Strength In Big Numbers
Square Enix Collective on the power of IP and the psychology of crowdfunding
What's been learned?
Relative Failure
Did Fallout Shelter really only make $5.1 million during its peak weeks?
Superdata reckons so
New Old Bird On The Block
Rovio will lay Angry Birds 2-shaped egg on July 30
Angry Birds 2 inks in a launch date
Jet Fuel
6 ways to fund your startup
Ignited Artists' Danielle Deibler runs through the options
Sunny View
Marmalade opens a game development office in Lisbon, Portugal
London overflow
Good Better Best
Goodgame continues new look, appoints Ubisoft vet Simon Andrews to run new studio
Expansion apace
Piggybacker
Why Supernatural is the ideal TV brand for mobile game exploitation
TinyCo's Jeremy Horn talks licensing
Why Did The Chicken?
Still pushing alternative revenues, Hipster Whale launches official Crossy Road merchandise store
Fine for superfans
Don't Churn
Perion's expanded Growmobile platform adds engagement solution
Grownmobile launches engagement offering Beta
Lift Off
Kongregate's Launchpad program helps web indies go mobile
Online gaming specialist Kongregate wants small devs to go mobile
Pastures New
Scopely scoops Bernard Chen as GM and VP product
Official blog post welcomes Bernard Chen to Scopely
Making A Noise
Why you need to build your game's community months before it's released
Shark Punch CEO reveals some tricks
Helping Hands
Does your game need a publisher or not?
Publishers make the case at PGC San Francisco 2015
Secret Recipe
Twitch and Reddit can be a UA goldmine, says Miniclip following 10M downloads of Agar.io
Saad Choudri shares the success behind Agar.io
Touchyfeely
Apple reboots iPod touch range with new colours and A8 chip
Something old, something new
Do It Yourself
How Seriously built the Best Fiends' brand from scratch
Matt McMahon on the journey so far
Ad It Up
glispa gNative ad platform accesses half the world's smartphone users
New native ad platform comes out of Beta
Against The Odds
8 things you need to do to become a successful eSports developer
Smite dev Hi-Rez shares insights
Moba Or Moba$$$
Is Super Evil's longterm approach to Vainglory monetisation coherent?
Our Monetizer Mavens look ahead
Feed The Small Fish
GameAnalytics enters publishing with indie-focused Runway
Runway will help small indie studios looking to soft launch
Futureshock
With a 10x opportunity in the west, we're not even close to peak mobile gaming. says Neil Young
N3twork CEO is bullish
Middle Kingdom Data
New Chinese report claims its Android gaming market will be worth $3.6 billion in 2015
Newzoo and TalkingData launch monthly report
Concentrating
Inside the Game: Growing pains of taking a company of 10 to 40 (in the same office)
Kara Loo is sitting at a small desk
Right Whales
You need to love your F2P game and love your F2P players, says GodFinger 2's dev Jiggery Pokery
Matthew Wiggins on real success
Levelling Up
Amazon's Mike Hines on moving from players and IAPs to fans and alternative revenue streams
A new way to play
Innovation Through Convention
Zombie Match Defense wins the Very Big Indie Pitch at #PGCSanFran
But VR wins the war
Boost Your Game
Mobile, smartwatch, VR, or handheld game developers wanted for Big Indie Pitch at Gamescom 2015
One of the best things indies can do for their game
New Vision
Why Patrick O'Luanaigh is convinced VR gaming will be a success
But not in 2016
Do Your Ad-ition
New Supersonic Ad placement tool enables rewarded video customisation
Ad Placement Technology helps devs integrate rewarded ads.
Eastern Network
Join our PG Mobile Mixer at ChinaJoy 2015
And stick around for the Superhero Party...
Psychological Hooks
Western devs need to think more about chance and less about skill says Marvelous' Harry Holmwood
New ways to win
Cologne Come Along
Mobile gaming industry invited to our PG Mobile Mixer at Gamescom 2015
Not all at once, though - the venue isn't THAT big
Show And Tell
Free ebook teaches app marketing on a tight budget
Big Ideas Machine has some ideas about app marketing
Crouching Tiger
How new CEO Amit Khanduja is driving Reliance Games towards 100 million downloads
Going global and doubling down in India
Small Screen Heroes
How to harness the volatile power of YouTubers
Seriously’s Phil Hickey on influencing the influencers
Nascent
The challenges and opportunities of Apple Watch development
William Volk sees good and bad
Let's Get Critical
Stugan: How to deal with criticism
The Stugan devs talk game development
Not Another Social Network
How GetSocial plans to expand your game's social reach and drive cost-effective virality
Offering an a la carte selection of tools
Bottom-up
Nordeus on the importance of optimising for low-end devices
Srdja Stetic-Kozic and Tomislav Rakić share insights
Rollover Jackpot
Are you properly promoting your next game to your current players?
Magnus Alm on upselling your community
Hot Five
Get a job with Wooga, Nintendo eyeballs Kim Kardasian, and dying indie dev dreams
We round up the top five stories from last week
Glass Half...
Halfway through: Mobile Mavens rate 2015 so far
Their hopes and fears
#ripiwata
Twitter floods with tributes mourning Satoru Iwata
The president of Nintendo has passed away, aged 55
History Ain't Bunk
How DomiNations used world history as IP, while being a notch more complex than Clash of Clans
Tim Train on more interesting decisions
Heart Vs Head
Why the full-time indie game development dream is dead
Carter Dotson sees a dream become a nightmare
Prophetic Words
Flashback Friday: Machine Zone's Gabe Leydon on redefining mobile gaming as an intense 24/7 activity
Everything else will feel slow
Ranking The Vision
How is Oculus Rift shaping up compared to Morpheus and Vive?
Our VR Mavens discuss if it still has first mover advantage
Switch
Twitch rakes in more revenue than YouTube, says report
Superdata reveals Twitch's rise to the top
Branded Good
HyprMX launches its simple video incent ad management system HyprMediate
Highest paying videos selection
Futureshock
Four technologies that will change the aesthetics of game development
Benjamin Sutherland is looking ahead