Interview
Playing your cards right: How Tequila Games hopes Earthcore's unlimited crafting will shake up CCGs
Building on Hearthstone's success
Indies ask for less money than they need, says our Slush 2014 Mobile Mixer panel
Helsinki gives the PG Mobile Mixer a warm reception
Hot Five
Alibaba's rumoured Com2uS move, Monument Valley IAP dissected and the end of free App Store games
Last week's top 5 stories
Adways, Latis and Ncloud24 partner up to provide global launch pad for Korea devs
One-stop-shop for Korean devs
Reading List
Reading List: So You Want to Make Video Games? A Survival Guide
Game designer Nicholas G. Pendriis takes us from start to finish
Week That Was
Learning from Taylor Swift, Alibaba to spend big, and Nokia and Jolla both announce Android tablets
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
DeNA, Chartboost, Two Tails, Small Giant, Adjust and Leadbolt all hiring now
Positions open
Investment
Pushing synchronous multiplayer mobile gaming, Flow State raises $1 million
SparkLabs Global lead the round
IMGA opens its nominations for 2015
Get your game in play by 31 December
Stateside
Learning from Taylor Swift: Your game is worthless but you can give it value
Welcome to mobile gaming in 2014
Interview
Make the best possible game you can. Everything else will follow, says Gamevil's Europe GM
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Finnish shooter specialist Critical Force wins our Slush 2014 Big Indie Pitch
Glad Game Studio and Calvino Noir also placed
Jobs
Small Giant Games seeks senior game designer
Apply within
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Monument Valley on the rise
November 10 - November 16
How is the mobile games business changing? Make your voice heard by 23 Nov
And maybe win an iPhone 6 or Lumia 930
Opinion
How Korean indies like Owlogue and Wispsoft are finding success with local crowdfunders
The News Gangnam Style
Studio Profile
Simply connect: How New York studio Dots learned to thrive on mobile
Connecting the dots
Apple waves goodbye to 'free' gaming by rewording download buttons
The end of an era
Google allows Chinese developers to sell their games in over 130 countries
Still can't sell in China though
Interview
Self-publishing indies need to focus on niche markets, says Mediatonic's Croft
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
5 reasons Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015 is perfect for indie developers
Indie jungle, the mobile jungle, we'll help your game to thrive
Investment
Rumour: Alibaba to invest big in Com2uS
Making up for lost time
Having paid out $2 million in 2014, Skillz says that its mobile eSporters aren't just kids
Growing sector
Investment
Rivals collaborate: Tencent and Alibaba both invest in film/TV outfit Huayi Brothers
Tencent gains IP for game development
Marketing outfit Crobo opens office in China
Ther journey east
Ukie promotes UK games business in Korea at G-Star conference
Big in Busan
Data
With a conversion rate of 10%, ustwo's Monument Valley IAP has paid off
Update has driven strong top grossing performance
Jolla's crowdfunded Android compatible tablet raises over $500,000 in hours
Sailfish OS-powered hardware is go, go, go
Investment
Disruptor Beam raises $3.2 million for Star Trek Timelines and other projects
Midverse Studios and GrandBanks Capital boldly go
Moving west for talent, Gameloft opens a studio in Seattle
Going midcore
Charticle
100 million strong, but how has Angry Birds Go! found its audience on Google Play?
Checking out Angry Birds Go!, Epic, Stella and Transformers
Spacetime's MMOG Arcane Legends coming to China courtesy of Golden Gate Games
Will be culturalised for local tastes
Mobile Mavens
Was it okay for ustwo to charge for Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores?
Or should it have been a free release?
Apple releases WatchKit as part of iOS 8.2 beta SDK
A new way to play?
Nokia Store will shut in mid-2015, users redirected to Opera Mobile Store
Microsoft twists the knife
DevGAMM Minsk 2014: The official report
Deal
Best Fiends developer Seriously receives $5 million funding boost
Old friends, new challenges
Following 300% Asia growth in Q3, Adjust opens offices in China and Japan
Shanghai and Tokyo are the places to be
Very Big Indie Pitch returns at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Deadline for submissions 8 Dec
Devs need to move beyond what's currently top grossing to new worlds, says Spymaster creator
Lasse Seppänen of PlayRaven calls for an end to Clash of the Clones
Stateside
Failure to launch: Why the days of having a launch date for your game are dead
Time to embrace betas and early access
Charticle
Mistwalker's Terra Battle scores big on the Google Play top grossing charts in Japan, France and Spain
But iPhone players don't care
Announcing its N1 tablet, Nokia looks to create an Android iPad for China and beyond
Includes news Nokia Z app launcher
Next Games plays its ace, announcing four game Compass Point series
It's a Wild West themed character-based card-battler
For future success, Sweden's next generation of games gurus go back to the Cabin
Stugan program starts in summer 2015
Financials
Focusing on single player games, SkyMobi sees FY14 Q3 sales up 24% to $34 million
Counter-intuitive bet is playing off
Toyze adds Talking Tom to its customisable 3D printing portfolio
Your own personal Tom
Deal
Gamevil and XL Games combine to release ArcheAge
Mobile ready
Robotoki drops F2P from forthcoming Human Element, cans Nexon publishing deal
Hindered by model, says Bowling
Kakao-centric
WeMade sees FY14 Q3 mobile game sales rise 4% to $16.5 million
Focused on local market