Closing Doors
PlayStation Mobile for Android and Vita will shut 10 September
Sony pulls the plug on mobile store.
Bring Home The Beacon
RevMob on why location will make mobile ads relevant
RevMob CEO highlights the benefits of beacons
Sdk Overload
There are too many SDKs, says Heyzap's Jude Gomila
SDK fragmentation is a big problem
Record Breaker
GDC 2015 breaks 26,000 attendees, announces 2016 dates
Gargantuan developer conference
Ios Extender
From $349 to over $10,000, Apple Watch will be available from 24 April
What's going to be on your wrist?
Quality Drive
Saturation of supply is behind mobile's drive to triple-A, says Behaviour VP
The industry needs to get serious
Daily Grind
Following a 4 cent ARPDAU testcase boost, DeNA partners with Fyber in US
Maximising monetisation
Angry Birds Still Go!
We talk about fans, not users or customers, says Rovio's Vesterbacka
Mighty Eagle bigs up branding for Angry Bird's future
Trophy Time
Mobile games clean up at 2015 IGF Awards
80 Days, Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure, and Metamorphabet rewarded
Changing Faces
Oculus' developer relations guru Chris Pruett on converting games for mobile VR
Chris Pruett of Oculus VR shares his tips at GDC 2015
Target Acquired
InMobi Appographic Targeting puts the personal in personalised marketing
New service launches at GDC 2015
On The Rocks
GREE's Andrew Sheppard talks talent acquisition, not user acquisition
GREE COO says we're focussing on the wrong things
Power Of Brands
Warners Bros doubles down on mobile with Mortal Kombat, Batman, LEGO and Game of Thrones titles
Experimenting with both premium and free-to-play
Set Free
Unreal Engine 4 goes upfront free, backed by a 5% royalty fee
"Epic succeeds only when creators succeed"
Squeezed Middle
Mid-tier companies need to shrink to indie, warns Tim Merel
GDC 2015 panel suggests a bit smaller is better
Watch And Paid
Crossy Road has now generated $3 million with Unity Ads
Opt-in, seamless and high monetisation
Blown Away
A rebranded Storm8 announces 1 billion downloads
Network is the way
21 Platforms
Split into personal and professional editions, Unity 5 is now live
Added Cloud Build and graphical features
Coming Alive
Animoca Brands is making a Paris Hilton mobile game
Endorsing by the celebutante
Do Not Polish
Backflip's 6 essential prototyping tips for mobile games
Tom Blind puts prototyping to the test.
Piggy Partners
U21 payment platform Oink partners with Playerize
Secure payment technology for under-21s
Maximising Ltv
Tapjoy's new platform will predict your players' behaviour and monetisation
Introducing the Future Value Map
Paying For Players
Japan has highest CPI costs
Geenapp counts country variation
Beyond Retail
NPD begins tracking in-app purchases and mobile game sales
Brave new world
Happy Birthday
Ruzzle celebrates 3rd birthday and 50 million download milestone
The word game stays relevant 3 years on
Next Week
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And the winners are...
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