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
Global Lowdown
Unity's David Helgason and Kabam's Chris Petrovic lead PGC Helsinki's East Meets West track
The essential world market overview is back, bigger and better
Category Conscious
How to advertise to the Indian market
Locally grown knowledge
Moving Pictures
AdColony's Thorbjörn Warin on best practices for video ads
Short and to the point
Unconsole
Browser-based AirConsole energises microconsole slump
A new type of browser-based console is born
Guilt Trip
Bugbyte on how it's using push notifications to attack pirates' conscience
Sales up 15 percent
Oops
UPDATE: Machine Zone CEO sues Kabam after party banter turns sour
A Casual Connect party has sparked a lawsuit
Foundational
A history of Finland's mobile games industry: It started with Snake
The Garden of Eden
Hot Five
Designing a successful app store icon, Hearthstone's mobile woes and Retention 101
The most-read stories of last week on Pocket Gamer.biz
Big Spenders
Amazon's Mike Hines on how the top 50 games are driven by superfans
Keep your fans close
And The Winner Is?
What's the point of the IGF Awards anyway?
The Indie Mavens ponder its value
Bigger Things To Come?
League of Legends dev Riot Games makes time-limited debut on mobile
Live for one month only
Market Liquidity
TROPHiT announces its revolutionary virtual item exchange network
Re-engage through re-use of old assets
Spice It Up
HandyGames heats up Clouds & Sheep with branded hot chilli sauce
New merchandise angle
From The Horse's Mouth
#PGCHelsinki speaker Peter Willington on trends in mobile games PR from a journalist's point of view
What to expect at PG Connects Helsinki 2015
Reward Drive
POKKT on how to make the most of reward-based advertising
How to win friends
Primal Scream
Are mobile games with an 'action mouth' icon more successful?
IronSource reckons so
On The Up
NetEase posts 63% revenue surge in Q2 to $780 million
Fantasy Westward Journey and Blizzard licences lead
Nio Beginnings
N3TWORK acquires Swedish studio Nio Games to produce a new breed of mobile games
Euro Vision
Can't Beat The Original
Tencent pulls its version of hit game Tower of Saviors as players reject harder monetisation
Mad Head's original version remains popular
Flash Hit
Miniclip's Agar.io was most downloaded iOS game during July 2015
App Annie does its monthly roundup
Pitch Up And Pitch
How indies can get into Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2015 for free
Limited offer ends midnight Friday 21 August
Cutting Edge
Pixel Toys on moving out of its startup phase with Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade
Gunfinger developer talks growing pains
Ad-vantage
How best to monetise freemium gamers, according to Google
IAPs are not the only way
Hey Small Spender
Kids' mobile games worth nearly 8% of global market
A new SuperData report looks at the children's mobile games market
Lonely Hearts
Fallout Shelter launches #DateADweller UA Tinder campaign
Bethesda tries a more usual brand of UA
Monster Mash
Japanese free-to-play RPG Monster Strike earns $4.2 million a day
Something has risen in the east.