Squeezed Middle
Mid-tier companies need to shrink to indie, warns Tim Merel
GDC 2015 panel suggests a bit smaller is better
Watch And Paid
Crossy Road has now generated $3 million with Unity Ads
Opt-in, seamless and high monetisation
Blown Away
A rebranded Storm8 announces 1 billion downloads
Network is the way
21 Platforms
Split into personal and professional editions, Unity 5 is now live
Added Cloud Build and graphical features
Get Connected
Honed in the Korean PC market, the ProudNet networking engine comes to mobile
Ready for millions of players?
Talk Talk
How adding chat to your iOS games helps solve your engagement gap and makes money at the same time
Affinity Networks on turning talk to cash
Coming Alive
Animoca Brands is making a Paris Hilton mobile game
Endorsing by the celebutante
Do Not Polish
Backflip's 6 essential prototyping tips for mobile games
Tom Blind puts prototyping to the test.
Piggy Partners
U21 payment platform Oink partners with Playerize
Secure payment technology for under-21s
Maximising Ltv
Tapjoy's new platform will predict your players' behaviour and monetisation
Introducing the Future Value Map
Paying For Players
Japan has highest CPI costs
Geenapp counts country variation
Beyond Retail
NPD begins tracking in-app purchases and mobile game sales
Brave new world
Heroic High
Innospark's CEO on why its debut game Hero Sky is the spiritual successor to Warcraft III
Jae Chan Shin is shooting for the sky
Happy Birthday
Ruzzle celebrates 3rd birthday and 50 million download milestone
The word game stays relevant 3 years on
Big Show
Indie Mavens on the value of GDC for contacts, trends and great burritos
Time for San Francisco
Next Week
Are you ready for the PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developers of 2015?
And the winners are...
Strong Start
Bee7 helped devs pull 6.3 million installs in first three months
Android games monetization and UA platform wins out
Reality Check
PopCap co-founder John Vechey launches virtual reality startup
Pluto VR pops into life
Acceler-asia
GameFounders accelerates into Asia with Malaysian hub
Startup accelerator goes east in 2015
Competition
Oculus launches $1 million Mobile VR Jam 2015 competition
Virtual reality contest opens for entries
The Next Puzzle
Hall of Fame: Kazuki Morishita
GungHo Online CEO on bringing people joy
By Us For Us
Ignited Artists CEO Danielle Deibler on its staff-first approach to making core mobile games
Superpowered by Sega Networks investment
Up We Go
Fingersoft releases Chinese edition of Hill Climb Racing
Working with MyGamez
Ad This Up
Gameloft combats ineffective ad placements by opening up inventory
UK marketers can delve directly into portfolio
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Speak Up
Ex-Candy Crush Saga games guru Tommy Palm to keynote F2P: Summit
Former King exec heads to Shoreditch
More Or Fewer
Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games?
Our Mavens get feisty over the way ahead
The Next Billion
India - the next frontier in mobile advertising
Ravikanth Kanchibhotla lays bare the opportunity
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Cash Injection
UK video games pour $2.2 billion into the economy each year
BFI report reveals games industry economic impact
Tasty
From handhelds to mobile and back: the turbulent rise of Pastagames
The Parisian indie embracing risk
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
World Of Possibilities
Going mobile, NetEase opens US office to become more global
David Ting heads up new move
New Birds
Eric Seufert joins Rovio as VP of User Acquisition and Engagement
Someone new is pulling on the Rovio hoodie
Gift Wrapped For Devs
Thanks to Alibaba, Baidu and Yandex integrations, Flexion's wrapper adds 20 million users
Alternative channels
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
A New Contend-ar
Magic Leap decloaks to give HoloLens some AR competition
Google funded start-up talks
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Have Fun. Don't Be A Jerk
Top tips for surviving and thriving at game conferences
Get set for GDC 2015
Hot Five
The making of Crossy Road, Zynga's $153 million from ads, and Finland's bet on culture
Last week's top stories
This Good Takes
Sega's investment wasn't about the cash, it was about Japan, says Space Ape
Toby Moore on a strategic move
Week That Was
Apple loves premium, Zynga win big on in-game ads, and Hipster Whale talks Crossy Road
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Who Will Lead The Charge?
Mobile will never just become a core gaming medium
Carter Dotson demands some action
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace
Watch Us
AppSpy and Pocket Gamer's 12 hour charity Twitch stream now in full swing
Playing the best games ever made
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Hot Wings
Rovio hooks up with Kunlun to make Angry Birds for China
Beyond localisation