Mobile muddles causes Capcom shareholders to lift block on hostile takeovers
Takeover defence plans scrapped
Rovio taps up Hasbro to launch Angry Birds Transformers range
Games, toys, licensed products all on board
Amazon announces Fire phone, boasting 3D Dynamic Perspective to extract more sales from Prime users
Demos a 3D version of HotGen's To-Fu
OnLive's hits Wikipad 7 gaming tablet with CloudLift
Promise of AAA PC gaming on-the-go
Games tax relief to make "even bigger bang than expected", claims TIGA
Trade industry body to tour UK, advising devs on GTR
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The Ruzzle puzzle: How to hit 50 million downloads with virtually no UA budget
Daniel Hasselberg on free growth opportunities
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Skipping Windows Phone? You're missing out on an extra 10% of users
Fortumo serves up the stats
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Looking to crack Japan? Don't stress over localisation, says Metaps
Looking for perfection highlights imperfection, says McCarthy
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Angry Birds goes pop: Why branding and licensing is a must for devs looking to make it big
Power panel reveals all
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Trials Frontier developer RedLynx: "We had to go free-to-play"
Removing choice
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Brand power: Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka on why great games aren't enough
Don't get left behind
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How one screenshot shot Oceanhorn to more than 1 million players
Cornfox's Heikki Repo
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Frogmind's five steps to indie success
Vuorinen on going big with Badland
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Mistakes, epiphanies, and hard work: How Angry Birds conquered the world
The origins of a mobile superstar
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Going global: Smartphones are shrinking the world, says King
Tommy Palm on eating into the Asian market
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Seduction secrets: How to make sure investors fall in love with you
Agnitio Capital reveals all
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'It was a glorious failure': Why the Finnish games industry owes a debt to N-Gage
Expert panel talks through nation's mobile might
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Want to get super whales on your side? Seeing is believing, says Everyplay
Jussi Laakkonen on how to engage heavy players
Mobile Mavens
How should developers respond to Apple's shifting of the goalposts on ad incentivisation?
Our mobile experts give their view
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Real talk: How Yoga Retreat turned 'authentic' in-app content into cash
Gajatri on going viral with Yoga Retreat
Capital idea: TIGA to connect UK devs with investors at finance event
London bound on 19 June
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BlackBerry: App stores are great for distribution, but terrible for discovery
Don Turner on how to get spotted
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Child's play: How to tap into the $200 billion strong kids market
Oink.com's Loukil on monetising kids legally
Hot Five
Apple to monopolise app discovery, tips for top networking at events, and how did Temple Run reach 1 billion downloads?
Last week's top five stories
"Like putting lipstick on a pig": Games should focus less on visuals and more on content, says A Dark Room dev
Don't underestimate the power of words
Mix it up at the Google I/O Mobile Mixer
We're in San Francisco on 25 June to mix, drink and chat
Stateside
Apple is fast becoming the faceless giant developers love to hate
Life not so rosy inside the walled garden
Data
One in five apps opened just once before being deleted
But stats suggest user engagement is on the up
Three quick and dirty tips for how best to network at games events
Use these tricks to meet the right people
Deal
Chinese app distribution heats up as Alibaba acquires rest of UCWeb in $4 billion value deal
Already owned 66 percent of browser outfit
Pocket Gamer's Ultimate E3 2014 party guide
All you need to know about the afterhours scene
Apple releases WWDC 2014 tutorial videos for iOS 8, Metal, Swift and more
Getting to grips with the future
Creative England welcomes Ian Livingstone to the boardroom
Experience will help the UK
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Bubble Witch Saga 2 burst onto the scene
2 June - 8 June, 2014
Deal
Parallel Kingdom dev PerBlue raises $3 million
Ready for an expansion of staff and audience
Start Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki with an early morning run
Time to get the blood flowing
Mobile Mavens
iOS 8: Industry experts on the good, the bad, and the downright dangerous
More questions than answers?
Apple beefs up iTunes analytics and attribution as it extends control over user acquisition
Full conversion funnel transparency
Apple's new dawn: iOS 8 changes will "empower developers", says Heyzap
The complete package?
We've not seen rejections of apps that show incentized video ads from GameAds, says Applifier CEO
What is Apple up to?
Wandoujia social-integrated match-3 Happy Pop does 2.4 million downloads
App store's added social power
Apple bans rewarded actions: "I think it wants to own app discovery," says source
Developers caught in the crossfire between Apple, Google and Facebook
Rumourmill
Another brick in the wall: Rumours suggest Apple's banning incentivised video ads and Facebook sharing
Also randomising MAC address
TIGA's Games Tax Relief tour heads to MediaCityUK
North by North West
Government crackdown: No nudity please, We're Chinese mobile gamers
Bikinis banned
UK games industry undergoes renaissance thanks to "mobile explosion"
TIGA proves the UK has found its feet
The Charticle
How did Temple Run reach 1 billion downloads?
The analysis of a lifetime
Hot Five
Why Supernauts will be a game changer, the making of Samurai Siege, and Apple surprises developers with Swift and Metal
Last week's top five stories
Wrapping up DevGAMM Moscow 2014
Conference in reflection
AgeCheq brings COPPA compliance to Unity with new SDK
Free to all Unity developers