More Than Bollywood And Cricket?
Is India the next China of mobile games?
Our Indian Mavens compare and contrast
Deep Wallet
Tencent invests again, injecting $60 million into Pocket Gems
Rumoured to have taken a 20% stake
Truth In Jest
Rovio bringing virtual reality Angry Birds to Gear VR
Rock in Rio VIPs get first go
It's Getting Better
Why market conditions have shifted to favour mobile game developers
Your publisher needs you
Seeking A Billion
Japan #1 Monster Strike raking in $3.8 million per day
Touted as Japan's next billion-dollar mobile game
New Horizons
MobilityWare hits 250 million downloads, sets sights on wearables
Now looks to wearables
Boom Continues
Despite spending $15 million on UA, Com2uS sees FY15 Q1 profits rise to $25 million
Another record quarter for Korean publisher
Less Is More
Following the closure of its Vancouver office, GREE refocuses international efforts
Finding the balance
Transparency
Millennial Media plays the trust card, offering a 100% viewability guarantee
Get what you pay for
Smart Move
GameGenetics to massively enlarge R&D base thanks to major investment
Targeting control and transparency
Football Manager
Top Eleven signs up 100 million registered mobile players
Nordeus sports game becomes most popular on mobile
Time To Learn
Unity unveils session schedule for Unite Europe 2015
Runs from 24-25 June in Amsterdam.
Coming Up Trumps
When it comes to Hearthstone's Asian success, Japan is the outlier
Phone version has provided another boost
Hr Head
Unity hires Elizabeth Brown as Chief People Officer
Former LinkedIn exec joins Unity Technologies exec team
Hive Mind
Cancer Research UK uses mobile games to crowdsource research
Three freemium games analyse cells for the scientists
Long Players
Japanese mobile gamers play 3 times more than Americans
App Annie says Asia eclipses the west
Cash In
Touchdown Hero goes the extra mile with Cashplay real money tournaments
Back your skill with cash
Vr Dawning
Is the 12-month wait for Oculus Rift a disaster or an opportunity for VR?
The Mavens debate when virtual reality will dawn
Ways To Spend
Video and Facebook still the most effective UA channels
AdColony marks the status quo
All Systems Go!
D3Publisher of America rebrands as mobile-friendly D3 Go!
Gets a mobile focus
Philanth-flappy
Flappy Bird clone funds Nepal Earthquake disaster relief
Game Studios uses gaming to buy food and medical supplies
Key Networking
Going to Nordic Game? Come to our PG Mobile Mixer on 19 May
Drink up the fun, relaxed networking with an educational twist
Clone Wars
Scott Cawthon files subpoena to expose fake Five Night's at Freddy's 4
So-called "Lazada Polodi" ripped off successful franchise on iOS
Open For All
FunPlus launches its transparent PublishingPlus initiative for all F2P devs
Available for any game at any stage of development
Adding Xp
Ex-Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada joins Metaps' board
Going for growth
Game Cull
Quality control forces Sega to pull games from app stores
Sega won't confirm which games will be axed.
Under The Sea
Sign up for Pocket Gamer's Google I/O 2015 party on 27 May
We're going under the sea for our latest party
Install Me
Facebook powers up mobile app install ads with deep linking
Mobile ads just got a bit more powerful.
Hard Times
Mobile majority Zynga sees FY15 Q1 sales down 5% to $183 million
Losses will continue
Talks & More
DevGAMM Moscow 2015 kicks off on Friday 15 May
Checking out the Russian dev scene
Alive
Rough Cookie Erik t' Sas takes live ops role at GameDuell
Veteran adds another notch
Epic Gain
Ex-Epic president Mike Capps takes advisory role at Unity
Riccitiello makes another mark
Serious Plan
Nintendo to launch its first mobile game by end of 2015
Has plans for 5 games by March 2017
Short And Sweet
How Everywear Games is taking play from the Starbucks' queue to the traffic lights
Nordic Game Bits looks at its wrist
Eye Of The Beholder
Does Apple really care about indie game developers?
Our Indie Mavens debate Apple's attitude
Tick Talk
Final chance to speak at PG Connects San Francisco on July 7-8
Come share your knowledge
App Scratcher
Firefox OS developers enjoy free app promotion with Tappx
Mozilla partners with open ad exchange for developers.
Blood On The Tracks
Zynga shares up 11% following 364 job cuts
Tough decisions go down well with investors
Man Around Data
Ninja Metrics hires Gordon Bellamy to spearhead predictive analytics
New start, new data
Now With Curves
This time in Unity: The remaking of spy-tastic endless runner Agent Dash
How Full Fat improved on its spy-themed endless runner
Jackpot
Everything you wanted to know about the social casino market in 15 minutes
Plumbee CEO Raf Keustermans braindumps
Integrated Approach
Using Flash for UA and mobile to monetise, Doodle God dev JoyBits hits 170 million downloads
Taking advantage of each platform
Bigger & Better
How ChinaJoy 2015 will reflect the growing size and sophistication of the Chinese gaming market
Looking forward to Chinajoy 2015
New Angle Of Attack
How Zynga is looking to move mobile strategy from 'breach and flood' to 'rolling momentum'
The thinking behind Empires & Allies
The Wait Goes On
Oculus announces it will be announcing Oculus Rift details later in 2015
Virtual reality headset due Q1 2016
Small Screen Success
Mobile release helps Hearthstone crack 30 million player milestone
F2P card game rakes in the players
Just Swell
App Annie gains 12th office location as it acquires usage analytics outfit Mobida
Analytics outfit grows its numbers
La Style
Youtubers and swag galore promised at Pocket Gamer's E3 2015 party
Chukong and Rovio Stars to sponsor event on 17 June
Filling Your Funnel
Inside the Game: How we went from riding organics to learning the nitty-gritty of UA and spending $100,000s a month
Max Doty on building successful F2P businesses
Time For Tie-ins
EA Mobile looks to brands such as Star Wars, UFC and Minions for success in 2015
Tastes are maturing fast