Antifragile
Culture trumps strategy: Why Neogames looks beyond Excel to define Finland's success
KooPee Hiltunen is number crunching
Jam Jute Games
Tag Games doubles office space for ChilliWorks expansion
Tools business on the up
Mobile Mavens
Why indies should be more open about personal finance and development costs
It's not all about success stories
Discount Deal
Last chance to get PG Connects Bangalore at Early Bird rates
You've got less than 24 hours...
Rejoignez-nous
Execution Labs launches GamePlaySpace to coalesce Montreal indie game devs
The non-profit will unite indie studios under one roof
Pay Once & Play
Apple promotes games without in-app purchases
App Store differentiation
All About Mii
Still wary of mobile gaming, Nintendo announces Mii mobile app
No plans to launch Nintendo classics on mobile
Aces High
Gambling software outfit Playtech buys GameMaker dev YoYo Games for $16.4 million
Making better gambling games
Networking
F2P Summit 2015 unveils speakers from Bossa and Monsters and Monsters
Bound for London on 26 March
Grinding Up
How Heroes Charge charged up the top grossing charts in Germany, Russia, Korea and the US
Power of TV advertising
Week That Was Money
The good, the great and the ugly: Com2uS, Gamevil, Zynga and King announces 2014 financials
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Slowing Decline
Despite going majority mobile, Zynga sees 2014 revenue down 21% to $690 million
Hard year ahead
Includification
Why your games should play well with disabilities
Carter Dotson makes the moral call
The Sizzle
How Grey Alien rose to the challenge of marketing a casual solitaire game
Gearing up social muscle
Banhammer Trumps Guns
Apple bans App Store screens with characters holding guns, but not melee weapons
Enforcing 4+ age ranking on metadata
Battle Nations Saga
Expanding into new genres, King buys Z2Live for up to $150 million
Second midcore acquisition
Flash Cash
Spouting a fountain of cash, King sees 2014 sales up 20% to $2.4 billion
More players, less payers but they're paying more
Research Cash
Metaps raises $36 million to research smarter AI for better UA
Goal to become the world's brain
Scattergun
Why all data on the size of the Chinese mobile game market is wrong
Making it up as they go
Plan Of Action
Gamevil's future success will be built on global RPG mega brands and support for 15 languages
How to reach $200 million in 2015
Think Drink Win
4 free Pocket Gamer events at GDC 2015
Awards, Party, Big Indie Pitch and Drink Up to fulfil all your needs
Ads The Way
Appsfire acquired by Mobile Network Group for a rumoured $30 million
Going for scale
India Got Talent
Chennai-based Smaat Apps & Technologies wins third Game Hack
The studio's Zombie Strokes 3D takes a bite out of the competition
Totally Unique
InMobi's network now over one billion devices strong
Mobile ad platform hits milestone
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Korean mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Big Year
Thanks to southeast Asia, Com2uS sees 2014 sales up 188% to $216 million
International sales up 523%
Ambition Rising
With 2014 sales up 79% to $131 million, Gamevil predicts 2015's sales will rise another 120%
Korean RPGs drive the growth
Players Not Wallets
5 monetization missteps in Midnight Star's UI
Time to streamline the flow
Deep Data
Using SimilarWeb Pro to analyze the performance of top Trivia games
Trivia Crack, Logo Quiz, Family Feud 2 and QuizUp ranked
Bric By Brick
Glispa reports 90% growth in BRIC regions
Mobile marketing thriving in explosive-growth regions
On The Rise
PC and mobile games drive 29% rise in NetEase's 2014 sales to $2 billion
Building from PC to mobile
Vision Becomes Reality
Open Source Virtual Reality signs up 13 new partners
Partnership requests accelerate, and Academia Support Program detailed
Keep It Core
Tencent leads investment in Hammer & Chisel's Series B
Funding success fuels Citron's ambition
Pc To Mobile
Gamevil bringing two top Korean PC games to mobile
Age of Storm Mobile and Devilian Mobile inbound
Cheaper Better Users
Retargeting your way to success in 2015
Don't let your players get away
Rival Realities
Has Microsoft HoloLens helped augmented reality overtake virtual reality?
Our VR Mavens discuss the impact of the new holographic headset
Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Japanese mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Higher Standards
Supercell pulls the plug on fourth game Spooky Pop
Soft launch wasn't a success
Small And Mighty
3 UA megatrends small devs should ride to outperform the big boys in 2015
Eric Seufert calls the changes
The Road Ahead
What advice would you give a F2P developer without $500,000 for UA?
Our Mavens debate broken app stores, crippling UA costs and a misguided bar for success
Big Backing
Supercell and King investors join Hutch Games' board of directors
Hutch gears up for MMX Racing Multiplayer launch
Hot Five
Glu gets Perry, Norway is small but booming, and Neeson52 is Angry
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Gameloft 360 on in-game adverts, Superbowl ad success considered, and Katy Perry boosts Glu Mobile
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Tough Times
DeNA still in transition with FY14 Q3 revenues down 4%
But coin sales on the up
Hopes From Oslo
Still small but Norway's games industry is on the rise
Nordic Game Bits opinion
Get Involved
Develop: Brighton 2015 speaker applications now open
10th games development conference calls for industry talent
Oops I Did It Again
Glu's market cap rises $150 million on strong 2014 financials and the promise of Katy Perry
Overnight sensation
Awards
Monument Valley, Hearthstone and Threes among SXSW 2015 Gaming Awards finalists
'Tis the season of award-ies
Pocket Showroom
Porsche reveals Cayman GT4 in Real Racing 3 update
Complete challenge for in-game ownership
Super Success
Did the $15 million spent on Super Bowl XLIX UA ads score app store success?
Post-game app store rankings revealed