Data
Five years on, Rovio celebrates 600 billion slingshotted Angry Birds
How you've grown
Pivot
Games over: UK indie Lucky Frame switches from making games to running experimental events
We were uncompromising about the games we wanted to make
DeltaDNA makes a game to help devs maximise their analytics
Cooking, eating its own dog food
Tencent finally bringing Puzzle & Dragons to China
But is it too late?
Investment
Promising to shake up F2P grossing stasis, PlayRaven raises $4 million
Spymaster dev is making plans
Restructure
With the $4 billion Chinese mobile game market its big play for 2015, Kabam ditches web games
Sold off to RockYou
Awards
SXSW Gaming Awards submissions close 12 December
Your last chance looms
Payments
Fortumo builds out Windows Phone carrier billing operations adding subscriptions
Big in Brazil, France, Argentina, Italy and Vietnam
Joint Venture
Alibaba invests in Chinese mobile social platform KTplay as it builds out gaming network
Yodo1 spins out its Kryptanium tech
Market Data
199 million-strong, southeast Asian mobile game market outnumbers PC
Over 20 million more gaming on mobile than PC
Publishing
Kuju founders reboot to ride the second age of indie gaming as Chilled Mouse
Focused on the best cheese
Glu hopes to prove you can never have too many Kardashians in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Kourtney and Khloe set to make their entrance
Virtual Reality
Samsung Gear VR now available for $200
The Oculus-designed smartphone virtual reality system finally launches
Deal
Bandai Namco partners with Roadhouse for new western-focused mobile RPG
Bubbling up in Vancouver
Augmented Reality
Live Game Board launches augmented reality SDK for Unity
Adding depth
Payments
Updated: LINE Pay to launch soon for digital and real-world purchases
Following Apple and Google into wallet business
Data
Superdata estimates Clash of Clans will generate $1.8 billion in 2014
Just keeps on growing
Promising to revolutionise your data, Omniata launches Data Apps
Promises to "go beyond data"
Disney reacts to F2P concerns with subscription tie-in for Club Penguin Puffle Wild
Subscribers get everything for free
Jobs
Tag Games is hiring senior and junior roles for coding, artist and design
Dundee outfit is in full-on mode
Solving UA: Pocket Gems hopes its Night at the Museum game will ride third movie's coattails to success
Hidden Object game out now
Jobs
GREE is looking for a director of engineering
Level up its RPG studio in San Francisco
Jobs
Rovio shuts down Tampere studio as it confirms 110 job losses
Consolidates in Espoo
Jobs
Game Insight hires ex-Unity evangelist Oleg Pridiuk to push high-end 3D gaming
Demanding console quality
PG Connects London is covering the world of mobile gaming with Perfect World, Gumi, Kabam, King and Reliance
East meets west and all points inbetween
Investment
A Crowd of Monsters raises $550,000
All eyes on Barcelona
Jobs
ZQGame appoints Nancy Zheng as US CEO to drive international mobile game business
Strategic realignment
Investment
Mobile strategy dev Space Ape raises $7 million for Samuari Siege follow up
Outfit prepping Rival Kingdoms for 2015
Jobs
Analytics outfit deltaDNA is hiring
Looking for scientists and managers
Jobs
Vainglory looks to Twitch, hiring George 'Zekent' Liu as video community manager
Building community
Updated: Following 500,000 iOS installs, Wargaming prepares to unleash Android campaign for World of Tanks Blitz
Advertising platform dmg provides the channels
Jobs
PlayQ is looking to hire a creative director
Sunny Santa Monica is calling you
Deal
APM deals brings hundreds of thousands of music tracks to Unity Asset Store
Top quality audio at accessible prices
DeltaDNA drops price of its analytics for indies at launch by 90% to $100 a month
No excuses not to segment
Investment
UA platform Ad2games raises $9 million for global expansion
Opening in Brazil and emerging Asian markets
Jobs
Innogames looking for community managers
Hamburg publisher hiring
Virtual Reality
Samsung preps Gear VR launch by dropping Note 4 price
The brains of the Gear VR headset targets US gamers in time for Christmas
Hothead, Zynga, Space Ape, 5th Planet and Pixowl amongst those F2P companies incentivising big on Black Friday
Splashing it over the Tapjoy offerwall
Jobs Board
Nonstop, HandyGames, DeNA and Not Doppler in the hunt for new talent
Positions available
Deal
Adways China links with beBit to crack Chinese mobile advertising market
Knowledge is power
Reinvigorated by its gaming community strategy, Palringo opens London HQ
First game out now
Learn how to Acquire, Engage and Monetise at PG Connects London 2015
Wooga, AppLift, Fiksu, Twitter, Tune, Rovio and more to star
Jobs
HandyGames searches for technical lead and game programmers
Game on
Deal
YeahMobi signs social media marketing deal with VKontakte
Russia's Facebook opens up for Chinese game developers
Spend $50,000 on UA with NativeX and they'll spend another $50,000 for you
It's the season to give
Shanda Games' NASDAQ buyout moves from the convoluted to the ridiculous
Control now split between acting CEO and textile company
Candy Crush Soda Saga bubbles up on 100 million Facebook feeds
Sweet smell of success across seven countries
Investment
Zeotap raises $1.3 million to analyse carrier data
Backed in Berlin
Investment
Digital insight outfit SimilarWeb raises $15 million for aggressive mobile expansion
Tracking app store traffic
Ouya now 1,000 games strong
The unconsole thinks it still can