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
Built From Clay
Video: Clayburger on looking for publishers at PGC London 2016
Matej Pavelka talks the difficulties of being a two man team
Tic-tac-toe
Singapore's Rising Stars: Delta Duck Studios on creating the next big RPG
Kelvin Koh give us the lowdown
Data Beyond Games
Updated: Machine Zone spins out big data tech RTplatform as separate division
What Gabe Leydon did next
Solid Session
Mark Cerny to interview Hideo Kojima at Develop:Brighton 2016
Fireside chat as keynote
Vc And Me
Video: How Pollen VC can accelerate your cashflow
Get your app store revenues faster thanks to venture capitalism
Luck Of The Roll
Netmarble combines Everyone's Marble with Disney characters, announcing its Disney Magical Dice virtual board game
Korean publisher steps up
Color Switch Success
How Color Switch found financial success with rewarded video ads
Zeb Jaffer offers his thoughts
The Client's Always Right
NativeX is hiring a Developer Relations Manager
Courting clients and analysing performance
Most Read
GameDuell pivots, our April Fool's, and the top 50 mobile developers of 2015
The hottest articles of last week
Never The Twain
Wooga on its tactical separation of core and casual development, and why wearables will trump VR
Jens Begemann and Wilhelm Oesterberg on the casual/midcore divide
Virtual Realities
Video: Volker Ritzhaupt on meditative VR puzzle game Carpe Lucem
Avoiding motion sickness by going at a slower pace
Funny Business
US comic Kevin Hart is 'doing a Kardashian' with mobile game in the works
Lionsgate signs long-term deal
Tricky Questions
Is Miitomo Nintendo's Trojan Horse for mobile game UA or NX success?
What's your favourite type of bread?
Core Centre
Capcom consolidations all mobile operations to aggressive focus on own IP games
Beeline Interactive dissolved
Your Next Job
Helsinki developer Next Games is hiring a Full Stack Developer
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land dev looks to bolster Live Ops team
Singularity
Go computer AlphaGo relaxes by becoming the #1 Clash Royale player in the world
What it did next
On The Up
NetEase Games ranked 6th on PocketGamer.biz's Top 50 Developer 2016 list
Going global
Vainglory Growth
Super Evil Megacorp and Twitch sign three-year deal to grow Vainglory's eSports presence
Multi-million dollar investment from both companies
From Facebook To Mobile
Disney launches Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2, the sequel to its most successful social game ever
2012 Facebook title gets a 3D, mobile-only sequel
Jobs Feed
Get six weeks free on our new PG Jobs XML feed service
Hurry - free trial ends on April 14
Mad Max Frozen
FTUE: Winterstate
A cocktail of ice and explosions
Reel 'em In
Gear VR fishing game Bait! catches 150,000 downloads in first five days of release
First download data released for an Oculus-powered game
Market Report
Mobile gaming was 80% of consumer app spend in 2015
New report from App Annie and IDC sheds some light
Hot India
New speakers announced for PG Connects Bangalore 2016
April 21-22 show is spicing up courtesy of both western and local talent flying in...
Pg Connects Vancouver
Everything you need to know about Pocket Gamer Connects Vancouver 2016
What it is, when it is, and why you should go
Jam Tomorrow
Jamchester: UK's biggest game jam to take place in Manchester on 20-22 May
Over 200 developers making games across three days
Trump That
GameDuell switches focus from casual to cross-platform card and board games
Shuts down internal studio
Tune In, Join In
How the deep Twitch integration of Amazon's Lumberyard engine will drive a new type of community and gaming
VP of Games Mike Frazzini on its multiplatform community approach
Fast Rising
Goodgame Studios hits 300 million players across PC and mobile
Goodgame Empire leads the way
Level Up
10 years of Pocket Gamer: Gamevil's Kyu Lee on moving from Skipping Stone to core RPG success
Back in the days of BREW
But Is It Actionable?
How to unlock your game analytics investment
Mark Robinson on the power of data to transform your company
Prototype Payment
What UK developers need to know about the UK Games Fund
Up to £25,000 for developers to build prototypes
No April Fool
Prepare for 'interesting conversations' as Nintendo's Miitomo social app goes live on 31 March
First attempt at mobile success
New Hue
How the rise of consoles, mobiles and now VR is impacting the role of art in games
Daryl Clewlow takes a moment
Kickstarter Knowledge
Rockfish's Michael Schade on how to run a Kickstarter campaign
Be prepared, and don't overpromise
Gunslingers And Exiles
How lessons learned from FPS Midnight Star are shaping Gunslinger Studios' RPG Exiles of Embermark
Why new game Exiles of Embermark needed a new studio to make it
Most Read
Reasons to join Nordeus, Gameloft's future vision, Windows 10 and GDC trends
Last week's hits
Vr Everywhere
Mobile Mavens reflect on GDC trends and highlights
Back from San Francisco
Still Building
10 years of Pocket Gamer: EA's Petri Ikonen reminisces on Digital Chocolate days
From Tower Bloxx to SimCity BuildIt
Sony Goes Mobile Again
Sony opens new studio, ForwardWorks, to develop mobile games for Asian markets
Using PlayStation characters for "fully-fledged titles"
Last Call
Final week to enter the Very Big Indie Pitch at PG Connects Bangalore 2016
There's success and prize money waiting for the top talent
Bica Game Designer
Portugese developer Bica Games is looking to hire a game designer
Continuing work on Smash Time and other projects
Dynamic Prices
Scientific Revenue's Ted Verani on increasing your LTV through dynamic IAP pricing
Different people, different prices
Kick Off
Why it's time to join Top Eleven developer Nordeus
Come to Belgrade
All Action
Japanese giant COLOPL on its struggle to grow a US mobile business, but its expectations for big VR success
Catching up with new CEO Jikhan Jung at GDC 2016
Not So Vain
Fear and eSports: How it felt to present the Vainglory Winter Season 2016 EU Championship Finals
It takes a whole village to prevent a journalist from making a fool of himself