Inspiring Young People
UKIE launches first-ever Games Industry Pavilion at youth-focused Big Bang Fair
Partnering with Microsoft, BAFTA, and others
Develop A Better Life
We want to make developers' lives better: Helgason and Laakkonen lift the lid on Unity's move for Applifier
Applifier man to step up as Unity VP
Acquisition News
Unity to acquire Everyplay creator Applifier
Looking for 'tools to make community more successful'
Triple Success
Tearaway comes out on top at BAFTA Games Awards 2014
Three titles for Vita classic
We Are The 1.5%
Oscar Clark on whales, damn whales, and statistics
F2P success isn't about percentage points
Charticle Special
How launching 14 language versions made Castle Clash the world's #2 mobile strategy game
How to deal with word fragmentation
Financial News
Chinese publisher Ourgame rumoured to be considering a $150 million IPO
Following Boyaa and Forgame?
Investment News
Forgame spends $94.2 million on a 21% stake in Tower of Saviors dev Mad Head
Consolidation China-style
Flashing The Cash
ChangYou triples down on mobile games with $600 million developers program
Are you into the CYOU Win Plan?
Financial News
Gumi and Ankama join forces for a strategic mobile partnership
Reading between the lines - expect more Dofus
Global Game
10 developers that are reshaping the global mobile industry
Studios from the regions that matter
Financial News
King's IPO share price range values company higher than Zynga and GungHo but lower than EA
Upper limit would see King worth $7.55 billion
This Time Next Year…
'Everywhere you look, there's someone with a crazy idea that might be the next Twitter': Double Fine talks San Francisco
Greg Rice on the brilliance of the Bay
In Control
Google secures remnants of Green Throttle Games
Entering the battle for the living room?
Good On Paper
The making of Tengami
Nyamyam on trying to confound core gamers
Publishing Arm In Arm
DragonVale dev Backflip launches publishing move with Rolando studio HandCircus
Ex-ngmoco man Simon Jeffrey heading up efforts
$1bn Revenue And Counting
Puzzle & Dragons hits 3 million in North America
The mother of all dragons
Fee Fi Fofofum
Sleepy Giant will keep you up 24/7 with backend services play fofofum
Industrial Toys' Midnight Star first game to use tech
Stars In Their Eyes
Kabam hires Chris Petrovic as studio looks to woo Hollywood
Courting the core gamer
Inspired
Dot Warrior Games on making the 'anti-Puzzle & Dragons' and why Japanese indies need to blossom
Playing F2P games is a little stressful for me...
Top Ouya Game Asian Deal
CJ E&M gets mobile publishing rights for ChronoBlade in Asia
nWay's Ouya actioneer going mobile later in 2014
The Flap Is Back?
Flappy Bird dev 'considering' a relaunch
Clones don't measure up
Financial Results
Perfect World sees FY13 revenue up 10% to $504 million
First hardcore mobile game has been promising
Moving On
Free-to-play author Will Luton parts ways with TinyCo
Short but sweet stay is over
Raising The Dead
With a Walking Dead game in production, Next Games raises $6 million
Flying the flag for the Nordics
In-app Warnings
iOS 7.1 update adds in-app purchase warnings to search results
Raising consumer awareness
Deeper Relationship
DeNA looks to widen its UA net with Zedge hook up
Connecting valuable users to interesting games
West Coast Winning
San Francisco's star studios on the Bay's big allure
Double Fine, Gaijin and Supergiant reveal all
Not Stuck On Paid
We wouldn't rule out launching a F2P game, says The Room dev
Fireproof co-founder Meade says let the game decide
Charticle
The Charticle: Has Dungeon Keeper's use of IAPs backfired?
Throw away the key
Chart Of The Week
3 graphs that demonstrate the opportunities and challenges of China's mobile games market
Big, fragmented and in transition
Acquisition News
Kabam acquires RPG dev Phoenix Age for a rumoured $90 million
Secret sources point to dollar figure
Natural Extension Of Goals
Chartboost aims to transform game discovery with launch of Video and InPlay
Integration in under an hour
Huge Audiences Await
Twitch: We have 45 million users a month ready to see your mobile games
We're a 'household name', says DiPietro
Sponsored Feature
What you won't want to miss at Game Connection America 2014
Highlights during 17th-19th May
Short Cuts
Oscar Clark on how F2P design enables better games
Turning the argument on its head
Promiscuity Pays?
Diary of a Promiscuous Gamer: Royal Revolt II rushes into play with a $4.99 spend
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Big In Japan
Rise of Mana good, Million Onion Hotel great, and GungHo becomes national treasure
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Hot Five
Tearaway's teardown, a Flappy Bird explosion, QuizUp's 10x virality, and start planning your GDC 2014 night-time activities
Last week's top five stories
Week That Was
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Twitch goes mobile, Ouya goes virtual, and Disney lays off 700
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Iap Purchase Inspector
Taking aim at Deadman's Cross
IAPs from the players' perspective
Interview
Clash of Clans was tower defense 2.0. We're working on 3.0, says Omnidrone
Spanish start-up on learning from the masters
Another Top Night
Cool cervezas and hot topics at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer in Barcelona
Mobile World Congress gets manic
So I've Had This Idea...
How to break through the creative block and come up with your next game
Full Indie UK's Klein on beating the 'paralysis of choice'
Success On The Cheap
The Room has sold 5.4 million without the 'databollocks', says Fireproof's Barry Meade
No money spent on PR or marketing
Phone A Friend
QuizUp generated 10 organic installs per paid download
Fiksu lifts the curtain on marketing campaign
Financial News
Giant prepares to go mobile in 2014 with debut Kung Fu BBQ
Outfit reveals 2013 sales up 9.5% to $389 million
Financial News
Qihoo 360 sees FY13 sales up 104% to $671 million
Game operations up 145% to $253 million
It Lives
New Helsinki start-up Next Games to launch F2P take on The Walking Dead
Cos if you're making paid games, you're already dead
Not Just Big In Japan
LINE Cookie Run cooks up 10 million downloads in 30 days
And 8 million of them are outside Japan