All About Mii
Still wary of mobile gaming, Nintendo announces Mii mobile app
No plans to launch Nintendo classics on mobile
Networking
F2P Summit 2015 unveils speakers from Bossa and Monsters and Monsters
Bound for London on 26 March
Slowing Decline
Despite going majority mobile, Zynga sees 2014 revenue down 21% to $690 million
Hard year ahead
Banhammer Trumps Guns
Apple bans App Store screens with characters holding guns, but not melee weapons
Enforcing 4+ age ranking on metadata
Battle Nations Saga
Expanding into new genres, King buys Z2Live for up to $150 million
Second midcore acquisition
Flash Cash
Spouting a fountain of cash, King sees 2014 sales up 20% to $2.4 billion
More players, less payers but they're paying more
Research Cash
Metaps raises $36 million to research smarter AI for better UA
Goal to become the world's brain
Think Drink Win
4 free Pocket Gamer events at GDC 2015
Awards, Party, Big Indie Pitch and Drink Up to fulfil all your needs
Ads The Way
Appsfire acquired by Mobile Network Group for a rumoured $30 million
Going for scale
India Got Talent
Chennai-based Smaat Apps & Technologies wins third Game Hack
The studio's Zombie Strokes 3D takes a bite out of the competition
Totally Unique
InMobi's network now over one billion devices strong
Mobile ad platform hits milestone
Big Year
Thanks to southeast Asia, Com2uS sees 2014 sales up 188% to $216 million
International sales up 523%
Ambition Rising
With 2014 sales up 79% to $131 million, Gamevil predicts 2015's sales will rise another 120%
Korean RPGs drive the growth
Bric By Brick
Glispa reports 90% growth in BRIC regions
Mobile marketing thriving in explosive-growth regions
On The Rise
PC and mobile games drive 29% rise in NetEase's 2014 sales to $2 billion
Building from PC to mobile
Vision Becomes Reality
Open Source Virtual Reality signs up 13 new partners
Partnership requests accelerate, and Academia Support Program detailed
Keep It Core
Tencent leads investment in Hammer & Chisel's Series B
Funding success fuels Citron's ambition
Pc To Mobile
Gamevil bringing two top Korean PC games to mobile
Age of Storm Mobile and Devilian Mobile inbound
Higher Standards
Supercell pulls the plug on fourth game Spooky Pop
Soft launch wasn't a success
Small And Mighty
3 UA megatrends small devs should ride to outperform the big boys in 2015
Eric Seufert calls the changes
Big Backing
Supercell and King investors join Hutch Games' board of directors
Hutch gears up for MMX Racing Multiplayer launch
Tough Times
DeNA still in transition with FY14 Q3 revenues down 4%
But coin sales on the up
Get Involved
Develop: Brighton 2015 speaker applications now open
10th games development conference calls for industry talent
Oops I Did It Again
Glu's market cap rises $150 million on strong 2014 financials and the promise of Katy Perry
Overnight sensation
Awards
Monument Valley, Hearthstone and Threes among SXSW 2015 Gaming Awards finalists
'Tis the season of award-ies
Pocket Showroom
Porsche reveals Cayman GT4 in Real Racing 3 update
Complete challenge for in-game ownership
Super Success
Did the $15 million spent on Super Bowl XLIX UA ads score app store success?
Post-game app store rankings revealed
A New Window
Marmalade and Microsoft add second tier to Windows Developer Offer
Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions
Bubble M&a
Four years on, GREE writes off $75 million from its OpenFeint acquisition
Also drops $78 million from Pokelabo deal
Gogglebox
Pocket Gamer's Twitch channel smashes 3 million views milestone
The kids are streaming
West Talks East
Western mobile games journalists head to PG Connects Bangalore 2015
First batch of the press corp due east to Indian leg of PGC event is officially revealed
Post Kardashian
Glu Mobile looks to roar with Katy Perry-themed game
Here's hoping for a Russell Brand easter egg
Disney Dollars
Tsum Tsum's top grossing success in Japan boosts Disney Interactive's sales
Revenues dipped, but profits were up thanks to mobile
Last Years Love
93 games nominated for 2015's IMGAs
And you can vote for People's Choice
Change Of Direction
Gameloft looks to in-game advertising in 2015
Publisher has set up internal agency
Sf Merry-go-round
Storm8's Dan Scheidegger joins Scopely as general manager of casual games
Reaching broad audiences
Another Puzzle
iDreamSky bags exclusive Chinese Android rights for Monument Valley
Ustwo sets sights on China
India Calling
Rovio, Xiaomi, Unity, and Roadhouse Interactive to speak at Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore 2015
First speaker announcement
Joining The Dots
LINE looks to partner with mobile game devs in Taiwan and Thailand
Building presence in its #1 markets
East Meets West
Perfect World CEO Robert Hong Xiao on a strategy for global F2P success
From PC to mobile and console
2020 Vision
TIGA's manifesto outlines 5-year roadmap for UK games industry success
Presented to MPs at House of Commons
Western Proxy
Taiwanese mobile game sector to hit $474 million in 2015
Annual growth of 70%
Watch
Liam Neeson takes over Super Bowl for Supercell's $9 million Clash of Clans ad
Selling mobile games requires a very specific set of skills
Turn Up To 11
Wargaming.net rocks out with Vevo sponsorship deal
Tanks can't blitz if they don't have a rocking playlist
Hot Five
2015 trends, Super Bowl game ads, and Steam better that app stores?
Last week's top 5 stories
Ouya Elsewhere
Ouya leverages its library to earn $10 million investment from Alibaba
Ailing unconsole gets capital injection
Fantasy Land
CyberAgent Q1 FY15 sales up 4% to $119 million
Profit growth of 39% predicted for the year
Market Trends
Losing up to 300 jobs, Sega Sammy restructures for mobile and online
Moving from San Francisco
Woods Vs Trees
App stores are dying as a source of organic discovery
Zombie apps are taking over
Extreme Ua
Supercell and uCool battle for a Super Bowl XLIX advertising victory
Clash of Clans vs Heroes Charge