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Kwalee accumulates 425 million lifetime downloads
Milestone was confirmed by Kwalee publishing manager Allan Adham
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Five things about autonomous teams
"If we give our games team the freedom to try new things, they also have to accept the responsibility that goes with that"
Time Is Money
PGC Helsinki Digital: The common missteps of an indie hypercasual studio
Umami Games CEO Riley Andersen shared the struggles of her early free-to-play career
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Why Crazy Labs thinks now is the time to get into hypercasual
"It takes a lot of time and tries and failure on the way. But with talented teams, you can do it very fast"
Two Billion Users
PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming
Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Designing compelling narratives for a mobile audience
"We should make sure that we invest the same amount of time into our characters as we are expecting from our players"
Apple Special Event
Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 6 and eighth-generation iPads
September Special Event adds a handful of new products
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Data Breach
Razer accidentally leaks info of over 100,000 customers
Data including phone numbers, email and mailing address were made public on website
Money Money Money
Pearl Abyss' Black Desert franchise breaks $1.7 billion in lifetime revenue
"We've reached dizzying heights and continue to strive towards making the best games in the world"
Not In The Clouds
Take-Two's Zelnick continues to play down cloud gaming hype
Exec says that the market for video games isn't going to expand in the way people think thanks to this new tech
Money Money Money
PUBG Mobile shoots through the most revenue in August 2020
It generated $221 million
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Learning from Fingersoft's new game development funnel
"The best part about this whole funnel is that we can give everyone that works for us equal opportunities to create games"
"dominant"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Loot boxes are still the "number one monetisation method used in core games" globally on mobile
App Annie senior insights market manager Lexi Sydow confirmed this during a Superstar Session
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Knowing your customers
"What do people want, that people don't even necessarily know that they want"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How to hire competitively and proactively in the games industry
"Candidates don't trust us anymore, they don't trust the company, they don't trust corporations"
Hey, Listen
PGC Helsinki Digital: 86% of UK adults dislike video ads in mobile games
"Most innovations in ad tech are none intrusive"
Hutch Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Check out some of the latest roles available at Hutch
Product manager, art outsource manager, and QA embedded tester roles available
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How the Finnish games industry has grown over 25 years
"We are not in our teens anymore; we are a mature industry"
200 Partnerships
PGC Helsinki Digital: Homa Games exceeds 250 million lifetime downloads
Sky Roller and Nerf Epic Pranks dominate
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Apple Streaming
Apple revises App Store policies to allow Stadia and xCloud on iOS
New policies include major caveats which Microsoft disagree with
Master The Meta
Master the Meta: Everything you need to know about the upcoming IDFA changes
A mini deep dive from the Master the Meta team
New Normal?
PGC Helsinki Digital: "Every day was like a weekend" - the impact of Covid-19 on mobile games
Second Wave of Games - Coming Back from Covid-19 panel