The Charticle
Heading west: Can Summoners War: Sky Arena find global success?
Make cash, not war
Financials
Castle Clash's continued success drives IGG's FY14 Q2 sales up 8% to $48 million
Single game accounts for 65% of total revenues
Mobile Mavens
Blue-sky thinking: What's the future of mobile games?
Time for our Mavens to tell us what's next
Gdc Europe 2014
The downside of data: How metrics can ruin your game
Ubisoft's Christoph Safferling on the devil in the detail
88% of Tencent published games have been #1 on Chinese App Store
Power of a platform with 600 million players
Tools
GameMaker: Studio beefs up support for Microsoft hardware, adding Xbox One
More cross-platform than ever
Gdc Europe 2014
Taking big steps with tiny games: What Adriel Wallick learned from making 38 games in 38 weeks
MsMinotaur takes to the stage
Traps n' Gemstones heads the Quality Index's Top 10 rated Android and iOS games of July 2014
Critically acclaimed
Video
Money doesn't matter: Embrace your mistakes and chase your passion, says Rovio's Niklas Hed
A phoenix rises
Data
Who knows what? Estimates of the size of Chinese mobile game market differ by $1 billion
How fast is that rocket going?
Hot Five
Chillingo on the evolution of publishing, artist files Angry Birds lawsuit, and 8 trends shaping the Chinese market
Last week's top 5 stories
Investment
LINE invests into Gumi and the pair also partner up for game integration
Distribution meets global gaming
Chinese Beaujolais
Fishing Joy 3 cast its net, Changyou buys Dolphin Browser and WuShen sold in a smashing deal
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
Week That Was
Game Insight appoints new CEO, GREE president jumps ship, and Kabam make waves with new RPG Moonrise
The past 7 days in bite-size portions
In the light of Yahoo-Flurry deal, Fiksu struts $100 million in annual sales
UA market is hotting up for M&A
Interview
Question time: How two men and a robot are transforming the trivia genre
Questioning the QuizTix question masters
Video
Jussi Kasurinen on the synergies between universities and game start-ups
Supply and demand
Financials
Another three months of pain as Zynga sees FY14 Q2 revenues down 34% to $153 million
Signs NFL, Tiger Woods and Looney Tunes licences
Chart of the Week: Women more likely to invest time and money in mobile gaming
They are the big spenders, says Flurry
Deal
Nexon signs again; grabs rights to ex-Phenomic devs first mobile strategy title
Envision Entertainment is up and running
Jobs
As it expands to 3D games, Game Insight appoints Anatoly Ropotov as new CEO
Take me to another dimension
Video
"Mobile wins": DropForge's David Bluhm on finding success on smartphones
Mobile is the only answer
Deals
West heads east: Tapjoy acquires Korean analytics platform 5Rocks
Robot rock
The Finnsider
Playing with Pelitalo: Getting under the hood of Finland's real 'free to play' scene
Helsinki's gaming community gets its game on
Chinese mobile market was $2 billion in H1 2014, but 92% of games are loss-making
Sector is now 25% of overall games market
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Micromon dethrones Minecraft as Crazy Taxi hits new highs
July 27 - August 03, 2014
Video
Wooga's Sebastian Kriese says Inflate your player's ego. Don't crush it
I should be so lucky
Financials
With FY14 Q2 sales up 104% to $41.5 million, Com2uS' market cap is now over $1 billion
Summoners War and Ace Fishing ruling the app stores
Financials
Strong Korean market boosts Gamevil 61% to a record $32 million quarter
And more is expected with another 14 titles due in H2 2014
Jobs
Analytics platform Localytics 'aggressively hiring' on the back of threefold revenue growth
Boston outfit booming
Interview
Evolution of the mobile publisher: The Chillingo interview, part 2
What's that? Chillingo is evolving?
Financials
Despite ongoing business reset, Square Enix sees game sales up 103% to $373 million
Dragon Quest Monster Super Light strong in Japan
Apple and Samsung agree to halt all patent battles outside of the US
European stalemate
Investment
Android F2P specialist Kiwi raises $15 million
Northgate Capital-led round brings total funding to $21 million
Making Of
Underwater love: The making of Deep Loot
Monster and Monster on making a move on F2P
NY Games Conference hits New York City on 8 September
Facebook and King to keynote
Financials
DeNA's platform approach hits global competition with FY14 Q1 revenue down 37% to $278 million
International business drops 50%
Sony cans PlayStation Mobile support for Android
Japanese statement reveals withdrawal
Unity looks to showcase and discover at this year's Gamescom
Intel acquired
The App Store industry: App 'revolution' has added 500,000 jobs to European economy, says Apple
30% of all app payouts have gone to European devs
Apple analytics: 66.3 percent of all App Store software is freemium
Average price of a game is $0.74
Video
Ben Cousins on what's next for gaming hardware
Following the trends down
Financials
Namco Bandai posts FY15 Q1 game sales of $397 million
Financials
Mobile provides 'steady growth' as Konami sees FY15 Q2 game revenue up 2% to $201 million
Sales still heavily Japan-centric
Data
Chinese web and client game growth halts as mobile gears up
iResearch plots the changes
Investment
Smaato closes $25 million investment; expanding in Indonesia and Singapore
RTB outfit bids up
Creative Mobile accelerates through 200 million download mark on Google Play
Fast and furious
What the Chillingo founders did next: Byatte and Wee look to up dev revenue with 'smart' 3D printing
Just hit print
Mobile Mavens
Rise of the YouTuber: An opportunity too good for developers to turn down?
Our experts on the pros and cons of the new media wave
Data
Samsung's woes continue as Xiaomi is #1 OEM in China in Q2 2014
Local company beats out the Galaxy brand