VisusVR combines PC and smartphones for wireless virtual reality headset
Budget-range HMD takes a new cross-platform approach to VR
Sponsored Feature
7 steps to crushing your next app campaign
Adknowledge gives you some wise advice
Game Connection Europe
Oculus, EA, and Epic sign up for Game Connection Europe
Ubisoft and Microsoft also on board
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: FIFA flies to the top of the free charts
September 22 - September 28
Virtual Reality
Free Unreal Engine 4 rumoured for Oculus Rift developers
Epic looking for new opportunities
Stateside
Ticking clock: Why developers shouldn't give smartwatches the time of day just yet
Or will they forever be niche devices?
Opinion
Nevermind the name, here's how Windows 10 can earn full marks
Microsoft needs to get its game on
Investment
Hugo Games raises $4 million for marketing new Hugo the troll games
Boosting the troll
Gaming Insiders Summit to feature talks from Twitch, Google Play and Valve
Plus SGN, Halfbrick, Disney and Glu
Deal
DeltaDNA and HP Vertica strike up strategic partnership to improve data management
Smart move
Jobs
Next Games looking for project manager, game designer, and level developer
The means to succeed
Investment
Remerge secures $1 million funding for its adtech platform
Enabling audience segmentation and retargeting
Promiscous Gamer
Goth Chris, learning the way of the tank and spates with Willow Pape
This guy will pl*y anything as long as it's free
Video
SkyMobi on targeting the bulk of Chinese mobile gamers who live in third tier cities
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Inside the Game: How our tutorial saved High School Story's totally naive soft launch
Pixelberry spills the beans
Appsfire hails ad network shift a success as ZeptoLab and NaturalMotion jump on board
News a 'great validation'
Deal
Stolen Couch Games secures $315,000 in funding for Animal Crossing-style game
Development paradise
Video
Chinese mobile gamers want pay-to-win says localisation expert
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Monetizer Mavens
The power and potential of card-collection mechanics for F2P mobile games
The Monetisation Maven ponder trumps and jokers
Opinion
The power of building communities for your games face-to-face
Oscar Clark wants to shake you by the hand
Opinion
Welcome to EGX: The event that highlights the growing indie vs triple-A console divide
Yes, we can have too many Assassin's Creed games
Jobs
AdColony hires ex-Grand Cru, Wooga marketing man Thorbjorn Warin
Bulking up in Europe
The Charticle
The most downloaded iOS game in August, but how well does Crazy Taxi: City Rush monetise?
Converting eyeballs
Jobs
InnoGames on the hunt for UX designer, marketing lead plus backend and Flash devs
New horizons
Expand your skills to extraordinary levels at ARM Gaming Developer Days
London, San Francisco and Chengdu
Mobile Mavens
Advantage App Store? The industry reacts to App Bundles on iOS 8
Can Apple shake up app discovery?
Dice Europe
Where the big boys go to play: 3 big lessons from DICE Europe 2014
Thoughts from a conference in Kensington
Hot Five
Charging for updates, escaping the trope of violence, India is ripe, and refining, refining, refining
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Are you inspired by Kinder Surprise, can you charge for updates, or escape the troupe of violence?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
Wooga and Kiwi shake things up while Zynga, TellTale, Rovio, and Gameloft all looking for new talent
New positions
Financials
Shanda to award 8 key staff golden handcuffs worth at least $13 million
Please stay
Data
Eight days on, iOS 8 adoption rate is around 30%
Apple's estimate seems rather high
Financials
Shanda sees Q2 FY14 mobile game sales up 31% to $14 million
Chain Chronicle gives a boost
Investment
Skillz raises $6 million for an aggressive UA campaign for real-money skill-based games
Total funding now over $13 million
Full Indie Uk Column
How I went indie, coded Fairway Solitaire, moved continents and took 9 years to make any money
Jake Birkett on making mistakes and surviving
Deal
Pint and publishing deal: Remedy and Flaregames sign Agents of Storm contract in London pub
Three quid well spent says Remedy CEO
Stateside
Escaping the echo chamber: GamerGaters and journalists have more in common than they think
Let some noise in
Video
DeNA on why western best practices don't work in Asia
Kenji Kobayashi on acting local
DevGAMM 2014 heads to Minsk on 17-18 October
Boosting game development in CIS
Data
Mobile games are a force multipler for entire industry says US survey
ESA looks at how mobile engages new audiences
Opinion
Why Wayward Souls' $1 price increase per update is driving sales
A new way of defining value?
Jobs
Following $15 million investment, Kiwi poaches talent from EA, Zynga and GREE
Console transition
Scottish games industry back up to 2008 levels, valued at $160 million
11 percent of UK total
Data
Estimates of British games industry value revised upwards to $2.8 billion
Mobile boosts the figures
Molyneux, Livingstone and Cecil are Best of British at PG Connects London 2015
Industry heavyweights heading to Vinopolis 13-14 January
Profile
Cowboy Games on why game development is a risk, but a risk worth taking
Wild wild west
Video
Can Game Power Score Analysis really predict your game's commercial success?
Markus Ramark certainly thinks so
Dice Europe
Monument Valley designer: Games must "escape the trope of violence"
And money must not be the only reward, says Wong
Data
Puzzle & Dragons hits 38 million downloads of which 5 million are in North America
Planning a community event to celebrate
We’re rolling out the red carpet at the official Samsung Developer Conference 2014 party
We wrap up the SDC2014 in Hollywood style