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Natalie Clayton is an Edinburgh-based freelance writer, game developer and public speaker. Relatively new to the scene, she's already been recognised by GamesIndustry.biz and A MAZE for contributions to games culture. Her work has regularly appeared in PCGamesN, alongside sites like RPS, Eurogamer and Polygon.

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News Sep 12th, 2018

Pokemon Go saw a 35 per cent increase in activity over the last 4 months

Niantic also announced a scheme to tie Pokemon Go to civic engagement events

News Sep 12th, 2018

Supercell’s Ilkka Paananen explains why its cell structure puts developers before management

“The less the management had to do with their games, the better their chances of success”

News Sep 12th, 2018

The first mobile Spider-man game almost made its creator bankrupt on day one of development

Indiagames reflects on creating the web-slinging mobile title on a low budget with four developers

News Sep 12th, 2018

Former Fate/Grand Order and Zero Escape devs launch new indie studio

Four titles are currently in the works, one anime and three games

News Sep 12th, 2018

It could take another four-to-six months for China to start approving new games again

Governmental restructure may see the region’s normally-booming market frozen for another half year.

News Sep 11th, 2018

Nintendo cites cheaters for the decision to restrict cloud saves on Switch

Switch Online cloud saves won’t be enabled on a number of titles

News Sep 11th, 2018

Report: Industry less reliant on "whales" than it used to be

Less stigma on in-game spending is creating a market less reliant on big-spenders.

Job News Sep 11th, 2018

Former Zynga director Kate Gorman's Fort Mason Games reveals first project

The women-led startup hopes to make a name in casino gaming through better representation of women

News Sep 10th, 2018

Tencent axes poker game as China tightens the leash on gaming

Servers for “Everyday Texas Hold’Em” will go offline on September 25th

News Sep 10th, 2018

Tencent is holding its first PUBG Mobile tournament in India

PUBG Mobile Campus Championship 2018 will pit teams from 1000 colleges against each other

News Sep 10th, 2018

A third of the Chinese population is playing mobile games

China’s 459 million large mobile audience rivals the total population of Japan and the US combined

News Sep 7th, 2018

Toon Blast revenue rockets to $200 million in its first year

Toy Blast follow-up reaches milestone thanks to a successful celebrity marketing campaign

News Sep 7th, 2018

China’s gaming crackdown pushes Tencent towards further age restrictions in Honor of Kings

As part of a government campaign to prevent myopia amongst children and reduce gameplay time

News Sep 7th, 2018

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp reaches $50 million in worldwide revenue

But the mobile life-sim is still the slowest-growing of Nintendo’s three mobile titles

News Sep 6th, 2018

France bans mobile phones during school

Phones, tablets and smart-watches banned during school hours for under-15 students

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Tokyo Game Show 2018	Asia	Sep 20th
EGX Berlin 2018	Europe	Sep 28th
The Big Indie Pitch at Game Industry Conference in Poznan 2018	Europe	Oct 11th
Game Industry Conference 2018	Europe	Oct 11th
The PC Indie Pitch at Game Industry Conference in Poznan 2018	Europe	Oct 11th
Poznan Game Arena 2018	Europe	Oct 12th
Game Executive 2018	Nordic	Oct 17th
The PC Indie Pitch at Sweden Game Arena 2018	Nordic	Oct 17th