Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Arthur Chow, 6waves
The global opportunity
Financials
Gamevil's Q1 2014 profits up 104% to $3.7 million
A record period for the Korean publisher
Back together: Phone leak suggests LG looking to win with Windows Phone
Uni8 will be firm's first WP8 handset
Financials
Nexon sees Q1 2014 mobile game sales down 4% to $70 million
Accounts for 15% of overall revenue
Interview
SkyMobi CEO on why he's looking to succeed in China by publishing western casual games
Quality drives the opportunity
Financials
Castle Clash boosts IGG's FY14 Q1 revenue 206% to $44.1 million
Generated $13.6 million in profits
Teyon's take on breaking into the Japanese market
Understanding Japan
Opinion
Nintendo can steer its ship back on course without moving on mobile, and here's how
The giant's two-pronged strategy just might work
Big In Japan
Colopl and GungHo post impressive financials, while 3 media giants combine to Reinforce
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Data
SuperData: China's $3 billion mobile games market will eclipse US soon
US leads on conversion, China wins on ARPPU
Nintendo vows return to profitability as giant confirms $229 million loss in 2013
Weak sales pile pressure on Iwata
Making Of
Eastern monetisation meets Western UX: The making of Heroes of Honor
Henric Suuronen on Nonstop Games' debut
Interview
Perfect World CEO Robert Xiao on its 'balanced transition' to mobile games
Mobile games will not destroy PC market
Meet up with PocketGamer.biz at GMIC Beijing
Back in the hottest market in the world
Deal
LINE partners with Wandoujia to grow in China
Taking on WeChat in its own back yard
Eastern promises: Chorus Worldwide aims to help developers take flight in Asia
West to East
Advertising Data
AppFlood sees Q1 2014 traffic up 46% but ad spend is up 62%
Android network extends reach
Puzzle & Dragons hits Japanese arcades with real-time multiplayer mode
Prove you're the best at ¥100 a go
Yodo1 and ZeptoLab are bringing Cut the Rope 2 to Kakao
Both companies going Asian
Financials
Wartune and TLBB decline as Changyou posts Q1 2014 loss of $19.5 million
But revenues up 2% to $181 million
Charticle
Blizzard's Hearthstone shines strong in the East
But US is darker
Big In Japan
Monsters, mushrooms, meow meows and Puzzle & Dragons hits the arcade
Weekly digest from Tokyo
F2p Summit
BRIC by BRIC: How Brazil, Russia, India and China are building F2P success
Glispa MD Tim Nilsson on the shifting balance of power
Tencent tells 'Mark Zuckerberg' to find real friends on WeChat
Spoof TV ad from South Africa
King launches Japanese base to seize bigger piece of $5 billion smartphone gaming market
Tokyo HQ unveiled
Perfect World spends $100 million to join group taking Shanda Games private
Complexity in China
Big In Japan
GREE announces Wright Flyer Studios while Puzzle & Dragons comes to arcades
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Interview
Gaining on Gamevil: How the Big Indie 40 project is helping small studios take on Korea's big boys
Curtis File on why the shutdown law isn't affecting mobile
GungHo Online’s Princess Punt Sweets passes 8 million downloads in Japan
Chasing the dragon
Candy Crush makes move on China via Tencent’s WeChat platform
Easing the IPO headache
Wartune is generating 40% of Hoolai's mobile revenue
Q1 mobile revenues have tripled
Interview
Western gamers deserve all new titles from Asian devs, not ports: Crooz's Kenji Hiruta on going global
But simplicity is a universal
Big In Japan
More Mana and Saga games coming to mobile
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Building A Bridge
How AppFlood’s RTB smarts will help unlock China’s mobile ad market
PapayaMobile’s Chris Hanage on the opportunities
Must Knows
18 key trends from the Chinese mobile games market
A quantitative deep dive
Big In Japan
Colopl on the up, Capcom on the slide, Cygames getting drunk?
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Racing Rpgs
In Japan, Quiz RPG is catching Puzzle & Dragons
23 million downloads vs 25 million
SourceNext to publish Burn the Rope Worlds in Japan
Big Blue Bubble partners up
Open Doors
AppFlood rolls out RTB platform to bring China into global ad ecosystem
Powered by Amazon for low latency fulfilment
The Charticle
Which unlikely country was the first to see Boom Beach hit #1 Top Grossing?
The global game
Shanda Games Europe announces first mobile release
Rhinesoft's Happy Tribes inbound
Sharing The Success
NHN Singapore and Cherry Credits deals double number of publishers with rights to Million Arthur
Square Enix's hit comes to 5 new Asian markets
Another Ipo
Chinese app distributor Cheetah Mobile files for $300 million IPO
Kingsoft subsidiary stepping up
LINE passes 400 million users worldwide, adding 826,000 new users per day
Not bad for three years on the market
Japanese, Korean and Chinese mobile market growth will drive total games industry to $120 billion by 2017
Asia is the engine, says Digi-Capital
Sega Sammy invests in Emblem of Falkyrie dev Mynet
Strengthening smartphone capacity
Big In Japan
Dragon Quest finds mobile gold, game market is now +50% mobile, and the end of Mobage?
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Capcom takes a $48 million charge on underperforming mobile and PC online games
FY14 net income downgraded by $19 million
Welcome to the jungle: 10 challenges and opportunities in the Chinese mobile game market
GMGC 2014 raises a fist to your ear
Opinion
43 reasons why differentiation is the key challenge for Chinese developers
Generic heroines ahoy