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
Lucid Lessons
Lucid Labs on what it learned developing Roto
Important lessons for first-time devs
Integrated Solution
YouTube announces native live streaming for Android games
Coming first to Japan
New Challenger
Spacetime Studios launches Call of Champions, the latest attempt to crack MOBA eSports on mobile
Pocket Legends dev designed MOBA around quick mobile play patterns
Data Driven
Scopely hires analytics exec Steve Seoane as SVP, Publishing Platform
Experienced analytics pro joins the California team
On Fire
Amazon takes Apple TV head-on with refreshed Fire TV including $140 Gaming Edition
New tablets also inbound
State Of Play
5 unusual observations about the mobile gaming industry
Gur Dotan's conference trends
Livingroom Superstars
Pocket Gamer's Twitch channel breaks 5 million views milestone
Catch a rising stream
Relative Decline
Is Game of War about to steal Clash of Clans' crown as top grossing US game?
All change
Pay Up
Not every game has to be free-to-play
People still like premium
Market Forces
Why Chinese mobile games are growing fast in Korea
Nasmedia explains the trend
Covering Fire
In good health: the monetisation of Unkilled
IAPs from the players' perspective
Virality
Does your game encourage virality, asks Oscar Clark
If you build it, they will tweet
Get Hired
How to get a job with King
Newly-appointed Chief People Officer Mark Taylor shares insights
Be Free
Don't be a prisoner of indie games, says Christophe Comparin
I am not a number
Step Ahead
Who is A Thinking Ape?
Will Luton says weird is better
Brimming With Experience
Spil Games hires former Ubisoft analytics expert Stefanie Hels
Former Ubi Singapore and Bigpoint analytics pro relocates to the Netherlands
Springheeled
An athletic aesthetic: The making of Lara Croft GO
Antoine Routon takes us through the dev process
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
Any Other Name
Sony rebrands Project Morpheus PlayStation VR
Sony is switching up its VR game
Back To The Fold
Zynga acquires ex-exec's new company Rising Tide Games
Zynga is looking to expand its casino portfolio
Nextgen Wii?
Will Apple TV be a strong platform for gaming?
Mobile Mavens debate the power of the big screen
Targetting
Is India's imagination worth capturing?
India's developers talk it over
Notice Me
Simple marketing tricks for indie devs
Getting noticed and getting downloaded
Up The Pecking Order
Kabam restructures studio management as ex-EA exec Nick Earl departs
CEO Kevin Chou says there's changes at Kabam
Old Dog, New Tricks
Tatsum Kimishima succeeds Iwata as new Nintendo president
Nintendo has appointed a new president.
Digging Deeper
Amazon on Underground, its long-term move to rewind mobile game monetisation away from F2P
Amazon Appstore Director shares his goals
Hot Five
Rami Ismail talks sense, how to pull 2 million downloads, and top 13 Apple TV games
The top five stories of last week
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
Start Big
Miguel Vicente presents keynote to kick off Lisbon's Microsoft Game Dev Camp 2015
Microsoft Portugal's Audience Marketing Manager keynotes
There She Blows
Gaming analytics index Whally helps publishers spear whales
Parisian startup Whalley launches new index
Walking With Giants
Futurefly bags $2.5 million seed funding from Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp investors
Finnish startup gets big bucks, and big experience
Across The Border
Scotland dominated by small mobile games studios, says TIGA
TIGA research looked at team size and studio focus
Ceasefire
Machine Zone drops trade secret lawsuit against Kabam
Machine Zone says its fears have been "allayed"
Everywhere
Friday Flashback: Your only certainty is uncertainty. Welcome to the world of the unconsole
It's time to get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Get Hired
How to get a job at GSN Games' new Palo Alto office
Karen Lalley, VP of Human Resources, shares insights
Exchange And Win
Tap for Tap is back with ads in moments that matter
Five Fans provides feedback
For The Love Of Cars
Racing sim GT Spirit will be timed exclusive launch for Apple TV
Also coming to iOS and Android
Growth Path
IronSource and Supersonic merge to generate a company with $450 million annual sales
Israeli hook-up
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
Catch Em All
Pokémon Go augmented reality game set for 2016 release by Niantic
Not to be confused with Hitman Go or Lara Croft Go
New Channel
Apple TV launch games include Galaxy on Fire 3 prequel, Gamevil's shooter Afterpulse and Skylanders SuperChargers
No flipping
Press Harder
Pixel Toys' Warhammer 40K: Freeblade demos gaming potential of iOS 9's new 3D Touch
More bangs for your buck
Not Quite A Console
Apple unveils new Apple TV, starting at $149, available late October
Boasts A8 chipset and new motion remote
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
Apple announces 12.9-inch iPad Pro, starting at $799, available November
Announced on stage at the Apple Special Event
Listen And Learn
Ste Curran and Henry LaBounta revealed as keynote speakers for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference
Former Edge magazine editor and Zynga's Chief Visual Officer take the stage