Cards On The Table
Four companies, five cartoons, one game: the making of Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Kongregate's Peter Eykemans and Jeff Gurian share insights
Staff
Matt Suckley
About Matt is really bad at playing games, but hopefully a little better at writing about them. He's Features Editor for PocketGamer.biz, and has also written for lesser publications such as IGN, VICE, and Paste Magazine.
Articles by Matt Suckley
Playraven Profile
How PlayRaven is embracing Finland's sharing culture to reboot Spymaster
CEO Lasse Seppanen on the journey so far
New Face, Same Direction
Reginaldo Valadares appointed Rovio Stockholm GM as Patrick Liu leaves for Spotify
Patrick Liu seeks pastures new
Mobile Mavens
What do mobile games industry pros think of App Store Search Ads?
Mobile Mavens debate the latest app discovery tool
Spil The Beans
How to get a job at fast-growing mobile publisher Spil Games
CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac shares insights
Learn From Experience
Jobs in Games: Gram Games' Kerem Alemdar on how to get a job as a user acquisition manager
The man behind Six! and 1010!'s UA campaigns shares career insights
Live And Kicking
Postmortem: Dawn of Steel one year on
Former Superweapon President Amer Ajami reflects on an eventful year
Iap Inspector
How FIFA Mobile finally nails free-to-play football
IAPs from the players' perspective
Minute To Win It
Three people, 30,000 sales in the first month, and played by PewDiePie: the making of 60 Seconds!
Robot Gentleman reflect on the post-apocalyptic indie hit
Valerian Mobile
Spil Games bags mobile game licence for upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Mobile strategy game tie-in launching in 2017
Prodding The Sleeping Giant
Flixy Games on breaking the barriers to mobile gaming success in India
CEO Felix Manojh on waking a sleeping giant
Big Pond
How to get a job at Deep Silver Fishlabs
Senior HR Manager Christoph Hillermann shares insights
Mobile Mavens
Mobile games industry experts react to Google Pixel and Daydream View VR
Mobile Mavens react to Google's announcements
Uk's Biggest
Outplay Entertainment becomes the UK's largest independent mobile studio, employing over 150
New title lined up for November
Jam-packed
Ex-EA EVP and Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble joins Jam City
And Robert Zakari joins as General Counsel and EVP of Corporate Development
Iap Inspector
How does Wooga's midcore debut Warlords monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Short Burst Storytelling
Disruptor Beam wants players to succeed and fail together in The Walking Dead: March to War
Director of Product & Design Joey Lapegna on the latest IP to get the Disruptor Beam treatment
Indian Mavens
Is localising games for India a smart move?
Indian Mavens discuss Flixy Games' strategy
The Ideal Mixi
Marvel Tsum Tsum developer Mixi on catering to the new casual Marvel fan
Senior Producer Erika Nakamura explains why Disney chose Mixi
Mobile Mavens
Why did Ubisoft buy Ketchapp?
The industry's best and brightest discuss
Iap Inspector
How does Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Beyond A Billion
Why the team behind hit mobile game Subway Surfers is opening a new publishing arm
Director of Publishing Jeppe Bisbjerg explains all
Keeping Control
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot blasts Vivendi's quest for control as "dangerous"
Warns of the "great risk" to shareholders
Now Hiring
How to get a job at MMX Racing developer Hutch
CEO Shaun Rutland shares insights
New Blood
Hutch bolsters its team with ex-Lionhead and Codemasters staff
And Peter Hansen-Chambers joins as Commercial Director
The Race Is On
Western devs must get better at F2P before Chinese giants steal their players, says NetEase's Tom van Dam
Great game design can't overcome F2P naivety
Philanthropic, Or Just For Profit?
What do mobile developers think of King's game engine Defold?
Mobile Mavens debate the engine and its motivations
Best Of 2016
BAFTA Games Awards 2017 now open for entry
Event to be held on April 7th
Clawing It Back
Ubisoft fights Vivendi's request for greater control by buying back $137.5 million in stock
Bringing 3.2% back under control
Leading The Pack
Supercell made up 80% of all Finnish game revenues in 2015, report claims
Powering Finland to Nordic dominance
The Saga Concludes
From paperbacks to touchscreens: the making of Sorcery!
Creative Director Jon Ingold reflects on the four-part epic
In Preview
Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 goes live with new Asset Builder SDK
Lumberyard strengthens its feature set
On The Map
New UK Games Map shows country's 2,000 games companies
Showing the true scale of the British games industry
Free To Paid
AlphaPit developer on going premium after $240 lifetime revenue from ad-supported free-to-play
Shane McCafferty on ditching F2P for premium
Ilkka Paananen Interview
Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen talks company culture, expansion plans and eSports
Digging deep after the BAFTA Games Lecture
Supercell Expansion?
Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
CEO Ilkka Paananen expands on his previous hints
Powering Ideas
Why King is entering the game engine space with Defold and how it will help other devs launch their games
Evangelist Oleg Pridiuk explains all
Borrowed Time
Marmalade 8.6 launches with iOS 10 and Android N support
The SDK gears up for new OS updates
Indian Mavens
Does iPhone 7's high price seal its doom in India?
Indian Mavens discuss the $900 phone
East Meets West
Goodgame Studios bets on gacha-based Asian-style RPGs after restructuring
The new 30-strong RPG team speaks out
Indian Potential
Mobile advertising platform Leadbolt opens Bangalore office
Sydney-based ad platform targets India's 204m smartphones
2009-2016
Angry dev bemoans Apple's removal of iosoftware’s games "without warning"
CEO Eugene Ivanov protests innocence
Mobile Mavens
Would Supercell acquiring other studios be a good idea?
Our Mobile Mavens discuss Ilkka Paananen's hints
Make Room In Your Schedule
Fireproof Games' Barry Meade to speak at NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2016
The Room developer sets sights on Hyderabad
Cultural Divide
Chinese tech fans unimpressed by iPhone 7, but devices are selling out in the US
But Chinese less bothered by the loss of a headphone jack
Moving On
Ex-Relentless staffers set up work-for-hire mobile and VR studio BottledBy Games in Brighton
Developing its own games and offering a range of services
Gram Goes Midcore
Six! developer Gram Games officially opens London studio to focus on midcore
Shifting genres, moving headquarters
Fully Operational
Bandai Namco opens new Malaysia studio
Heading up visual art in the region
Beyond Helsinki
Supercell looking at ways to bring its company culture to "teams in other locations"
Ilkka Paananen thinks big on company culture
Not A Peep
22Cans and Kongregate soft launch The Trail: A Frontier Journey
Learning from Godus