Red Tape Battles
Is EU Commissioner Ansip Europe's last hope for future Minecrafts and Mojangs?
Looking for a coherent regulatory framework
Watch This
Apple giving away Apple Watch game Rules! for a limited period
It's an Apple Store app promotion
More Me
Frenzoo raises another $1 million to expand Me Girl franchise
Start-up working towards inter-app synergy
Going Global
How YeahMobi is helping Chinese indie developers to monetize and expand internationally
Mixing revenue generation with cost effective UA
Emerging Opportunity
Bee7 and Vserv forge partnership to solve emerging market monetisation
The next billion
Badge Of Honour
Does mobile gaming have its Bloodborne?
Mobile Mavens ponder cultural significance
Leveled Up
Logres of Swords and Sorcery racks up 6 million downloads in Japan
Aiming and Marvelous' RPG on the up
Coming Up Trumps
Ex-Zynga exec Lloyd Melnick to lead Rational's social casino efforts
Second wave gambling
Loudspeaker
Rami Ismail to keynote IndieDev:Day at Develop: Brighton
Vlambeer co-founder leads fifth IndieDev: Day
China Awaits
30 million downloads strong, but how well does Marvel: Contest of Champions monetise?
Valued superheroes
Hot Five
Apple Watch games, making money with Best Fiends, and Amazon swipes CryEngine
A glance at last week's top stories
Us Move
TabTale nets 5 million new players with Sunstorm acquisition
Publisher makes fourth acquisition
Crash Dummy
In China, the other engines are still playing catch up with Cocos2d, says Chukong
“Other game engines are still playing catch up with Cocos in China," says Chukong exec.
Week That Was
Zynga's rebound CEO, Minions change hands, and Five Nights at Freddy's movie in the works
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Smor-games-board
Is Netflixification the future of premium mobile gaming?
Carter Dotson wants all-he-can-play
Trio In
Fuse Powered poaches three from Fyber to boost SF team
Good for growth
Good Enough To Go
How do you know when your game is ready to launch?
Advice, tricks and tips from the Indie Mavens
Simply The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015
The shakers, makers and movers
Cunning Fox
Rovio hires ex-Fox exec Alex Lambeek to push Asian business
New chief commercial officer brings Asia Pacific experience
My Store My Rules
App Store featuring of CSR Racing IAP pack underlines promotion of iOS-exclusive paid content
Releases from Kabam, Ubisoft and Warners ignored
Hiring Hiring
251 jobs now open in the global mobile games industry
The latest mobile games job vacancies
Happy Sg50
Singapore celebrates 50th birthday with five F2P mobile games
Developers mark the country's anniversary
NCsoft invests $5 million in Kabam spin-out This Game Studio
Vancouver gets another start-up
Watch This
Scopely partners with Hasbro to bring Yahtzee to mobile and Apple Watch
Popular boardgame goes wearable
Small Screen Heroes
6 reasons why TV will drive the next phase in user acquisition for mobile games
Volker Dressel on the new opportunity
Native Son
AppLift CEO Tim Koschella on the rise of native ads, the holistic use of data, and new investment PubNative
Trends in adtech
3 Minutes Of Insight
Tell Pocket Gamer and TUNE your user acquisition priorities and problems
It's survey time
All Over Now
Shanda Games' convoluted NASDAQ buyout to finally close later in 2015
$1.9 billion cash deal accepted
Something Old
Mattrick out as Mark Pincus regains control at Zynga
Time for a CEO swap
Letting Go
Inside the Game: How writing a story-driven game in four months forces you to trust your team
Lessons from University U.
Boosting Ad Efficiency
Glispa's revised Quality Optimization Engine promises to fine-tune your campaigns
Backed by OLX
Retailing Op
Apple adds Games Manager job to 2 existing App Store game positions
Three roles of power are available
Looking Ahead
VR app store WEARVR raises $1.5 million
Leveraging potential for big investment
Blowing Your Trumpet
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes initiative will ensure your game gets discovered
Setting the scene
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Lights Camera Horror
Warner Bros. to bring Five Nights at Freddy's to the big screen
Survival horror on the big screen
Key Niches
Why you should remove Hong Kong and Taiwan from your China distribution agreement
Thinking really local
Making A Match
It's got 10 million downloads, but is Best Fiends' generating millions?
Is Seriously's debut a hit?
'appy Nation
How gaming is powering up the mobile app economy
Milliennial Media's State of the Apps report
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Start Your Engine
Amazon makes another strategic gaming move with $50 million CryEngine deal
But what comes next?
Cash In
Rovio wins $4.2 million in toy vending machine copyright dispute
Counterfeit Angry Bird toys spark legal battle
Shooting Stars
Rovio Stars continues to build dream team with the appointment of F2P consultant Mark Sorrell
Pieces are falling into place
Window Of Opportunity
Make a Windows game using Cocos2d-x and win $25,000
Deadline is 31 May 2015
Strings For Action
How Mech Mocha found the right connections to launch Puppet Punch
Decisions every step of the way
Fail Fast, Rebound
Second round Finnish startups get the lionshare of VC investment
Nordic Game Bits consider Finland's rise
Iap Inspector
Good fight: the honourable monetisation of Stormblades
IAPs from the players' perspective
Play Me
mNectar partners with Branch Metrics to improve playable ads
Playable ad technology combines with deep linking
Tailor-made
Gondola launches Dynamic Pricing Engine to match players and prices
Claims 12 percent rise in revenues
Growth Spurt
RevMob expands Sao Paulo HQ and boosts workforce
Brazillian ad platform grows rapidly