Free To Pray
The 10 commandments of free-to-play game design
Thou shalt not try to change free-to-play
Living With Live Operations
12 lessons from the trenches of a mobile game live operations team
Hothead Games offers best practice advice
Talktastic
Space Ape, NaturalMotion, Twitter, Wooga, Verve, Fox, Icejam, Jam City and more speakers confirmed for PG Connects London 2017
The names keep coming for Europe's largest mobile games industry conference
Analytics For Everyone
New indie developer-focused analytics tool comes to drag-and-drop game engine Stencyl
Install the extension, drop in some code, get retention data
Touch The Rift
Oculus opens pre-orders for $199 Oculus Touch VR controllers
Shipping December 6th
Big Pond
How to get a job at Deep Silver Fishlabs
Senior HR Manager Christoph Hillermann shares insights
Second Mass Recall
UPDATE: Samsung permanently halts production of Galaxy Note 7 and issues second mass recall
Recommends users get an S7 instead
Hollywood, Baby
Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
Funding from IPR.VC and TEKES
Mobile Mavens
Mobile games industry experts react to Google Pixel and Daydream View VR
Mobile Mavens react to Google's announcements
Vungle X Kakao
Vungle partners with Kakao to launch rewarded video ad service Kakao Game Ad+
Brings expertise to fledgling platform
Real-money Arcade
GSN Games launches real-money arcade platform Sparcade
Make money playing Pac-Man and more
Too Big To Fail
Pokemon GO may be losing millions of users, but its retention rate is on par with Clash of Clans
Niantic Labs has nothing to fear if SurveyMonkey is right
Getting In Early
Zynga, MZ, and King are already blocking App Store Search Ads on their own games
Bigger brands leave space wide open
Uk's Biggest
Outplay Entertainment becomes the UK's largest independent mobile studio, employing over 150
New title lined up for November
Blazes
Sales of Galaxy Note 7 halted as Samsung investigates five exploding phones
Stops production and shipments of replacement phones
Most Read
Kiloo opens a publishing arm, how to monetise, retain, and acquire users, and why did Ubisoft buy Ketchapp?
The hottest articles of last week
Jam-packed
Ex-EA EVP and Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble joins Jam City
And Robert Zakari joins as General Counsel and EVP of Corporate Development
Blimey
Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi sells 500,000 units in India in 3 days
A new record for India
Heating Up
Samsung profits increase by $3.6 million despite exploding phone fiasco
Other arms of the business still performing well
Iap Inspector
How does Wooga's midcore debut Warlords monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Moving On Up
Oculus looking to invest $50 million into mobile VR developers
Setting aside money for education and diverse developers
Indie Mavens
Is soft-launching a game effective for an indie developer?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Look, No Cables!
Oculus working on standalone VR headset that's more advanced than the Gear VR
Lowers system specs for Rift devices
Making Of
Upholding visual fidelity without sacrificing game design: The making of Oz: Broken Kingdom
This Game Studio talk us through the Asian influences on a Western title
Big Money
Oculus takes virtual reality developer funding up to $500 million as it searches for the killer app
A quarter of what Facebook spent to buy Oculus
Vr, We Are
Introducing VR Connects London 2017: A brand new VR/AR/MR industry conference
January 16th-17th event comes from the team that brought you PG Connects…
Short Burst Storytelling
Disruptor Beam wants players to succeed and fail together in The Walking Dead: March to War
Director of Product & Design Joey Lapegna on the latest IP to get the Disruptor Beam treatment
Ready For China
NCSoft signs $10 million deal to bring mobile game Lineage Red Knights to China
Publisher could collaborate with the Alpha Group on animations, cartoons and toys
Sell Your Dragonsoul
GREE International Entertainment acquires RPG DragonSoul from PerBlue
Developer sells just the game, not its company
Pixel Perfect
Google holding back some of Pixel's best features for its own phones
Makes perfect business sense really
Walking Disruptor
Disruptor Beam reveals new story-driven mulitplayer game The Walking Dead: March to War
Story-driven competitive multiplayer strategy based on the comics
Optibot Rolls Out
Optimove aims to make marketing easier through automated Optibot
CRM optimisation bot will recommend new courses of action for marketers
First Investment
LA VR start-up First Contact Entertainment closes $5 million investment round
Brings on two new senior hires
Moomin On Up
Finnish start-up Snowfall raises €1 million to bring Moomin mobile games to Asia
Turku-based studio eyes up niche market
N-app-oli
Apple opens App Development Centre in Naples' oldest university
Free iPhone, iPad, and MacBook for all students on the free nine month course
Goodness Gracious
Samsung's big recall up in smoke as replacement Galaxy Note 7 catches fire on US plane
Samsung's own system claimed it was safe
Survey Research
Why you should consider Rewarded Surveys for your game monetisation strategy
A pragmatic overview of the market research industry and how it applies to game monetisation
Indian Mavens
Is localising games for India a smart move?
Indian Mavens discuss Flixy Games' strategy
Asia Bulletin
Chinese investor buys marketing platform AppLovin for $1.4 billion, Netmarble gears up for multi-billion dollar IPO, and more
Asia mobile gaming news weekly from PocketGamer.biz
Get The Message
Zynga’s pro-activeness with iMessages reaps dividends for Words With Friends
Downloads up 74%
Fund Seekers
Ex-RuneScape team wants to create a new generation of toys-to-life games with Lightseekers
UK studio heads to Kickstarter to take game into production
Global Mobile Report
China will lead global app revenues to $44.8 billion in 2016
An in-depth analysis of the global mobile market
Top Of The World
Mobile eSport Vainglory goes to Hollywood for first ever World Championship on December 2nd
First mobile eSports world championship ever
The Ideal Mixi
Marvel Tsum Tsum developer Mixi on catering to the new casual Marvel fan
Senior Producer Erika Nakamura explains why Disney chose Mixi
Pokemon Maybe
Pokemon GO still jostling for top spot on US App Store with Clash Royale and Mobile Strike
Remains at the top of the UK charts
Vr Goes Mainstream
Daydream believer: Google Daydream View can bring virtual reality to the masses
Dreaming of the mainstream
Back To Reality
EA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros and CCP all making games for Google Daydream VR
Big developers and relatively big indies get in on the launch
Apple Tv Go Home
Apple discontinues third-generation Apple TV
Focusing on flagging fourth-gen model instead
Dreaming Of Vr
Google reveals new $79 Google Daydream View VR headset for November release
Search engine giant expands its VR presence
Google Pixel Reveal
Google unveils Google Pixel smartphone
New lineup of smartphones