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Happy Sg50
Singapore celebrates 50th birthday with five F2P mobile games
Developers mark the country's anniversary
NCsoft invests $5 million in Kabam spin-out This Game Studio
Vancouver gets another start-up
Watch This
Scopely partners with Hasbro to bring Yahtzee to mobile and Apple Watch
Popular boardgame goes wearable
Small Screen Heroes
6 reasons why TV will drive the next phase in user acquisition for mobile games
Volker Dressel on the new opportunity
Native Son
AppLift CEO Tim Koschella on the rise of native ads, the holistic use of data, and new investment PubNative
Trends in adtech
3 Minutes Of Insight
Tell Pocket Gamer and TUNE your user acquisition priorities and problems
It's survey time
All Over Now
Shanda Games' convoluted NASDAQ buyout to finally close later in 2015
$1.9 billion cash deal accepted
Something Old
Mattrick out as Mark Pincus regains control at Zynga
Time for a CEO swap
Letting Go
Inside the Game: How writing a story-driven game in four months forces you to trust your team
Lessons from University U.
Boosting Ad Efficiency
Glispa's revised Quality Optimization Engine promises to fine-tune your campaigns
Backed by OLX
Retailing Op
Apple adds Games Manager job to 2 existing App Store game positions
Three roles of power are available
Looking Ahead
VR app store WEARVR raises $1.5 million
Leveraging potential for big investment
Blowing Your Trumpet
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes initiative will ensure your game gets discovered
Setting the scene
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Lights Camera Horror
Warner Bros. to bring Five Nights at Freddy's to the big screen
Survival horror on the big screen
Key Niches
Why you should remove Hong Kong and Taiwan from your China distribution agreement
Thinking really local
Making A Match
It's got 10 million downloads, but is Best Fiends' generating millions?
Is Seriously's debut a hit?
'appy Nation
How gaming is powering up the mobile app economy
Milliennial Media's State of the Apps report
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Start Your Engine
Amazon makes another strategic gaming move with $50 million CryEngine deal
But what comes next?
Cash In
Rovio wins $4.2 million in toy vending machine copyright dispute
Counterfeit Angry Bird toys spark legal battle
Shooting Stars
Rovio Stars continues to build dream team with the appointment of F2P consultant Mark Sorrell
Pieces are falling into place
Window Of Opportunity
Make a Windows game using Cocos2d-x and win $25,000
Deadline is 31 May 2015
Strings For Action
How Mech Mocha found the right connections to launch Puppet Punch
Decisions every step of the way
Fail Fast, Rebound
Second round Finnish startups get the lionshare of VC investment
Nordic Game Bits consider Finland's rise
Iap Inspector
Good fight: the honourable monetisation of Stormblades
IAPs from the players' perspective
Play Me
mNectar partners with Branch Metrics to improve playable ads
Playable ad technology combines with deep linking
Tailor-made
Gondola launches Dynamic Pricing Engine to match players and prices
Claims 12 percent rise in revenues
Growth Spurt
RevMob expands Sao Paulo HQ and boosts workforce
Brazillian ad platform grows rapidly
Level Up
Nexon buys Gamevil-published RPG developer Boolean
Studio behind Dark Avenger series gets acquired
Options Open
LINE renews IPO application although won't list imminently
Messaging app keeps IPO door open
Lane Change
Former EA exec Shawn Conly joins GREE as VP marketing
GREE snaps up new talent
Square Up
Expanded to mobile games, Square Enix Collective adds funding of up to $250,000
Funding, feedback and advice available for indies
Triple Play
Outfit7 founder's three golden rules for game monetization
Samo Login's tricks of the trade
On The Vine
Whimsical Japanese dev uses Vine celebs to break into US market
Bike Rider by Amutus gets in to gear
Check Asx:olv
OtherLevels floats on Australian Securities Exchange
Marketing outfit on the rise
Line-up Confirmed
Schedule highlights unveiled for Estonia's GameDev Days 2015
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Unity in attendance
Cash In
DeNA sets $25 million a month target for each Nintendo game
Set the bar high
Square Eyes
InnoGames is latest game dev to spend big on TV ad campaigns
Targetting 25,000 spots
Vicarious Visions
John Riccitiello on why Unity talks about the money its developers are making
Tools are a means to an end
Success Seeds
Bica Studios closes seed funding round amid Portugese gaming boom
Portugal Ventures leads seed funding
For The Kids
Bee7 and SuperAwesome partner up for COPPA-compliant Android CPI ad network
Appropriate for all
No Looking
Somethin' Else's Antoine Pastor on making a FPS using audio not graphics
Insights from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Conned-versions
It's all over folks - F2P market revealed to be a massive Ponzi scheme
Now it's the race up to 99c
Ring Of Opportunity
AppLift opens offices in Beijing, Tokyo and Delhi
Marketing platform expands into Asia Pacific
New Turf
Expanding to games not using its SDK, Kamcord goes big for YouTubers
First land grab is Clash of Clans
Big Catch
How Ace Fishing cast its net wide and found global succcess
30 million downloads later
Play Better
Why Google must do more to win mobile developers' hearts
David Lane wants better aftercare
Crack The Code
PlayRaven looking to fill 4 senior roles for new Spymaster game
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