Pg Connects
Global game strategy, brand marketing and indie tactics to survive and thrive on the agenda at PG Connects
Plus, we deep dive into the Helsinki dev scene
Sign up for the Big Indie Pitch at E3 2014
Impress the press as well as ZQ Games, GREE and Samsung
Game Over
Israeli backend services outfit Applicasa is shutting down
Servers go dark 31 July
The Charticle
Has FarmVille 2: Country Escape planted the seeds of success?
Growing tall
Apple allows developers to give away in-app purchases via promo codes
EA's Real Racing 3 the first to benefit
Jobs
Vungle looks to triple staff in 2014; appoints Ville Heijari to head Europe
Video ad outfit on the rise
Hot Five
Devs on the brink of murder, the truth behind loading times, and the sexual dilemma facing Candy Crush players
Last week's top five stories
Big Indie Pitch winner Foodo Kitchen featured by Apple
Tasty stuff
Must see mobile talks at Nordic Game 2014
We select our potential highlights
Nordic Game
Britain goes big: More UK businesses than ever to hit Nordic Game
It's an invasion
Start your engines: Submissions open for 2014 Unity Awards
New voting process in place
We went local and thought global at our PG Mobile Mixer in Tallinn
Thanks to Creative Mobile, AdCash and Intergame
Financials
Tencent sees Q1 2014 social mobile game sales up 200% to $290 million
WeChat and Mobile QQ drive the growth
Cutting costs: Australian Government pulls video game funding
Trouble down under
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Blek and Minecraft fly high
5 May - 11 May, 2014
RocketCat: "We almost cancelled Wayward Souls"
And how it would’ve played as F2P
Financials
Gamevil's Q1 2014 profits up 104% to $3.7 million
A record period for the Korean publisher
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Patrick 'Mad' Mork
Looking to replace consoles with tablets
20 percent of mobile gamers would skip sex for Candy Crush
PlayPhone lifts the lid on its research
Arctic15 startup conference to boost acquisitions in the Nordic and Baltic countries
The ins and outs
Gamehorizon 2014
Angel of the north: 4 things we learned from GameHorizon
Knowledge from Newcastle
Back together: Phone leak suggests LG looking to win with Windows Phone
Uni8 will be firm's first WP8 handset
Bag a job at Boomlagoon: Positions open up at Finnish F2P studio
On the hunt for senior programmer and 2D animator
Financials
Nexon sees Q1 2014 mobile game sales down 4% to $70 million
Accounts for 15% of overall revenue
Moneti$er Special
Opinion: Why your game needs to load within 30 seconds
Time is power
Financials
Castle Clash boosts IGG's FY14 Q1 revenue 206% to $44.1 million
Generated $13.6 million in profits
Added flexibility with Flurry's mobile video ads gives Pocket Gems a 5x boost
Non/skippable options are key
iPad shipments suffer "sharpest ever decline" in Q1
But tablet not in trouble, says Canalys
The Charticle
Has 2048 cloned success?
A numbers game
Hot Five
Family Guy's quest for cash, Windows Phone outsells iOS, and why Rovio's new publishing label is a 'magical place'
Last week's top five stories
Join us in Malmo for our Nordic Game 2014 Mobile Mixer
Let's shake things up in Sweden
Handy Tips
5 top tips for a great indie strategy from Christopher Kassulke
Handygames, Handy tips
Discover the road to El Dorado at Game Monetisation Europe 2014
Learn money-making tips on 14-15 May
Teyon's take on breaking into the Japanese market
Understanding Japan
Stateside
Stateside: Why choose between F2P and Premium when you can have both?
An unnecessary choice
Nintendo branded "behind the times" as Tomodachi Life furore builds
Giant is "purposefully limiting players' relationships"
Digital Dragons 2014
Orcs eat birds? Success with casual games too much of a "lottery" on mobile, says Gameforge CEO
'Too difficult to break into'
Deal
Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium rebranded as Kabam Field
Getting the name out there
Big Indie Pitch
The sweet taste of victory: Foodo Kitchen wins the Krakow Big Indie Pitch
Popular in Poland
The Iap Inspector
How to wheel and deal in Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
IAPs from the players' perspective
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Leo's Fortune topples Agent 47
28 April – 4 May, 2014
Gamehorizon 2014
Jagex: We "weren't brave enough" to really make it on mobile
Sacrifice your sacred cows, says CEO Gerhard
Gamehorizon 2014
Want to reach kids? Forget Facebook, it's all about YouTube
Super Awesome on the challenge of children
Top Trader
Games-trading marketplace app Jiggster hits Android
Looking to help evolve games retail
King's profits jump 142% in Q1, riding high on Candy Crush and 143m DAUs
Record quarterly mobile gross bookings reported
Hearthstone helps offset sagging profits as Activision Blizzard's digital business booms
Digital sales make up over a third of quarterly revenue
Gamehorizon 2014
Mark Rein: Publishers "less willing to take risks", but they're still a viable option for indies
Epic man speaks out at GameHorizon panel
Nintendo vows return to profitability as giant confirms $229 million loss in 2013
Weak sales pile pressure on Iwata
Sponsored feature: How the Israel Mobile Summit 2014 is uniting mobile's brightest and best
4 years and counting
Gamehorizon 2014
Disrupt or die: NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil on My Horse's ride to 35 million downloads
CEO takes to the stage at GameHorizon