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
Level Up
Nexon buys Gamevil-published RPG developer Boolean
Studio behind Dark Avenger series gets acquired
Options Open
LINE renews IPO application although won't list imminently
Messaging app keeps IPO door open
Lane Change
Former EA exec Shawn Conly joins GREE as VP marketing
GREE snaps up new talent
Square Up
Expanded to mobile games, Square Enix Collective adds funding of up to $250,000
Funding, feedback and advice available for indies
On The Vine
Whimsical Japanese dev uses Vine celebs to break into US market
Bike Rider by Amutus gets in to gear
Check Asx:olv
OtherLevels floats on Australian Securities Exchange
Marketing outfit on the rise
Line-up Confirmed
Schedule highlights unveiled for Estonia's GameDev Days 2015
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Unity in attendance
Cash In
DeNA sets $25 million a month target for each Nintendo game
Set the bar high
Square Eyes
InnoGames is latest game dev to spend big on TV ad campaigns
Targetting 25,000 spots
Success Seeds
Bica Studios closes seed funding round amid Portugese gaming boom
Portugal Ventures leads seed funding
For The Kids
Bee7 and SuperAwesome partner up for COPPA-compliant Android CPI ad network
Appropriate for all
No Looking
Somethin' Else's Antoine Pastor on making a FPS using audio not graphics
Insights from Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Conned-versions
It's all over folks - F2P market revealed to be a massive Ponzi scheme
Now it's the race up to 99c
Ring Of Opportunity
AppLift opens offices in Beijing, Tokyo and Delhi
Marketing platform expands into Asia Pacific
New Turf
Expanding to games not using its SDK, Kamcord goes big for YouTubers
First land grab is Clash of Clans
Crack The Code
PlayRaven looking to fill 4 senior roles for new Spymaster game
Get this vital intelligence
Navel Gazing
So what is the point of the games media anyhow?
The games media reply
Open To All
Designing for gamers with disabilities
Ian Hamilton talks accessibility
Hot Five
Why you're losing players, Supercell is winning, and how to talk on camera
A glance at last week's top stories
Crystal Ball
Mobile Augmented Reality apps will hit 420 million downloads by 2019
Juniper Research predicts big things for AR
Local Heroes
Indian mobile game superstars ready for PG Connects Bangalore
Make In India track aims to deliver local insight
Decimation
Gumi looks to 'recover fast' internationally following a 100 jobs 'fast fail' in Japan
Predicting an annual loss
One-touch Success
Super Casual games dominate app stores in February
App Annie highlights success of ZigZag and Crossy Road