Interview
Chinese dev VOLV Interactive on making WWII games for the western market
There are no boundaries in the game industry
Data
Men play from cars. Women play from tablets
Pocket Gems' data shows men more likely to play on the go
Stateside
Apple is fast becoming the faceless giant developers love to hate
Life not so rosy inside the walled garden
Data
One in five apps opened just once before being deleted
But stats suggest user engagement is on the up
Three quick and dirty tips for how best to network at games events
Use these tricks to meet the right people
Interview
How UCWeb grew its dominant mobile browser position in China to create the UC 9Game platform
Leveraging the power of clan community
Deal
Chinese app distribution heats up as Alibaba acquires rest of UCWeb in $4 billion value deal
Already owned 66 percent of browser outfit
Pocket Gamer's Ultimate E3 2014 party guide
All you need to know about the afterhours scene
Apple releases WWDC 2014 tutorial videos for iOS 8, Metal, Swift and more
Getting to grips with the future
Making Of
Shedding light: The making of A Dark Room
You don't always need pictures to tell a story
Creative England welcomes Ian Livingstone to the boardroom
Experience will help the UK
Sponsored Feature
Chinese powerhouse SkyMobi launches 5 million download guarantee at PG Connects Helsinki
Also guarantees $100,000 minimum revenue
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Bubble Witch Saga 2 burst onto the scene
2 June - 8 June, 2014
Opinion
Discovery déjà vu: The writing is on the wall for incentivised video ads on the App Store
Death of app discovery tells us all we need to know
Deal
Parallel Kingdom dev PerBlue raises $3 million
Ready for an expansion of staff and audience
Deal
PaeDae rebrands as The Mobile Majority and closes $8 million funding
All systems go
Funding
Supercell and King investor Index Ventures raises $550 million
Consumer mobile is a core sector for future deals
Opinion
So after the Beats deal, MOGA is next for Apple, right?
What Apple won't do next
Start Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki with an early morning run
Time to get the blood flowing
Mobile Mavens
iOS 8: Industry experts on the good, the bad, and the downright dangerous
More questions than answers?
Apple beefs up iTunes analytics and attribution as it extends control over user acquisition
Full conversion funnel transparency
Sponsored Feature
Spellgun on its low volume, high quality approach to bringing western games to the Chinese market
Believe in dedication and focus
Apple's new dawn: iOS 8 changes will "empower developers", says Heyzap
The complete package?
We've not seen rejections of apps that show incentized video ads from GameAds, says Applifier CEO
What is Apple up to?
Deal
Talkweb spends $130 million to buy 90% of Papa Three Kingdoms dev HRG Tech
M&A market heating up
Chinese Beaujolais
Chain Chronicle and Puzzle & Dragons get official Chinese releases
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
Wandoujia social-integrated match-3 Happy Pop does 2.4 million downloads
App store's added social power
Apple bans rewarded actions: "I think it wants to own app discovery," says source
Developers caught in the crossfire between Apple, Google and Facebook
Rumourmill
Another brick in the wall: Rumours suggest Apple's banning incentivised video ads and Facebook sharing
Also randomising MAC address
TIGA's Games Tax Relief tour heads to MediaCityUK
North by North West
Government crackdown: No nudity please, We're Chinese mobile gamers
Bikinis banned
UK games industry undergoes renaissance thanks to "mobile explosion"
TIGA proves the UK has found its feet
The Charticle
How did Temple Run reach 1 billion downloads?
The analysis of a lifetime
Chart Of The Week
20% of US mobile users played a King game in May 2014
But the trend is downwards
Sponsored Feature
Build better with SpriteBuilder
From the creators of Cocos2D, Cocos3D, CocosBuilder, and Chipmunk
Opinion
Mobile hardware is only going to get better but maybe not in the ways you think
Change from the bottom up
Interview
You can't port PC games direct to mobile, says Russian online powerhouse My.com
It's a dead-end path
Data
Tablet's share of US game time doubles to drive up weekly duration by 12% to 6.3 hours
PC the big faller
Hot Five
Why Supernauts will be a game changer, the making of Samurai Siege, and Apple surprises developers with Swift and Metal
Last week's top five stories
Wrapping up DevGAMM Moscow 2014
Conference in reflection
Week That Was
Apple unveils iOS 8, Quiz RPG gains on Puzzle & Dragons, and the PG E3 Party Guide is live
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
AgeCheq brings COPPA compliance to Unity with new SDK
Free to all Unity developers
Monetizer Mavens
Is there any place in the F2P designer's toolbox for energy-based economies?
Fuel for thought
Sponsored Feature
InMobi on the break with banner ads and its native revolution
Time to take control
Opinion
Market view: the state of mobile game investments
IG on the performance of King, EA, Glu and Gameloft
We mixed things up at our Berlin Mobile Mixer
King and crobo sponsored a night of brilliant debate
Deal
Singapore startup Booster Media raises $1.5 million
LucasArts alumnus up and running
Pool Live Tour dev Geewa announces $4.2 million financing round
Three new games planned for 2014
Deal
Nexon accumulates, adding "killer core" title from US startup Turbo to 2015 portfolio
Second publishing deal in 2 weeks
Deal
Sequoia invests $15 million in Indian mobile game outfit Octro
New opportunities