Event
David Amor to keynote Games Funding Forum with his top 10 funding tips
New event on 23 October in London
DeNA drops Mobage branding
Simplifies its approach
New Doodle Jump collectables to be sold exclusively at Toys R Us
Collect 'em all
Event
Meet Pocket Gamer at the Brazil Game Show 2014
Going big in San Paulo
Jobs
Rovio lays off 130 staff
Finnish Facebook group offers help
VisusVR combines PC and smartphones for wireless virtual reality headset
Budget-range HMD takes a new cross-platform approach to VR
Game Connection Europe
Oculus, EA, and Epic sign up for Game Connection Europe
Ubisoft and Microsoft also on board
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: FIFA flies to the top of the free charts
September 22 - September 28
Virtual Reality
Free Unreal Engine 4 rumoured for Oculus Rift developers
Epic looking for new opportunities
Investment
Hugo Games raises $4 million for marketing new Hugo the troll games
Boosting the troll
Gaming Insiders Summit to feature talks from Twitch, Google Play and Valve
Plus SGN, Halfbrick, Disney and Glu
Jobs
Next Games looking for project manager, game designer, and level developer
The means to succeed
Investment
Remerge secures $1 million funding for its adtech platform
Enabling audience segmentation and retargeting
Video
SkyMobi on targeting the bulk of Chinese mobile gamers who live in third tier cities
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Appsfire hails ad network shift a success as ZeptoLab and NaturalMotion jump on board
News a 'great validation'
Deal
Stolen Couch Games secures $315,000 in funding for Animal Crossing-style game
Development paradise
Video
Chinese mobile gamers want pay-to-win says localisation expert
Knowledge from PG Connects Helsinki 2014
Jobs
AdColony hires ex-Grand Cru, Wooga marketing man Thorbjorn Warin
Bulking up in Europe
Jobs
InnoGames on the hunt for UX designer, marketing lead plus backend and Flash devs
New horizons
Expand your skills to extraordinary levels at ARM Gaming Developer Days
London, San Francisco and Chengdu
Jobs Board
Wooga and Kiwi shake things up while Zynga, TellTale, Rovio, and Gameloft all looking for new talent
New positions
Financials
Shanda to award 8 key staff golden handcuffs worth at least $13 million
Please stay
Data
Eight days on, iOS 8 adoption rate is around 30%
Apple's estimate seems rather high
Financials
Shanda sees Q2 FY14 mobile game sales up 31% to $14 million
Chain Chronicle gives a boost
Deal
Pint and publishing deal: Remedy and Flaregames sign Agents of Storm contract in London pub
Three quid well spent says Remedy CEO
Video
DeNA on why western best practices don't work in Asia
Kenji Kobayashi on acting local
DevGAMM 2014 heads to Minsk on 17-18 October
Boosting game development in CIS
Data
Mobile games are a force multipler for entire industry says US survey
ESA looks at how mobile engages new audiences
Jobs
Following $15 million investment, Kiwi poaches talent from EA, Zynga and GREE
Console transition
Scottish games industry back up to 2008 levels, valued at $160 million
11 percent of UK total
Data
Estimates of British games industry value revised upwards to $2.8 billion
Mobile boosts the figures
Molyneux, Livingstone and Cecil are Best of British at PG Connects London 2015
Industry heavyweights heading to Vinopolis 13-14 January
Video
Can Game Power Score Analysis really predict your game's commercial success?
Markus Ramark certainly thinks so
Dice Europe
Monument Valley designer: Games must "escape the trope of violence"
And money must not be the only reward, says Wong
Data
Puzzle & Dragons hits 38 million downloads of which 5 million are in North America
Planning a community event to celebrate
We’re rolling out the red carpet at the official Samsung Developer Conference 2014 party
We wrap up the SDC2014 in Hollywood style
Deal
Consolidation in mobile monetisation fragments then coalesces as Science Inc buys Upsight's PlayHaven ad network
Now focusing on our individual goals
Following TinyCo's COPPA $300,000 fine, AgeCheq sees demand surge
Leave those kids alone
Dice Europe
It's time for mobile to scale up with conviction, says GREE's Andrew Sheppard
New COO on the industry's next steps
Pocket Gamer and App Annie light up the Tokyo night with VIP-studded TGS party
Japanese mobile gaming glitterati were out in force at Ele Tokyo
Dice Europe
Nexon: Working in games is like running a restaurant, and now's the time for your cuisine to go global
Min Kim on cooking up a storm
Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift launching with free app store, paid to follow
There'll be more content when devs can monetise
Dice Europe
Microsoft's Phil Harrison on why developers need to be inspired by Kinder Surprise
Microsoft man on the advantages of wearing another hat
Kiip claims its new reward video ads generate 77% view-through rates and up to $30 CPM
A new way to view
Oculus Rift reveals new Crescent Bay devkit headset
But it's "not there yet"
The MIGS14 is getting closer. Are you ready?
10-11 November in Montreal
Chart Of The Week
Body-mounted wearables are attracting the most VC investment
Generating 10x leverage post-crowdfunding
German developer Wooga appoints new head of finance
Money matters
Gamesparks' CEO Griffin Parry on why server-side features spell success
Forget the platform. Just make the game
"If you can’t create something that stands out, you’re already dead," says Bossa's Imre Jele
The power of fans in making success