Supercell Suggestions
What can indie developers learn from Supercell and Pixar?
Company culture and feedback, says Ulas Bilgenoglu
Grow Your Biz
Paladin Studios on how to develop your business as an indie developer
Kay Gruenwoldt explores the different steps
Carved In Stone
Six mobile game development commandments
The Secret Police CEO Harry Holmwood gives his top tips
Trusting Ip
What value can a big IP actually bring to your mobile game?
Brand experts have a chat
Always Hustle
Lucky Kat Studios offers 4 tips for becoming a profitable indie
Be nice and be unique
Thanks Brexit
UK App Store prices to jump 25% due to slumping value of the Pound
Turkey and India see price increases too
Trendy Town
InnoSpark on the MMOSNG - the "next big thing" of mobile gaming
Daniel Cho explains what that means
Mobile Esports
"Don't make a mobile eSports title" says Twitch
Ryan Chaply instead tells developers to make a good game
Message And Play
GameAnalytics on how to design good games for messenger apps
Tom Kinniburgh talks session length and choices
Nothing To Fear
Addressing common fears about rewarded video ad monetisation
Appnext's Ari Last on usual concerns about rewarded video
Games, Grandmas And Gifs
Onboarding and social elements in casual games
Aurora Klaeboe Berg on how to replicate Fun Run's success
Launch In Japan
How to successfully release your mobile game in Japan
Arthur Chow talks localisation, advertising, and more
Look To Korea
The state of the Korean mobile market in 2017
Sang-Ho Park explains all
Power Publishers
Publishing experts discuss the role of mobile game publishers in 2017
Sharing their thoughts
The State Of Play For Ads
Advertising megatrends for 2017
Mobvista's Nick Roveta on the latest in advertising
Titans Fell
Titanfall: Frontline to be shut down after just four months in soft launch
Particle City moving on to a new project
Hard On Brexit
What does Brexit mean for the future of Britain's mobile games scene?
A panel of experts discuss the future
Porsche For All
CSR Racing 2 to be the first non-EA mobile game to feature Porsche cars
NaturalMotion jumps on the open licensing
Get An Insight
Reflection insight tool goes live with a month's free access for PGC attendees
Sign up at the Reflection desk
Games First
Matthew Annal on making profitable games without looking too closely at the stats
Focusing on the fun
Racing Ahead
NaturalMotion on how it made CSR 2 the number 1 racing game of 2016
Julian Widdows talks culture and vision
The State Of It
Charles Cecil on the current state of the UK games industry
We wouldn't be here without the iPhone
Tap, Stream, Play
How Hatch will offer premium mobile game streaming for the subscription economy
Vesa Jutila takes the stage at PG Connects London 2017
London Nest
Angry Birds developer Rovio opening London studio
New office for Finnish outfit
Pg Connects London
PGC London starts Monday: Everything you need to know about the hottest mobile games business event
A look ahead to Monday's big kick-off
Switching Off
Nintendo shares fall 5.75% as investors react poorly to Nintendo Switch reveal
Relatively high price and low battery life could be to blame
Third-party Switch
EA, Ubisoft, Bandai Namco and more reveal first games to launch on Nintendo Switch
Sega, Capcom, and some indies also throw their games out
Xiaomi 2017 Plans
Xiaomi sets $14.47 billion sales goal for 2017 after "make-up year"
Pushing further into retail and finance
Stealth Success
Breakout Ninja generated $24,100 from 650,000 downloads in its first week
Helped promote other titles too
Cost-effective Ua
Women in US more likely to buy IAPs than men
Liftoff breaks down all the demographics
New Finland Studio
Zynga hiring for new Helsinki development studio headed by former EA Tracktwenty execs
Former EA Tracktwenty execs take charge
Multiplayer Cost
Nintendo Switch will have a subscription charge for online play
Subscribers will get a free NES and SNES game each month
Switch Price
Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3rd 2017 for $299.99
Console will have battery life of between two and a half hours and six hours
Going Bananas
Gameloft's Despicable Me: Minion Rush runs past 800 million downloads
More bananas collected than there are people on Earth
A Lotta Cheddar
Apple expected to reach $1 trillion in lifetime revenues from iOS devices in 2017
So says Asymco
Android Everywhere
Android sales decline in the US while iPhone 7 becomes the best-selling phone in China
Kantar World Panel breaks it all down
Next Level Wear
Android Wear 2.0 set to launch in early February
Developer email warns them to get updated
Team More Than 17
Team17 boosts biz dev and marketing teams as it targets US developers
Looking to raise its profile abroad
Jam World
Jam City eyes up IPO and expansion into Asia in 2017
Peanuts game revealed as Snoopy Pop
Android Adoption Jan '17
Android Nougat adoption rates jump to 0.7% while Lollipop continues to be replaced
Froyo isn't being tracked anymore
Get The Gram
Instagram opens Stories feature to auto-playing full-screen video ads
Get your ad in front of 150 million DAUs
Pot Luck
Miniclip’s 8 Ball Pool usurps Pokemon GO as UK’s top grossing mobile game
Publisher pots for gold on January 10th
Less Exploding Phones
Over 96% of Samsung Galaxy Note 7s have been returned
Still 4% out there in the wild
Breakout Success
Ex-Boomlagoon founder's latest indie game Breakout Ninja draws in 500,000 downloads in first week
Only took two weeks to make
Stream Sports
Azubu acquires rival eSports streaming service Hitbox and plans to launch mobile-focused platform
Hitbox couldn't be happier
Puzzling Out Of China
Puzzle & Dragons to be shut down in China eight months after launching
Two years of development, eight months active life
Glu Cuts
Two studios face closure as Glu Mobile plans to cut up to 140 jobs
Bellevue definitely closing, Long Beach dependent on performance
A Strong Base
Outplay's Castle Creeps TD racks up 1.5 million downloads in first four days
Tower defence title performs well for UK studio
A F2p Gta?
Gameloft soft launches open-world title Gangstar New Orleans in the Philippines
Four years after previous entry
Monetise, Retain, Acquire
Learn the secrets to monetisation and retention at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2017
Experts share their advice