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Meet the hosts of our San Francisco mixer on Monday, November 2. Colan Neese 🔜 GamesBeat Next SF leads gaming strategy at Screen Engine and is the author of Patch Notes, a weekly newsletter on the attention economy in games. Greg Posner of Player Driven runs a podcast and community clubhouse for people who care about player experience. Rana Rahman 🔜 GamesBeat Next founded Raptor PR and has been bringing people together at GamesBeat events since 2022. Swipe through to meet them, and request your invite at the link in the comments. #GamesBeatNext #GamesIndustry

We’re hosting a mixer on the first night of GamesBeat Next in San Francisco. Colan Neese 🔜 GamesBeat Next SF of Screen Engine, Greg Posner of Player Driven and Rana Rahman 🔜 GamesBeat Next of Raptor PR are bringing together the games, tech and media community for an evening of good food and a few cocktails, all on us, about five minutes on foot from the conference. 📅 Monday, November 2, 6:30 to 9:30pm 📍 Bartlett Hall, Union Square Whether you’re flying in for the show or based in the Bay Area, request your invite here: https://luma.com/9fhsrm7i #GamesBeatNext #GamesIndustry

🥳 We're bringing the Checkpoint event series stateside for the first time, to celebrate GamesBeat Next SF 2026! ❤️ We've teamed up with rather excellent industry friends, Colan Neese 🔜 GamesBeat Next SF and Anthony Westerfield Kondeati 🔜 GamesBeat Next SF from Screen Engine/ASI, and Greg Posner of Player Driven, to host an buzzy mixer on the opening evening of GamesBeat Next SF 🌍 Between us, our worlds span gaming market intelligence, player communities, media and global communications, and we're bringing our networks together for an evening of good food, cocktails and even better company 🍸 Expect a cracking mix of founders, CEOs, devs, pubs, media and people working across the gaming and tech industries. The magic always happens in the mixers! :) 📅 When: Monday 2 November 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm PDT 📍 Where: Bartlett Hall, Union Square, SF 🍸 What's included: courtesy food, drinks and most excellent company 🎟️ It's invite-only, with limited capacity, so if you're heading to San Francisco for GamesBeat Next, request your place here: 👉 https://luma.com/9fhsrm7i If you can’t come to the party, drop by the Raptor booth if you’re building global thought leadership and some fresh tasty merch. Personally, I am so chuffed to have our first US booth! ❤️ Looking forward to seeing friends old and new on the West Coast! 🥂🦖 #gamesbeatnext

🌎 The rise of Poki - as featured on The Game Business. A cracking interview with BD lead Romy Halfweeg with Chris Dring. Raptor's role has been positioning the web gaming giant as the definite category and thought leader in the vibrant space 👀 Watch the interview here: https://lnkd.in/eBDw5-c9 🦖

I've arrived in Helsinki for Pocket Gamer Connects Nordics, my first conference with Raptor PR and my first in the gaming industry. I’m looking forward to meeting journalists I've only chatted to over email so far, as well as learning more about the issues our clients are facing from the people dealing with them every day. If you're here and fancy a chat, drop me a message.

Back in the early ’80s, being a gamer certainly wasn’t cool. At all. Growing up in Wales as a Gen X kid, you were supposed to love footy or rugby. Instead, I spent much of my childhood glued to a ZX Spectrum, devouring monthly gaming magazines like Crash, CVG and Sinclair User. Thus began a lifelong fascination with gaming and media. From Manic Miner to GTA VI, analogue media to today’s hyper-fragmented digital ecosystems, and from loading games off cassette tapes to exploring photorealistic open worlds, I’ve witnessed a bewildering amount of change. Not just in the games themselves, but in the technology, businesses, people and media ecosystems that have shaped the industry along the way. Which brings me to today. After more than 25 years working across technology, media and gaming, I now have the privilege of advising some of the world’s leading companies operating at the intersection of gaming, advertising and technology. Tis funny how something that made you an oddball at school can end up defining your entire career 🕹️

Welcome to Jurassic Perk. 🦖🎮 At Raptor PR, we believe in keeping our raptors well-fed, entertained & happy. So, every raptor will be getting their claws on a free copy of GTA VI 🥳 ❤️ We're gamers at heart, and I firmly believe that working in the games industry should come with a few perks beyond the usual agency benefits. That also includes international travel, which is very much a prerequisite for these 2 roles, as we regularly send our raptors ‘round the globe to attend industry conferences, meet clients, build relationships and generally immerse themselves in the global games industry. From London to Cologne, Barcelona, Helsinki and Silicon Valley, theres a fair bit of globe-trotting involved. 🌎 We're currently hiring an Account Director and an Account Manager, so if you're working in B2B tech PR in central London, love the idea of international travel and quite fancy joining a nerdy bunch of B2B games industry comms pros working with some cracking global brands across gaming, tech and advertising, then DM me in confidence. #prjobs #prjob

Our Account Manager Joshua's route into gaming comms began in an unusual place. Aged 15 he was hunting for bundles and discounts on Fanatical and Humble, which left him with a library of 800+ games and most of them unplayed. Along the way he became lead moderator of the r/humblebundles subreddit, growing it from 30k to 80k subscribers, and picked up how Steam key sales, regional pricing and the grey market works. That knowledge has come full circle on client work with Rokky and Ultra, including Rokky’s PC Game Distribution report, which received coverage throughout the business and tech press, prompted a response from Gabe Newell in Bloomberg, and set off a viral conversation on Reddit. Joshua’s take is that a team of lifelong gamers gives clients a real strategic edge, because we understand how game companies serve their players and how the B2B tech underneath serves that whole ecosystem. If you have a similar story, and are usually found with a controller in hand, we’re hiring! If you're an AM or AD with mid-to-large agency experience, send your CV (and favourite game) to hello@raptorpr.com. Read Joshua’s full story: https://lnkd.in/ebV6uqQV

Anybrain builds AI-powered anti-cheat, working with the likes of Arc Raiders and others to stop cheaters from driving players away. We’ve worked with Anybrain to build their profile as a trusted voice in anti-cheat and games security through bylines and podcast appearances, and that groundwork gave their first research campaign, ‘The Rise of Cheating as a Service’, an industry ready to hear them: 📰 Coverage in major industry outlets, GamesBeat, GamesIndustry.Biz and PocketGamer.biz, as well as pickup in local games media from the US and UK to Spain, Portugal, Taiwan and more 🚀 Over 70 new sign-ups in the first two weeks, feeding straight into Anybrain’s business development 🤝 New leads for the sales pipeline and new media opportunities for the team Thanks to André and the whole Anybrain team for a brilliant first launch together.