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Last Updated: May 24th, 2022

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Since founding Tag Games in 2006 Paul has built the studio from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and successful mobile and handheld developers in Europe.

He began a long, and some might say, distinguished, games industry career at legendary developer DMA Design, playing a key role in the development of the GTA series

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FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE May 24th, 2022

Paul Farley’s Firestoke raises $2.2 million

Mobile games industry luminary’s indie games publisher to bridge gap between triple-A and mobile experiences

SEE EU LATER Jan 31st, 2020

What do UK mobile game developers think of Brexit?

Post-referendum discussion from the UK mobile games industry

JOBS NEWS Mar 13th, 2018

Tag Games names new CEO as Paul Farley moves to head up live ops platform ChilliConnect

Farley wants to "democratise live ops and connected gaming"

Jobs
Dundee

LIFE GOES ON Mar 17th, 2017

Why Tag Games is offering external live ops for developers

Could it be the future?

TAGGING IN Mar 14th, 2017

Tag Games kicks off live ops business by collaborating with Flaregames on Nonstop Knight

Moving away from development to look after other studios' games

MOBILE MAVENS Sep 13th, 2016

Would Supercell acquiring other studios be a good idea?

Our Mobile Mavens discuss Ilkka Paananen's hints

5 YEARS OF F2P May 12th, 2016

Angry Birds Action! dev Tag Games on the challenges and opportunities of going F2P

CEO Paul Farley explains

TIME FLIES Mar 10th, 2016

10 years of Pocket Gamer: Mobile Mavens discuss where we've all come from

Remembering a decade of mobile gaming

DOUBLE FIGURES Mar 10th, 2016

10 years of Pocket Gamer: It all started with Java for Tag Games CEO Paul Farley

10 questions, 10 answers, 10 years

THINKING BIGGER Aug 31st, 2015

Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?

Our Mavens ponder big numbers

SILVER SCREEN OR FOOL'S GOLD? Jun 16th, 2015

Can mobile games head successfully to the movies?

Our Mavens settle back with a large cup of popcorn

PRESENT TENSE Mar 30th, 2015

Is the mobile games industry now mature?

Mobile Mavens consider the case for future disruption

IT'S ME MARIO! Mar 17th, 2015

How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P?

Mobile Mavens debate Nintendo's entry to mobile games

SHARING SOURCE Jan 21st, 2015

Tag Games on empowering the dev community with its F2P-focused ChilliWorks tools

New middleware, new approach

HOT STUFF Jan 15th, 2015

Tag heats up mobile games tools market with open source ChilliSource engine

First slice of the ChilliWorks suite

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Africa Games Week 2023	Africa	Nov 27th
PAX Unplugged 2023		Dec 1st
Indie Live Expo Winter Edition + Awards		Dec 2nd
Day of the Devs 2023	North America	Dec 6th
WN Conference 2023 Belgrade	Europe	Dec 7th
Playtopia December 2023	Africa	Dec 7th
The Game Awards 2023		Dec 7th
Game Developers Session 2023	Europe	Dec 8th