Match-$$$
Best Fiends developer Seriously raises $18 million
Brings total to $28 million
Value Proposition
How Compass Point West generates $0.06 a day per player from incent video ads
Mitchell Smallman love rewards
Open The Floodgates
How to fire your boss, according to Wooga's Adam Telfer
GDC Europe sees some unusual advice
Missed Opportunity
South East Asia’s potential untapped by Western developers
Why Western developers are missing out on a major growth opportunity
Ideas Factory
Bossa's Henrique Olifiers on building a fearless environment for creativity, failure and success
Jam, validate, repeat
Watch & Learn
Rovio, Wooga, Next Games and PikPok on trends in video advertising monetisation
New revenue stream
Double Six
How Scopely delivered Yahtzee's mobile success with the help from outsourcing
Justin Stofle on scaling up
3d Goggles
StartApp creates interactive mobile ads controlled by gyroscopes
Platform launches first 360-degree app adverts.
The Few Among The Many
Cost of buying a loyal user rises 30% to $3.21
Download volume also rises
Speak Out Or Miss Out
Final chance to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2015
Bring the learns, we'll bring the crowd
Leaving Beta
Autodesk announces release date for its $30 workflow-oriented Stingray game engine
Going live 19 August
Razor Sharp
Deconstructing the $120,000 IAP economy of Game of War
Dimitar Draganov looks under the skin
Muse Me
Stugan: What games inspire you?
The indie games chart their top five best games.
Liar, Liar
Bluffing in games is difficult, says TinyBuild's Mike Rose
Mike Rose takes to the stage at GDC Europe
Intelligence
How CIA research into the social life of terrorists will help you improve your game's LTV
Ninja Metrics’ Dmitri Williams on better data
Within Limits
There's a big opportunity for F2P kids games as long as they have a spending cap, says Animal Jam CEO Clark Stacey
Makes his argument at GDC Europe 2015
Two And Growing
How to get a job at Helsinki mobile games indie Two Men and a Dog
GM Ville Heijari reveals top tips
Hot Five
The making of Angry Birds 2, Bethesda's F2P Boogeyman, and Apple and Google unite
We round up the top five stories of last week.
All-in
iQU buys discovery outfit Tinyloot, rolls it into new integrated mobile game launch platform Mobilize
Oliver Kern takes new role
Fast Feathers
Angry Birds 2 scores 10 million downloads in 4 days
Rovio's sequel carries on pulling in interest
Indie Undercut
I like it, but I wish Zynga hadn't made Mountain Goat Mountain
Carter Dotson is conflicted
Golden Goose
Why did Rovio wait so long to bring its core franchise into the F2P era?
Sune Blindkilde Thorsen considers history
Eagle For A Buck
Flashback Friday: Rovio leverages 18 million Angry Birds downloads with Mighty Eagle IAP
Don't get stuck on a level. Buy through it
Big Birds
Angry Birds 2 guzzles 1 million downloads in 12 hours
Players flock to play Rovio's sequel
Rocket Fuel
HyprMX parent Jun Group raises $28 million
Throwing petrol on the branded ad opportunity
Legacy Glide
Despite no new launches, EA Mobile sees Q1 FY16 sales rise 7% to $145 million
Squeezing the margins
Two Heads Better
Mobile gaming streamer Mobcrush adds ex-Appler Greg Essig and ex-Googler Koh Kim to team
Beams are crossed
Opium For The People
Godus heads to China thanks to LongTu publishing deal
God games go east
Flapping Great
Bigger, badder, birdier: The Making of Angry Birds 2
The general manager of Rovio Stockholm lifts the lid on a new sequel
Summoning Downloads
Local branding campaigns power Summoners War beyond 40 million downloads worldwide
Com2uS USA on understanding your market
Seven Months High
Marvel Contest of Champions is Kabam's fastest game to $100 million revenue
Superhero performance
Sheer Weight Of Numbers
The Simpsons: Tapped Out CEO Stuart Duncan launches Icejam, his new big data-focused studio
Canadian reboot
Shock And Horror
Five Nights at Freddy's movie scoops Poltergeist director
Movie pre-production rolls on as Scott Cawthon endures hate
Sowing Seeds
Mobile strategy outfit Gunjin Games bags $1.3 million seed funding
UK developer turns heads.
The Birds Are Back In Town
Angry Birds 2 launches with new Silver female cast member
Rovio's sequel hits shelves
Messiah Complex
Bethesda vs. the F2P bogeyman: Why Fallout Shelter's success is built upon a false premise
Pete Hines' messaging has been off-key
Fire The Engines
Chukong unveils major Cocos engine upgrade including SDKBOX platform
Cocos v3.7 comes with a cluster of new tricks
July Gloom
Following GREE, Kixeye is latest SF company to shed jobs
Hasn't made the mobile transition
Major Players
Spil Games expands exec team with hires from Bigpoint and Ubisoft
Jan-Michel Saaksmeier and Christian Godorr join the team
Slip Sliding
FY15 Q2 sales drop 5% to $69 million as Gameloft hit by a 17% decline in DAUs
Sales don't match downloads
Ambitious Tactics
Why Gumi's new Berlin studio is embracing risk to reinvent F2P mobile strategy gaming
Are Mack Growen on building something new
Vbip @pgc
Calling all mobile, wearable, or VR game devs: enter the Very Big Indie Pitch at PGC Helsinki 2015
Get free conference passes, your game noticed, and a chance to win big
Something New
Gumi chooses Berlin for its new European-focused mobile game development team
Central location is best
Casually Connect
Register now for the GungHo and Pocket Gamer-hosted Playphone Summer Bash at Casual Connect
12 August - remember the date
Vice Versa
Learn how to break into the Japanese market via lessons in the other direction
Cybird's David McCarthy is on a two-way street
Rebounds
Following hard reset in SF, GREE expands with new offices in Berlin and Melbourne
Cheaper, fresher locations
Open Arms Around The World
Why Google's Niantic Labs is taking Ingress' success and scaling up to an open platform
Anne Beuttenmüller shares insights
The End For Ouya
Razer confirms all-cash Ouya acquisition, with software and staff assimilated into Forge TV operation
All-cash deal sees Razer strengthen its Android TV business
Rare Treats
Despite Fallout Shelter's success, Bethesda's not ready to open mobile game floodgates
Not developing for mobile "unless it's a good fit."
Hot Five
How to get a job with Gameduell, and how Siegefall makes money
We round up the top five stories of last week.