Getting Better
Why you should be prepared to throw away half your game
Torulf Jernström is self-improving
Wide & Deep
Genius: Why Clash Royale is for losers
(P.S. We're all losers)
Riding The Waves
How Distinctive Developments moved from PlayStation and Java to F2P sporting success
CEO Nigel Little on 1994 consoles, 2001 feature phones, and 2016 smartphones
Smart Time?
Paul Virapen on why smartwatch gaming, not VR, is the big, new opportunity for Wooga
Wrist over head
Session Lengths
Video: Nicholas Lovell on why your on-ramp needs to be better than Facebook's
Good luck with that!
Taking Charge
GSN Games appoints Arun Dutta as Country Manager for India
Overseeing new projects and Bingo Bash live ops
Climax Auckland
Climax Studios opens new Auckland studio with ex-Gameloft employees
Focuing on AR and VR projects
Crowned
Monetizer Mavens on the simple, sophisticated, genius, and extremely aggressive gacha monetisation (and retention) of Clash Royale
Smart moves
Swedish Scenes At Stugan
Stugan 2016 applications closed, location of summer program announced
7 weeks of making games in the Swedish countryside
Looking Ahead
Part funded by Mixi and COLOPL, GREE announces its $12 million VR investment fund
Western focus for Japanese outfit
Big Boots
How to get a job at one of Gameloft's 21 global studios
HR Manager Romain Delebecque shares insights
Meg-ua Predictions
Eric Seufert predicts the UA mega trends of 2016
What will be big?
Time To Split
Cliff Bleszinski, Rami Ismail and Tim Schafer among the speakers for Croatia's Reboot Develop 2016 conference
Croatia's premier conference returns 28-30 April
Different Strokes
Paid for reviews and no soft launch strategy: the challenges of launching in Japan
David McCarthy on cultural differences
Happy Eyeballs
How to respect the user experience during ad monetization
Kabir Mathur on nice ads
Bigger Brands
Animoca Brands raises $5 million for content and IP acquisitions
In expansion mode
Cogs In The Machine
Machine Zone hiring for live ops and engineering in Hamburg and Palo Alto
In the zone
Another Puzzle
After four years and 54 million downloads, has $1 billion game Puzzle & Dragons finally peaked?
Does GungHo's cash cow have more to give?
Top Tips
Top growth tips to boost your mobile game - 2016 Edition
Pascal Clarysse revisits his marketing tips
Hello World
What do the Mobile Mavens think of Nintendo's mobile debut Miitomo?
Mario or Luigi?
Softlayer Services
Video: Softlayer on the importance of cloud hosting services and GPNs
Need to scale? You'll need cloud hosting
Show More Talk Less
Singapore's Rising Stars: 4EVA Studios on becoming a hero
Howard Sin takes us inside 4EVA Studios
All In Hand
Keep calm and carry on racing: Zynga VP Chris Plummer now leading CSR Racing dev Boss Alien
Boss Alien in safe hands
Programme Perfect
Full schedule announced for Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2016
55+ sessions and 35+ hours of unmissable content on April 21-22
What's Next?
Updated: With CSR Racing 2 still in soft launch, studio boss Jason Avent leaves
Boss Alien loses boss
Make Friends
User Acquisition Crisis: YouTube Influencers to the rescue?
Polina Haryacha on another way to get users
Most Read
Growth hacking tips, how Color Switch found success with ads, and Wooga talks mid-core
The hottest articles of last week
Culture Test
Video: How to pass the Cultural Test for the Video Games Tax Relief
British money for British companies
Promiscuous Gamer
The Promiscuous Gamer enters a Marvel Avengers Alliance (2) and meets his Dream Girlfriend
This guy will play anything if it's free...
Empire Builder
Vainglory eSports team acquisitions continue as Rebirth of Empire bought by mousesports
German organisation snaps up local young team
Outside The Box
Her Story is brilliant but the UK game industry needs to gets to grips with games-as-a-service to have global significance
Time to break out of niche
Tale Of 2 Publishers
Nexon passes on Turbo's Super Senso, leaving GungHo to sign publishing deal
All change
Big Indie Pitch
Pitch your mobile and VR games at the Big Indie Pitch @ Gamefest Berlin 2016 on 22 April
Get your game in front of experts and journalists
Rewarded Action
As Unity highlights the power of rewarded video ads, ex-Tapjoy exec Paul Bowen joins as VP for Unity Ads
Different incentive
Iap Inspector
Hardcore Heroes: the monetisation of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2
IAPs from the players' perspective
Live Pitches
Video: PGC London 2016 live investor pitching
There's plenty of advice and criticism, but will anyone get any investment?
Inside Fwan Co
Singapore’s Rising Stars: Putting the Fun in FWAN
Desmond Foo gives us the lowdown
Hu Ge is the new celebrity endorser for Westward Journey
NetEase's top game has a new face
Something New
TrulySocial raises investment from Nazara Games, London Venture Partners and Supercell game lead
Games for women
New Way To Stream
BlueStacks' Twitch integration provides wire-free Android game streaming from your PC
Open for all
Avengers Autoplay
Auto battles: The differing design decisions of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Tactics are all well and good until you have an overwhelming force
21-22 April
Why you should be heading to Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2016
Everything's hot in India
Venture Concerns
Video: Shelley Lau on what VCs look for for when investing
They're not just there to bail you out
Tanks Royale
FTUE: League of War: Mercenaries
GREE re-enters the battle
Gdc Learnings
Indian Mavens discuss their GDC 2016 highlights
Back from San Francisco, what have they learned?
Prime Asset
Veteran Apple game dev Pangea Software for sale to the 'right buyer'
Brian Greenstone retires from games
Indie Mavens
How useful was GDC 2016 for our Indie Mavens? Did they even go?
Indie Mavens weigh in on the big trends and overall usefulness of the show
Listen To Your Players
Are you making the most of your user reviews? Not without Player XP
CEO Garry Barter on isolating helpful reviews
Turnaround
Rovio's game sales up again to $161 million, but company makes loss in 2015
#MakeRovioGreatAgain
Friends With Benefits
Balancing real-world friends with in-game acquaintances to maximise short-term virality and long-term retention
Torulf Jernström on making the most of friends