Strong Start
Bee7 helped devs pull 6.3 million installs in first three months
Android games monetization and UA platform wins out
Reality Check
PopCap co-founder John Vechey launches virtual reality startup
Pluto VR pops into life
Acceler-asia
GameFounders accelerates into Asia with Malaysian hub
Startup accelerator goes east in 2015
Competition
Oculus launches $1 million Mobile VR Jam 2015 competition
Virtual reality contest opens for entries
Up We Go
Fingersoft releases Chinese edition of Hill Climb Racing
Working with MyGamez
Ad This Up
Gameloft combats ineffective ad placements by opening up inventory
UK marketers can delve directly into portfolio
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Speak Up
Ex-Candy Crush Saga games guru Tommy Palm to keynote F2P: Summit
Former King exec heads to Shoreditch
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Cash Injection
UK video games pour $2.2 billion into the economy each year
BFI report reveals games industry economic impact
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
New Birds
Eric Seufert joins Rovio as VP of User Acquisition and Engagement
Someone new is pulling on the Rovio hoodie
Gift Wrapped For Devs
Thanks to Alibaba, Baidu and Yandex integrations, Flexion's wrapper adds 20 million users
Alternative channels
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace
Watch Us
AppSpy and Pocket Gamer's 12 hour charity Twitch stream now in full swing
Playing the best games ever made
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Hot Wings
Rovio hooks up with Kunlun to make Angry Birds for China
Beyond localisation
Going Global
Google Play opens up merchant accounts for 12 new countries
Big bucks for Bolivia, Bulgaria and more
New Hero
Spil Games reboots with new CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac
Mobile is the new business plan
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
Cash Saver
DeltaDNA releases Go, its free and unlimited game analytics service
Data on the cheap
Here Be Dragons
Tencent sets sights on Europe with majority investment in Miniclip
Miniclip? More like Moneyclip
Team Up
Starcom MediaVest heads into mobile with InMobi partnership
Mobile's the future
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Psych-sess
Indie game Psych scores 1 million downloads in two weeks
Solo indie dev cracks UA
Small Screen Wins
Newzoo predicts mobile games sales will overtake console in 2015
New research suggests the only way is up for mobile
Monkey Maker
Ubisoft rolls out Monkey King Escape to western markets
Cracked China before it targeted the west
Blowing Up
Supercell's Boom Beach blasts into global top 10 grossing charts
App Annie's January Game index is here
East To West
Firefly Games raises $8 million to bring top Chinese games to US
Ex-ZQGame president reloads
Pastures New
Z2Live execs leave to launch alternative publisher Mobile Game Partners
Adam Flanders and Kevin Flynn up and running
It's A Deal
YoYo Games CEO steps down following $16 million Playtech deal
Sandy Duncan takes consultancy role
Jam Jute Games
Tag Games doubles office space for ChilliWorks expansion
Tools business on the up
Discount Deal
Last chance to get PG Connects Bangalore at Early Bird rates
You've got less than 24 hours...
Rejoignez-nous
Execution Labs launches GamePlaySpace to coalesce Montreal indie game devs
The non-profit will unite indie studios under one roof
Pay Once & Play
Apple promotes games without in-app purchases
App Store differentiation
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