Our friends in the Nordics: Rovio launches its first game jam, Nonstop gets fuelled by funds, and Unity's Helgason to hit Nordic Game
Our regular Nordic roundup
Ridiculous Fishing and Towelfight 2 are heading the Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of March 2013
Critically acclaimed
Opinion: With 4.6% of US iPhone discovery market, was AppGratis too successful for Apple?
Or was its status illegally gained?
Telltale Games and The Walking Dead win big at IMGAs
Fireproof, King & Big Fish also come out on top
Who won GDC 2013? The PocketGamer.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
Mobile or console?
Indie assault: Dev platform Corona launches free Starter SDK
Looking to bolster 200,000 userbase
Hot Five: Halfbrick gets tanked up, Apple clamps down on AppGratis, and we take you for an April Fool
Last week's top five stories
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: The Apple gamepad, Facebook Home and the game that nearly broke Halfbrick
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Apple's crusade against third party app promotion continues as it pulls AppGratis
No other god but App Store promotion
What does Apple's decision to pull Sweatshop HD say about freedom of expression?
UKIE CEO Jo Twist ponders the position of play
Heading to Helsinki? Come to Pocket Gamer's latest Mobile Mixer
Bound for Finland on 23 April
How to understand mobile player behaviour, according to Pocket Gems
CEO Liu on mastering metrics
Phoney move: Zuckerberg unveils Facebook Home, a social skin for Android smartphones
Designed 'around people, not apps'
EA tests new music and photo social app Vue in Canada and Australia
We're a touch confused
Backed by the best, Brainbow raises $1.2 million seed round to turn knowledge into games
Playfish alumni ready for another challenge
Chart of the Week: When incentivised users are better than organic
A la 5th Planet's Dawn of Dragons campaign
Freemium versus premium bickering is pointless the real shift is to games as a service
Oscar Clark argues for engagement-led design
Record breaking Game Connection America unveils award winners
Most popular GC to date
NimbleBit's Ian Marsh on the NimbleDo's and NimbleDon'ts of development
How his studio became a success
Disney shuts down in-house development at LucasArts
Switch to licensing model begins
Beyond the Final Boss: How the games industry is fighting back against bullying
Byron Atkinson-Jones reveals all
Submissions for GDC Europe 2013 talks end 22 April
Time for the next one
Interactive gaming die peripheral DICE+ now available for developers
$99 including global postage
PlayFirst hires Doom co-creator Tom Hall as principal designer
Experience is everything
Social sharing: Twitter unveils new user acquisition tools for mobile devs
Direct links to apps and download pages
Rovio: Consumer goods now make up almost half of our revenue
Sales jump 101% to 152.2 million
Opinion: GDC The industry event you can attend without a ticket
Tales from a sunny San Francisco
Adobe, Unity and Rovio all confirmed for Flash GAMM Moscow 2013
Registration now open for Russian event
EA Mobile: The 'market has spoken' on free-to-play
F2P detractors are a 'vocal minority'
Halfbrick's Luke Muscat talks Tank Turn Tactics: The prototype the studio was forced to ban
Battling and backstabbing
Move over Unity: V-Play touts engine for rapid 2D game creation
No need for expensive plugins
Kantar Worldpanel: Windows Phone besting BlackBerry in battle for third place
Canadian giant suffers sales collapse
Opinion: Why an official gamepad makes perfect sense for Apple
Time to topple Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo
Small but smart: How small mobile devs can master games PR, by Cosmocover's John Tyrrell
Part 1: Broken words and tall stories
Nvidia: Next-gen smartphones will power past current consoles
Tamasi says 360 and PS3 will be left for dust
TIGA: The British games industry is 'young, independent and mobile'
More 50% of new studios are mobile-focused
Former Call of Duty man Bowling on mobile's 'terrifying' but 'proven' free-to-play future
And Robotoki's new IP
Breaking news: Finland nationalises its mobile games industry
Its success is destablising national character
Hot Five: Apple eyes up joypad launch, PocketGamer.biz crowns Supercell mobile's mightiest dev, and GDC, GDC, and more GDC
Last week's top five stories
#GDC 2013: How a game that never was almost tore Halfbrick apart
The story of Tank Turn Tactics
Exclusive: Apple will launch an official gaming joypad soon
Secret revealed as it opens up to devs at GDC
Let's trade short session lengths for games with depth, argues Quark Games
Don't sacrifice meaning for accessibility
Top grossing western developer Supercell now valued at $800 million
Value calculated as it closes +$100 million VC round
#GDC 2013: From 'disruptive innovation' to The Drowning - Ben Cousins on the march of mobile gaming
And why iOS is the ultimate innovator
#GDC 2013: Sony, Nintendo and Apple should be very worried about Android's rise, says PlayJam's Smith
The future of the games industry is green
#GDC 2013: Why players are happy to be stuck in CSR Racing's core loop
CSR the 'biggest car manufacturer in the world'
Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online grossed $106 million last month
$62-86 million from Puzzle & Dragons alone
PlayJam announces first content partners and preinstalled titles for GameStick unconsole
Madfinger & Hutch Games on board, along with XBMC
Three top tips to boost user engagement, courtesy of SessionM
Downloads are one thing, engagement's another
Chart of the Week: Chinese mobile gamers are playing for longer and more often
Frequency & time in-game on the rise, says Umeng