Super Play
What Super Mario Bros. taught us about building exploration and discovery into kids games
Thijs Bosma on learning from the best
Licence To Succeed?
Glu CEO on why James Bond: World of Espionage is inspired by Game of War's LTV, not GoldenEye 007's gameplay
A significant bet
Smarter Box
Are indie devs interested in supporting Apple TV?
Indie Mavens debate Apple's new box
Communion Of Clashers
Supercell talks community, ClashCon and eSports
Marika Appel Community Manager shares insights
Get Hired
How to get a job at Scopely
Senior Technical Recruiter Chris Kale shares insights
Time To Get Paid
A dollar for 8 hours of gameplay is tough math for developers
Monetizer Mavens debate Amazon Underground
Give Me Freedom
Is being paid for how long people play your game a good model for developers (or just Amazon)?
Mobile Mavens debate Amazon Underground
Attention Please
From discovery to VR and monetisation: 5 things we learned at Unite 2015 Boston
Fresh from Unity's flagship conference...
With Great Power...
I've never seen Star Wars but I am playing Star Wars: Uprising
Why devs shouldn't assume shared culture
The Message Thing
7 steps to avoid for mobile marketing automation heaven
Tapjoy’s Shannon Jessup shows the way
Surf's Up
Subway Surfers breaks 1 billion downloads barrier, boasting 27 million daily active players
Danish success story
Optimisation
Inside the Game: Small team, lots of devices to support
Henry Shao on QA challenges
Not There Yet
Gimku CEO Rudy Sudarto on how the Indonesian gaming boom isn't being felt by all
Nationwide growth isn't being felt by developers
Seal Of Approval
Will the new App Store Games Twitter account help indie games get discovered?
Indie Mavens assess the situation
Bucking The Trend
Spacetime Studios on how Call of Champions can break the Curse of Mobile MOBAs
It's an eSports boom, says VP of Games Jeff Petry
Rewind
Friday Flashback: Amazon's Fire TV is more My Little Pony than a gaming Trojan Horse
Contradictory signals
State Of Play
5 unusual observations about the mobile gaming industry
Gur Dotan's conference trends
Market Forces
Why Chinese mobile games are growing fast in Korea
Nasmedia explains the trend
Get Hired
How to get a job with King
Newly-appointed Chief People Officer Mark Taylor shares insights
Step Ahead
Who is A Thinking Ape?
Will Luton says weird is better
Game Changer
Pixel Toys CEO on the game changing combination of iOS 9's 3D Touch and iPhone 6s' A9 chip
Andy Wafer is fresh from the Apple stage
Nextgen Wii?
Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming?
Mobile Mavens debate the power of the big screen
Digging Deeper
Amazon on Underground, its long-term move to rewind mobile game monetisation away from F2P
Amazon Appstore Director shares his goals
Choppy Waters
Battlesheep's Nélio Codices on how to live off game development in Portugal
How Portuguese mobile dev Battlesheep has stayed afloat
History Lessons
Video game historian Ivan Barroso on "the brave and mighty Portuguese industry"
How industry has prospered in the face of crisis
Get Hired
How to get a job at GSN Games' new Palo Alto office
Karen Lalley, VP of Human Resources, shares insights
Eye-catching
How to create effective visuals for mobile advertising
Hélène Queriault on making good ads
Skywalking
How Kabam found balance in the force as it worked on Star Wars Uprising
Daniel Erickson on a star-sized IP
Straight Up
F2P doesn't work for small indies now, says Flick Fishing dev Strange Flavour as it reverts to paid
Discovery and player perceptions both challenges
All In
Inside the Game: How to get a game writing job
Lessons from Luke Georgette
Little And Large
Indie learnings from exhibiting at Gamescom 2015
Two speak out
Nothing Hidden
Isn't it time to push for open-sourced SDKs?
Time to be open
Catch 'em All Randomly
Should western F2P designers be using more Gacha, Fusion and Collection mechanics?
The Monetisation Mavens debate
Woman Up
Why we need a Women in Games conference
Oestrogen in video game development
Good Advice
How IndieDevKit can educate indie devs for business success
Make informed decisions
Primed For Action
Why pre-registration campaigns are key to Japanese UA
Get them pre-launch
The Other Side
Devs responsible for how they implement our #actuallyfree Underground system, says Amazon
The motivations and goals behind the initiative
Spending Power
Glu CEO Niccolo de Masi on comparing whale behavior in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Deer Hunter 2014
Free and flexible
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
Building Up
#PGCHelsinki speaker Johannes Peltola on rebuilding SimCity for the F2P generation
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Thinking Bigger
Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?
Our Mavens ponder big numbers
Value Of Nothing
Why Amazon Underground is broken for F2P games
Ultimate Robot Fighting borked
Micro-transact That
Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?
Two new approaches
Time To Watch
The fast-growing eSports juggernaut is now going mobile
We're moving from gamers to spectators says James King
Road Ahead
Mobile remains a very viable market for indies, says Tilting Point's new CPO
Harder but not impossible
German Powerhouse
How Flaregames found success by learning from its failures
Klaas Kersting is on the up
Double Whammy
Inside the Game: How Hollywood U went from greenlight to App Store in 4 months
Royal McGraw on doubling up
Changing Direction
Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG
Radek Smektala and Marcin Traczyk on the making of Tequila's CCG
Try Again
In the Games-as-a-Service market, is there any place for a sequel?
The Pro and Cons explained
And The Winner Is?
What's the point of the IGF Awards anyway?
The Indie Mavens ponder its value