Indie-pendence Day
What makes a game an "indie game"?
Got the feeling
Foundational
Basemark to underpin OSVR open standards ecosystem for VR
Better together
Eyeing Twitch
Mobcrush bags $11 million investment for mobile-first streaming
Californian startup elbows rival Twitch
Spending Power
Glu CEO Niccolo de Masi on comparing whale behavior in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Deer Hunter 2014
Free and flexible
Smart Move
Smartwatch specialist Everywear Games raises $2.25 million
Wearable games developer gets cash injection
Suits You
King appoints ex-Burberry man as Chief People Officer
Mark Taylor brings 20 years' experience
Soft Bulletin
Can Instagram be a strong UA channel? Apsalar thinks so
Selfies and six packs
Global Ambition
Hero Entertainment on bringing its FPS eSports hit Crisis Action to the west
Crisis Action has 10 million DAUs in greater China, looking west for more
Building Up
#PGCHelsinki speaker Johannes Peltola on rebuilding SimCity for the F2P generation
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Indie Introspection
What does indie mean in India any way?
What they think about how they think
Freebies
Gameloft joins the Amazon Underground experiment
Drops 4 games into play
Movie Magic
The Transporter Refuelled piggybacks off Asphalt 8 brand
Hollywood wants a bit of mobile's brand
Hot Five
Rovio Studio Profile, Resolution Games strike VR gold, how to make success from failure
The top stories of last week
Thinking Bigger
Is the $10 billion mobile game franchise inevitable?
Our Mavens ponder big numbers
Finer Details
Mech Mocha on why Indian indies have to get smart about the "other stuff" in F2P games
It's not just about the game
Gobbling Up
PAC-MAN 256 achieves 5 million downloads
Arcade classic meets leader of the new school
Best Of Both
DeNA guns for Kamcord and Mobcrush in new streaming app Mirrativ
Japanese company enters the mobile streaming game
Trumps
GSN Games is expanding in Palo Alto with new office and open positions
Relocation, relocation, relocation
Experiential
Grand Cru shuts down Supernauts to focus on new 2016 launch
Better next time
Things Don't Look Closer...
VR revolution pushed back to 2016 as Vive's launch slips
Looking further ahead
Value Of Nothing
Why Amazon Underground is broken for F2P games
Ultimate Robot Fighting borked
The Future
A history of Finland's mobile games industry: What's next?
The next wave
Micro-transact That
Can Nintendo and Amazon disrupt the free-to-play market with a new business paradigm?
Two new approaches
Call To Action
Can you use post-call ads to boost revenue and retention?
Power of voice
Hole In One
Com2us revs BMW's engine for Golf Star partnership
Leveraging a luxury car brand
Go Underground
Lara Croft Go PR stunt will give away free iPads in London
Square Enix draw flashy attention to their latest mobile game launch
Time To Watch
The fast-growing eSports juggernaut is now going mobile
We're moving from gamers to spectators says James King
Sell Yourself
Women in Games Conference announces personal branding panel with Yogscast co-founder Hannah Rutherford
What to do to get ahead
From Iap To Reality
Bandai Namco strikes Tekken trading card deal with Fabzat
Physical trading cards can be used in-game
Studio Profile
25 developers, 8 newborns, two years, no crunch: How Rovio Stockholm made Angry Birds 2
We go behind the scenes
New Approach
Amazon unveils its Underground store, where devs get paid $0.002 per minute of player time
Flipping the model
Take Over
A history of Finland's mobile games industry: The rise of Rovio and Supercell
App stores open the door
Berlin Calling
Berlin studio Wooga seeking experienced strategy game designer
Designer wanted to polish strategy game prototypes
Localising
COLOPL, the most successful Japanese company you've never heard of, is heading west
From Japan to SF
Road Ahead
Mobile remains a very viable market for indies, says Tilting Point's new CPO
Harder but not impossible
Lift Off
PlayCanvas and GMO Cloud partner to crack Japan
PlayCanvas launches in Japan
Iap Inspector
Pulled taut: the monetisation of Angry Birds 2
The IAP Inspector examines Rovio's F2P sequel
Fight, Fight, Fight
YouTube Gaming seeks to steal players from Twitch's yard
Google looks to crush Twitch with new platform
Plucked Feathers
Angry Birds creator Rovio readies 260 redundancies
Rovio is getting ready to shrink once more.
Glorious Failure
A history of Finland's mobile games industry: Why N-Gage deserves to have its memory rehabilitated
Legacy of the Taco phone
Breaking Ground
Resolution closes largest VR game development Series A funding round at $6 million
Led by Google Ventures
German Powerhouse
How Flaregames found success by learning from its failures
Klaas Kersting is on the up
Cheep Tickets
Game Connection Europe 2015 Early Bird about to expire
Buy now
Double Whammy
Inside the Game: How Hollywood U went from greenlight to App Store in 4 months
Royal McGraw on doubling up
Keep In Touch
Make sure your player segmentation isn't too granular, says Fiksu
"They just need a little nudge."
Open Door
Tilting Point hires Gameloft Americas VP Samir El Agili as its new CPO
Staffing up
Speak Up
Andy Payne and BAFTA-winning Katherine Bidwell keynote Women in Games conference
Andy Payne and Kathetine Bidwell head to London
Changing Direction
Why Tequila Games developed Earthcore; the game that wanted to be a CCG
Radek Smektala and Marcin Traczyk on the making of Tequila's CCG
Next Step
A history of Finland's mobile games industry: From demoscene to Riot-E
Growing pains
Try Again
In the Games-as-a-Service market, is there any place for a sequel?
The Pro and Cons explained