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Harold Ryan Is Rebuilding His Big Idea About Making Games
The former Bungie chief built ProbablyMonsters around stable careers and giant games. A harsher market forced a smaller, more revealing second draft.
Kaiser Wong
Kaiser Wong is the CEO of Pocket River, a mobile game publisher founded in 2011 that brings social and casual titles from indie developers to players on iOS and Android worldwide. Working across Hong Kong, mainland China and a US presence in Austin, Texas, he has helped ship games including MiniBattle, 4 Kingdoms and StarSequel, positioning the company as a bridge between small game studios and a global audience. His focus is publishing services: marketing, monetization, community and support for developers who want reach without building a publishing arm of their own.
Vickie Chen
Vickie Yanjuan Chen is the founder and CEO of Avia (AviaGames), the Silicon Valley company behind Pocket7Games - a real-money skill-based mobile gaming platform with 60M+ downloads, 450M+ monthly tournaments, and over $60M in venture funding. A 20-year gaming industry veteran who previously ran global publishing for Nasdaq-listed Changyou.com, Chen built Avia from a Mountain View garage with co-founder Ping Wang into a 400-person company that has paid out over $700M in cash prizes to players. Recognized by Forbes China as a 2022 Global Chinese Elite Top 100 Industry Leader, she is a vocal advocate for inclusive gaming and female leadership in tech.