Mobilising The Hardcore
Despite $20 max IAP, Fallout Shelter already making millions
Main series stopgap gets the hardcore spending
All Change
Kiwi ceases current operations as it sells 'cash-positive' games to longtail expert RockYou
San Francisco dev pulls back
Android Meets Vr
Razer's latest OSVR dev kit brings Android support and position tracking
Shipping in July
Balancing Acts
How Directive Games hopes to shake up core mobile gaming and its backend tech
Ambitious Chinese-Icelandic outfit has big plans
Visual Appeal
Inside the Game: Creating the look of High School Story classmates
The power of the eyes
#pgcsanfran Fireside Smarts
DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako on the power of 'glocal'
That's thinking globally but acting locally
Staying Premium?
Square Enix reveals stylised puzzler Lara Croft Go for mobile
Tomb Raider in the style of Hitman Go
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Dev Discount
[UPDATE] Huge dev-only PG Connects San Francisco 2015 offer now on
But hurry: it's a limited one-time deal
Big Winnings
Claiming a third of all eSports revenue, Skillz says it's paying out $500,000 every week
eSports eclipsing real-world sports, says CEO
Fishing For Donations
Palringo launches 2015 IAP charity drive with rare fish event
Pledging 50 percent of Fishing Bot's revenue
Silver Screen Or Fool's Gold?
Can mobile games head successfully to the movies?
Our Mavens settle back with a large cup of popcorn
Fresh Figures
EA Mobile's games smash 715 million downloads milestone
Boasting begins at E3 2015
Open Door
Why Apple was right to ease iOS app development barriers
Carter Dotson applauds new freedoms
Licensing Fever
EA announces 'truly extensive' CCG Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Don't play against Han Solo
Unconsole No More
Razer acquires Ouya
From Kickstarter to trade sale in three years
Hard Life
Scarcity of resources: The monetisation of Fallout Shelter
IAPs from the players' perspective
Diversification
Bethesda goes mobile with Elder Scrolls: Legends and Fallout Shelter
Mobile outings for Fallout and The Elder Scrolls
Co-op Mode
Starbreeze invests $1.4 million in Cmune to bring FPS Payday to mobile
Reloading for another run
Supermentors
Get the latest on Nintendo's first mobile game, Disney's plans, and more in PGC San Francisco's Superstar Sessions
New opening track gets industry heavyweights to deliver conference agenda-setting keynotes
A New Strategy
Strategy expert Goodgame Studios goes soft, announcing its first casual game
Hires King's Daniel Persson
Vbip @pgc
Making a mobile, VR, or smartwatch game? Enter the Very Big Indie Pitch at PGC San Francisco 2015
You get free conference passes, your game noticed, and a chance to win big
Wider Horizon
Unreal adds support for Vive and Morpheus in 4.8 release
Vive virtual reality!
Ua Flashback
Flashback Friday: User acquisition is a waste of money, and will eventually kill the mobile games industry
Money for nothing
Curvy Future?
Is there still a mass market for pixel art games?
Indie Mavens debate blocky glories
Singing For The Unsung
Check out the games being entered for the Unsung Heroes competition
Who will win Spil's $50,000 deal?
Longterm Payoff
Innogames demonstrates F2P chops with first game over $100 million of lifetime revenue
From browser to mobile
Apple Core?
Supercell investors fund core Barcelona dev Winko Games
Seed round raises $1.4 million
Looking Good
Oculus reveals finalised Rift design, dual Touch controllers, and Xbox One support
Price still unconfirmed however
Millions Of Curious Eyeballs
Why AdMob is now the exclusive advertising channel to access millions of Trivia Crack players
Etermax CEO Maximo Cavazzani trusts its fill-rate
Celebrating Openness
Two years from App Store rejection, AppGratis hits 10 million Android installs
CEO Simon Dawlatt on keeping your options open
Animal Magic
Sonic Dash celebrates 100 million downloads with playable Angry Birds characters
Hedgehog vs birds
Suits You
Steady as she goes: The monetisation of Lara Croft: Relic Run
IAPs from the players' perspective
Optimised Robot
We're opening up Android and driving innovation, says Cyanogen SVP
A new way to play
Rising Tide
How the Indonesian game market is developing
GameFounders' Big Asia Tour reports back
The Alternative
GungHo-owned Playphone signs up with Cyanogen to increase reach for its curated Game Store
An emerging store for emerging markets
Dash For Cash
It's accumulated 100 million downloads for Sega, but how many gold rings has Sonic Dash collected?
Most popular Sonic game ever
B Of The Bang
Still a nascent market, but there are now over 600 Apple Watch games
Category is 10 percent of total
Kalypso's First Baby
Right place, right time, right price: the making of Crowntakers
The story behind Kalypso's first mobile game
Unseen Gems
Kongregate's Jeff Gurian on the importance of dark metrics
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Existential Success
Why Crossy Road focused on sharing and retention, not UA and monetisation
Throwing away the rule book
Seeing Double Faster
Unity optimises its VR and AR optimisations in Unity 5.1
Gains a new rendering pipeline
Camelot & All That
Gamevil brings Asian hit CCG Million Arthur to western markets
Out on Google Play in 15 select countries now
Money And Mouth Aligned
NativeX on why it's offering new clients 20% higher CPM than their current best provider
CEO Robert Weber on a ballsy move
Bigger In China
NetEase's Fantasy Westward Journey reaches #4 in App Annie's worldwide iOS revenue chart
Scorching rise of Asian giant's mobile MMORPG
Playfab For All
PlayFab broadens access to its live game services with its Free Tier
Offering stronger retention and monetisation
Time For Parity?
Are we still treating Android as a second class mobile gaming citizen?
Our Mavens circle the age old iOS-versus-Android debate
Mixing In La
Join the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer at E3 2015
Going down the Broadway
Bye Bye Bursts
Apple killed user acquisition... again?
Another day. Another App Store tweak
Candy & Popcorn
Cut the Rope's Om Nom gets a movie
Due in 2016
Indie Advice
China is already a top country for The Sandbox downloads, says Pixowl's Sebastien Borget
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015