The Next Puzzle
Hall of Fame: Kazuki Morishita
GungHo Online CEO on bringing people joy
By Us For Us
Ignited Artists CEO Danielle Deibler on its staff-first approach to making core mobile games
Superpowered by Sega Networks investment
Up We Go
Fingersoft releases Chinese edition of Hill Climb Racing
Working with MyGamez
Ad This Up
Gameloft combats ineffective ad placements by opening up inventory
UK marketers can delve directly into portfolio
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Speak Up
Ex-Candy Crush Saga games guru Tommy Palm to keynote F2P: Summit
Former King exec heads to Shoreditch
More Or Fewer
Does the quality of a game trump the quantity of games?
Our Mavens get feisty over the way ahead
The Next Billion
India - the next frontier in mobile advertising
Ravikanth Kanchibhotla lays bare the opportunity
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Cash Injection
UK video games pour $2.2 billion into the economy each year
BFI report reveals games industry economic impact
Tasty
From handhelds to mobile and back: the turbulent rise of Pastagames
The Parisian indie embracing risk
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
World Of Possibilities
Going mobile, NetEase opens US office to become more global
David Ting heads up new move
New Birds
Eric Seufert joins Rovio as VP of User Acquisition and Engagement
Someone new is pulling on the Rovio hoodie
Gift Wrapped For Devs
Thanks to Alibaba, Baidu and Yandex integrations, Flexion's wrapper adds 20 million users
Alternative channels
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
A New Contend-ar
Magic Leap decloaks to give HoloLens some AR competition
Google funded start-up talks
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Have Fun. Don't Be A Jerk
Top tips for surviving and thriving at game conferences
Get set for GDC 2015
Hot Five
The making of Crossy Road, Zynga's $153 million from ads, and Finland's bet on culture
Last week's top stories
This Good Takes
Sega's investment wasn't about the cash, it was about Japan, says Space Ape
Toby Moore on a strategic move
Week That Was
Apple loves premium, Zynga win big on in-game ads, and Hipster Whale talks Crossy Road
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Who Will Lead The Charge?
Mobile will never just become a core gaming medium
Carter Dotson demands some action
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace
Watch Us
AppSpy and Pocket Gamer's 12 hour charity Twitch stream now in full swing
Playing the best games ever made
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Hot Wings
Rovio hooks up with Kunlun to make Angry Birds for China
Beyond localisation
Amplified Activity
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on why its network-first approach trumps all
Driving syngeries from every game install
Going Global
Google Play opens up merchant accounts for 12 new countries
Big bucks for Bolivia, Bulgaria and more
New Hero
Spil Games reboots with new CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac
Mobile is the new business plan
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
Cash Saver
DeltaDNA releases Go, its free and unlimited game analytics service
Data on the cheap
Here Be Dragons
Tencent sets sights on Europe with majority investment in Miniclip
Miniclip? More like Moneyclip
Team Up
Starcom MediaVest heads into mobile with InMobi partnership
Mobile's the future
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Psych-sess
Indie game Psych scores 1 million downloads in two weeks
Solo indie dev cracks UA
Small Screen Wins
Newzoo predicts mobile games sales will overtake console in 2015
New research suggests the only way is up for mobile
Form And Function
Why did the chicken... the making of Crossy Road
Hipster Whale on inspiration and aspiration
Monkey Maker
Ubisoft rolls out Monkey King Escape to western markets
Cracked China before it targeted the west
Pure F2p
Why Hutch obsesses about metrics, not chart position
The numbers you can control
Long Game
Why Kabam chose LTV over ARPDAU
Monetizer Mavens on maximising F2P return
Blowing Up
Supercell's Boom Beach blasts into global top 10 grossing charts
App Annie's January Game index is here
Ads The Way To Do It
Animoca Brands on its hit resistant, high volume strategy for mobile gaming success
The more the better says CEO
East To West
Firefly Games raises $8 million to bring top Chinese games to US
Ex-ZQGame president reloads
Pastures New
Z2Live execs leave to launch alternative publisher Mobile Game Partners
Adam Flanders and Kevin Flynn up and running
Alternate Worlds
DeNA talks Protocol Zero, its stealthy entry into the world of VR gaming
Designing for the spherical environment
It's A Deal
YoYo Games CEO steps down following $16 million Playtech deal
Sandy Duncan takes consultancy role