Not Another Social Network
How GetSocial plans to expand your game's social reach and drive cost-effective virality
Offering an a la carte selection of tools
Bottom-up
Nordeus on the importance of optimising for low-end devices
Srdja Stetic-Kozic and Tomislav Rakić share insights
Rollover Jackpot
Are you properly promoting your next game to your current players?
Magnus Alm on upselling your community
Hot Five
Get a job with Wooga, Nintendo eyeballs Kim Kardasian, and dying indie dev dreams
We round up the top five stories from last week
Glass Half...
Halfway through: Mobile Mavens rate 2015 so far
Their hopes and fears
#ripiwata
Twitter floods with tributes mourning Satoru Iwata
The president of Nintendo has passed away, aged 55
History Ain't Bunk
How DomiNations used world history as IP, while being a notch more complex than Clash of Clans
Tim Train on more interesting decisions
Heart Vs Head
Why the full-time indie game development dream is dead
Carter Dotson sees a dream become a nightmare
Prophetic Words
Flashback Friday: Machine Zone's Gabe Leydon on redefining mobile gaming as an intense 24/7 activity
Everything else will feel slow
Ranking The Vision
How is Oculus Rift shaping up compared to Morpheus and Vive?
Our VR Mavens discuss if it still has first mover advantage
Switch
Twitch rakes in more revenue than YouTube, says report
Superdata reveals Twitch's rise to the top
Branded Good
HyprMX launches its simple video incent ad management system HyprMediate
Highest paying videos selection
Futureshock
Four technologies that will change the aesthetics of game development
Benjamin Sutherland is looking ahead
Real Objects Real Cash
We're enabling all developers to do a Skylanders, says phygital toy outfit FabZat
Florent Pitoun on a new revenue stream
Next China?
With 300 million smartphones expected by the end of 2015, now is the time to enter India
Amit Khanduja sets out the opportunity
Beam Me In
Disruptor Beams bolsters executive team, hires CMO Pete Arden
Former CCP Games VP goes mobile.
Helping Hand
Altara Games supports studios in Games Tax Relief interim
A new UK company is fronting cash for young studios
Fresh Generation
How will India's mobile gaming-first status affect its development?
Our Indian Mavens debate strengths and weaknesses
Golden Gate To Success
Why the Bay Area is a such as sweetspot for social game development
SGN's Josh Yguado on the right location
Branded Values
Ad campaign pushes 600,000 players of Google's location game Ingress to visit AXA insurance offices
Click and collect
A #pgcsanfran Marvel
From Marvel Contest of Champions to Frozen Free Fall: Disney on the power of its brands
Disney's Chris Heatherly explains all
Super Hero
Despite super villainous file size, Marvel Future Fight hits 20 million downloads
Netmarble has a big hit
Success Story
Her Story scored almost half its sales on iOS
Mobile detectives catch up with PC PCs.
Pulling The Plug
KongZhong is latest Chinese NASDAQ-floated company to consider going private
Trend gathers pace
Your Hero
Amazon offers customizable 3D-printed video game characters
Sandboxr offers 3D printing services to Amazon
Cash Injection
Marmalade scoops $2 million investment
UK cross-platform firm raises funds
Back To Basics
Why three-man-indie Framebunker is going iOS, paid and niche core
Nicholas Francis and Charles Hinshaw's vision
Inflationary
Apple updates App Store prices in four countries, adds low price tier for India
South Africa, South Korea and Turkey prep for price hike
Switch It Up
EA swipes Samantha Ryan as new head of mobile
Former Warner Bros, Interactive Entertainment VP steps up.
Get Hired
How to get a job at Berlin mobile developer Wooga
Head of HR Vera Termühlen reveals top tips
Going Live
App Store, Google Play or Steam? Our Indie Mavens debate which store has the best approvals process
Horses and courses
Big Vision
VR will be big but AR will be four times bigger by 2020, says Digi-Capital
Tim Merel's looking into the future at #PGCSanFran
Meet The Marios
DeNA West CEO points to Kim Kardashian Hollywood as example of how its brand-meets-backend Nintendo deal could work
5-game deal is DeNA's "biggest ever"
Less Is More
Samsung positions Galaxy Apps as the curated app store for quality including VR and wearable content
Mihai Pohountu talks at #PGCSanFran
Right Match
How to win over the indies developers that really matter
Sergey Babaev is looking for partners
A-gree-d
GREE mines SE Asian market with Touchten investment
Japanese mobile games giant gets strategic
Going Deeper
Game Insight on why mobile games need to move beyond 5-minute toilet sessions
Time sinks not tinkle breaks
Seaside Show
The Big Indie Mixer rolls into Brighton on 14 July
Pitch, mix and learn
Too Many Too Similar
Why the App Store doesn't need any more Clash of Clans clones
Now is the time to do something different
Cash Cat
Garfield game maker Animoca Brands palms $2.3 million OurPalm investment
Latest deal in a flurry of investments
Back To Nature
Stugan: Swedish accelerator unearths retro platformer and Monument Valley-esque puzzler
Non-profit accelerator reveals first games
Hot Five
Fallout Shelter falls out, Supercell shuts Smash Land, and Rami Ismail talks truth
A glance at last week's top stories
Time To #pgcsanfran
Indie-pendence Day! 4 reasons to attend PG Connects San Francisco 2015
Free tickets
Trickle Down
Why Finnish triple-A game development is much more than Remedy
Bo Nørgaard on a maturing sector
Volte Face
Mobile game developers need to value their work and increasingly that starts with price
Carter Dotson wants to pay upfront
One We Made Earlier
Flashback Friday: Pedal to the metal: The making of CSR Racing
Jason Avent on the creation of a freemium sensation
Under Fire
Google startup apologizes for including Nazi death camps in Ingress
Niantic Labs forced to close portals in WWII concentration camps
Ftp Vs Fts
Nintendo reveals 'free-to-start' mobile game price strategy
Don't say "free-to-play" in front of Satoru Iwata
Overseeing Recruitment
Wooga appoints Vera Termuhlen as Head of Human Resources
Bringing 9 years' experience
Smart Calls
EEDAR's Patrick Walker on the importance of brands and segmentation in a maturing, global market
Times are changing