Hot Five
Why App Store promotion isn't always a blessing, the making of Hearthstone, and can Thomas Was Alone hit the top?
Last week's top five stories.
Week That Was
App Annie acquires Distimo, Kakao merges with Daum, and EA shutters Mythic
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Sponsored Featured
5 player types you should recognise to drive long term engagement
It's time to get personal
Stateside
Adapt to survive: Why Twitch needs mobile if it hopes to stay relevant
Crossing the streams
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: James Vaughan
Plague Inc. creator on infecting the world
Making Of
Nerfing rogues and gaming grans: The making of Hearthstone
Bringing Battle.net to a whole new platform
Sponsored Feature
12 reasons to use cloud-based games-as-a-service solution GameSparks
In use with 200 studios
Nordic Game 2014
From Malmö with love: 4 things we learned at Nordic Game
Quality, not quantity
Chinese Beaujolais
318 million smartphones sold in 2013, will Tencent rule them all?
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
The Charticle
Can Thomas Was Alone find friends on the App Store?
A lonely place
Hot Five
The making of Angry Birds Go, rebooting the App Store discovery system, and an Oxford professor calls out Supercell
Last week's top five stories
ZeniMax sues Oculus, Apple allows devs to give IAPs away, and Ex-Rovio man Ville Heijari joins Vungle
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
The Iap Inspector
Has SoulCalibur: Unbreakable Soul sold its soul?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Chart Of The Week
Why game file size remains critical for success in China
20 MB is your soft limit
The Finnsider
Keep calm, we're Finnish: While the UK whips itself into a F2P furore, Finland's finest are steaming ahead
A tale of two territories
Monetizer Mavens
Is the proliferation of in-game currencies confusing players?
Introducing a new panel of experts
Making Of
From kart to finish: The making of Angry Birds Go
The race is never over
Mobile Mavens
Nintendo's gay gaffe: Has Tomodachi Life damaged the big N's reputation?
Our Mavens talk Mario's PR fumble
Big In Japan
More bad news for GREE and DeNA, but Mixi's on the up thanks to Monster Strike
Weekly digest from Tokyo
The Charticle
Has FarmVille 2: Country Escape planted the seeds of success?
Growing tall
Hot Five
Devs on the brink of murder, the truth behind loading times, and the sexual dilemma facing Candy Crush players
Last week's top five stories
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
Full Indie Uk Column
Public play: 5 lessons learned from taking games out and about
Full Indie UK's Alistair Aitcheson reveals all
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Patrick 'Mad' Mork
Looking to replace consoles with tablets
Making Of
Dead and loving it: The making of Wayward Souls
RocketCat on rewriting the rulebook for touchscreens
Moneti$er Special
Opinion: Why your game needs to load within 30 seconds
Time is power
The Charticle
Has 2048 cloned success?
A numbers game
Hot Five
Family Guy's quest for cash, Windows Phone outsells iOS, and why Rovio's new publishing label is a 'magical place'
Last week's top five stories
Promiscuous Gamer
Three crazy - and not always in a good way - Japanese games come west
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Week That Was
Hearthstone takes the chill off Blizzard's Q1, King harnesses the power of 143m DAUs, and GungHo's sales rise 62%
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Stateside
Stateside: Why choose between F2P and Premium when you can have both?
An unnecessary choice
Big In Japan
Colopl and GungHo post impressive financials, while 3 media giants combine to Reinforce
Weekly digest from Tokyo
The Iap Inspector
How to wheel and deal in Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
IAPs from the players' perspective
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Scott Foe
The challenge of the infinitely replayable game
Making Of
Eastern monetisation meets Western UX: The making of Heroes of Honor
Henric Suuronen on Nonstop Games' debut
The Charticle
Did Family Guy's quest for cash push it to the top of the charts?
Simpsons successor?
Hot Five
Former Supercell man aims to fire up F2P, how to win at Hearthstone, and the indie who couldn't afford to be indie
Last week's top five stories
Week That Was
FTL dev not fond of iOS, Glu acquires Diner Dash pub PlayFirst, and Rovio's profits are put on pause
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Making Of
FTW: The making of Faster Than Light
And why Subset Games might skip iOS next time around
The Iap Inspector
How to win at Hearthstone without handing over stacks of cash
IAPs from the players' perspective
Moneti$er
Variation in the dollar value of reciprocity in 15 F2P mobile games
Giving it all away?
The Finnsider
The next big thing: How Supercell's former analytics ace Achrén set about firing up free-to-play
The story of Next Games
Indie No More
Giving up going it alone: The tale of the developer who couldn't afford to be indie any more
Can the barriers to mobile development be broken?
The search for mobile gaming at Coachella 2014
PG talks with Girl Talk and Krewella
Chart Of The Week
How Rovio’s growth stacks up against Mojang, King, and Supercell
Embattled birds
Mobile Mavens
Would Oculus have caught Facebook's eye without the Kickstarter kick?
And should backers get a refund?
Hot Five
Supercell called out at F2P conference, the making of Monument Valley, and does Family Guy deserve your cash?
Last week's top five stories
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
Promiscuous Gamer
Becalmed in mid-range grind, and surprised by Family Guy's 'Second Mexican' problem
This guy will play anything as long as it's free