Fly Away
Jami Laes leaves "magical place" Rovio for something "interesting"
Rovio loses its head - of games, that is
Pewdie-mario
Nintendo opens entente cordiale with YouTubers through advertising share program
New beta program live
Even More Dominant
Tencent rumoured to have bought China's #1 gaming website for $1 billion
Changyou hands over 17173.com
Crossing Fever
Crossy Road does over 10 million Google Play downloads in 20 days
Android version is up and running
Hotting Up
GameAnax wins Pune's Game Hack competition
Four more cities still to visit
Westernisation
How China's soon-to-be #2 iOS status could shift our perceptions of the F2P Android gaming market
Shake up Shanghai style
Hallel-ouya
Ouya now boasts Unreal Engine 4 support
Good things come to those who wait
Maus Up To 160 Million
EA Mobile's FY15 Q3 sales down 1% to $121 million
SimCity BuildIt is building it
Sore Thumbs
Average time spent playing mobile games now over two hours a day
Kids play, adult pay
Holo-gaming
Will Microsoft's HoloLens trump the VR competition or fall on its ambition?
Did virtual reality just become obsolete?
Virtual Reality
Budget range VR system VISR looking for budget
Better than Cardboard and cheaper than Rift. The VR platform for everyone
Panel Work
How Loveshack found a new order with iOS hit Framed
Non-linear progression
Growing On Controversy
Thanks to #Gamergate, Feminist Frequency's 2014 revenue was boosted 600%
Anita Sarkeesian prepares for 2015
Light Up
Mobcast buys Lumines and Meteos for mobile reinvention
Pieces of the puzzle
Equivalence
Android game ecosystem now as profitable as iOS
Lower ARPU, but lower UA too
Drink Up Think Up
Meet up for a Drink Up in Amsterdam at Casual Connect Europe
Starting in style
New Faces
Oscar Clark is Watching the Watchmen
What's on your wrist?
Road Ahead
10 key trends from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Starting with a bang
Softy Softy
How Goodgame Studios approached the Chinese market
Taking an iOS first approach
On The Up
Hashstash Studio on its aspirations for the Indian mobile game market
Plenty of potential
On The Up
Cost of a loyal iOS user rose to $2.10 in December
Peaks and troughs
First Step
Summoners War to launch in China with Baidu and 360
Key partnerships
Force Multipler
Terra Battle punches above its weight in France and Japan
Top grossing on 1.5 million downloads
Roaring Tiger
GameHack devs on the future for the Indian mobile game market
Meet them and more at PGC Bangalore in April
Hot Five
Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads
Last week's top 5 stories
The Insider
FunPlus hires Greg Essig
Takes head of business role
Week That Was
How PewDiePie promoted Best Fiends, Twitch's eyeball power, and rising CPI price graphed
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Options For All
What can you learn from Crossy Road's smart monetization layers?
Like Flappy Bird but with revenues
On The Box
Quaid Media Burst TV promises a mobile gaming UA goldrush
Driving user acquisition, one ad break at a time
Get Physical
UCWeb enters gaming hardware market with Android Xiaoqi Gamepad
Hardcore gaming for Chinese Android players
Off The Grid
New Fortumo SDK allows offline in-app purchases
Who needs internet anyway?
Watch And Earn
35% of game devs are now using video ads
Conclusions from Millennial's 2015 State of the Apps report
Lost Gems
Spil Games on its initiative to reboot mobile gaming's Unsung Heroes
Games that haven't been successful - yet
Cabin Fever
Global applications open for Swedish Stugan game accelerator
Eight weeks in the countryside
Bandits High
Climax Studios on the challenge of providing the illusion of control in VR games
The Bandit Six team talks about learning to make games all over again
Chart Of The Year
Are CPI costs really rising?
Yes, but it depends on the UA channel
Crystal Ball
Facebook will consolidate UA dominance in 2015 with 1 billion monthly mobile users
eMarketer forecasts $11 billion of ads
Bay Area Switch
Storm8 hires Zynga's VP of product Pablo Paniagua
Aggressive hiring continues
Tiger Roars
Steel Media and Reliance Games officially launch Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore
Asia next in line following record-breaking PGC London event
Sharing Source
Tag Games on empowering the dev community with its F2P-focused ChilliWorks tools
New middleware, new approach
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Mobile Mavens
[Updated] Mobile Mavens on their hopes and fears for 2015
From smartwatches and YouTubers to UA, clones and HTML5
For St George
England's creative industries booming but too London-centric
Creative England announces its top 50
Second Stream
Gaming Live provides alternative to Twitch
Coming soon to iOS and Android
Flying High
After B funding round, AppsFlyer is $20 million stronger
San Francisco firm take funding total to $28 million
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Competition
[Updated] Find success on Windows Phone with Marmalade and Microsoft's developer offer
Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions
Next Billion
AppFlood report reveals 70% of new Android users coming from emerging markets
Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe growing fast
Vision-ary
King's Games Guru Tommy Palm leaves to set up VR developer
Resolution Games will explore virtual reality
Twitch Time
Mobile game devs need to take advantage of Twitch, says EEDAR's Patrick Walker
Clash of Clans ranked 43 out of 2,800
Small Screen, Big Vision
How Seriously worked with PewDiePie to fire Best Fiends up the charts
YouTubers as a coherent UA strategy
Ruzzle To Riches
Mag Interactive invests in upcoming UK studio Delinquent
Swedish studio takes "giving back to the community" literally