Money matters: Skillz multiplayer cash tournament platform launches for iOS
Powered by over 150 games
GameBench releases sample results from Android game benchmarking app
Full version on Google Play soon
NativeX launches customisable native mobile ad exchange for F2P games
Extracting maximum value
Data derby: App Annie acquires analytics rival Distimo
And wraps up a $17 million funding round
Puzzle & Dragons surpasses 4 million downloads in North America
Don't stop me now
Stateside
Adapt to survive: Why Twitch needs mobile if it hopes to stay relevant
Crossing the streams
Unity: More than 450 bugs squished in Unity 4.5
Now available for download on all devices
UKIE to fly the flag for British devs at Liverpool business expo
Spotlight on Britain
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: James Vaughan
Plague Inc. creator on infecting the world
Gingee rolls out very cross-platform development technology
Promises to support all current and future devices
Deal
Nexon takes stake in Socialspiel in return for exclusive publishing deal
Deal chain combo builds
Rovio shores up consumer products business with trio of strategic hires
And one in-house promotion
Boom Beach burst helps keep Supercell at the top of the app tree
App Annie details iOS and Android apps in April
Nordic Game 2014
From Malmö with love: 4 things we learned at Nordic Game
Quality, not quantity
Financials
SkyMobi's 2014 revenues down 19% to $78 million, but Q4 rises as smartphone platform accelerates
A tale of four quarters
Grand Cru: An App Store promo spot can do more harm than good
Beware marketing you can't control
Helsinki hotshot Next Games is hiring
The next big thing
Despite Q1 2014 sales up 208% to $60 million, Chukong postpones US IPO
Splitting development and tools operations
Deal
Kakao merges with Daum to create Korean internet powerhouse
Mobile messaging outfit valued at $3 billion
The Charticle
Can Thomas Was Alone find friends on the App Store?
A lonely place
Hot Five
The making of Angry Birds Go, rebooting the App Store discovery system, and an Oxford professor calls out Supercell
Last week's top five stories
Nordic Game 2014
'Kickstarter is your story': Cindy Au on crowdfunding successes, failures, and the evolution of Kickstarter
It's all about you
Making friends: Gamescom announces Nordic partnership
Working with the best
Win a place on the PG Connects I Love Indie Showcase
10 showcase tables worth $300 each available for VBIP entants who register before 28th May
Job News
Ex-Disney Mobile exec Tim O’Brien joins Scopely as CRO
Back into startup mode
Atomicom to sponsor UK Game of the Show at Gamescom 2014
Are you the best in Britain?
Meet us at WWDC: Attend the latest Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer
Sign up for San Francisco
The Iap Inspector
Has SoulCalibur: Unbreakable Soul sold its soul?
IAPs from the players' perspective
Lootsie's SDK lets you turn achievements into real-world rewards
Breaking the fourth wall
Chart Of The Week
Why game file size remains critical for success in China
20 MB is your soft limit
Nordic Game 2014
Unity and Everyplay have power to "change the world" of game dev, says Oscar Clark
Better together
Post-line Generation
BeeTalk announces 10 million users, while customisation app Cocoppa breaks 25 million barrier
New ways to find Asian audiences
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Table Tennis and Toilet Time surge, but Blek and 100 Balls hold onto top spots
12 May – 18 May, 2014
Games dev in the modern age: UCL and TIGA team up to school indies
How to turn your hobby into a business
The Finnsider
Keep calm, we're Finnish: While the UK whips itself into a F2P furore, Finland's finest are steaming ahead
A tale of two territories
Nordic Game 2014
"I'm doing a bad job and getting away with it": Thomas Was Alone creator on devs embracing their flaws
"We can be a bit messy"
ZeniMax files suit against Oculus for misappropriating trade secrets
IP dispute heads to courts
Meet Pocket Gamer in Berlin at our Mobile Mixer
Come meet us, King and crobo on the 4 June
Deal
Kabam and CJ E&M Netmarble partner up to release... ?
Undisclosed but probably Together Dungeon King
Financials
Renren's Q1 2104 game revenues collapse 52% to $12.7 million
Delays to new releases hits hard
Mobile Mixer
Mobile rock ’n’ roll, embracing globalisation, and art vs. monetisation: Sparks fly at our Malmö Mobile Mixer
Stories from Sweden
Nordic Game 2014
Nordic success down to "strong tradition of storytelling", says Massive Entertainment MD
Polfeldt tracks the rise of Scandinavia
Angry Birds Go's IAPs not out to tempt kids, but the "inner child" in all of us says dev
Exient on finding its feet with F2P
Come and party Hawaiian-style with Pocket Gamer at E3
Say aloha in LA!
Free-to-play farce: Publishers pushing indies to implement pay-to-win tactics
A tale of two titles
Appy Pie launches cloud-based mobile Game Builder
Development-as-a-service
Microsoft: $799 Surface Pro 3 will render your laptop obsolete
Gunning for the ultraportables
Mobile Mavens
Nintendo's gay gaffe: Has Tomodachi Life damaged the big N's reputation?
Our Mavens talk Mario's PR fumble
Share Your Thoughts
Final call to take part in the Pocket Gamer Mobile Developer Survey
It's your chance to be heard, so don't waste it
Financials
Perfect World praises mobile's 'meaningful revenue contribution' as Q1 FY14 sales rise 44% to $143m
Return of the Condor Heroes doing the business