Time For Tie-ins
EA Mobile looks to brands such as Star Wars, UFC and Minions for success in 2015
Tastes are maturing fast
Leap Forward
EA Mobile sees FY15 sales up 26% to $504 million
Now has 165 million MAUs
Magnifying Glass
Fiksu adds Apple Watch event tracking to existing iOS SDK
New SDK provides visibility into Apple Watch app engagement
Sf Merry-go-round
Former Kixeye-r Bachman-Wood now GMing SGN's San Francisco office
Gaining a veteran
Gift Impulse
Could Trophit's gift-voucher approach to UA increase your LTV 3-fold?
A better approach to acquire
East Shift
Asia to be more than half the world's $45 billion mobile game market by 2018
Digi-Capital research predicts big changes.
Reward Me
Supersonic opens video mediation platform to all developers
Ready for indies too
Easy For Fun
How ChinaJoy's status as the world largest game show mirrors the rise of the Chinese market
Ten years of plenty
Full Vision
Tommy Palm's VR outfit Resolution announces C-level execs and board
King's former Games Guru reveals new company
First Come First Served
Apple's new App Analytics is available in early access beta
In-house app analytics rev up for a test drive
Pgc Discount
Final few hours of Early Bird ticket discount for PG Connects San Francisco
May 1 deadline for super value access to July 7-8 conference
Did It Again
Britney Spears and Tencent deals add $116 million to Glu's market cap
Shares now higher than Tencent buy price
Shake Up
Personagraph and WWO bring private marketplace to Indian mobile ad market
Transparency data-driven approach
Console Boom
Microsoft and Sony return to ACH expo as Chinese console market emerges
China is a new market for the console kings
Less Is More
How Eipix spent 2 years and 7 iterations creating F2P match-3 game Free the Witch
Mirko Topalski shows off Free the Witch
Hot Stuff
Potential of the Indian mobile game market reflected in success of PG Connects Bangalore 2015
Over 500 enjoy inaugural event
Celebrity Sustain
Glu sees FY15 Q1 sales up 56% to $69.5 million
Keeping up with Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Better & Better
Glu Mobile gains $126 million Tencent investment and signs up Britney Spears
Success breeds success
Port Me
Microsoft creates easy porting path to bring Android and iOS code to Windows 10
Bows to implications of third place
Another Platform
Unity 5 to support Microsoft's HoloLens VR hardware
VR for all
Talk Talk
Join Tencent, Google, DeNA, Glu and Super Evil Megacorp for PG Connects San Francisco 2015 in July
First speakers announced for July 7-8 conference
Another Hero
Herocraft marketing man Alexey Sazonov announces Krabwerk start-up
Kaliningrad gets a new developer
Sca_e And Gr_w
3 up for Daily Celebrity Crossword dev PuzzleCreator
Two originators go full-time
Vinyl Slugs
Seriously takes the next step in Best Fiends franchisation with Kidrobot hook-up
Best Fiends creator has big plans
Rebound
With Dungeon Hunter 5 leading the charge, Gameloft sees FY15 Q1 sales up 17% to $71 million
New year, new hope
Talent Acquired
Super Evil Megacorp hires to push Vainglory into Asia
Yun sets sights on APAC
Unconsole Goes More Un
Leaked memo reveals Ouya is up for sale
End of the road for VC-funded outfit
Tag Team
Longtu is publishing Kabam's Marvel Contest of Champions in China
The final frontier
Farewell
Indie veteran Jeff Vogel abandons iOS due to Apple's planned obsolescence
Avernum developer reveals why he's pulled all his games from the App Store
Sonic Boom
iPhone and iPad boom in China as Apple pays out $2.5 billion to its developers
China earns Apple $16.8 billion
Vr For All
Following Mary Lou Jepsen hire, Oculus adds ex-Valve bizdev Anna Sweet
Anna Sweet and Mary Lou Jepsen make a real move
Game Glances
10% of Apple Watch apps are games
Tail is already wagging the dog
Making The Switch
Changyou selling Wartune dev 7Road as it focuses on mobile future
Announced in FY15 Q1 financials
Watch This
Over 3,000 apps available for Apple Watch, but games not yet key
App Annie track the newcomers
New Year, New City
Reboot Develop 2016 relocated to Split
Damir Đurović confirms the industry and developer's conference will return
Master Makers Wanted
PlayRaven are on the hunt for a new team to make the next Spymaster game
Can you redefine touchscreen espionage?
Top Dragon
Newzoo and TalkingData combine brains to track Chinese games market
New report available
Jobs Merry-go-round
Following Mattrick out from Zynga, Clive Downie is Unity's new CMO
As one door closes...
Experience Injection
Zynga strengthens board with ex-Big Pharma CFO
Louis J. Lavigne Jr. lends support
Rim Of Fire
Centre of gravity swings east as APAC game market rises to $43 billion in 2015
China to overtake US as #1
Watch And Earn
Video mediation platform AerServ launches incentivised ads
New platform promises more flexibility
Loss Of Support
UPDATED: Most of Club Penguin's redundancies are support staff
Brighton office closed
Entries Open
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes will launch your game to 130 million gamers
Plus $50,000 marketing support
Good Start
New Legend of the Sword 3D rakes in $1.6 million on first day
CMGE's RPG reveals launch figures
Lab Rat
Vungle helps devs design better mobile ads with its creative labs service
News service for "premium advertisers"
Axed
Disney Interactive begins “targeted reduction" of Club Penguin workforce
Teams behind popular brand are shrunk
Fan Power
97.6 percent of all YouTube game views are bagged by fan-made channels
Newzoo and Octoly research shines light on viewer habits
Sisters Take Flight
Angry Birds Stella games pass 30 million downloads
Angry Birds Stella POP! does 5 million in launch month
Westward Ho!
Fantasy Westward Journey testifies to the strength of China's leading game company
NetEase makes its case
Cough Up
TIGA survey reveals programmers got biggest pay rise
Annual salary survey sheds light on development pay packets.