Investment
Disruptor Beam raises $3.2 million for Star Trek Timelines and other projects
Midverse Studios and GrandBanks Capital boldly go
Moving west for talent, Gameloft opens a studio in Seattle
Going midcore
Spacetime's MMOG Arcane Legends coming to China courtesy of Golden Gate Games
Will be culturalised for local tastes
Apple releases WatchKit as part of iOS 8.2 beta SDK
A new way to play?
Nokia Store will shut in mid-2015, users redirected to Opera Mobile Store
Microsoft twists the knife
DevGAMM Minsk 2014: The official report
Deal
Best Fiends developer Seriously receives $5 million funding boost
Old friends, new challenges
Following 300% Asia growth in Q3, Adjust opens offices in China and Japan
Shanghai and Tokyo are the places to be
Very Big Indie Pitch returns at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Deadline for submissions 8 Dec
Devs need to move beyond what's currently top grossing to new worlds, says Spymaster creator
Lasse Seppänen of PlayRaven calls for an end to Clash of the Clones
Announcing its N1 tablet, Nokia looks to create an Android iPad for China and beyond
Includes news Nokia Z app launcher
Next Games plays its ace, announcing four game Compass Point series
It's a Wild West themed character-based card-battler
For future success, Sweden's next generation of games gurus go back to the Cabin
Stugan program starts in summer 2015
Financials
Focusing on single player games, SkyMobi sees FY14 Q3 sales up 24% to $34 million
Counter-intuitive bet is playing off
Toyze adds Talking Tom to its customisable 3D printing portfolio
Your own personal Tom
Deal
Gamevil and XL Games combine to release ArcheAge
Mobile ready
Robotoki drops F2P from forthcoming Human Element, cans Nexon publishing deal
Hindered by model, says Bowling
Kakao-centric
WeMade sees FY14 Q3 mobile game sales rise 4% to $16.5 million
Focused on local market
Investment
Gunjin Games gains investment from Ian Hetherington and Games Investor
Brighton studio up and running
Fluff Stuff Studios' Polyganic wins Apps World Europe 2014 Big Indie Pitch
Competition is fierce
We'll acquire western devs to generate $50 million by 2018 says Reliance Games CEO
Indian outfit investing to scale up
Jobs
Gumi hires ex-EA Sports Japan exec to head European push
Are Mack Growen changes continents
Jobs Board
Goodgame, Flaregames, King, InMobi and App Annie all hiring now
Positions open
Tango's Global Games Fund finds its first six titles
Helping hand
Bright Sparks
Nexon sees FY14 Q3 mobile revenues up 41% to $88 million
Japan still down, but Korea on the up
Analytics for all: deltaDNA launches non-commercial license for universities and colleges
Player management platform opens up data
TapSense awards $10,000 ad spend to winning team for its 2014 Hacker Bus hackathon
The greyhound for game creation
Deal
Sega and Gumi join forces to release Chain Chronicle in the west
Power combo
Investment
LINE and Tencent invest $110 million Korean startup 4:33 Creative Lab
Double up
Jobs
InMobi recruiting in San Francisco and London
Join the club
Samsung announces Gear S and Simband at SDC 2014
Two new wearables for developers to get their hands on
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Candy Crush continues its sweet success
November 3 - November 9
Intel leads $9 million funding round for VR Kickstarter success Avegant
Hybrid VR headset and headphones gets another cash injection
Samsung's Project Beyond camera to teleport VR users around the world
Redefining reality
Innovation Edition of Gear VR out in December
Pre-register now and get an early VR for Christmas
F2P monetisation is extremely challenging that's why mobile devs need to learn about community, says Molyneux
World of Tanks and League of Legends show the way
Sixense STEM adds full motion tracking to Samsung Gear VR
The full picture
10 reasons why you can't miss PG Connects London in January
Buy your ticket before the price goes up
MyGamez on why full localisation wasn't key to Hill Climb Racing's success in China
Test the water before investing heavily
German dev Flaregames hits 100 staff, still hiring, still 'asshole free'
60% still working directly on game development
GameRefinery says its Game Power Score metric will improve your game's commercial potential
Knowledge is power
M2Games LATAM: distribution, discovery and monetization of mobile games in Latin America
Find out anout LATAM in Miami
Jobs
Flaregames snaps up growth hacking specialist Pascal Clarysse
German developer gains UA talent
Investment
Execution Labs to boost indie outreach internationally after raising $6 million
Canadian media giant Corus leads the way
Jobs
Lunagames looking for a content acquisition manager to drive its next 180 million downloads
Time to find cool games
Imagination GPUs point to graphics boost for wearable tech
What lies beneath
Jobs
App Annie seeking two senior mobile marketing experts for San Francisco office
How well can you sell?
Citing exceptional growth, Lunagames hits 5 million downloads on Windows Phone
Launches publishing programme to celebrate
Jobs
King hiring hard for its Berlin office
Join the saga
Jobs Board
EA-man Nick Earl joins Kabam, Kiip make strategic hires, and Datascope and Vivid hunt down new talent
Positions available