International Women's Week
"Your career should not fully define your identity," says Popagenda co-founder Geneviève St-Onge
Women in Games week continues as Geneviève St-Onge highlights the need for identity.
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International Women's Week
King VP of games Cara Ely's 20-year adventure in the industry
Women in Games week takes place from March 8th, 2021
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga acquires Echtra Games, Five years of Hill Climb 2, and Stadia fails to meet expectations
The hottest articles from the last week
Poc In Mobile
"More investments need to be made for creating a career path for members of diverse communities"
Tencent marketing senior director Anthony Crouts discusses the need for better education
Live And Kicking
The five-year journey of Hill Climb 2 and how Fingersoft is already prepping for a third
Fingersoft's Daniel Rantala discusses the racing sequel
Poc In Mobile
"Commitments to invest in Black developers, fight racism and hate speech online are so necessary and long overdue"
East Side Games' Marchiano Loen explains why the 'glass ceiling' needs shattering
Making Of
Nuts - A Surveillance Mystery designer Jonatan Van Hove on seeing a game world through a different lens
Noodlecake Studios published the Apple Arcade and Switch title
Indie Spotlight
Team Meat's Tommy Refenes on finding success without giving up your life
"People aren’t going to give a damn about what you gave up"
Jobs In Games
"To see an idea drawn on digital paper turn into something playable is incredible"
Megagon Industries' Noah Carev on how to get a job in art
Most Read
Hot Five: Zynga enters console market, Crash Bandicoot creative lead interview, and LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas
The hottest articles of last week
Crash Grab?
King's pursuit to create "the Crashiest Crash game ever"
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run creative lead talks mobile adaption
Poc In Mobile
"To improve diversity across all industries I implore each and every individual to care"
Rovio senior game designer Harshal Karvande on how people need to push diversity
Making Of
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure's journey to plant one million trees around the world
"We’ve already planted over 450,000 trees so we’re almost halfway there!"
Indie Spotlight
BeautiFun Games studio head Aniol Alcaraz and the adventure of Professor Lupo: Ocean
"It’s difficult for indies to survive nowadays"
Trainers Unite
Pokémon Unite regional beta set to launch in Canada
Players must be over the age of 16 and can only be accessed on Android devices
Jobs In Games
"Investors will not give fuel to a fire that isn't already burning," says Shotcall CEO Thomas Gentle
Shotcall CEO and co-founder Thomas Gentle discusses his route into games.
Most Read
Hot Five: Blizzard working on free-to-play World of Warcraft, China approves 33 games, and Crash Bandicoot launches in March
The hottest articles of last week
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: "Gamers with disabilities have extra challenges on top of what you have already built"
Microsoft is set to re-launch its new Xbox Accessibility Guidelines on February 16th
Poc In Mobile
LEGO's Ankur Suri explains the difficulties with visas if you live in a developing country
"It was easier to offer someone with less experience that was based locally"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why Switch games need to hit a 70% rating or above for Nintendo to "deal with you"
The process was explained via Greenlight Games CEO and founder Dean Day
Making Of
How Rivengard looks to breathe new life into mobile turn-based strategy titles
"We felt that there was still a segment that was under-represented on mobile."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 'A big part of live ops is being able to react,' says Square Enix's Albert Custodio Martinez
Topic discussed at length during Live Ops Landscape track
Switching It Up
Why the Asphalt series always made sense for Nintendo hardware
"The game’s performance on Nintendo Switch surpassed all our expectations."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: King business manager Luka Jackson breaks down the importance of in-game events
"It's really important to understand the overall impact of your event"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: The benefits of Google Firebase
The platform is utilised by over 2.5 million apps and games
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 50% of Kukouri Mobile Entertainment downloads originated from player's friends
Social gaming was discussed at length during panel
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Hypercasual market estimated to reach $2.5 billion from 2021
Tips for success shared by My.Games' Yana Vesnina
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Preparing for Apple's ATT changes
Hot topic was discussed at length during Monetiser track
Thank You, Next
China approves League of Legends: Wild Rift, Super Mario Party, Diablo Immortal and 30 other games
Pokémon Quest and Rayman Legends also all make the cut
Jobs In Games
Why Unity's Danny Lange believes AI is pushing the games industry forward
"There is a strong shift underway towards data-driven approaches to development."
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 'Community management is a great support system towards monetisation,' says Gear Inc game producer Saumya Iyer
The advice was shared as part of a panel on 'Lessons Learnt in Game Monetisation'
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Xsolla's Miikka Luotio on the benefits of going cross-platform
"In 10 years, you won't even think about a platform"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: 28 million more people are playing mobile games in the US since the pandemic began
A 28 per cent increase year-over-year
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Hypercasual specialist CrazyLabs nears four billion downloads globally
Approximately half a million in four months
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Why it's never too early to show a publisher a game
The topic was discussed in length during The Art of Publishing session
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Playdigious CEO discusses why practically any Nintendo Switch game can be brought to mobile
"There is pretty much only benefits to bring it to mobile"
Hot Five
Hot Five: AppLovin acquires Adjust, Clash Royale turns five, and Big Run Studios hires new producer
The hottest articles of last week
Deja Vu
Blizzard confirms "multiple" free-to-play World of Warcraft games are on the way
"We intend to deliver more frequent premium content"
It's About Time
King president confirms Crash Bandicoot: On the Run launches in March
"We're super excited about working on this very iconic IP"
Fuse Has Been Lit
Apex Legends may see mobile soft launch in Q2 2021
Game set to roll out before end of fiscal year 2022
Poc In Mobile
Hatch Entertainment Cloud Engineer Khoa Mai on why "diversity enables companies to reach the masses"
"Becoming well known and popular is usually the goal for lots of firms."
Catch Of The Day
Big Run Studios hires former Big Fish Games senior producer Anna Rix
Rix's addition marks the expansion of a second development team
Eggman Or Robot-brick
Sega partners with LEGO on Sonic the Hedgehog set
The design was approved by 10,000 fans
Cracking Ar, Gromit
From Bioshock and GTA to Wallace and Gromit; Susan Cummings' journey into AR
"We're essentially bringing Bristol to you"
Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Games acquires match-three mobile studio SmileyGamer
"It’s been great to have had the opportunity to grow SmileyGamer from the ground up"
Live And Kicking
How Supercell continues to grow multi-billion dollar hit Clash Royale five-years on
"There’s a reason that battle passes are so popular in the industry nowadays"
All In
Com2uS acquires majority stake in Kritika developer AllM
The deal includes mobile games subsidiary Funflow
Indie Spotlight
How Apple Arcade's Secret Oops started life as a PlayLink game for PlayStation
"AR technology was progressing very fast back then and we were fascinated by the shared experience capabilities"
Jobs In Games
How to get a job as a director of story with Pocket Gems' Cass Phillipps
"This industry has a reputation - sometimes correctly - of crunch culture..."
Takin' Care Of Business
Mobile Games Jobs Weekly: Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer joins Skillz, Rovio appoints new SVP future of gaming, and Gamestop CFO resigns
The movers, shakers and job opportunities in mobile gaming