Interview
VR is a stepping stone to AR, reckons James Brooksby
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Tencent finally bringing Puzzle & Dragons to China
But is it too late?
Investment
Promising to shake up F2P grossing stasis, PlayRaven raises $4 million
Spymaster dev is making plans
Restructure
With the $4 billion Chinese mobile game market its big play for 2015, Kabam ditches web games
Sold off to RockYou
Making Of
As much as we could chew: The making of The Banner Saga
Stoic reveals all about its tactical triumph
Awards
SXSW Gaming Awards submissions close 12 December
Your last chance looms
Chart Of The Week
Beating RPGs for retention, CCGs are ruling and saturating the Chinese mobile market
Trumping it
Interview
SimilarWeb on moving from comparative UA and app store data to providing app engagement analysis
Gali Arnon lifts the curtain on the app ecosystem
Payments
Fortumo builds out Windows Phone carrier billing operations adding subscriptions
Big in Brazil, France, Argentina, Italy and Vietnam
Joint Venture
Alibaba invests in Chinese mobile social platform KTplay as it builds out gaming network
Yodo1 spins out its Kryptanium tech
Market Data
199 million-strong, southeast Asian mobile game market outnumbers PC
Over 20 million more gaming on mobile than PC
Publishing
Kuju founders reboot to ride the second age of indie gaming as Chilled Mouse
Focused on the best cheese
Social Network
Facebook is the place for casual and core games to conquer the world, says games man Bob Slinn
Social network reveals its best of the year
Opinion
Why Gear VR is a strong move for Oculus Rift but not for Samsung
Quality versus timing
Interview
Speaker Spotlight: Matt Spall, Invisiplay
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Opinion
Apple's best games of 2014 over-indexes paid content once again
Following critical not commercial acclaim
Glu hopes to prove you can never have too many Kardashians in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Kourtney and Khloe set to make their entrance
Virtual Reality
Samsung Gear VR now available for $200
The Oculus-designed smartphone virtual reality system finally launches
Deal
Bandai Namco partners with Roadhouse for new western-focused mobile RPG
Bubbling up in Vancouver
Augmented Reality
Live Game Board launches augmented reality SDK for Unity
Adding depth
Interview
Indian dev 99Games on satisfying global tastes with Star Chef
Cooking up a tasty social gaming dish
5 things we learned at hóPLAY 2014
Bilbao, ho!
Payments
Updated: LINE Pay to launch soon for digital and real-world purchases
Following Apple and Google into wallet business
Data
Superdata estimates Clash of Clans will generate $1.8 billion in 2014
Just keeps on growing
Interview
Gumi Asia CEO on bringing Sega's hit RPG Chain Chronicle to the west
Brave Frontier publisher's next release
Hot Five
Monster Strike rules Japan, Candy Crush bubbles up again, and the excitement builds for Gear VR
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Space Ape raises $7M, Monster Strike bests Puzzle & Dragons, and should wearables be subsidised?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Opinion
Why the continued rise and rise of mobile gaming is not guaranteed
What goes up...
Promising to revolutionise your data, Omniata launches Data Apps
Promises to "go beyond data"
Disney reacts to F2P concerns with subscription tie-in for Club Penguin Puffle Wild
Subscribers get everything for free
Full Indie Uk
How to create crazy-fun gameplay without confusing your players
Alistair Aitcheson on tweaking the UX for Tap Happy Sabotage
Jobs
Tag Games is hiring senior and junior roles for coding, artist and design
Dundee outfit is in full-on mode
Solving UA: Pocket Gems hopes its Night at the Museum game will ride third movie's coattails to success
Hidden Object game out now
Opinion
Why it pays to pay attention to retention
AppLovin's CPO Mark Rosner on a metric to monitor
Jobs
GREE is looking for a director of engineering
Level up its RPG studio in San Francisco
Jobs
Rovio shuts down Tampere studio as it confirms 110 job losses
Consolidates in Espoo
Jobs
Game Insight hires ex-Unity evangelist Oleg Pridiuk to push high-end 3D gaming
Demanding console quality
PG Connects London is covering the world of mobile gaming with Perfect World, Gumi, Kabam, King and Reliance
East meets west and all points inbetween
Studio Profile
Walking tall: Set Snail on embracing the experimental side of game development
Raise the snails!
Interview
Biodroid on the need to balance innovation and investment
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Investment
A Crowd of Monsters raises $550,000
All eyes on Barcelona
Jobs
ZQGame appoints Nancy Zheng as US CEO to drive international mobile game business
Strategic realignment
Investment
Mobile strategy dev Space Ape raises $7 million for Samuari Siege follow up
Outfit prepping Rival Kingdoms for 2015
Why OEMs, game devs and health companies should combine to make wearables a success
Businesses might need to pay for our wearables if they want to make money from them
Jobs
Analytics outfit deltaDNA is hiring
Looking for scientists and managers
Jobs
Vainglory looks to Twitch, hiring George 'Zekent' Liu as video community manager
Building community
Monster Strike finally snatches Japanese #1 top grossing spot from Puzzle & Dragons
Report reveals the winds of change in Japan's app charts
Updated: Following 500,000 iOS installs, Wargaming prepares to unleash Android campaign for World of Tanks Blitz
Advertising platform dmg provides the channels
Jobs
PlayQ is looking to hire a creative director
Sunny Santa Monica is calling you
Deal
APM deals brings hundreds of thousands of music tracks to Unity Asset Store
Top quality audio at accessible prices