Make love, not metrics: Wooga on the importance of romancing the player
#GDCEurope Timo Dries talks Monster World
Will a BlackBerry buyout save its bacon?
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
Synchronous multiplayer on mobile is going down the toilet, says PerBlue
#GDCEurope CEO Justin Beck flushes out the myths
Hot Five: Windows Phone outsells iPhone, the making of Rymdkapsel, and what happened when Apple messed with the App Store
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PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: BlackBerry's future, King's billion daily gameplays, and PopCap defends PvsZ 2's F2P model
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Social gaming and charity network Gramble closes out $5 million seed round
A real charity case
PopCap: Going free-to-play with Plants vs. Zombies 2 is worth the 'flak'
'Evil' model hasn't hindered success
Goko's new CEO on its HTML5 pivot, launching Dominion, and creating Catan for the mobile generation
Kate Connally is building a better deck
Cologne Week: 'Berlin is buzzing, but Cologne is Germany's media hub'
RockAByte on the city Gamescom calls home
Freemium first: In-app purchases to push app spending to $75 billion by 2017
Premium model to drop to 25 percent of revenue
Cologne Week: How developers can get ahead of the game in Cologne
Find your funding with AV-Gründerzentrum
Peter Relan's new incubator offers $110,000 to game devs looking to apply their smarts more widely
Deadline for first applications ends 31 August
LOGIN 2013 conference kicks off with keynote on mobile games
Running 26-27 September in SF
King hits a billion daily gameplay sessions
Papa Pear Saga is the next to go mobile
Charticle Special: What happened last week when Apple altered the App Store's top grossing algorithm?
'Refund tweak' hit some F2P games hard
Party with the cool kids in Cologne at Pocket Gamer's GDCE party
Sponsored by NativeX, Creative Mobile and Qihoo 360
G5 Entertainment sees H1 2013 sales up 37% to $7.3 million
Sees strong F2P revenue from The Secret Society
Mobile advertising and analytics outfit Apsalar raises $9 million
Series B round lead by Kakao investor DCM
Nextpeer brings its iOS multiplayer SDK to Android for cross-platform play
Leveraging a network of 15 million unique users
Ad video platform Vungle raises $6.5 million
Has hosted 2 billion views since launch
Why would anyone want to play your game?
Oscar Clark questions your 'unique player proposition'
No BlackBerry bounce back as Windows Phone secures third spot in smartphone race
But Gartner claims Android still in charge
Cologne Week: Why Cologne is Germany's transmedia titan
The Good Evil on how devs can take advantage
Sluggish performance from GREE sees FY13 sales down 4% to $1.5 billion
Japan down, but US up
Zhongqingbao expands its mobile reach, gaining majority stakes in More Fun and Small-tech
Spends $72 million in the pursuit of scale
Tencent sees business boom with H1 2013 sales up 38% to $4.5 billion
Mobile QQ, Mobile Qzone and WeChat on the up
Game delays hit Renren as it makes a Q2 2013 operating loss of $34.7 million
But promises mobile investment will come good
Baidu closes its $1.85 billion deal for 91 Wireless to create a 69 million daily app download giant
Highlights the importance of mobile game distribution
Zynga COO David Ko handed $562,500 payoff as social giant restructures
Mattrick heralds end of firm's 'first chapter'
Monetizer: The Drowning
Looking at F2P tricks and techniques
Come along to the Pocket Gamer Big Indie Pitch in Cologne
You pitching apps, the press watching, Sega sponsoring
Amazon adds push notifications to its iOS and Android email and text service
Fire out one million a month for free
A tale of time and space: The making of Rymdkapsel
That's 'space capsule' in Swedish, don't you know
Cologne Week: How Cologne plans to step out of Gamescom's shadow
Indie outfit Nurogames reveals all
Short Cuts: Video interviews from Dundee's Dare ProtoPlay
Psychology, Bemani, Augmented Reality and more
German user acquisition outfit Crobo is already 20 percent mobile
Offering a fresh approach to discovery
Mobile advertising consolidates as Millennial Media bids $225 million for Jumptap
All-share deal awaits shareholder approval
Japanese mobile game market was worth $5.1 billion in 2012
Smartphone revenue grew 5.4-times
Stateside: It's time for mobile devs to kick the IGF to the curb
The indie scene should go independent
Five big countries where Windows Phone is outselling iPhone
And how to unlock those niche audiences
Get your brews in at the PG Drink Up with Grantoo and Heyzap
Head down to SF's Golden Gate Tap Room on 27 August
Fraser MacInnes loves games. It's just gamers he can't stand
Where are our Renaissance players?
Cologne Week: Why the game's just getting started in the city Gamescom built
Developers, Germany needs you!
Close kingdom: King closes five games to focus on big hitters
Core releases to dominate
#1 top grossing Chinese App Store developer Locojoy on why it goes iOS first
Before success, I AM MT studio almost shut up shop
Thanks to international growth, Gamevil sees Q2 2013 sales up 35% to $18.5 million
But marketing and licensing costs knock back profits
ChinaJoy 2013 hits a new high with over 206,000 attendees
Let's do it all again on 31 July 2014
Amazon points to the power of injecting millions of dollars of Amazon Coins into its ecosystem
Mixing up the ways of value exchange
PG Mobile Mixer to kick-off LOGIN conference at KIXEYE Death Star
Battle over hot topics at 26 September event in SF
The Charticle: GREE finds it hard to open a new front with War of Nations
Its strategy classic Modern War won't surrender