Simon Hade

INTERVIEW Nov 30th, 2022

"Not measuring up in long term engagement": Space Ape's Simon Hade on Boom Beach: Frontlines shutdown

We spoke to Space Ape's co-founder on the decision to shutter the game, the company's plans for the future and what lessons the team have learned

MUSIC GAMES GO APE Sep 8th, 2022

Space Ape Celebrate One Year of Beatstar

The game hits 38m installs in its first year.

TURNING IMPERFECTIONS INTO STRENGTHS Sep 6th, 2022

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”

THEIR MOST SUCCESSFUL EVENT TO DATE Aug 17th, 2022

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

LOSE YOURSELF IN BEATSTAR Aug 15th, 2022

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

SUCCESSFUL SOFT LAUNCH Aug 15th, 2022

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

SPACE APE X SUPERCELL Jul 27th, 2022

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

BOOM BEACH Jul 25th, 2022

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

BRINGING THE BEATS Jun 15th, 2022

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

DOLLA DOLLA BILLS May 11th, 2022

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

SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM May 4th, 2022

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

STATE OF UK Jan 22nd, 2018

British games experts discuss the state of the UK industry

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

TIMES ARE A CHANGING Mar 6th, 2017

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

ROVIOCON 2017 Feb 3rd, 2017

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

Followed by jazz and jolly conversation

Helsinki

HARD ON BREXIT Jan 16th, 2017

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

A panel of experts discuss the future

Global Game Jam 2023		Jan 30th
GatherVerse AI Summit		Feb 1st
Hyper Games Conference Global Edition 2023		Feb 2nd
Taipei Game Show 2023	Asia	Feb 2nd
Yorkshire Games Festival 2023		Feb 4th
Baltic Dev Days 2023	Europe	Feb 4th
Steam Next Fest 2023		Feb 6th
LEAP Tech Conference 2023	Middle East	Feb 6th

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Articles featuring Simon Hade

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