Targetting
Is India's imagination worth capturing?
India's developers talk it over
Notice Me
Simple marketing tricks for indie devs
Getting noticed and getting downloaded
Old Dog, New Tricks
Tatsum Kimishima succeeds Iwata as new Nintendo president
Nintendo has appointed a new president.
Listen And Learn
Ste Curran and Henry LaBounta revealed as keynote speakers for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference
Former Edge magazine editor and Zynga's Chief Visual Officer take the stage
Opportunities
Starting with China, how Kabam is looking to boost Asian revenues beyond 10%
Chris Petrovic on Marvel Contest of Champions' debut
Name Game
Indian devs on the potential and risks of developing for branded IPs
What's in a name?
Pay For It
AppLift India on making the most of your paid advertising
More bang for your buck
Making Connections
PGC Helsinki ticket opens door to Asia for UK studio Rumpus Entertainment
The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle found success in Asia after PGC Helsinki
A Wonder
Dominations does 1 million downloads in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Building a civilisation
Socio-media
Very Big Indie Pitch runner-up Socioball's designer on lessons learned during development
How to get the ball rolling
Remixed
Raven becomes Evilbane as Netmarble renames its top grossing Korean RPG for international release
Flown away
Primed For Action
Why pre-registration campaigns are key to Japanese UA
Get them pre-launch
Important Lessons
Leading Indian mobile game developers discuss how they found success
Education, education, education
Bulking Up
West-to-China publisher MyGamez announces 9 million MAUs and new funding round
Growing portfolio
Indie-pendence Day
What makes a game an "indie game"?
Got the feeling
Global Ambition
Hero Entertainment on bringing its FPS eSports hit Crisis Action to the west
Crisis Action has 10 million DAUs in greater China, looking west for more
Indie Introspection
What does indie mean in India any way?
What they think about how they think
Finer Details
Mech Mocha on why Indian indies have to get smart about the "other stuff" in F2P games
It's not just about the game
Call To Action
Can you use post-call ads to boost revenue and retention?
Power of voice
Lift Off
PlayCanvas and GMO Cloud partner to crack Japan
PlayCanvas launches in Japan
Keep In Touch
Make sure your player segmentation isn't too granular, says Fiksu
"They just need a little nudge."
Category Conscious
How to advertise to the Indian market
Locally grown knowledge
Moving Pictures
AdColony's Thorbjörn Warin on best practices for video ads
Short and to the point
Big Spenders
Amazon's Mike Hines on how the top 50 games are driven by superfans
Keep your fans close
Reward Drive
POKKT on how to make the most of reward-based advertising
How to win friends
On The Up
NetEase posts 63% revenue surge in Q2 to $780 million
Fantasy Westward Journey and Blizzard licences lead
Can't Beat The Original
Tencent pulls its version of hit game Tower of Saviors as players reject harder monetisation
Mad Head's original version remains popular
Ad-vantage
How best to monetise freemium gamers, according to Google
IAPs are not the only way
Monster Mash
Japanese free-to-play RPG Monster Strike earns $4.2 million a day
Something has risen in the east.
App-y Days
Google, Amazon and Microsoft talk app store best practices
Get noticed and make money
Myriad Devices
How Testbird worked with DeNA to prime One Piece for Chinese success
Fixing critical bug
Om Nom Knowledge
How Zeptolab distilled 150 ideas into 50 prototypes, 5 soft launches, and one King of Thieves
There's no pleasing some people
Bird Brand
Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka on why brands are best
As since proved by Angry Birds 2
Core Move
iDreamSky invests $10 million into US core dev Rumble Entertainment
Big bet
Expanding The Nest
Rovio spreads its wings with new country director for India
Anurag Sachdeva is taking Angry Birds east.
Istanbul-built, China-bound
iDreamSky snaps up Chinese publishing rights for US hit Toy Blast
Will its healthy US grossing translate Eastward?
Play Nice
#PGCHelsinki speaker Shin Kanaoya on why western games need to be more shinsetsu to Japanese gamers
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Levelling Up
Off the back of aggressive UA spending for Summoners War, Com2uS' sales rise 16% to $97 million
RPGs are the way ahead
Sporty Pivot
$26 million investment turns Super Evil's attentions to eSports in Asia
Vainglory creators get a serious cash injection
Global Strategy
Youzu appoints former Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei as its 'one-man think tank'
Added brains
Different Strokes
Chinese version of Angry Birds Epic will be more core, more pay-to-win
Chimera's Ellen Lyse Einarsen talks cultural differences
Opium For The People
Godus heads to China thanks to LongTu publishing deal
God games go east
Fire The Engines
Chukong unveils major Cocos engine upgrade including SDKBOX platform
Cocos v3.7 comes with a cluster of new tricks
Vice Versa
Learn how to break into the Japanese market via lessons in the other direction
Cybird's David McCarthy is on a two-way street
Rebounds
Following hard reset in SF, GREE expands with new offices in Berlin and Melbourne
Cheaper, fresher locations
Out & About
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Alternatively you can catch up in Cologne, see us in San Francisco or say hi in Helsinki!
Going Public
Japanese monetization maestro Metaps is going public
Japan's most-funded startup is filing for an IPO
Creative Control
NetEase's Success Fund offers up to $500,000 for indie mobile games
Promises an alternative to traditional publishing model
Puzzle Unlocked
Puzzle & Dragons does 37 million downloads
Big downloads, bigger revenue
Big Bucks
SGN bags $130 million Netmarble investment to break into East
Korean publisher invests in US outfit