Drink Up Think Up
Meet up for a Drink Up in Amsterdam at Casual Connect Europe
Starting in style
New Faces
Oscar Clark is Watching the Watchmen
What's on your wrist?
Road Ahead
10 key trends from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Starting with a bang
Softy Softy
How Goodgame Studios approached the Chinese market
Taking an iOS first approach
On The Up
Hashstash Studio on its aspirations for the Indian mobile game market
Plenty of potential
On The Up
Cost of a loyal iOS user rose to $2.10 in December
Peaks and troughs
First Step
Summoners War to launch in China with Baidu and 360
Key partnerships
Force Multipler
Terra Battle punches above its weight in France and Japan
Top grossing on 1.5 million downloads
Roaring Tiger
GameHack devs on the future for the Indian mobile game market
Meet them and more at PGC Bangalore in April
Hot Five
Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads
Last week's top 5 stories
The Insider
FunPlus hires Greg Essig
Takes head of business role
Week That Was
How PewDiePie promoted Best Fiends, Twitch's eyeball power, and rising CPI price graphed
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Options For All
What can you learn from Crossy Road's smart monetization layers?
Like Flappy Bird but with revenues
On The Box
Quaid Media Burst TV promises a mobile gaming UA goldrush
Driving user acquisition, one ad break at a time
Get Physical
UCWeb enters gaming hardware market with Android Xiaoqi Gamepad
Hardcore gaming for Chinese Android players
Off The Grid
New Fortumo SDK allows offline in-app purchases
Who needs internet anyway?
Watch And Earn
35% of game devs are now using video ads
Conclusions from Millennial's 2015 State of the Apps report
Lost Gems
Spil Games on its initiative to reboot mobile gaming's Unsung Heroes
Games that haven't been successful - yet
Cabin Fever
Global applications open for Swedish Stugan game accelerator
Eight weeks in the countryside
Bandits High
Climax Studios on the challenge of providing the illusion of control in VR games
The Bandit Six team talks about learning to make games all over again
Chart Of The Year
Are CPI costs really rising?
Yes, but it depends on the UA channel
Crystal Ball
Facebook will consolidate UA dominance in 2015 with 1 billion monthly mobile users
eMarketer forecasts $11 billion of ads
Bay Area Switch
Storm8 hires Zynga's VP of product Pablo Paniagua
Aggressive hiring continues
Tiger Roars
Steel Media and Reliance Games officially launch Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore
Asia next in line following record-breaking PGC London event
Sharing Source
Tag Games on empowering the dev community with its F2P-focused ChilliWorks tools
New middleware, new approach
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Mobile Mavens
[Updated] Mobile Mavens on their hopes and fears for 2015
From smartwatches and YouTubers to UA, clones and HTML5
For St George
England's creative industries booming but too London-centric
Creative England announces its top 50
Second Stream
Gaming Live provides alternative to Twitch
Coming soon to iOS and Android
Flying High
After B funding round, AppsFlyer is $20 million stronger
San Francisco firm take funding total to $28 million
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Competition
[Updated] Find success on Windows Phone with Marmalade and Microsoft's developer offer
Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions
Next Billion
AppFlood report reveals 70% of new Android users coming from emerging markets
Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe growing fast
Vision-ary
King's Games Guru Tommy Palm leaves to set up VR developer
Resolution Games will explore virtual reality
Twitch Time
Mobile game devs need to take advantage of Twitch, says EEDAR's Patrick Walker
Clash of Clans ranked 43 out of 2,800
Small Screen, Big Vision
How Seriously worked with PewDiePie to fire Best Fiends up the charts
YouTubers as a coherent UA strategy
Ruzzle To Riches
Mag Interactive invests in upcoming UK studio Delinquent
Swedish studio takes "giving back to the community" literally
Future Proof
NDreams raises $2.75 million to build VR games portfolio
Funded by new investment outfit Mercia
Community Builder
Social discovery better than app stores, says Unity's Kuusisto
Word of mouth the most effective
Latent Demand
Virtual reality app store WeArVR hits 150,000 downloads
Looking to hit one million by summer 2015
Wonky Vision
Google Glass: The explorer is lost, maybe forever
Time to reboot
Listen Hard
Somethin' Else on the power of spatial audio to streamline UX
Less talking, more shooting
Weak Pulse
Zombies, Run! dev treating future of wearable gaming with a healthy dose of skepticism
Adrian Hon is not convinced
New Face
Alysia Judge joins PocketGamer.biz as news editor
Noticed anything different?
Top Draw
Banner Saga, Papers, Please, and Sentinels of the Multiverse were highest-reviewed games of Q4 2014
Critically acclaimed
Midwest Move
Glu exec Matt Ricchetti abandons San Francisco for PerBlue's Midwest
West coast blues
Starting In Style
Pocket Gamer connected 1100 execs from 620 companies in a record-breaking London event
Attendees up over 50%
Building Connections
Nexon set to develop Asia-first LEGO game for iOS and Android
LEGO's first foray into free-to-play on mobile
Hot Five
Crossy Road's monetisation, DOTA Legends rules China, and 10 to play in 2015
Last week's top 5 stories
Weekly News Digest
Monument Valley, Crossy Road and Minecraft announce monetisation milestones
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Rotten Apples?
Is a blue shell inbound for Apple?
Carter Dotson on a decline in standards
Dual Use
Getting client work to fund your games
Brandon Wu on building a business