Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: PlayRaven's Paul Kurowski on how to get a job as a Game Lead
Spymaster Game Lead shares career insights
Break The Ice
$14 million Finnish investment fund Icebreaker wants to help established developers create startups
Bringing people together to create exciting new software
Roviocon 2017
Rovio to host talks and panels from industry legends at second RovioCon in Helsinki on April 20th
Followed by jazz and jolly conversation
Don't Read This Article
How Seriously won YouTube Ad of the Year with 'Don't Download Best Fiends' campaign
Philip Hickey talks creative marketing
Big Plans?
Zynga opens Helsinki office
One of the first studios set up under CEO Frank Gibeau
Finnish Learnings
3 things we learned at Slush about VR, mobile and social gaming
VR, mobile and social gaming all big at Europe’s biggest startup conference
Wargaming Helsinki
Wargaming acquires Finnish studio Boomlagoon to fuel its ambitions of being a "dominant" force in mobile games
Helsinki studio aims to hire new staff and expand portfolio
Talking Seriously
How to get a job at Best Fiends developer Seriously
Chief Creative Officer Petri Jarvilehto shares insights
All Hands On Deck
Why Next Games gets everyone including the CEO involved with Customer Support
CMO Saara Bergström explains the firm's novel approach
Iap Inspector
How does Best Fiends Forever monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Playraven Profile
How PlayRaven is embracing Finland's sharing culture to reboot Spymaster
CEO Lasse Seppanen on the journey so far
Fame Land
Hall of Fame: Delving into the mind of Badland developer Johannes Vuorinen
Making it big in premium
Super Frog
Supercell acquires 51% of Badland developer Frogmind as the two studios enter a long-term partnership
Frogmind to remain completely independent
Supercell Expansion?
Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
CEO Ilkka Paananen expands on his previous hints
Beyond Helsinki
Supercell looking at ways to bring its company culture to "teams in other locations"
Ilkka Paananen thinks big on company culture
Pgc Helsinki Speaker Spotlight
1010! and Six! developer Gram Games on its game-specific UA approaches
UA Manager Kerem Alemdar explains all
Industry Connections
250 companies heading to Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Get your networking on
Best Man
Hall of Fame: Seriously's Petri Järvilehto on building big games franchises
From Max Payne to Angry Birds and Best Fiends
Party With Pocket Gamer
Join Pocket Gamer, Rovio and KamaGames for the PG Connects Helsinki Party
Register for PGC Helsinki to get access
What To Do
Good research; clever choices; build community; be lucky: Badland dev Frogmind on what indies need to do to be successful in 2016
Coping with a maturing market
Secret Service
Unity Finland working on mysterious "revolutionary" Project X
Jussi Laakkonen teases details
Pitching & Networking
Getting into Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016 for free
Looking for a way to bag yourself a free ticket to PGC Helsinki?
Boss Remedy
Remedy names former RedLynx boss as its new CEO
Finnish studio hires Tero Virtala after 12 years at RedLynx
Growing Plan
Shifting DAUs from low value China, how Seriously used influencers to raise US daily revenues 400%
Best Fiends love
Under Pressure
Three games canned, daily reviews, little freedom: Why Gameloft Helsinki failed
The studio cancelled three games before its closure
Best Fiends Forever
Seriously's clicker sequel Best Fiends Forever returns to soft launch
Less idle, more RPG
Core Ambition
Core-focused Helsinki dev Reforged Studios hiring VFX Artist
NetEase-backed startup hiring for debut game
Developing Strategy
Helsinki strategy experts PlayRaven hiring Senior Game Designer
Spymaster and Winterstate seeks experienced F2P design pro
From The Top
Why the world's "least powerful CEO" has never been more powerful
Implications for company culture
More Players, More Taxes
Supercell CEO explains thinking behind "very long term" Tencent deal
Ilkka Paananen on his second strategic investor in as many years
Expanding The Niche
Supercell hiring a competitive gaming expert to establish Clash Royale as first mobile eSport
Write your own playbook
Microsoft Streamline
Microsoft cuts 1,850 jobs as it "streamlines" mobile hardware business
Restructuring to cost company $950 million
Eyes Glued
Next Games enjoys 80% opt-in rate for rewarded video ads, driving ARPDAU of $0.06
Sustained revenue
I'm A Dinosaur :3
Bigger than Miitomo, Futurefly releases 3D chat app Rawr
"A millienial equivalent to pen pals"
Super Sell
Supercell valued at $5 billion as SoftBank rumoured to be selling shares
Talks with buyers in China reportedly already happeneing
Seriously Lifestyle
Seriously widens Best Fiends' UA strategy, signing up 200 lifestyle YouTubers for new influencer campaign
PewDiePie swapped out for CuteGirlsHairstyles
Double Strike
PlayRaven CEO Lasse Seppänen on being bold and trying new things in the mobile strategy genre
A different strategy
A Who's Who
Armada Interactive raises $3 million to give core mobile gaming a hard push
Remedy, BioWare, Crytek vets reboot
Your Next Job
Helsinki developer Next Games is hiring a Full Stack Developer
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land dev looks to bolster Live Ops team
Mad Max Frozen
FTUE: Winterstate
A cocktail of ice and explosions
Something To Build On
What EA's Petri Ikonen learned from designing SimCity BuildIt
How user testing saved the project
Churned
Flashback Friday: I've played Clash of Clans more than any other game, but now it's time to log off
What I learned from the process of spending $70+
Article 101
Making the case for the next generation of learning games
Lauri Järvilehto wants to teach you something
Experience Needed
Supercell hiring Senior Programmer and Game Artists for Clash of Clans and new project
Chance to shape Supercell's next big game
Bffs
Seriously doubles down on Best Fiends IP with sequel Best Fiends: Forever
Currently in soft launch
The Next Step
How to get a job at The Walking Dead: No Man's Land developer Next Games
HR Manager Anna Feodorow shares insights
Turning The Tables
Vladimir Funtikov on why free-to-play development sucks and what you can do about it
Creative Mobile CEO speaks out
Keep It Lean
Flaregames' Miikka Luotio on the challenges and opportunities of making games with small teams
Bigger may not be better
Player Lifecycle
Oscar Clark on measuring the player lifecycle and making the most of your data
He didn't rip his trousers off, thankfully
In-game Events
AppsFlyer's Alexander Grach on the in-game events you need to be measuring
Making the most of your data