Sending A Message
Burberry, Lamborghini, Hairdressers... It's the $10,000 Apple Watch question
How bling our the Mobile Mavens?
The Journey
Triple-A branding an indie game concept: the Making of Angry Birds Epic
Chimera's epic journey
Strong Ideas
So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 1: Concept
Nick Pendriis explains how to cultivate strong ideas
The Juice
7 key trends from GDC 2015
What we learned at San Francisco
Looking Good
10 ideas for Apple Watch game Glances
How fast-firing Watch notifications could boost your iPhone game
The Basics
So... You Want to Make Video Games?
We kick off our exclusive serialisation of Nick Pendriis' game development ebook
Week That Was
Top 50 devs revealed, life after Subway Surfers, and President Spacey loves Monument Valley
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Time To Go
deltaDNA releases free and unlimited game analytics
Leverages high performance big data platform
Placement
House of Cards appearance boosts Monument Valley back up the paid charts
Dedicated Netflix users crucial to recent success
Losing Control
Can Apple's promotion of paid games stem the rising tide of F2P?
Carter Dotson on losing control of the App Store
Get Connected
Honed in the Korean PC market, the ProudNet networking engine comes to mobile
Ready for millions of players?
Big Show
Indie Mavens on the value of GDC for contacts, trends and great burritos
Time for San Francisco
The Next Puzzle
Hall of Fame: Kazuki Morishita
GungHo Online CEO on bringing people joy
Tasty
From handhelds to mobile and back: the turbulent rise of Pastagames
The Parisian indie embracing risk
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Have Fun. Don't Be A Jerk
Top tips for surviving and thriving at game conferences
Get set for GDC 2015
Hot Five
The making of Crossy Road, Zynga's $153 million from ads, and Finland's bet on culture
Last week's top stories
Week That Was
Apple loves premium, Zynga win big on in-game ads, and Hipster Whale talks Crossy Road
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Who Will Lead The Charge?
Mobile will never just become a core gaming medium
Carter Dotson demands some action
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
Form And Function
Why did the chicken... the making of Crossy Road
Hipster Whale on inspiration and aspiration
Pure F2p
Why Hutch obsesses about metrics, not chart position
The numbers you can control
Mobile Mavens
Why indies should be more open about personal finance and development costs
It's not all about success stories
Grinding Up
How Heroes Charge charged up the top grossing charts in Germany, Russia, Korea and the US
Power of TV advertising
Week That Was Money
The good, the great and the ugly: Com2uS, Gamevil, Zynga and King announces 2014 financials
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Includification
Why your games should play well with disabilities
Carter Dotson makes the moral call
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Korean mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Japanese mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
The Road Ahead
What advice would you give a F2P developer without $500,000 for UA?
Our Mavens debate broken app stores, crippling UA costs and a misguided bar for success
Hot Five
Glu gets Perry, Norway is small but booming, and Neeson52 is Angry
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Gameloft 360 on in-game adverts, Superbowl ad success considered, and Katy Perry boosts Glu Mobile
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Hot Five
2015 trends, Super Bowl game ads, and Steam better that app stores?
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Android hits iOS equivalence, Kabam 2014 sales $400m, and UA ads at the Superbowl
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Looking Forward
VR has a future, but it's not the future
Does the future look cool?
Future Earnings
Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14
Switch from monetisation to retention
Hot Air
Do discovery issues mean Steam is now better than mobile for indies?
Our Indie Mavens debate price, community and impact
Panel Work
How Loveshack found a new order with iOS hit Framed
Non-linear progression
Road Ahead
10 key trends from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Starting with a bang
Force Multipler
Terra Battle punches above its weight in France and Japan
Top grossing on 1.5 million downloads
Hot Five
Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
How PewDiePie promoted Best Fiends, Twitch's eyeball power, and rising CPI price graphed
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Options For All
What can you learn from Crossy Road's smart monetization layers?
Like Flappy Bird but with revenues
Chart Of The Year
Are CPI costs really rising?
Yes, but it depends on the UA channel
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Mobile Mavens
[Updated] Mobile Mavens on their hopes and fears for 2015
From smartwatches and YouTubers to UA, clones and HTML5
Small Screen, Big Vision
How Seriously worked with PewDiePie to fire Best Fiends up the charts
YouTubers as a coherent UA strategy
Hot Five
Crossy Road's monetisation, DOTA Legends rules China, and 10 to play in 2015
Last week's top 5 stories
Weekly News Digest
Monument Valley, Crossy Road and Minecraft announce monetisation milestones
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Rotten Apples?
Is a blue shell inbound for Apple?
Carter Dotson on a decline in standards
Chart Of The Week
Does Monument Valley prove China can be a paid game market?
Ranks #2 globally