Long View
Despite dialling back short-term growth, Kabam's sales hit $400 million in 2014
Tweaking for success
Liftoff
As it launches on Amazon, Best Fiends hits 1 million DAUs
Match-3 match-up
Slight Decline
Gameloft's 2014 revenues drop 3% as 2014 line-up flops
Looks to ads and better games for rebound
Accelerate
Execution Labs reveals new international line-up, including PewDiePie game
Montreal braces for intense game development program
Fly Away
Jami Laes leaves "magical place" Rovio for something "interesting"
Rovio loses its head - of games, that is
Pewdie-mario
Nintendo opens entente cordiale with YouTubers through advertising share program
New beta program live
Even More Dominant
Tencent rumoured to have bought China's #1 gaming website for $1 billion
Changyou hands over 17173.com
Crossing Fever
Crossy Road does over 10 million Google Play downloads in 20 days
Android version is up and running
Hotting Up
GameAnax wins Pune's Game Hack competition
Four more cities still to visit
Westernisation
How China's soon-to-be #2 iOS status could shift our perceptions of the F2P Android gaming market
Shake up Shanghai style
Hallel-ouya
Ouya now boasts Unreal Engine 4 support
Good things come to those who wait
Maus Up To 160 Million
EA Mobile's FY15 Q3 sales down 1% to $121 million
SimCity BuildIt is building it
Sore Thumbs
Average time spent playing mobile games now over two hours a day
Kids play, adult pay
Virtual Reality
Budget range VR system VISR looking for budget
Better than Cardboard and cheaper than Rift. The VR platform for everyone
Growing On Controversy
Thanks to #Gamergate, Feminist Frequency's 2014 revenue was boosted 600%
Anita Sarkeesian prepares for 2015
Light Up
Mobcast buys Lumines and Meteos for mobile reinvention
Pieces of the puzzle
Equivalence
Android game ecosystem now as profitable as iOS
Lower ARPU, but lower UA too
Drink Up Think Up
Meet up for a Drink Up in Amsterdam at Casual Connect Europe
Starting in style
On The Up
Hashstash Studio on its aspirations for the Indian mobile game market
Plenty of potential
On The Up
Cost of a loyal iOS user rose to $2.10 in December
Peaks and troughs
First Step
Summoners War to launch in China with Baidu and 360
Key partnerships
Hot Five
Crossy Road as examplar, plus the increasing value of YouTube, Twitch and video ads
Last week's top 5 stories
The Insider
FunPlus hires Greg Essig
Takes head of business role
On The Box
Quaid Media Burst TV promises a mobile gaming UA goldrush
Driving user acquisition, one ad break at a time
Get Physical
UCWeb enters gaming hardware market with Android Xiaoqi Gamepad
Hardcore gaming for Chinese Android players
Off The Grid
New Fortumo SDK allows offline in-app purchases
Who needs internet anyway?
Watch And Earn
35% of game devs are now using video ads
Conclusions from Millennial's 2015 State of the Apps report
Cabin Fever
Global applications open for Swedish Stugan game accelerator
Eight weeks in the countryside
Crystal Ball
Facebook will consolidate UA dominance in 2015 with 1 billion monthly mobile users
eMarketer forecasts $11 billion of ads
Bay Area Switch
Storm8 hires Zynga's VP of product Pablo Paniagua
Aggressive hiring continues
Tiger Roars
Steel Media and Reliance Games officially launch Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore
Asia next in line following record-breaking PGC London event
For St George
England's creative industries booming but too London-centric
Creative England announces its top 50
Second Stream
Gaming Live provides alternative to Twitch
Coming soon to iOS and Android
Flying High
After B funding round, AppsFlyer is $20 million stronger
San Francisco firm take funding total to $28 million
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Competition
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Win $2,000, a Surface Tablet, and 1 million ad impressions
Next Billion
AppFlood report reveals 70% of new Android users coming from emerging markets
Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe growing fast
Vision-ary
King's Games Guru Tommy Palm leaves to set up VR developer
Resolution Games will explore virtual reality
Twitch Time
Mobile game devs need to take advantage of Twitch, says EEDAR's Patrick Walker
Clash of Clans ranked 43 out of 2,800
Ruzzle To Riches
Mag Interactive invests in upcoming UK studio Delinquent
Swedish studio takes "giving back to the community" literally
Future Proof
NDreams raises $2.75 million to build VR games portfolio
Funded by new investment outfit Mercia
Community Builder
Social discovery better than app stores, says Unity's Kuusisto
Word of mouth the most effective
Latent Demand
Virtual reality app store WeArVR hits 150,000 downloads
Looking to hit one million by summer 2015
Listen Hard
Somethin' Else on the power of spatial audio to streamline UX
Less talking, more shooting
Weak Pulse
Zombies, Run! dev treating future of wearable gaming with a healthy dose of skepticism
Adrian Hon is not convinced
New Face
Alysia Judge joins PocketGamer.biz as news editor
Noticed anything different?
Top Draw
Banner Saga, Papers, Please, and Sentinels of the Multiverse were highest-reviewed games of Q4 2014
Critically acclaimed
Midwest Move
Glu exec Matt Ricchetti abandons San Francisco for PerBlue's Midwest
West coast blues
Starting In Style
Pocket Gamer connected 1100 execs from 620 companies in a record-breaking London event
Attendees up over 50%
Weekly News Digest
Monument Valley, Crossy Road and Minecraft announce monetisation milestones
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Old Ties
Riccitiello-isation of Unity begins with new CFO
Ex-EA man Mike Foley welcomed into the fold