The Finnsider
The next big thing: How Supercell's former analytics ace Achrén set about firing up free-to-play
The story of Next Games
Calling All Devs
Question time: The huge summer developer survey is here and we need your views
Share your thoughts and win a ticket to PG Connects
Yodo1 and ZeptoLab are bringing Cut the Rope 2 to Kakao
Both companies going Asian
Financials
In the absence of major releases, Gameloft sees Q1 FY14 sales up just 4% to $77 million
Looking to Modern Combat 5 and Asphalt Overdrive
Chart Of The Week
How Rovio’s growth stacks up against Mojang, King, and Supercell
Embattled birds
TIGA criticises PEGI's 'unreasonably high' fees as hurting small game studios
Why pay for ports?
Financials
Pause or decline? Rovio sees 2013 profits drop 51% to $37 million
Sales up 2.5% to $215 million
Mobile Mavens
Would Oculus have caught Facebook's eye without the Kickstarter kick?
And should backers get a refund?
Financials
Wartune and TLBB decline as Changyou posts Q1 2014 loss of $19.5 million
But revenues up 2% to $181 million
Charticle
Blizzard's Hearthstone shines strong in the East
But US is darker
Life's a beach: UKIE plans a seaside stand for Gamescom 2014
Networking on the sand
Stateside
Early access needs to be a premium proposition, not a borked beta test
Carter Dotson on following the Vlambeer model
One Microsoft: Elop claims "possibilities are endless" for newly acquired Nokia
Deal goes through
F2p Summit
BRIC by BRIC: How Brazil, Russia, India and China are building F2P success
Glispa MD Tim Nilsson on the shifting balance of power
DevGAMM Moscow 2014 expands with Unity, Vlambeer, Facebook and Wargaming
For mobile and online companies on 15-16 May
F2p Summit
Player to player economies: Why mobile needs to do it, and how Hay Day did it badly
Vili Lehdonvirta of the University of Oxford explains all
Tencent tells 'Mark Zuckerberg' to find real friends on WeChat
Spoof TV ad from South Africa
Update: More big names join Frogmind, Grand Cru, King, Remedy, and Ubisoft for PG Connects
Even more big names heading to Helsinki
F2p Summit
How Surgeon Simulator rode the viral wave of 2.3 million YouTube videos
Bossa Studios' Roberta Lucca on being F2P without being F2P
Mike Bithell, Boss Alien and Twitch lead Develop in Brighton 2014's speakers list
Media Molecule, Nickelodeon, and more on board
Garden-in' & Leave
Zynga founder Pincus out, as Alex Garden becomes head of studios
New chief marketing and visual officers hired
Tough times for Zynga as Q1 2014 sales drop 36% to $168 million
Heavy losses expected to continue into Q2
Unity to back Russian developers with launch of new Moscow office
For Russia with love
Pocket Gamer Connects: Developers, secure your place in the I Love Indie showcase
Indie outreach in Helsinki
TIGA announces UK Games Tax Relief Tour to explain benefits to studios
Focus on innovation and experimentation
King launches Japanese base to seize bigger piece of $5 billion smartphone gaming market
Tokyo HQ unveiled
UKIE lifts the lid on free 'How To' games development event in London
Tackling the modern gamer
Can buy me love: Apple and Google offering devs promo spots for exclusivity
Wall Street Journal weighs in
The Iap Inspector
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff... and fighting the desire to spend $430
In-app purchases from the players' perspective
Kabam bullish about IPO chances, but firm is 'following its own timeframe'
Steve Swasey: "We do everything purposefully"
When two become one: Microsoft announces official date for Nokia acquisition
New terms agreed upon
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive wins Swedish Tech5 award with growth of 5470%
And looking ahead with release of Ruzzle Adventure
Perfect World spends $100 million to join group taking Shanda Games private
Complexity in China
The Charticle
Did Monument Valley rise or fall in the global App Store charts?
Beautiful mediocrity
Exclusive
Bears and beards: Why Fist of Awesome almost launched with a gay lead
Developer Nicoll Hunt on addressing equality
Hot Five
How indies can handle PR, why the industry owes a debt to homosexuals, and is the great crowdfunding crash nigh?
Last week's top five stories
CandySwipe and Banner Saga trademark disputes resolved with King
Peace in the realm?
Pocket Gamer Connects: Announcing our Helsinki schedule
Two days of mobile mastery
Candy Crush ‘tops out’ as the industry once again focuses on core gamers
Blizzard's Hearthstone part of a ‘new volley’ of branded blockbusters
Unity acquires player engagement platform Playnomics
Helgason: Technology to be integrated into Unity Cloud suite
UKIE names Goldsmiths University students first-ever student game jam winners
Phil Elliott dubbed ‘Mentor of the Universe’
Stateside
Giving Kickstarter the kick: The great crowdfunding crash is upon us
How Oculus f*cked it up for everyone else
Twitter unveils new mobile app promotion suite to drive installs
Direct download links included in ads
Indie Outreach
The next Big Indie Pitch is heading for Krakow
Teaming up with Digital Dragons
Is F2P the only way? $3.99 Out There was "profitable 3 weeks after release"
Developer Michael Peiffert waves the premium flag
PG Mobile Mixer: Windows Phone 8.1 dominates the conversation in San Francisco
Think. Drink. Connect.
GungHo Online’s Princess Punt Sweets passes 8 million downloads in Japan
Chasing the dragon
Candy Crush makes move on China via Tencent’s WeChat platform
Easing the IPO headache
Taking The Mickey
Former Disney SVP Javier Ferreira joins Scopely
The new COO on the block
The Charticle
How did the $9.99 Faster Than Light compete in the top grossing charts?
A measure of LTV