Jump Higher
Doodle Jump leaps onto eSports bandwagon
Old dog, new tricks
No Stars
Rovio Stars on why it hasn't published a game for over a year
Matthew Wilson is getting fussy
X Hits The Spot
Post-Pokemon GO, where next for location-based marketing?
In the place to be
Indian Mavens
Indian Mavens discuss the value of Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal's new early stage game investment fund
And is Vishal Gondal the one to provide it?
Canny Bird
Early Bird rate for PG Connects Helsinki 2016 is running out
Tick tock, tick tock, the clock will stop
Bits & Pieces
Chinese companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun Games buy Opera's consumer businesses for $600 million
Focus for a quick sale
Designs On Vr
Video: Resolution Game's Tommy Palm on what makes a great VR game
CEO discusses VR's future
Look At Me
Worth 3 Supercells: SoftBank gets back into the expansion game with $32 billion acquisition of ARM
Indebted Japanese firm spends more
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
Most Read
Kabam goes all-in on retention, Space Ape wastes millions of dollars on UA, and how does Pokemon GO monetise?
The hottest articles of last week
Times Move On
Why CSR Racing 2 won't be the hit Zynga needs
Vladimir Funtikov explains
Big Indie Pitch
Big Indie Pitch heads to Gamescom 2016 on 16 August
Come show us your game and win some prizes
Buying Data
Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista continues its westward expansion buying GameAnalytics
Deal #2
Connected
Mobile game spenders are more social
Facebook research
New Channel
Flexion gains $2 million for its new Gamesmondo distribution and affiliate platform
Horizon 2020 gives grant
Trio Up
Deep Silver Fishlabs hires new three senior development staff
Technical edge
Surprise
How a broken arm in a game jam led to Slovak indie Jan Ilavsky winning an Apple Design Award
The story behind Chameleon Run
Weather Vs Pikachu
Is Pokemon GO a fad or a billion dollar phenomenon? We won't know until the first snow
The weakness of location games
Dark Side
NSPCC deeply troubled about 'well documented child safety concerns' of Pokemon GO
Think about the kids
Pc Challengers
Global VR Challenge: The PC VR contenders
We profile the developers targetting desktops
Space Ape Spend
How Space Ape wasted millions marketing its dark fantasy game Rival Kingdoms through the wrong UA channels
Mistakes made and lessons learned
Successful Unity
Hall of Fame: The hinterland of thoughtful entrepreneur and Unity founder David Helgason
The co-founder of the game engine firm on his entrepreneurial beginnings
Fast Forward
Shifting gears: the making of CSR Racing 2
GM Julian Widdows on making racing social
Pots Of Gold
Pokemon GO to add sponsored locations
Second revenue stream
Indie Survival
Ian Masters on how to manage your life and mental health as an indie
Exercise, meditate, and sleep right
Fastforward Finland
King, Seriously, Wooga, Rovio, Frogmind, Gamevil, PlayRaven & more announced for PG Connects Helsinki 2016
First speakers revealed for September 5th-6th conference
War Chest
DFJ Growth leads Unity funding round of $181 million
Barry Schuler joins the board
Born Free
“Don’t make a premium app on mobile unless you’re Monument Valley”
Leanne Bayley on why indies should consider embracing free-to-play
Google Growth
How Google is integrating tools and automating app store discovery
Ads and automation
Guerrilla Marketing
How to use low-cost guerrilla marketing to push your indie game
Training pigeons encouraged but not required
"craft Games Studio"
Monument Valley lead designer founds Mountains, a new Melbourne games studio
Three-person team focused on premium mobile games
Rocket Boost
DAUs up 300%, IAPs up 400%: What happened when MobilityWare fell in love with retention and segmentation
Alex Tarrand on the power of data
Vr Hyperbole
Hideo Kojima on virtual reality’s potential to change the world
"I really think the possibilities are infinite"
Mobile Challengers
Global VR Challenge: The mobile VR contenders
We profile the developers targetting smartphones
Between Worlds
Rewind Wednesday: Niantic Labs' John Hanke on the opportunities for location-based mobile games
The power of position
Sweetspot
How do mobile game developers balance their ad and IAP monetization strategies?
DeltaDNA asks the question
New Reality
Asobo: Augmented reality devices closer to market than you think
AR more user friendly than VR, says David Dedeine
After The Gold Rush
Auroch Digital on how to run a successful Kickstarter in a world of jaded backers
It's hard, but you can do it
Mobile Mavens
Does Pokemon GO's success validate Nintendo's approach to mobile games?
Mobile games industry reacts to the location-based smash
180 And Growing
How to get a job at Trivia Crack developer Etermax
Recruiting Lead Fernanda Rodriguez shares insights
Lessons In Vr
Why VR game developers need to "sacrifice creativity for comfort"
Player Research on the lessons developers have learned in VR
Ar Or Vr?
Should indie developers be working on AR or VR?
Koolhaus Games thinks it's AR
Growing Pains
Oculus' Anna Sweet on why VR is still in its "Pong Stage"
New genres
New Hat
TinyBuild's Twitch guru Mike Rose joins Ripstone Games
Seeking third-party PC, console, and mobile games to publish
After Hours
Pocket Gamer's Develop:Brighton 2016 party and networking guide
Rounding up the best extracurricular activities
Big Beast
App Annie reckons Pokemon GO could generate $1 billion a year
Fastest grossing
High Reward, Risk
For unicorn wannabes like Kabam, the mobile games market is now boom or bust
Can you afford a $20 million bet?
Going Strong
In the US, Pokemon GO is bigger than Tinder, and it's on track to have more DAUs than Twitter
AR game rivals messaging apps for usage
Off To A Flyer
Pokémon GO making $1.6 million per day on the US App Store
Topping both Downloads and Grossing charts
Gotta Count Them All
Pokemon Go adds $8 billion to Nintendo's value over the weekend
Market cap up 40%