Week That Was
Apple unveils iOS 8, Quiz RPG gains on Puzzle & Dragons, and the PG E3 Party Guide is live
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Staff
Matthew Diener
About Representing the former colonies, Matt keeps the Pocket Gamer news feed updated when sleepy Europeans are sleeping. As a frustrated journalist, diehard gamer and recovering MMO addict, this is pretty much his dream job.
Articles by Matthew Diener
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Deal
Singapore startup Booster Media raises $1.5 million
LucasArts alumnus up and running
Pool Live Tour dev Geewa announces $4.2 million financing round
Three new games planned for 2014
Interview
Nix Hydra on 9m Egg Baby downloads with zero marketing, $5m in VC cash, and the future of games for girls
'We’ve only scratched the surface'
Sweet news: Marmalade's cross-platform SDK goes free
Supporting iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Store, BlackBerry and Tizen
Interview
How TreSensa's Fortumo hook up lets you monetise unbanked HTML5 gamers via carrier billing
Thinking globally
Quiz RPG hits 26 million; is poised to dethrone Puzzle & Dragons' download total in Japan
The race is on
Week That Was
App Annie acquires Distimo, Kakao merges with Daum, and EA shutters Mythic
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Marketing costs rise as competition slows between top ranked apps
Marketing dollars flood into mobile
Money matters: Skillz multiplayer cash tournament platform launches for iOS
Powered by over 150 games
NativeX launches customisable native mobile ad exchange for F2P games
Extracting maximum value
Data derby: App Annie acquires analytics rival Distimo
And wraps up a $17 million funding round
Making Of
Nerfing rogues and gaming grans: The making of Hearthstone
Bringing Battle.net to a whole new platform
M&a
Kids app publisher TabTale acquires Coco Play, establishes operations in China
All eyes east
The Iap Inspector
Has SoulCalibur: Unbreakable Soul sold its soul?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Data
Bitmango finds 3x higher ARPU on Amazon Appstore
Not bad for two hours of work
Lootsie's SDK lets you turn achievements into real-world rewards
Breaking the fourth wall
ZeniMax files suit against Oculus for misappropriating trade secrets
IP dispute heads to courts
Free-to-play farce: Publishers pushing indies to implement pay-to-win tactics
A tale of two titles
Appy Pie launches cloud-based mobile Game Builder
Development-as-a-service
Microsoft: $799 Surface Pro 3 will render your laptop obsolete
Gunning for the ultraportables
Week That Was
Australia pulls video game funding, iPad shipments plummet, and lots of advice for indies
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Start your engines: Submissions open for 2014 Unity Awards
New voting process in place
RocketCat: "We almost cancelled Wayward Souls"
And how it would’ve played as F2P
Interview
Mike Bithell: Indies, stay off of mobile until you've "built a name for yourself"
Thomas Was Alone heads to iPad
Financials
Gamevil's Q1 2014 profits up 104% to $3.7 million
A record period for the Korean publisher
20 percent of mobile gamers would skip sex for Candy Crush
PlayPhone lifts the lid on its research
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Nathan Lutz, Cie Games
I feel like a breakout game is coming
Added flexibility with Flurry's mobile video ads gives Pocket Gems a 5x boost
Non/skippable options are key
Week That Was
Hearthstone takes the chill off Blizzard's Q1, King harnesses the power of 143m DAUs, and GungHo's sales rise 62%
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Interview
Amazon: People shouldn't have to pay $500 just to play games in the living room
Catering to an audience of millions
The Iap Inspector
How to wheel and deal in Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
IAPs from the players' perspective
King's profits jump 142% in Q1, riding high on Candy Crush and 143m DAUs
Record quarterly mobile gross bookings reported
Hearthstone helps offset sagging profits as Activision Blizzard's digital business booms
Digital sales make up over a third of quarterly revenue
Data
SuperData: China's $3 billion mobile games market will eclipse US soon
US leads on conversion, China wins on ARPPU
UKIE to host student and indie conference at Staffordshire University
One day event on 20 May
Nintendo automatically pushed F2P game to 3DS systems via SpotPass
A captive audience
Oculus: 'John Carmack did not take any intellectual property from ZeniMax'
No stolen code identified in SDK
Interview
GameLoop: You shouldn't have to be Facebook friends with someone to play with them
Focus on your gaming persona
Interview
A lot can happen in a quarter of a millisecond: deltaDNA on the power of real-time analytics
You've got to think fast
Week That Was
FTL dev not fond of iOS, Glu acquires Diner Dash pub PlayFirst, and Rovio's profits are put on pause
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Chukong and Microsoft extend Cocos2d-x hackathons to boost games on WinPho
Plus six best practices you'll need to make the leap
UKIE to host Global Accessibility Awareness Day game jam in London
Running 16-18 May
Opinion
Why a week with Amazon Fire TV hasn't changed my gaming life
The sparks have yet to catch
The Iap Inspector
How to win at Hearthstone without handing over stacks of cash
IAPs from the players' perspective
Ben Cousins leaves DeNA to become free-to-play consultant
Ready to go solo
Puzzle & Dragons hits Japanese arcades with real-time multiplayer mode
Prove you're the best at ¥100 a go
Increasing by a factor of 2048: Nextpeer adds 1.5 million users a day to Android multiplayer network
Team is 'racing to keep up'
Chart Of The Week
How Rovio’s growth stacks up against Mojang, King, and Supercell
Embattled birds
TIGA criticises PEGI's 'unreasonably high' fees as hurting small game studios
Why pay for ports?