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.
Lion's Share
Apple and Google eat up 83 percent of the world's $24.5 billion mobile games market
Newzoo report reveals the top 25 games companies
Lots Of Friends
Yahtzee with Buddies scores 1 million downloads in four days
Racking up the numbers
See & Control
MergeVR announces $129 headmount and controller
Coming this fall
All To Play For
Develop:Brighton Indie Showcase 2015 now open for submissions
Free to enter for indie teams and individuals
Big In The Big Apple
NetEase Games debuts its Passionate Gaming Enthusiasts publicity campaign in New York Times Square
Celebrating success and new US office
Launch Of Faith
Soft launch your game as soon as possible, says Zeptolab
CEO Misha Lyalin advises at PGC Bangalore
India's The Place
99Games raises $5 million to target growing Indian market
Star Chef dev sees massive potential in India
Rift Opens For Occulus
Google looks to standardise mobile VR around its Cardboard ecosystem
$20 wonder gaining market share
Talent Show
Why talent acquisition is vital to India's gaming success
All In A Day's Play co-founder Abhinav Sarangi puts out a call for talent
Giving It All Away
Amazon gives away $105 app and game bundle to drive Amazon App downloads
Alternative retailing
Fiery Launch
Pocket Gems takes flight with synchronous PvP-focused breed-and-battler War Dragons
Strategy game comes with Watch integration
Growing Opportunity
The Indian mobile market will eclipse PC and console, says Manish Agarwal
Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore kicks off
Stand Out
Heed my advice and ignore advice, says Mike Bithell
Thomas Was Alone developer takes to the PGC Bangalore stage
Racing Ahead
Angry Birds Go smacks down Mario with 130 million downloads
Rovio spin-off game raises the stakes
Opening Up China
LoopMe to bring native video ads to Baidu, Cheetah Mobile and Sungy Mobile
Adding inventory
Charting Success
Snail Games expands its mobile game distribution with Taichi Panda
Year of the panda
Ceo Acquired
GameGenetics appoints Jeffry van Ede as CEO
Alexander Piutti remains in advisory capacity
Watch This
Apple giving away Apple Watch game Rules! for a limited period
It's an Apple Store app promotion
More Me
Frenzoo raises another $1 million to expand Me Girl franchise
Start-up working towards inter-app synergy
Emerging Opportunity
Bee7 and Vserv forge partnership to solve emerging market monetisation
The next billion
Leveled Up
Logres of Swords and Sorcery racks up 6 million downloads in Japan
Aiming and Marvelous' RPG on the up
Coming Up Trumps
Ex-Zynga exec Lloyd Melnick to lead Rational's social casino efforts
Second wave gambling
Loudspeaker
Rami Ismail to keynote IndieDev:Day at Develop: Brighton
Vlambeer co-founder leads fifth IndieDev: Day
Hot Five
Apple Watch games, making money with Best Fiends, and Amazon swipes CryEngine
A glance at last week's top stories
Us Move
TabTale nets 5 million new players with Sunstorm acquisition
Publisher makes fourth acquisition
Trio In
Fuse Powered poaches three from Fyber to boost SF team
Good for growth
Cunning Fox
Rovio hires ex-Fox exec Alex Lambeek to push Asian business
New chief commercial officer brings Asia Pacific experience
My Store My Rules
App Store featuring of CSR Racing IAP pack underlines promotion of iOS-exclusive paid content
Releases from Kabam, Ubisoft and Warners ignored
Happy Sg50
Singapore celebrates 50th birthday with five F2P mobile games
Developers mark the country's anniversary
NCsoft invests $5 million in Kabam spin-out This Game Studio
Vancouver gets another start-up
Watch This
Scopely partners with Hasbro to bring Yahtzee to mobile and Apple Watch
Popular boardgame goes wearable
3 Minutes Of Insight
Tell Pocket Gamer and TUNE your user acquisition priorities and problems
It's survey time
All Over Now
Shanda Games' convoluted NASDAQ buyout to finally close later in 2015
$1.9 billion cash deal accepted
Something Old
Mattrick out as Mark Pincus regains control at Zynga
Time for a CEO swap
Boosting Ad Efficiency
Glispa's revised Quality Optimization Engine promises to fine-tune your campaigns
Backed by OLX
Retailing Op
Apple adds Games Manager job to 2 existing App Store game positions
Three roles of power are available
Looking Ahead
VR app store WEARVR raises $1.5 million
Leveraging potential for big investment
Blowing Your Trumpet
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes initiative will ensure your game gets discovered
Setting the scene
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Lights Camera Horror
Warner Bros. to bring Five Nights at Freddy's to the big screen
Survival horror on the big screen
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Start Your Engine
Amazon makes another strategic gaming move with $50 million CryEngine deal
But what comes next?
Cash In
Rovio wins $4.2 million in toy vending machine copyright dispute
Counterfeit Angry Bird toys spark legal battle
Shooting Stars
Rovio Stars continues to build dream team with the appointment of F2P consultant Mark Sorrell
Pieces are falling into place
Window Of Opportunity
Make a Windows game using Cocos2d-x and win $25,000
Deadline is 31 May 2015
Play Me
mNectar partners with Branch Metrics to improve playable ads
Playable ad technology combines with deep linking
Tailor-made
Gondola launches Dynamic Pricing Engine to match players and prices
Claims 12 percent rise in revenues
Growth Spurt
RevMob expands Sao Paulo HQ and boosts workforce
Brazillian ad platform grows rapidly