PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Google Play's 'crazy' growth, Casual Connect Europe 2013 and EA's love affair with F2P
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Gangnam style: Gamevil booms with 2012 revenue up 64% to $66 million
And it expects to hit $94M in 2013
Supercell overcomes EA to gain #1 top grossing game and company status on iOS
With King.com hot on their heels
Best of British: Greenfly Studios on the convergence between board games and mobile
Let's get physical
Rovio staffs up to become 'direct media partner' for the world's biggest brands
Building on network of 263 million MAUs
Vita's not dead yet: Jetpack Joyride does 475,000 downloads
Core gamers like their free-to-play
Corona is good, but Marmalade Quick is better, says CTO Closs
Open source basis and loads of platforms
Top 6 tips for standing out in the crowded app world, by MAQL Europe's Harry Holmwood
Different by design
Chart of the Week: How Kingdoms of Camelot kicks Infinity Blade's butt
The reason to go free-to-play in a graph
CocoaChina expands into US with publishing and tools push
Engineering hire Kai Zhao to lead the charge
PlayJam signs white label deal with Asian OEM for Gamestick unconsole
Targeting Japan and Korea
DeNA's Ben Cousins on The Drowning's balance of coherent monetisation and restrictive game sessions
Inspired by CSR Racing, Infinity Blade & more
Get your gameface on: Applifier adds FaceCam to Everyplay video sharing platform
Lets users create and share video commentaries
Designing uncertainty creates more engaging games, argues Applifier's Oscar Clark
Easter eggs, emergence & imbalanced economies
Sony Mobile adds WildTangent Games service to Xperia smartphone homescreens
Integrated with Sony's own discovery app
Mobile games market grew 33 percent in 2012 to $9 billion
Newzoo report highlights industry trends
GamesAnalytics on how its new Benchmark consultancy service will improve your F2P game
The best £3,250 you'll spend?
A market of 140 million: Fishlabs explains why Russia matters
Can't get enough of Galaxy on Fire 2
Kongregate on its $10 million bet to bring core mobile games to its core audience and beyond
Sign up now for its Mobile Developers program
Behaviour Interactive and Reliance Games form publishing partnership dedicated to movie tie-ins
Bringing big screen properties to your pocket
Tapjoy hires ex-EA CFO Warren C. Jenson
Joins board of directors
Green Throttle speeds up to launch with pre-orders and games line-up
Atlas controller unconsole prepares to go global
With Q4 sales up 230% to $8.9M, WeMade looks to go very big on mobile in 2013
Wind Runner currently top grossing in Korea
Casual Connect Europe: Achievement unlocked Kabam lifts the lid on the 'midcore' gamer
Defined the undefined market
Even Tetris is now embraced within EA Mobile's free-to-play revolution
Blitz mechanics applied to falling blocks
Nexon predicts at least $85 million in mobile sales next quarter
Gloops deal revving ups
Casual Connect Europe: 5 ways to fail at freemium, by W3i
Mind tricks, pay walls and more
Marmalade releases open source rapid application development tool Marmalade Quick
Independent from Marmalade SDK
Casual Connect Europe: We're only half way through consumer transition from feature phones to smartphones, states Flurry
Not too late to go mobile
Stateside: The rise of unconsoles like Ouya is the industry's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo moment
Our opportunity is their threat
Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of January 2013
Starring Joe Danger, Temple Run 2, and more
Casual Connect Europe: Digital Chocolate on the art of innovation in social games
You don't need to be radical
Casual Connect Europe: Mobile will have 'caught up' with next-gen console tech in 2-3 years, says Fishlabs
Schade on the smartphone surge
Becoming a publisher is part of our journey says Pocket Gems
Spreading the knowledge around
DeNA signs up US, Korean and Brazilian indies for Mobage, including slots specialist Grab Games
Building out the network
UK trade mission to Platform Doha game conference now signing up
Get 25% discount thanks to subsidy scheme
Casual Connect Europe: GameStick creator PlayJam on funding 'hopes and dreams' with Kickstarter
Steps to success
Strong showing for mobile as BAFTA reveals Video Games Awards nominees
The Walking Dead and The Room lead nominees
Casual Connect Europe: 12% of gamers who view an Everyplay clip go on to download the game
CEO Laakkonen dishes out the stats
GamesAnalytics launches free-to-play game design consultancy service Benchmark
A helping hand
Lessons from Google: What game developers can learn from the consumer internet
James Kelm brings Google-thinking to gaming
Casual Connect Europe: Free-to-play games generating 3 times as much daily revenue on web than on mobile, reveals Big Fish
Talking up the wondrous web
Casual Connect Europe: 'Small but smart' tips for PR success, courtesy of Cosmocover
Advice from the top
Casual Connect Europe: There's no place for tutorials in casual games, says King.com's Tommy Palm
Tips for cross-platform success
Opinion: EA needs to convince fans that Real Racing 3's F2P damage mechanic is more than a 'cut and shut' job
Can console-quality franchise survive IAP bumps?
Zynga shares climb to six-month high as New Jersey reconsiders online gambling legislation
A sea change in the States?
The Charticle: From Kingdom Conquest to After Burner - how has Sega handled its move into mobile?
Your weekly app store analysis
App Annie's Bertrand Schmitt on tracking the crazy global growth of Google Play revenues
Looking for Europe to catch up with Japan and Korea
Infinity Blade: Dungeons on hold, but Impossible Studios could live on outside of Epic's embrace
Game just wasn't working out
Chart of the Week: Korea and Japan are the key Android games markets
Forget China... for now