Supercell CEO Paananen, Ben Cousins, Ubisoft, EA and Amazon sign up for PG Connects Helsinki
Nearly 100 top notch speakers signed up – join them!
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Jean-Philippe Decka, AppLift
App stores favour the incumbents
Investment
Danish startup Chroma Studios raises $300,000
Seed round
Investment
Egg Baby dev Nix Hydra raises $5 million
Female-focused outfit in expansion mode
Financials
KongZhong sees mobile games boom in Q1 2014, with sales up 119% to $8 million
Three Kingdoms games score
Financials
Wind Runner's decline sees WeMade's Q1 2014 mobile sales down 33% to $19.3 million
Core up, but casual down more
Interview
The global game: Colopl on bringing skills-based JRPG Slingshot Braves to the west
Not pay-for-win
EA shuts down Mythic, while Harmonix sheds 37 jobs
Mind the gap
Pg Connects
Helsinki hype: 10 reasons why you need to pick up a pass for Pocket Gamer Connects
The most important one is free beer
Russian powerhouse Game Insight relocates HQ to Lithuania
Corporate flexibility
Video Interview
Don't burst the bubble: King's Jan Wedekind on why Bubble Witch Saga needed a sequel
"You can't just republish the same game"
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Minecraft and LEGO lay the foundations for iPad dominance
19 May - 25 May, 2014
Funds for F2P: Dundee-based Outplay boosted by $5 million cash injection
Investors looking to increase exposure
Blizzard: Hearthstone on iPad was a "significant undertaking"
But touchscreen play reaches audiences other platforms can't
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Money matters: Skillz multiplayer cash tournament platform launches for iOS
Powered by over 150 games
GameBench releases sample results from Android game benchmarking app
Full version on Google Play soon
Opinion
How to optimise your Lifetime Value with effectively implemented cohort analysis
Understand it or lose it
NativeX launches customisable native mobile ad exchange for F2P games
Extracting maximum value
Data derby: App Annie acquires analytics rival Distimo
And wraps up a $17 million funding round
Puzzle & Dragons surpasses 4 million downloads in North America
Don't stop me now
MAG Interactive and High Noon developing Ruzzle TV show
Words on TV
Stateside
Adapt to survive: Why Twitch needs mobile if it hopes to stay relevant
Crossing the streams
Unity: More than 450 bugs squished in Unity 4.5
Now available for download on all devices
UKIE to fly the flag for British devs at Liverpool business expo
Spotlight on Britain
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: James Vaughan
Plague Inc. creator on infecting the world
Making Of
Nerfing rogues and gaming grans: The making of Hearthstone
Bringing Battle.net to a whole new platform
Sponsored Feature
12 reasons to use cloud-based games-as-a-service solution GameSparks
In use with 200 studios
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Vladimir Funtikov, Creative Mobile
Time to get smarter about UA
Gingee rolls out very cross-platform development technology
Promises to support all current and future devices
Deal
Nexon takes stake in Socialspiel in return for exclusive publishing deal
Deal chain combo builds
Rovio shores up consumer products business with trio of strategic hires
And one in-house promotion
Boom Beach burst helps keep Supercell at the top of the app tree
App Annie details iOS and Android apps in April
Nordic Game 2014
From Malmö with love: 4 things we learned at Nordic Game
Quality, not quantity
Financials
SkyMobi's 2014 revenues down 19% to $78 million, but Q4 rises as smartphone platform accelerates
A tale of four quarters
Grand Cru: An App Store promo spot can do more harm than good
Beware marketing you can't control
Helsinki hotshot Next Games is hiring
The next big thing
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Mikael Haveri, Housemarque
Imbibe with the locals
Despite Q1 2014 sales up 208% to $60 million, Chukong postpones US IPO
Splitting development and tools operations
Data
Having generated $1 billion in sales, Kakao breaks 500 million downloads barrier
The power of friends
Deal
Kakao merges with Daum to create Korean internet powerhouse
Mobile messaging outfit valued at $3 billion
Chinese Beaujolais
318 million smartphones sold in 2013, will Tencent rule them all?
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
The Charticle
Can Thomas Was Alone find friends on the App Store?
A lonely place
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Wilhelm Taht, Playground
The challenge is to do something that stands out and monetizes
Hot Five
The making of Angry Birds Go, rebooting the App Store discovery system, and an Oxford professor calls out Supercell
Last week's top five stories
Nordic Game 2014
'Kickstarter is your story': Cindy Au on crowdfunding successes, failures, and the evolution of Kickstarter
It's all about you
ZeniMax sues Oculus, Apple allows devs to give IAPs away, and Ex-Rovio man Ville Heijari joins Vungle
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Making friends: Gamescom announces Nordic partnership
Working with the best
Win a place on the PG Connects I Love Indie Showcase
10 showcase tables worth $300 each available for VBIP entants who register before 28th May
Job News
Ex-Disney Mobile exec Tim O’Brien joins Scopely as CRO
Back into startup mode