Making Of
Behind the scenes: The making of Zynga Socialpoint's Top Troops
Top Troops game lead Albert Fontova discusses the development of the game and its vital first few months post launch
Q&a
Colossi Games' Manuel Prueter: “We stay bullish for mobile and keep working to entertain players everywhere.”
As their Daisho: Survival of a Samurai notches one million downloads, the Colossi CEO explains how the studio navigates the current gaming market
Live-ops
Trevor Williams of RallyHere: "We want to ensure that we can democratise live ops games for any size studio."
The chief revenue officer for the live service platform spoke to us about humble beginnings at Hi-Rez and plans for the future
Feature
Five tips for scaling your mobile game in a post-ATT market
SuperScale CEO Ivan Trančík offers advice on running effective user acquisition campaigns and improving monetisation in a challenging market
New Partnership
Live service platform RallyHere forms partnership with Prophecy Games
The platform aims to ease the development of cross-platform titles
Ten Million And Counting
Spinner Merge Live Ops: How Sunday is Driving the Game Straight to Ten Million Downloads!
As Spinner Merge sails past 10 million downloads, the team at Sunday explain how they are balancing and updating the game - and putting player experience first
Expert Insight
Fundamentally Games’ Oscar Clark: The secrets of successful live ops and monetisation
Author, CEO and games industry insider, Oscar Clark reveals his strategy for making great games that win fans and make money
Clever Stuff
CleverTap's new platform aims to boost live ops revenue and more
Unveiled at GDC 2023, CleverTap Gaming is an all-in-one solution for customer engagement
New Live Events Tracker
How to keep track of the myriad of live service events across mobile games
GameRefinery's new live events tracker offers game creators a new way to stay in control of multiple events in multiple titles - quickly, simply and cost effectively
Expert Insight
Dmitry Bobrov of ZiMAD: “How to stay successful for over ten years”
The mobile puzzle maker with over 200m users shares the secrets of effective operating for lasting, long-term success
Live And Kicking
Is it game over for Live Ops games?
We've seen some huge live games get the plug pulled, but are reports of their demise exaggerated? And what makes a LiveOps game fail? Oscar Clark of Fundamentally Games explains
Results Revealed
EA’s Q2 financial results reveal $1.44 billion gross profit, with full games only contributing a fraction
Live services represent large share of company revenue
Live Ops Landscape
Improve your approach to live ops at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
Get top lessons on living games at the leading games industry conference this September
Choose Your Weapon
Choosing the right online tech for your game
Heroic Labs dives into the capabilities of its unique open-source game technologies Nakama and Satori which are powering games around the world
Insider Insight
Optimising for opportunity: How Google is helping game developers build for long-term success
Greg Hartrell, Director of Product Management at Google Play/Android, tells PocketGamer.biz how Google is helping mobile game developers make their games more successful in the long run
The Mobile Games Glossary
The mobile games industry glossary
A living A-Z of mobile games industry terms you should know
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