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The Publisher SpeedMatch returns for the fourth online-only games industry conference this November
Week Of Gaming
Get ready for a week of gaming this November with three brilliant online events
Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4, LaunchPad #2 and EGLX Digital 2020 all take place in the same action packed week, with a bonus event the following week...
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Event
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital - our most international event of all time!
6 continents, 75 countries, c.670+ companies, 1,500+ attendees, 2,400+ meetings
"life-work Balance"
PGC Helsinki Digital: "It's not about working from home, it's about freedom of location," says former Sony director Shahid Ahmad
Commented was made during 'Going Indie After Covid' panel
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The current state and the future of mobile esports
"Mobile esports will mainstream esports. Mobile reaches a larger and more diverse audience than PC and Console Games
"push The Boundaries"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Why video games are "empathy machines"
Nyamakop producer Limpho Moeti spoke about the importance of subversion
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The role of esports in education
"The opportunity to engage the demographic of young people"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Forming partnerships with brands
"Logo placement is 50 per cent of the battle. But in an esports and a gaming world, an audience is far more savvy and will not necessarily be convinced by a logo on a website"
"hilarious Failure"
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Fall Guys' success was built off the feeling of schadenfreude
Mediatonic senior game designer Arran Topalian on the psychology of players
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Virtualising esports and how it shapes the future of competitive gaming
"Esports is already quite a virtual thing"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: The future of live streaming and interactive gaming
"In order for games to be successful in this space, we need to look at the success from other media"
Rovio Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Get your next job with Rovio
UX and server developer roles featured
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Making sales predictions for premium PC Games
"If the game is a success, making some predictions on DLC could bring money in"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Plotting a path in interesting times
"The actual transition over the first couple of weeks was okay"
Boogie Down
PGC Helsinki Digital: Things to consider when running music events in your game
Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples
Designing Live Ops
PGC Helsinki Digital: ZeptoLab on designing your game with live ops in mind
Starting with, does your game really need live ops?
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PGC Helsinki Digital: What is happening at ID@Xbox
"We have a lot of developers reaching out to us to discuss Game Pass"
"speed Is Essence"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Kwalee accumulates 425 million lifetime downloads
Milestone was confirmed by Kwalee publishing manager Allan Adham
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Five things about autonomous teams
"If we give our games team the freedom to try new things, they also have to accept the responsibility that goes with that"
Time Is Money
PGC Helsinki Digital: The common missteps of an indie hypercasual studio
Umami Games CEO Riley Andersen shared the struggles of her early free-to-play career
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Why Crazy Labs thinks now is the time to get into hypercasual
"It takes a lot of time and tries and failure on the way. But with talented teams, you can do it very fast"
Two Billion Users
PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming
Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Designing compelling narratives for a mobile audience
"We should make sure that we invest the same amount of time into our characters as we are expecting from our players"
Free Offer
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Learning from Fingersoft's new game development funnel
"The best part about this whole funnel is that we can give everyone that works for us equal opportunities to create games"
"dominant"
PGC Helsinki Digital: Loot boxes are still the "number one monetisation method used in core games" globally on mobile
App Annie senior insights market manager Lexi Sydow confirmed this during a Superstar Session
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PGC Helsinki Digital: Knowing your customers
"What do people want, that people don't even necessarily know that they want"
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How to hire competitively and proactively in the games industry
"Candidates don't trust us anymore, they don't trust the company, they don't trust corporations"
Hey, Listen
PGC Helsinki Digital: 86% of UK adults dislike video ads in mobile games
"Most innovations in ad tech are none intrusive"
Hutch Jobs
PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Check out some of the latest roles available at Hutch
Product manager, art outsource manager, and QA embedded tester roles available
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PGC Helsinki Digital: How the Finnish games industry has grown over 25 years
"We are not in our teens anymore; we are a mature industry"
200 Partnerships
PGC Helsinki Digital: Homa Games exceeds 250 million lifetime downloads
Sky Roller and Nerf Epic Pranks dominate
Day One Complete
Missed day one of Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020? Don’t make the same mistake again!
Day one of the online-only conference got off to a flyer, book your tickets now and make sure you catch the rest of the week!
New Normal?
PGC Helsinki Digital: "Every day was like a weekend" - the impact of Covid-19 on mobile games
Second Wave of Games - Coming Back from Covid-19 panel
K-factor
PGC Helsinki Digital: Tracking your game's "K-factor" and understanding organic growth
A panel of experts discuss how UA campaigns can help your game in other ways
Speaker Spotlight
Speaker Spotlight: get up to speed on mobile ads at PGC Helsinki with AdInMo CEO Kristan Rivers
PGC Helsinki takes place September 14th - 18th
It's What's Happening
PGC Helsinki Digital: Nearly 17 million Animal Crossing 'Tweets' were sent in 12 days
"Twitter loves gaming and gaming loves Twitter"
Rapid Growth
PGC Helsinki Digital: How Belka Games adjusted its strategy and grew from 30 to 300 employees
Changing company culture and business development strategies to ensure you grow properly
Only 3% Of Downloads
PGC Helsinki Digital: Battle royale made up 20% of total time spent across mobile games in the first half of 2020
Five billion global downloads were made in the genre of hypercasual too
Aging Art
PGC Helsinki Digital: How app store optimisation saw Lab Cave's Love & Dating Story increase installs by 314%
Aging up art and using colour psychology to boost installs
Prepare For The Future
PGC Helsinki Digital: N3twork director of UA Matthew Saunders on preparing for an IDFA-less future
Learning lessons from the past to deal with the future
Starts Today
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020 and Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital #1 starts in less than an hour!
Our biggest online-only conference yet featuring unlimited 24-hour networking, 1,500+ attendees, 21 conference tracks, roundtables, fringe events and more
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Brush up on Big Screen Gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
Growing Unity
Unity senior director of marketing Mark Robinson on how the games industry has changed over the past 12 months
"The industry is thriving and data/analytics has played an important role in the growth"
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Take a look at the live ops landscape at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 tracks at the show
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Go Beyond Games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital
One of 15 featured tracks
Find Your Next Job
FREE entry for games industry jobseekers with careers week at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020, Sept 14-18
Looking for the next step in your professional career? Be the first to find new job adverts and get advice from recruiters at next week’s online conference
Speaker Spotlight
Agora developer evangelist Joel Thomas gives his advice on getting into the games industry
PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th
Editor's Choice
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital: 15 of the most exciting sessions
Our editor's picks for the sessions you can't miss