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Here are four videos from PC Connects London 2019's The Long Game Track

Here are four videos from PC Connects London 2019's The Long Game Track

The final track on day one of PC Connects London 2019 was The Long Game.

One of our new tracks for this year's show, this series of talks will be looking at live games and community, with our speakers sharing insight into developing, managing and even marketing a game well after launch.

During this track, Joe Brammer from indie studio Bulkhead Interactive talked about the making of World War Two shooter Batallion 1944 while PCGamesInsider.biz editor Alex Calvin spoke with Wargaming's Sean Lee about what the firm had learnt over World of Tank's nine-year life. 

Check out the videos below for more insight from this track. 

This track was sponsored by RuneScape firm Jagex, who was a gold partner alongside Xsolla while Dolby Digital was our silver partner.


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  • 1 Panel: Managing Your Community Across Platforms

    Panel: Managing Your Community Across Platforms logo

    In many ways, the video games market has been siloed but now with the increased power of mobile devices, experiences previously restricted to PC or console are suddenly available on the go - often at the same time. This panel will look at the practical realities of managing the different communities distinct platforms have with dos, donts and insight from some of the biggest players in this sector.


  • 2 The Art Of Player Retention Through Live Ops - Tanguy Dewavrin, Atom Universe

    The Art Of Player Retention Through Live Ops - Tanguy Dewavrin, Atom Universe logo

    How to keep players engaged by updating the game regularly and nurturing your online community. This will cover community management, seasonal content, drip-feeding the community with regularly unlocking hidden content, organising exclusive in-game events, limited edition items, looking after clubs and communities, time-limited content, hiring volunteer moderators and in-game guides as well as relaying info on social media channels


  • 3 Nine Years Of World of Tanks - Sean Lee, Wargaming and Alex Calvin, PC GamesInsider.biz

    Nine Years Of World of Tanks - Sean Lee, Wargaming and Alex Calvin, PC GamesInsider.biz logo

    PCGamesinsider.biz editor Alex Calvin sat down with Wargaming chief strategy officer Sean Lee to discuss the firm's approach to live operations, seeing what the World of Tanks giant has learnt from nine years of running that title.


  • 4 Indie Vs COD - Joe Brammer, Bulkhead

    Indie Vs COD -  Joe Brammer, Bulkhead logo

    In February 2018, indie studio Bulkhead Interactive launched its World War Two shooter Battalion 1944 into Steam's Early Access scheme. This came just months after Activision released Call of Duty: WWII, with many positioning Battalion as the indie COD. Studio founder Joe Brammer will be talking about what the company has learnt launching and running this project


PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.