Liveops Unleashed
Heroic Labs releases LiveOps service Satori
Alim Jaffer, the Vice President of Product at Heroic Labs tells PocketGamer.biz about the company’s new LiveOps service, Satori.
Reinvigorating Revenue
Comeback gods find new glory
Flexion CEO Jens Lauritzson explains how the company helped DECA give a great game a revenue boost
Mga 2022 Best Indie Developer
Mobile is a "really punishing format" for indies, says inkle's Jon Ingold
inkle talks about its return to mobile, changes to the App Store and interactive fiction audiences, and the need for cross-platform Steam or Switch releases
Live At The Sands
Fortis: "None of this is disruptive until we release a game that causes a response. Until then, we’re just words on a page"
Newly-launched Las Vegas Sands-backed games company looks to social interaction in its forthcoming titles. But how much of a disruptive force will the company come to be?
Sharks Eating Chickens
PG Connects London: a quick-fire green game jam
Mensah-Bonsu, Muntean, and Esteris' Green Live Ops panel prompts a lo-fi game jam
Appointment At Axie
Sky Mavis appoints former Pokémon Go product manager as Axie Infinity game product lead
Phillip La brings over 10 years of product management experience
Acquisition Alliance
DECA Games: from being acquired to acquiring others
Ken Go, CEO of DECA, on the company's journey – from acquisition by Embracer to its own acquisition of multiple development studios and games
Rising Arpdau
MAG Interactive Q1 sales increase 11%, despite decline in users
Boosted by strong performance of liveops
Live Op Support
Live ops platform Beamable raises $5 million to expand service
Brings total capital raised in 2021 to over $10 million
Deep Dive
Analytics platform Dive integrates with Roblox
40 million DAUs to mine
Pgc Digital #8
PGC Digital: The importance of live ops
Imperia Online's Aleksandar Ivanov explains live ops and why you should use them
Finding Your Roots
Snip. Snip. Snip. But how long should a digital haircut actually take?
Lockwood's Filipe Duarte Pina talks more than short back and sides
Pgbiz Podcast
PocketGamer.biz Podcast Episode Two
Join the PocketGamer team for the second episode of the new PGbiz Podcast. Featuring special guest Ella Romanos, co-founder and CEO of Fundamentally Games
Sponsored
Left or right? How data warehouses make it easy to make decisions
GameAnalytics offer nine practical ways in which data warehouses help you make informed decisions
Sponsored
ByteBrew open beta attracts over 1000 developers
The ByteBrew platform offers a suite of features to help developers and publishers better understand their games and players.
Masterclass
Xbox Game Studios’ Crystin Cox on designing for liveops success
Success is more and more focused on effectively operating and caring for a live game
Live And Kicking
How Creative Mobile came close to shutting down Nitro Nation and starting again from scratch
"We nearly went out of business"
Pgc Digital #6
Live ops are all about motivating players to keep coming back
"If you want to know your players and build your game, then data is absolutely crucial"
Live Ops
Fundamentally Games raises seed round to help developers create live ops games
Tools, processes and resources will be provided
Long Tail
Deca Games adds DragonVale to its live ops portfolio
Backflip Studios' breed-and-nurturer acquired
Phoenix Firefly
Phoenix Games acquires live-ops specialist Studio Firefly
It's the third acquisition
Mix It Up
PlatinumGames wants to explore console live ops games with new Tokyo studio
Studio head Atsushi Inaba explains all
Time To Connect
MAG Interactive's Chris Peters on the importance of live ops
How evolution can become revolution
Still Game
Deca Games plays F2P’s long tail, buying 4 one-time hits from GREE
Including Knights and Dragons and Crime City
Liveop Learnings
How players pushed Marvel Puzzle Quest beyond midcore to embrace competitive gameplay
Obsessed with fine tuning their teams
More Tools
Unity continues M&A drive acquiring live ops outfit ChilliConnect
The ecosystem grows
Bigger Union
Unity acquires DeltaDNA for undisclosed fee
Adding live ops tools to the flow
Constant Craving
Live ops and scaling are key to Stillfront’s growth, says CEO Jörgen Larsson
"We believe the winners are the ones that have the best content"
Live Ops
Devcom 2019: InnoGames has 35 people maintaining the €500 million revenue Forge of Empires
Stefan Walter discussed the details surrounding live ops for the strategy title
Live Ops
A Thinking Ape on inclusivity in live ops content
We’ve spent the last couple of years exploring the impacts and developing our process for creating effective inclusive content.
Live And Kicking
Seven years on: How SYBO Games ran up 2.5 billion downloads for Subway Surfers
"From day one we knew fans were integral to the game’s longevity"
Live Ops
5 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019's Live Ops Landscape track
Featuring speakers from the likes of Wooga, PlayFab, Playkot, Keywords and A Thinking Ape.
Live And Kicking
Two years on: Small Giant Games on the evolution of Finland's latest great export Empires & Puzzles
CEO Timo Soininen and developer Sofia Vanhanen. discuss growing the highly successful title
Live And Kicking
Nine years on: Social casino specialist KamaGames on the evolution of Pokerist
CEO Andrey Kuznetsov gives us the lowdown on how the game has changed over the years and how it stands out in the highly competitive social casino arena
Nwayplay
nWay to launch new backend platform for real-time multiplayer mobile games
Tech supports game development and live ops
Live And Kicking
Two years on: How Flaregames’ community kept Zombie Gunship Survival alive
"It’s no exaggeration to say that our players kept the game alive during its quieter periods"
Live Ops Landscape
Settling in for the long haul with Live Ops Landscape at Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle
Keep your players coming back week after week with this dive into the world of LiveOps
Live And Kicking
Four years on: Dodreams CEO Erik Pöntiskoski on why Drive Ahead is showing no signs of slowing down
"We realised that it's not about how much content the game has but how you combine it into fresh experiences"
Gearing Up
Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff on his vision to become the ‘Epic of live ops’
Disruptor Engine will create stronger businesses
Live Ops
Disruptor Beam unveils live ops platform for mobile games developers
New chief product officer and first chief financial officer appointed
Pedal To The Metal
Tag Games partners with NaturalMotion to support CSR Racing 2
Company is also looking to double its workers by end of 2019
Live And Kicking
Six years on: Wooga on the evolution of hidden object game Pearl's Peril
Pearl’s Peril lead product manager Annelie Biernat speaks to us about the games' success
Live Ops Landscape
5 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2019's Live Ops Landscape track
Track sponsored by Amazon Game Tech
Closed
Robot Entertainment pulls the plug on Orcs Must Die! Unchained, Hero Academy 1 and 2
The developer was operating at a “financial loss” keeping the old games alive
Va Va Voom
NaturalMotion VP on the importance of live ops as it rolls out CSR Racing 2 Legends update
"The reason people are loyal to the game, to the brand and to NaturalMotion is that we continue to support that player base throughout the year"
Brains
Live ops specialist DECA Games acquires Zombie Catchers from Helsinki's Two Men and a Dog
The game's original Finnish developer will move on to developing new titles
Pgc Videos
10 videos from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2018's Live Ops Landscape track
All the sessions from the Live Ops Landscape track
Dead On
The Walking Dead: Our World will feature time-limited in-game events during season nine of the AMC series
New challenges will drop every Monday with each new episode
Growing Sales
Playrix’s hit mobile match-three Gardenscapes rakes in $880 million
Game picks up $35 million in September alone thanks to Annie Smith update
Live Operations
What is live ops and why should you care?
It's the hot buzzword in the games industry, but what does it really mean?