Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Table Tennis and Toilet Time surge, but Blek and 100 Balls hold onto top spots
12 May – 18 May, 2014
Games dev in the modern age: UCL and TIGA team up to school indies
How to turn your hobby into a business
The Finnsider
Keep calm, we're Finnish: While the UK whips itself into a F2P furore, Finland's finest are steaming ahead
A tale of two territories
Nordic Game 2014
"I'm doing a bad job and getting away with it": Thomas Was Alone creator on devs embracing their flaws
"We can be a bit messy"
ZeniMax files suit against Oculus for misappropriating trade secrets
IP dispute heads to courts
Meet Pocket Gamer in Berlin at our Mobile Mixer
Come meet us, King and crobo on the 4 June
Deal
Kabam and CJ E&M Netmarble partner up to release... ?
Undisclosed but probably Together Dungeon King
Financials
Renren's Q1 2104 game revenues collapse 52% to $12.7 million
Delays to new releases hits hard
Mobile Mixer
Mobile rock ’n’ roll, embracing globalisation, and art vs. monetisation: Sparks fly at our Malmö Mobile Mixer
Stories from Sweden
Nordic Game 2014
Nordic success down to "strong tradition of storytelling", says Massive Entertainment MD
Polfeldt tracks the rise of Scandinavia
Angry Birds Go's IAPs not out to tempt kids, but the "inner child" in all of us says dev
Exient on finding its feet with F2P
Come and party Hawaiian-style with Pocket Gamer at E3
Say aloha in LA!
Free-to-play farce: Publishers pushing indies to implement pay-to-win tactics
A tale of two titles
Appy Pie launches cloud-based mobile Game Builder
Development-as-a-service
Microsoft: $799 Surface Pro 3 will render your laptop obsolete
Gunning for the ultraportables
Mobile Mavens
Nintendo's gay gaffe: Has Tomodachi Life damaged the big N's reputation?
Our Mavens talk Mario's PR fumble
Share Your Thoughts
Final call to take part in the Pocket Gamer Mobile Developer Survey
It's your chance to be heard, so don't waste it
Financials
Perfect World praises mobile's 'meaningful revenue contribution' as Q1 FY14 sales rise 44% to $143m
Return of the Condor Heroes doing the business
Pg Connects
Global game strategy, brand marketing and indie tactics to survive and thrive on the agenda at PG Connects
Plus, we deep dive into the Helsinki dev scene
Sign up for the Big Indie Pitch at E3 2014
Impress the press as well as ZQ Games, GREE and Samsung
Game Over
Israeli backend services outfit Applicasa is shutting down
Servers go dark 31 July
The Charticle
Has FarmVille 2: Country Escape planted the seeds of success?
Growing tall
Apple allows developers to give away in-app purchases via promo codes
EA's Real Racing 3 the first to benefit
Jobs
Vungle looks to triple staff in 2014; appoints Ville Heijari to head Europe
Video ad outfit on the rise
Hot Five
Devs on the brink of murder, the truth behind loading times, and the sexual dilemma facing Candy Crush players
Last week's top five stories
Big Indie Pitch winner Foodo Kitchen featured by Apple
Tasty stuff
Must see mobile talks at Nordic Game 2014
We select our potential highlights
Nordic Game
Britain goes big: More UK businesses than ever to hit Nordic Game
It's an invasion
Start your engines: Submissions open for 2014 Unity Awards
New voting process in place
We went local and thought global at our PG Mobile Mixer in Tallinn
Thanks to Creative Mobile, AdCash and Intergame
Financials
Tencent sees Q1 2014 social mobile game sales up 200% to $290 million
WeChat and Mobile QQ drive the growth
Cutting costs: Australian Government pulls video game funding
Trouble down under
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Blek and Minecraft fly high
5 May - 11 May, 2014
RocketCat: "We almost cancelled Wayward Souls"
And how it would’ve played as F2P
Financials
Gamevil's Q1 2014 profits up 104% to $3.7 million
A record period for the Korean publisher
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Patrick 'Mad' Mork
Looking to replace consoles with tablets
20 percent of mobile gamers would skip sex for Candy Crush
PlayPhone lifts the lid on its research
Arctic15 startup conference to boost acquisitions in the Nordic and Baltic countries
The ins and outs
Gamehorizon 2014
Angel of the north: 4 things we learned from GameHorizon
Knowledge from Newcastle
Back together: Phone leak suggests LG looking to win with Windows Phone
Uni8 will be firm's first WP8 handset
Bag a job at Boomlagoon: Positions open up at Finnish F2P studio
On the hunt for senior programmer and 2D animator
Financials
Nexon sees Q1 2014 mobile game sales down 4% to $70 million
Accounts for 15% of overall revenue
Moneti$er Special
Opinion: Why your game needs to load within 30 seconds
Time is power
Financials
Castle Clash boosts IGG's FY14 Q1 revenue 206% to $44.1 million
Generated $13.6 million in profits
Added flexibility with Flurry's mobile video ads gives Pocket Gems a 5x boost
Non/skippable options are key
iPad shipments suffer "sharpest ever decline" in Q1
But tablet not in trouble, says Canalys
The Charticle
Has 2048 cloned success?
A numbers game
Hot Five
Family Guy's quest for cash, Windows Phone outsells iOS, and why Rovio's new publishing label is a 'magical place'
Last week's top five stories
Join us in Malmo for our Nordic Game 2014 Mobile Mixer
Let's shake things up in Sweden
Handy Tips
5 top tips for a great indie strategy from Christopher Kassulke
Handygames, Handy tips