Philanth-flappy
Flappy Bird clone funds Nepal Earthquake disaster relief
Game Studios uses gaming to buy food and medical supplies
Key Networking
Going to Nordic Game? Come to our PG Mobile Mixer on 19 May
Drink up the fun, relaxed networking with an educational twist
Clone Wars
Scott Cawthon files subpoena to expose fake Five Night's at Freddy's 4
So-called "Lazada Polodi" ripped off successful franchise on iOS
Open For All
FunPlus launches its transparent PublishingPlus initiative for all F2P devs
Available for any game at any stage of development
Adding Xp
Ex-Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada joins Metaps' board
Going for growth
Game Cull
Quality control forces Sega to pull games from app stores
Sega won't confirm which games will be axed.
Under The Sea
Sign up for Pocket Gamer's Google I/O 2015 party on 27 May
We're going under the sea for our latest party
Install Me
Facebook powers up mobile app install ads with deep linking
Mobile ads just got a bit more powerful.
Hard Times
Mobile majority Zynga sees FY15 Q1 sales down 5% to $183 million
Losses will continue
Talks & More
DevGAMM Moscow 2015 kicks off on Friday 15 May
Checking out the Russian dev scene
Alive
Rough Cookie Erik t' Sas takes live ops role at GameDuell
Veteran adds another notch
Epic Gain
Ex-Epic president Mike Capps takes advisory role at Unity
Riccitiello makes another mark
Serious Plan
Nintendo to launch its first mobile game by end of 2015
Has plans for 5 games by March 2017
Short And Sweet
How Everywear Games is taking play from the Starbucks' queue to the traffic lights
Nordic Game Bits looks at its wrist
Eye Of The Beholder
Does Apple really care about indie game developers?
Our Indie Mavens debate Apple's attitude
Tick Talk
Final chance to speak at PG Connects San Francisco on July 7-8
Come share your knowledge
App Scratcher
Firefox OS developers enjoy free app promotion with Tappx
Mozilla partners with open ad exchange for developers.
Blood On The Tracks
Zynga shares up 11% following 364 job cuts
Tough decisions go down well with investors
Man Around Data
Ninja Metrics hires Gordon Bellamy to spearhead predictive analytics
New start, new data
Now With Curves
This time in Unity: The remaking of spy-tastic endless runner Agent Dash
How Full Fat improved on its spy-themed endless runner
Jackpot
Everything you wanted to know about the social casino market in 15 minutes
Plumbee CEO Raf Keustermans braindumps
Integrated Approach
Using Flash for UA and mobile to monetise, Doodle God dev JoyBits hits 170 million downloads
Taking advantage of each platform
Bigger & Better
How ChinaJoy 2015 will reflect the growing size and sophistication of the Chinese gaming market
Looking forward to Chinajoy 2015
New Angle Of Attack
How Zynga is looking to move mobile strategy from 'breach and flood' to 'rolling momentum'
The thinking behind Empires & Allies
The Wait Goes On
Oculus announces it will be announcing Oculus Rift details later in 2015
Virtual reality headset due Q1 2016
Small Screen Success
Mobile release helps Hearthstone crack 30 million player milestone
F2P card game rakes in the players
Just Swell
App Annie gains 12th office location as it acquires usage analytics outfit Mobida
Analytics outfit grows its numbers
La Style
Youtubers and swag galore promised at Pocket Gamer's E3 2015 party
Chukong and Rovio Stars to sponsor event on 17 June
Filling Your Funnel
Inside the Game: How we went from riding organics to learning the nitty-gritty of UA and spending $100,000s a month
Max Doty on building successful F2P businesses
Time For Tie-ins
EA Mobile looks to brands such as Star Wars, UFC and Minions for success in 2015
Tastes are maturing fast
Leap Forward
EA Mobile sees FY15 sales up 26% to $504 million
Now has 165 million MAUs
Magnifying Glass
Fiksu adds Apple Watch event tracking to existing iOS SDK
New SDK provides visibility into Apple Watch app engagement
Sf Merry-go-round
Former Kixeye-r Bachman-Wood now GMing SGN's San Francisco office
Gaining a veteran
Gift Impulse
Could Trophit's gift-voucher approach to UA increase your LTV 3-fold?
A better approach to acquire
East Shift
Asia to be more than half the world's $45 billion mobile game market by 2018
Digi-Capital research predicts big changes.
Is Apple's aggressive attitude to deprecating devices good or bad for game devs?
Mobile Mavens discuss where Apple could do more
Reward Me
Supersonic opens video mediation platform to all developers
Ready for indies too
Easy For Fun
How ChinaJoy's status as the world largest game show mirrors the rise of the Chinese market
Ten years of plenty
Best Fiends With Seoul
How Seriously is crafting its approach to the competitive, lucrative and culturally vibrant Korean market
Working in conjunction with Incross
Pulling Together
5 things we learned about Croatia's games industry at Reboot Develop 2015
Matt Suckley our man on the ground
Qualified Success
Dungeon Hunter 5 launch underlines Gameloft's relative F2P success
How good is best?
Approve This
In the confused world of creative attribution, the App Store approvals process is a busted flush
Carter Dotson says put up or start working
Full Vision
Tommy Palm's VR outfit Resolution announces C-level execs and board
King's former Games Guru reveals new company
First Come First Served
Apple's new App Analytics is available in early access beta
In-house app analytics rev up for a test drive
Wrists On
Launch Apple Watch game devs on staking their claim for future glory
Devs share their first impressions
A Word From Our Sponsors
Why in-game ads - native, video and brands - will unlock the next wave of F2P monetization
Monetizer Mavens go ad-funded
Pgc Discount
Final few hours of Early Bird ticket discount for PG Connects San Francisco
May 1 deadline for super value access to July 7-8 conference
Did It Again
Britney Spears and Tencent deals add $116 million to Glu's market cap
Shares now higher than Tencent buy price
Shake Up
Personagraph and WWO bring private marketplace to Indian mobile ad market
Transparency data-driven approach
Console Boom
Microsoft and Sony return to ACH expo as Chinese console market emerges
China is a new market for the console kings