Category Conscious
How to advertise to the Indian market
Locally grown knowledge
Moving Pictures
AdColony's Thorbjörn Warin on best practices for video ads
Short and to the point
Unconsole
Browser-based AirConsole energises microconsole slump
A new type of browser-based console is born
Guilt Trip
Bugbyte on how it's using push notifications to attack pirates' conscience
Sales up 15 percent
Oops
UPDATE: Machine Zone CEO sues Kabam after party banter turns sour
A Casual Connect party has sparked a lawsuit
Big Spenders
Amazon's Mike Hines on how the top 50 games are driven by superfans
Keep your fans close
Bigger Things To Come?
League of Legends dev Riot Games makes time-limited debut on mobile
Live for one month only
Market Liquidity
TROPHiT announces its revolutionary virtual item exchange network
Re-engage through re-use of old assets
Spice It Up
HandyGames heats up Clouds & Sheep with branded hot chilli sauce
New merchandise angle
Reward Drive
POKKT on how to make the most of reward-based advertising
How to win friends
Primal Scream
Are mobile games with an 'action mouth' icon more successful?
IronSource reckons so
On The Up
NetEase posts 63% revenue surge in Q2 to $780 million
Fantasy Westward Journey and Blizzard licences lead
Nio Beginnings
N3TWORK acquires Swedish studio Nio Games to produce a new breed of mobile games
Euro Vision
Can't Beat The Original
Tencent pulls its version of hit game Tower of Saviors as players reject harder monetisation
Mad Head's original version remains popular
Flash Hit
Miniclip's Agar.io was most downloaded iOS game during July 2015
App Annie does its monthly roundup
Pitch Up And Pitch
How indies can get into Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2015 for free
Limited offer ends midnight Friday 21 August
Ad-vantage
How best to monetise freemium gamers, according to Google
IAPs are not the only way
Hey Small Spender
Kids' mobile games worth nearly 8% of global market
A new SuperData report looks at the children's mobile games market
Lonely Hearts
Fallout Shelter launches #DateADweller UA Tinder campaign
Bethesda tries a more usual brand of UA
Monster Mash
Japanese free-to-play RPG Monster Strike earns $4.2 million a day
Something has risen in the east.
App-y Days
Google, Amazon and Microsoft talk app store best practices
Get noticed and make money
Hockedoff
Clint Hocking leaves Amazon Game Studios for reasons unclear
Former Valve and LucasArts man departs
Myriad Devices
How Testbird worked with DeNA to prime One Piece for Chinese success
Fixing critical bug
Finding Audiences
Ex-Lionhead man Keith Anderson joins Wargaming to run European marketing
Connecting players to games
Case Closed
Hothead Games settles with Glu over Deer Hunter 2014 copying claim
Payments are now ongoing
Drain Pain
Hearthstone on mobile could be losing Blizzard millions
Players switching from PC to mobile may be costing Blizzard.
Om Nom Knowledge
How Zeptolab distilled 150 ideas into 50 prototypes, 5 soft launches, and one King of Thieves
There's no pleasing some people
Indie Ideas
Her Story dev, Boomlagoon, Tilting Point and The Guardian give Indie Inspiration at PGC Helsinki
Details of developer-focused track revealed
Incubate
Why Stugan is the accelerator every indie developer needs
Nestled in the Swedish woods, a new type of accelerator has been created
Bird Brand
Rovio's Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka on why brands are best
As since proved by Angry Birds 2
Core Move
iDreamSky invests $10 million into US core dev Rumble Entertainment
Big bet
Expanding The Nest
Rovio spreads its wings with new country director for India
Anurag Sachdeva is taking Angry Birds east.
Hot Five
DeNA discusses Nintendo deal, and King's profit drop while Com2us gains
We round up the top five stories of last week
Ua Play
MMX Racing looks to boost install rates with PlayCanvas playable 3D ads
Early engagement
Istanbul-built, China-bound
iDreamSky snaps up Chinese publishing rights for US hit Toy Blast
Will its healthy US grossing translate Eastward?
Step Up
MobilityWare promotes former COO Jeff Erle to CEO
The California firm shaping up for the future
Sweet
Friday Flashback: Candy Crush Saga revealed as the second 'billion dollar' mobile game
Puzzle & Dragons has a rival
Growth Area
With advertising already 19% of sales, Zynga is building out its own PMP to attract big brand dollars
Sticky eyeballs
Mind The Gap
A Candy Crush Saga hole sees King's sales down 14% to $490 million
Bitter pill
New Location
Ingress dev Niantic Labs spins out from Google mothership
Safety blanket jettisoned
Sharp Edges
Pixel Toys announces heavy mecha Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade game
Future war today
Looking Up
Unity announces Vision Virtual and Augmented Reality Summit 2016
Running from 10-11 February 2016
Catapulted
Angry Birds 2 does 30 million downloads in two weeks
Birds and pigs are flying
Hooked
Palringo uses the power of rare fish to raise $310,785 for charities
Annual drive
Levelling Up
Off the back of aggressive UA spending for Summoners War, Com2uS' sales rise 16% to $97 million
RPGs are the way ahead
Building Brand
WWE brawn boosts MMX Racing brand in new partnership
Monster truck racer partners with monster wrestlers
Mobilizing Profit
Mobile boosts Hearthstone's $20 million a month revenue, says SuperData
SuperData research shines light on Hearthstone
Pgc Is Key
Everything you need to know about September's Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2015
And why you ought to be there...
Watch This Space
Facebook adds autoplay native videos ads into its UA channel, advertising Game of War in the process
UA goldmine
New Game In Town
DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako on why Nintendo's 'free-to-start' games will be successful in Japan, China and the west
PCG San Francisco's Superstar Sessions