Social Influence
Network effect: Looking at the impact of social in games
Gamee CEO Bozena Rezab takes a deep dive into the data from her company's gaming platform
Having A Blast
How Plarium worked with its players to develop Lost Island: Blast Adventure
A look at the symbiotic relationship between players and developers
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?
Drop Together
PUBG Mobile introduces a new 'Clans' community feature
Update also brings achievements and deathmatch-inspired War Mode to the mobile port
Constructive
Roblox creator community on track to earn over $70 million this year
Active creator count has grown over 250 per cent in the last year alone.
Finnish Culture
Ilkka Paananen: Open and friendly community is what makes Finnish games industry special
“Fundamentally I think this results in better games"
You What?
Tencent introduces social credit score system to combat cheaters and reward good behaviour
Game Credit currently only available to Chinese users
Top Tips
5 ways mobile games developers can engage their communities outside an app
Plarium's Helen Burda on how to foster a community that extends from the game and into other areas
Close Ties
Cupcake on how to build a great community for casual games
Chief marketing officer Gabriel Stürmer discusses the studio's approach
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Meet Up
Meet localisation and player support specialist MoGi at Gamescom 2017
Find out how MoGi can support your game
Gamer Chat
Mobile gamer-focused chat platform Plexchat secures $7 million investment
"The lack of community is an existential crisis for mobile games," says Plexchat CEO Shawn Foust.
Live And Kicking
Two years on: Pocket Gems on the evolution of War Dragons
Product Manager Chelsea Ono Horn on the game's life so far
Lego Bear
TT Games hires new Global Community Manager to promote all things LEGO
Parker has previously worked on community management for Xbox and PlayStation
Roblox Customer Service
Roblox appoints new VP of Customers to oversee and improve customer service and content moderation
Remy Malan joins from a five year stint at SugarCRM
Down With The Sickness
Ndemic Creations hires ex-PocketGamer.biz writer Matt Gilman as Project and Community Manager
Makes the jump from journalism to community management
Sense Of Togetherness
A pocket-sized guide for community management in games
How to be a good Community Manager, and what that means
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: Flaregames' Tara Brannigan on how to get a job as a Community Manager
Some top tips in building a career in Community Management
Hi-rez Interview
Hi-Rez talks its biggest mobile game yet in SMITE Rivals, eSports and building a community
We chat to the game's Lead Designer Brian Grayson
Hit Me
KamaGames brings its social casino games to messaging app Viber
Makes it easier to talk to friends while playing Blackjack
Making A Mark
How a vibrant community is helping shape the future of 60-second RPG Exiles of Embermark
Tim Harris talks us through the latest in Exiles' development
Clashcon Cancelled
ClashCon 2016 cancelled as Supercell focuses on improving its games instead
Possibly a lack of interest from the community
Instant Community
KTplay launches its instant in-game community platform for western developers
SDK already boasts 150 million active users in China
Connected
Mobile game spenders are more social
Facebook research
Bet Him It Won't
XBLA creator Greg Canessa on why real-money gaming portal Sparcade will revolutionize casual F2P game monetization
What GSN Games did next
Growing Communities
Unity's community team on the thirds rule about how to grow and maintain a community
Get a thick skin and watch out for the "ugly bitch" comments
A Winning Hand (shake)
6 years and 2.8 trillion poker hands later, success is all about community says Pokerist dev
Crunching years of data
Biggleswho?
Top Eleven dev Nordeus renews sponsorship of the best football team you've never heard of
Biggleswade United FC gets the Top Eleven logo on their shirts for another season
Making Of Episode
Demi Lovato, Mean Girls and moderation: The making of Episode
How major licenses helped boost the profile of the interactive fiction platform
No Longer Solo
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes adds guilds, raids, and 'shoots first' Han Solo character
Force multipler
Another War
FTUE: War and Order
Camel Games' latest
Tune In, Join In
How the deep Twitch integration of Amazon's Lumberyard engine will drive a new type of community and gaming
VP of Games Mike Frazzini on its multiplatform community approach
Gunslingers And Exiles
How lessons learned from FPS Midnight Star are shaping Gunslinger Studios' RPG Exiles of Embermark
Why new game Exiles of Embermark needed a new studio to make it
Not So Vain
Fear and eSports: How it felt to present the Vainglory Winter Season 2016 EU Championship Finals
It takes a whole village to prevent a journalist from making a fool of himself
Community Building
What Fincon learned about operating global RPGs from the success of Hello Hero and Angel Stone
Emilio Villarruel explains all
Community Of Clans
How Marika Appel +1 manages the 25m strong Clash of Clans community
You can't please everyone, especially not in video games
Beyond A Clash
From C&C: Tiberium Alliances to Path of War: Can Envision successfully innovate core mobile strategy?
Martin Löhlein has a plan
More Than Faqs
Why you're doing customer support wrong, and how to fix it
Nick Zasowski has helpful advice
Social Glue
GetSocial raises $2.5 million to fulfill demand and expand operations
Creating in-game community
Shark Tank
Video: Shark Punch's Jiri Kupiainen on building community
Build it and they will come... hopefully
Communal Development
Natalie Griffith on promoting your game while you're building it
Build it as they come
Community Power
2015 in Review: Space Ape's Simon Hade on ditching the UA funnel
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Next Wave Ua
2015 in Review: Superweapon president Amer Ajami on building a community
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Beginning Of The End
2015 in Review: Kobojo's Mario Rizzo on replacing UA with community focus
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Riding Superfans
What mobile game devs can learn from Tiny Rebel's community-building tactics with Dr. Who Legacy
The Doctor knows
Communion Of Clashers
Supercell talks community, ClashCon and eSports
Marika Appel Community Manager shares insights
Shooting For Flukes
Stugan: Does the "Lucky Indie" myth still exist?
The Stugan devs question whether being lucky is still enough
Making A Noise
Why you need to build your game's community months before it's released
Shark Punch CEO reveals some tricks
Rollover Jackpot
Are you properly promoting your next game to your current players?
Magnus Alm on upselling your community
Loss Of Support
UPDATED: Most of Club Penguin's redundancies are support staff
Brighton office closed