Interview
We're running 50,000 competitions daily says iOS real-money competition platform Skillz
A new monetisation stream?
North by North West: Meet fellow developers at Manchester social DrinkUp!
Break out the ale!
Deals
Consortium swap: 3 new investors including a textiles company step up to take Shanda Games private
Stranger and stranger
Deal
Hoolai tests the hardcore appetite of WeChat players with War of Immortals
Successful web game goes mobile
Mobile Mavens
Steel Media's finest ponder #gamergate and the future of games journalism
YouTube and Twitch replacing the written word?
Opinion
Cashplay on balancing the huge potential of real money skill gaming with its legal pitfalls
Making money from PVP
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Chart Of The Month
Q2 in review: IGG and CMGE's growth impresses, while Zynga, King and GungHo have the cash to strike
Breaking down the financial quarter
SkyMobi reveals the Chinese opportunity in Budapest
Pocket Gamer and SkyMobi tour ended in Hungary
Get your game seen at Apps World 2014 in November
The Big Indie Pitch joins the big apps show at its new venue in London
Chinese Beaujolais
China to get Ouya games and CMGE looks to rollout out free wifi
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
Creative England launches £250,000 GameLab accelerator programme in association with PlayStation
Successful developers to receive up to £50,000
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Interview
Getting paid to play: TinyLoot on shaking up the UA status quo
It's all about engagement
Ex-Rovio, Remedy, Guerrilla, and Digital Chocolate devs form Helsinki GameWorks
Band of brothers
Financials
Despite having $100 million in the bank, LineKong files for Hong Kong IPO
The rich get richer
Ban hammer: Korea's game rating committee shuts down Facebook gaming
For the greater good
Charticle
Another bolt from the blue: Can Swing Copters repeat Flappy Bird's success?
Swing and a hit
Hot Five
The reason for Finland's success, 5 learnings from Unite 2014, and where Godus found its followers
Last week's top 5 stories
Promiscous Gamer
Trials Frontier rises above, Crazy Taxi's right on time, and WWE SuperCard folds
This guy will pl*y anything as long as it's free
Week That Was
Amazon's Twitch deal pondered, gaming for wearables, and rethinking UA
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Adapt and thrive: Nintendo unveils redesigned 3DS
Harder, better, faster, stronger
Jobs
Fishlabs looks to hire 25 as it staffs up another production team
Hamburg dev futureproofs with a new office
Synergetic, not cannabalistic: How Facebook is becoming gaming's glue
Gaming partnerships guru Bob Slinn talks cross platform
Full Indie Uk Column
Killing your darlings: Post-mortem of a cancelled game
Why Leaf Rider from Two Tails ran off the tracks
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed to step aside in 2015
Flying the nest
Mobile Mavens
Primed with a Twitch: Will Amazon ever be a serious gaming company?
Our Mavens go Prime
Interview
How AppSealing protects your Android games from hacking
Stronger security from $595
Interview
Beyond Glass: Funky Whale on making games for the potential 21 million smartglass market
Seeing is believing
Deal
Twitch integration coming to Gameloft's Heroes of Order & Chaos
Streaming heroes
Interview
Brand video ad network HyprMX questions, Why are you advertising your rivals' games?
Time to turn off UA ads?
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Heads Up! beats Minecraft as Ketchapp dominates the free charts
August 18 - August 24, 2014
Deal
Flaregames get another drop, signing Fuzzycube's Epic Loot
Ensemble veterans on the dotted line
Opinion
Success doesn't just happen. You have to create the right environment
Lessons from the Finnish game industry ecosystem
Financials
KongZhong's mobile sales boom in FY14 Q2 up 30% to $10.5 million
Has another 5 titles ready to go
On the back of Japanese app success, Disney sells 1.6 million Tsum Tsum plushies
Cute sells
Stuck on top: Glu is top iOS games publisher by downloads during July
Kardashian and the dinosaur
Interview
How Voxel's interactive adverts are reinventing UA's core loop
CEO David Zhao on better users and higher install rates
Thinking outside the UA loop: TinyLoot platform will pay gamers to play
A logical conclusion
Deal
Qihoo 360 signs up Goodgames' Empire: Four Kingdom for China release
First deal of its kind
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Vladimir Funtikov
Creative Mobile CEO on learning early
Chart Of The Week
Cost of loyal users and installs rises to second highest level ever
Fiksu tracks the increase
Toyze partners with Pou to enable 3D-printed personalised pets
Personal creatures
Making Of
A spectacular leap: The making of Trials Frontier
How RedLynx's physics racer finally came to mobile
Interview
Game Insight's new CEO on going 3D and hardcore while becoming more player-centric
Anatoly Ropotov on the road ahead
Video
Free-to-play was our only option, explains Trials Frontier dev
RedLynx talks moving from console to mobile
Financials
Renren sees FY14 Q2 game revenue slide 27% to $15 million
Mind the gap
Unite 2014
5 things we learned at Unite 2014
The stars (and Starbucks) come out in Seattle
Data
Worldwide tablet gaming revenue to reach $13.3 billion by 2019, says Juniper
Threefold increase from 2014
Interview
HandyGames' CEO on why he's looking to take a leading role in the world of wearables
A goldmine in the making?