September 24, 2020

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September 21, 2020

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

September 18, 2020

"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

September 18, 2020

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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

September 18, 2020

"push The Boundaries"

PGC Helsinki Digital: Why video games are "empathy machines"

Nyamakop producer Limpho Moeti spoke about the importance of subversion

September 18, 2020

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PGC Helsinki Digital: The role of esports in education

"The opportunity to engage the demographic of young people"

September 18, 2020

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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"

September 18, 2020

"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

September 18, 2020

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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"

September 17, 2020

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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"

September 17, 2020

Rovio Jobs

PG Connects Helsinki Digital Careers Week: Get your next job with Rovio

UX and server developer roles featured

September 17, 2020

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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"

September 17, 2020

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PGC Helsinki Digital: Plotting a path in interesting times

"The actual transition over the first couple of weeks was okay"

September 17, 2020

Boogie Down

PGC Helsinki Digital: Things to consider when running music events in your game

Lockwood Publishing CCO Oliver Kern shares some examples

September 17, 2020

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?

September 17, 2020

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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"

September 16, 2020

"speed Is Essence"

PGC Helsinki Digital: Kwalee accumulates 425 million lifetime downloads

Milestone was confirmed by Kwalee publishing manager Allan Adham

September 16, 2020

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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"

September 16, 2020

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

September 16, 2020

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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"

September 16, 2020

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

September 16, 2020

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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"

September 16, 2020

Free Offer

FREE OFFER! Get trial access to the Game Maker Insights track at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020

Get access to one of the incredible tracks at this week’s online conference absolutely FREE

September 15, 2020

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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"

September 15, 2020

"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

September 15, 2020

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PGC Helsinki Digital: Knowing your customers

"What do people want, that people don't even necessarily know that they want"

September 15, 2020

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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"

September 15, 2020

Hey, Listen

PGC Helsinki Digital: 86% of UK adults dislike video ads in mobile games

"Most innovations in ad tech are none intrusive"

September 15, 2020

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

September 15, 2020

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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"

September 15, 2020

200 Partnerships

PGC Helsinki Digital: Homa Games exceeds 250 million lifetime downloads

Sky Roller and Nerf Epic Pranks dominate

September 15, 2020

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!

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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"

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 14, 2020

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

September 13, 2020

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Brush up on Big Screen Gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital

One of 15 tracks at the show

September 12, 2020

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"

September 12, 2020

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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

September 11, 2020

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Go Beyond Games at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital

One of 15 featured tracks

September 11, 2020

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

September 11, 2020

Speaker Spotlight

Agora developer evangelist Joel Thomas gives his advice on getting into the games industry

PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th

September 11, 2020

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

September 11, 2020

Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight: App Radar CEO weighs in on the K-Factor at PGC Helsinki

PGC Helsinki Digital kicks off on September 14th

September 11, 2020

Special Shoutout

Special thank you to the sponsors for next week’s Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020

Celebrating the finest companies backing us for our annual Helsinki conference gone online