Raising The Dead
With a Walking Dead game in production, Next Games raises $6 million
Flying the flag for the Nordics
In-app Warnings
iOS 7.1 update adds in-app purchase warnings to search results
Raising consumer awareness
Deeper Relationship
DeNA looks to widen its UA net with Zedge hook up
Connecting valuable users to interesting games
Not Stuck On Paid
We wouldn't rule out launching a F2P game, says The Room dev
Fireproof co-founder Meade says let the game decide
Acquisition News
Kabam acquires RPG dev Phoenix Age for a rumoured $90 million
Secret sources point to dollar figure
Natural Extension Of Goals
Chartboost aims to transform game discovery with launch of Video and InPlay
Integration in under an hour
Sponsored Feature
What you won't want to miss at Game Connection America 2014
Highlights during 17th-19th May
Short Cuts
Oscar Clark on how F2P design enables better games
Turning the argument on its head
Big In Japan
Rise of Mana good, Million Onion Hotel great, and GungHo becomes national treasure
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Another Top Night
Cool cervezas and hot topics at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer in Barcelona
Mobile World Congress gets manic
Success On The Cheap
The Room has sold 5.4 million without the 'databollocks', says Fireproof's Barry Meade
No money spent on PR or marketing
Phone A Friend
QuizUp generated 10 organic installs per paid download
Fiksu lifts the curtain on marketing campaign
Financial News
Giant prepares to go mobile in 2014 with debut Kung Fu BBQ
Outfit reveals 2013 sales up 9.5% to $389 million
Financial News
Qihoo 360 sees FY13 sales up 104% to $671 million
Game operations up 145% to $253 million
It Lives
New Helsinki start-up Next Games to launch F2P take on The Walking Dead
Cos if you're making paid games, you're already dead
Not Just Big In Japan
LINE Cookie Run cooks up 10 million downloads in 30 days
And 8 million of them are outside Japan
Refer To The Index
New Fiksu indexes will help you get a handle on iOS and Android UA costs
The numbers that matter
Large Scale Changes
Layoffs in the house of the mouse: 700 let go from Disney's gaming and internet division
26% of global staff axed
Promotion News
UKIE unveils Daniel Wood as new COO
Looking to deliver 'more support' to devs
No Micro Move
Ouya heading to Mad Catz' M.O.J.O. microconsole
System sees priced slashed to sub $200
Threes! and Out There are heading the Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of February 2014
Critically acclaimed
Mobage levers platform-wide approach with 100,000 MobaCoin giveaway
Boosting Facebook presence in the process
The worm turns: Team17 expands third-party publishing to mobile
First title due out later this year
Video Star
Twitch unveils game streaming for iOS and Android
Building on 10 million installs
Flock Of Me-toos
60 new Flappy Bird clones hit the App Store every day
That's 1 every 24 minutes
Mork, Foe, Deibler and Trento combine to create Unspoken Tales
A development supergroup coalesces
Microsoft looks set to bring Xbox Live to iOS and Android
Set to streamline the dev process
Spil Games announces HTML5 Advocate
The game is not over
Celebrate mobile's might at the 5th annual Pocket Gamer Awards in San Francisco
Heading to GDC?
Develop 2014 speaker submissions set to close on 7 March
Time to talk
Canabalt developer launches new indie studio in Austin
Finji to deliver 'what we want, how we want it'
Ouya pivots beyond hardware to a software platform
Software is 'good enough' to be embedded
TIGA urgers EU Commission to adopt OFT's IAP principles
Protecting consumers is key
Puzzle & Dragons hits 25 million downloads milestone in Japan
Next up Puzzle & Dragons W
Big in Japan: Sega Sammy and Crooz take a hit while Mixi doubles down with Tencent for Dragon Strike success
Weekly digest from Tokyo
It's like Chartboost for Japan - Sega's Noah Pass now reaches over 33 million players
51 companies on board
Sega Sammy sees F2P revenues up 55% to $64 million in FY14 Q3
Successful Japanese games spreading through Asia
Working with Wandoujia boosted Carrot Fantasy 2 to 1.4 million downloads in two weeks
App store value China-style
LINE signs up IGAWorks for its Free Coins platform
Linking advertisers with users buying virtual stickers
European Commission to take Apple and Google to task over free-to-play
Many apps are 'misleading' consumers
Hiring in Hamburg - InnoGames creates 100 new jobs and in-house business centre for start-ups
Expanding staff by 33%
Square Enix's Deadman's Cross crosses 1 million download threshold in 11 days
Hitting the top Card spot in the US
Exclusive: Rovio unveils groundbreaking new publishing program
Children learn more when they're having fun
Another investor calls on Nintendo to 'embrace thematic change' and go mobile
The Big N-atives are restless
i-Free China wins two at JinPeng Android games awards
Demonstrating industry and consumer values
Unity unveils Seattle as host city for Unite 2014
Returns to US for first time in 3 years
Remode Studios set to close its doors in March
Founders focusing on new IPs
Following legacy write-downs, G5 sees FY13 sales up 24% to $15.6 million
And January sales are a record $2 million
MagicSolver: We're not shutting up shop, but we are moving on
App discovery firm won't close on 24 March
F2P Summit unveils first two speakers bound for London this April
Big Fish and glispa on board