Hot Five: HandyGames is 50 million-strong, Glu goes gambling again, the size of whales, and Running with Friends gets paid
Last week's top five stories
AppLift closes $13 million series A round with Prime Ventures
Throwing rocket fuel on the fire
Week That Was: Messaging services and games go huge globally, Square Enix looks for mobile revival, and Sony to let Vita shine
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Power of the voice: Appington's VoiceOver tech increases FishFarm's ARPU 50%
A word in your ear
Best of British: Stephen Morris considers the split second timings needed for intuitive controls
Does your ADSR match the cognitive modeling method?
Yandex, Opera, SlideME and CodeNgo combine to fix Android app distribution and billing
Founders of the One Platform Foundation
Apple's switch from UDID to IDFA a non-event according to Fiksu's Indicies
Facebook's increasing traction more important
Forking move: How LINE, KakaoTalk and GREE's social apps also rule on Google Play
It's not just about the games
Announcing core title Champs Battlegrounds, Quark's Shawn Foust says midcore is a fallacy
You're either core, or you're not
Immersion shakes things up, adds SDK support via Unity, Marmalade and GameMaker
Give your Android games more feeling
Spacetime Studios on the cross-platform disciplines required to generate 250 million game sessions
We really mean 'Play with anyone, anywhere, anytime'
Ouya +$29: BlueStacks announces GamePop's $129 pricing
But you do get $50 of free games
Taptica launches 'multi-arm bandit' smarts to optimise your user acquisition
Learning from the gambler's dilemma
Darya Trushkina on why interactive comic app NARR8 doesn't need big licences... yet
Bootstrapping its growth with original IP
Glu to launch cash prize competitions in US starting with Deer Hunter on Android
Integrating the Skillz platform
Rising Robot: Mobage generated 48% of its $10.7 million US April revenue via Google Play
Distimo points to growing app store parity
Fraser MacInnes is having a Total Gaming Crisis
Too much to enjoy?
DeNA rolls out casual games to its Comm messaging service
Fighting back against LINE and Kakao
Deutsche Telekom leads $13.6 million round in cloud vendor Numecent
Will expand to support Android and Linux
Infinity and beyond: Spacetime Studios exceeds 250 million play sessions
That's 7,000 of your earth years
What's my name? Amazon steps up to battle Facebook and Google with new open ID scheme
Login with Amazon available for iOS, Android, web
The Charticle: After a slow start, Zynga accelerates with paid versions of Running with Friends
Great game, struggling with monetisation
Sony looks to revitalise PS Vita with Remote Play mandated for PS4 games
Your own little living room OnLive
Stateside: Don't be ashamed of F2P, but don't assume players will spend out of the goodness of their hearts
Dirty lessons from the coal face
Nordeus, Epic, Double Fine and Bigpoint confirmed for talks at GDC Europe 2013
Kicking off in Cologne 19 August
50 million downloads-strong: HandyGames on taming and monetising Google Play
Pushing a high quality portfolio
Supercell-led Free Your Play event hits Helsinki on 19 June
Keynote by Peter Molyneux
Will PS4 and Xbox One embrace the mobile explosion or will unconsoles eat the nextgen lunch?
Mavens through the LookingSmartGlass
India spotlight: CreatioSoft on its Android-powered rise
Everyone loves pandas
Chart of the Week: How 0.0077% of players generate 33% of F2P game revenue
The stark numbers behind the business
Are game designers confusing immersion with engagement? And does it matter?
Anna Marsh's world is starting to spin
Japan's demand for tablets jumped 104 percent in 2012
Apple leading the charge
Square Enix's future profits based on thinking local, going open, plus smartphone and tablet success
MD Matsuda highlights three strategic shifts
Building on the '11 million manager' success of Top Eleven, Nordeus looks to new games, including social sports betting
All based on unified gaming experiences
GameDuell hires new HR head to lead its 120-strong expansion
Rüdiger von Hennig joins from Bigpoint
Hot Five: Vlambeer worries about F2P, Unity goes free and Halfbrick talks Fish Out of Water
Last week's top five stories
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Xbox One snubs mobile, Unity goes free and Amazon goes global
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Off to a flyer: Tizen bolstered by Unity support
Expected later in 2013
Unity to offer 'discounts on future purchases' rather than refunds to existing licensees
Valid for devs who signed up in last 30 days
Another promising UK Kickstarter game fails to reach its target
Atomhawk vows to try again in the US
We didn't want to 'shoe-horn' in F2P: ustwo's mills on opting for ads in Blip Blup
But monetisation experiments will follow
Short Cuts: With Unity and gamepad support, BlackBerry is now on its game
R&D lead Sean Paul Taylor explains
Short Cuts: Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman on disrupting the console business
Not scared of PlayStation 4 or Xbox One
Amazon sparks Android assault as Kindle Fire HD and Appstore expand global footprint
Marketplace expands to 190 countries
Samsung Galaxy S4 hits 10 million milestone in first month
Selling at four units per second
11 million managers-strong Top Eleven dev Nordeus looks to office expansion in Ireland and Macedonia
Transfer to a winning team
How to plan for a profitable mobile app launch, by Taptica
Part 1: Know your numbers, or at least plan to
The short cycle of mobile games is what's driving opportunities, says Unity's Helgason
Embrace change, he tells Nordic Game 2013
Keflings dev NinjaBee on the 'crazy potential' of Windows 8, and the cross-platform appeal of Xbox One
'Tons of devs' love cross-platform, says Bascom
Warner Bros, Storm8, KIXEYE, GREE and Immersion speak up for Pocket Gamer's San Francisco Mobile Mixer
Panel talk analyses current trends