Space Ape Celebrate One Year of Beatstar

The game hits 38m installs in its first year.

• Milestone
• Music
• music games

Space Ape Games Co-Founder Simon Hade on using your game’s imperfections as strengths

“Too often as game makers what we feel is lacking in a game is just not that important to regular people”

• Speaker Spotlight
• PGC Helsinki
• Pocket Gamer Connects

Space Ape Games discuss the success of their Eminem crossover event

The event achieved 3.7 million plays and 1.3 million players added Eminem songs to their playlists

• In-game Events
• Beatstar
• Eminem

Eminem takes over Beatstar in it’s biggest event yet - and Fortnite could follow

The event coincides with the release of the rapper’s new greatest hits album

• Fortnite
• BTS
• Beatstar
• Eminem

Boom Beach: Frontlines hits number one on Google Play's Top-Free Games chart

The game's soft launch in Italy is an "instant hit" says Space Ape Games co-founder

• Soft Launch
• performance

What is Space Ape doing with all that Supercell money?

Following Supercell’s $37 million investment, Space Ape Games founder Simon Hade outlines the developer’s scaling plans, including expanding its publishing division with three Beatstar-equivalent titles

• Investment
• Publishing
• Boom Beach: Frontlines
• Beatstar

Space Ape’s treatment of Supercell’s Boom Beach “built on the learnings of several failed multiplayer games”

Simon Hade speaks candidly on the journey towards Boom Beach: Frontlines in this teaser of our upcoming interview looking at the firm’s plans, post-Supercell funding

• Soft Launch
• Boom Beach: Frontlines

A mobile games and music industries first: Beatstar releases early exclusive of Black Eyed Peas, Shakira new single

Space Ape's Simon Hade speaks with PocketGamer.biz on how the new single became available to play through Beatstar two days ahead of global release

• Music
• Collaboration
• Rhythm Games
• Beatstar

Monetising music games is an uphill battle. Here are Beatstar's strategies

Space Ape Games' Simon Hade and Charmie Kim discuss the importance of ad monetisation and Beatstar's take on the battle pass

• Monetisation
• Beatstar

How Beatstar survived 24 killed prototypes in five years

Space Ape Games' Charmie Kim and Simon Hade detail the journey from strategy specialists to music genre success via Ed Sheeran and Stan Bush

• Prototype
• Rhythm Games
• Mobile Game Awards
• Beatstar

British games experts discuss the state of the UK industry

Jo Twist leads a panel on investment, free-to-play, and buzzwords

• Investment
• Britain
• PGC
• PGC London

Space Ape makes good on promise of "radically different" games with two new soft-launched titles

Super Karts and Fastlane: Road to Revenge are like nothing it has done before

• Soft Launch

Rovio to host talks and panels from industry legends at second RovioCon in Helsinki on April 20th

Followed by jazz and jolly conversation

• Helsinki

What does Brexit mean for the future of Britain's mobile games scene?

A panel of experts discuss the future

• PGC
• PGC London
• Brexit

Mobile games industry experts tell us their New Year's resolutions for 2017

Ambitious plans for the year