F2p Summit
How Surgeon Simulator rode the viral wave of 2.3 million YouTube videos
Bossa Studios' Roberta Lucca on being F2P without being F2P
Mike Bithell, Boss Alien and Twitch lead Develop in Brighton 2014's speakers list
Media Molecule, Nickelodeon, and more on board
Garden-in' & Leave
Zynga founder Pincus out, as Alex Garden becomes head of studios
New chief marketing and visual officers hired
Tough times for Zynga as Q1 2014 sales drop 36% to $168 million
Heavy losses expected to continue into Q2
Unity to back Russian developers with launch of new Moscow office
For Russia with love
Pocket Gamer Connects: Developers, secure your place in the I Love Indie showcase
Indie outreach in Helsinki
TIGA announces UK Games Tax Relief Tour to explain benefits to studios
Focus on innovation and experimentation
King launches Japanese base to seize bigger piece of $5 billion smartphone gaming market
Tokyo HQ unveiled
UKIE lifts the lid on free 'How To' games development event in London
Tackling the modern gamer
Can buy me love: Apple and Google offering devs promo spots for exclusivity
Wall Street Journal weighs in
The Iap Inspector
Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff... and fighting the desire to spend $430
In-app purchases from the players' perspective
Kabam bullish about IPO chances, but firm is 'following its own timeframe'
Steve Swasey: "We do everything purposefully"
When two become one: Microsoft announces official date for Nokia acquisition
New terms agreed upon
Ruzzle developer MAG Interactive wins Swedish Tech5 award with growth of 5470%
And looking ahead with release of Ruzzle Adventure
Perfect World spends $100 million to join group taking Shanda Games private
Complexity in China
The Charticle
Did Monument Valley rise or fall in the global App Store charts?
Beautiful mediocrity
Exclusive
Bears and beards: Why Fist of Awesome almost launched with a gay lead
Developer Nicoll Hunt on addressing equality
Hot Five
How indies can handle PR, why the industry owes a debt to homosexuals, and is the great crowdfunding crash nigh?
Last week's top five stories
CandySwipe and Banner Saga trademark disputes resolved with King
Peace in the realm?
Pocket Gamer Connects: Announcing our Helsinki schedule
Two days of mobile mastery
Candy Crush ‘tops out’ as the industry once again focuses on core gamers
Blizzard's Hearthstone part of a ‘new volley’ of branded blockbusters
Unity acquires player engagement platform Playnomics
Helgason: Technology to be integrated into Unity Cloud suite
UKIE names Goldsmiths University students first-ever student game jam winners
Phil Elliott dubbed ‘Mentor of the Universe’
Stateside
Giving Kickstarter the kick: The great crowdfunding crash is upon us
How Oculus f*cked it up for everyone else
Twitter unveils new mobile app promotion suite to drive installs
Direct download links included in ads
Indie Outreach
The next Big Indie Pitch is heading for Krakow
Teaming up with Digital Dragons
Is F2P the only way? $3.99 Out There was "profitable 3 weeks after release"
Developer Michael Peiffert waves the premium flag
PG Mobile Mixer: Windows Phone 8.1 dominates the conversation in San Francisco
Think. Drink. Connect.
GungHo Online’s Princess Punt Sweets passes 8 million downloads in Japan
Chasing the dragon
Candy Crush makes move on China via Tencent’s WeChat platform
Easing the IPO headache
Taking The Mickey
Former Disney SVP Javier Ferreira joins Scopely
The new COO on the block
The Charticle
How did the $9.99 Faster Than Light compete in the top grossing charts?
A measure of LTV
Two From The Top
King and Supercell boost European trade association ISFE
Industry is 'converging'
Chart Of The Week
Google Play downloads top iOS by 45%...and now it's not far behind on revenue, either
But iOS generates 85% more revenue
Samsung’s used aggressive marketing, not imitation, to top Apple
Need to beat Cupertino giant was a 'survival strategy'
Wartune is generating 40% of Hoolai's mobile revenue
Q1 mobile revenues have tripled
International Games Week Berlin brings in record numbers
Global visibility key to success
Parisian pow-wow: Game Connection Europe 2014 issues call for speakers
Deadline set for submissions on 30 April
Developer Demand
Oculus Rift claims 85,000 dev kits sold
Beating out expectations
Mobile Mavens
Gay people in games: Industry experts call on devs to "share stories of diversity"
Our Mavens give their take on this week's burning issue
Windows Phone 8.1 rolls out to registered devs worldwide
Full deployment expected this summer
Monetizer
Does Royal Revolt 2 make a run on your wallet?
Rise of the republic
Love thy developer: New community launches looking to make indies 'feel appreciated'
Developer worried studios are 'giving up'
Eye On Estonia
Join Pocket Gamer in Tallinn for our next Mobile Mixer
AdCash, Creative Mobile and Intergame on board
Top of the class: UKIE launches first ever student game jam
Building games around 'regeneration'
Hot Five
Backflip heralds return of the publisher, we put Finland in focus, and the issue of gay people in games
Last week's top five stories
Stateside
Developers, beware the democratisation of game development
With opportunity comes risk, warns Carter Dotson
Wargaming: Oculus Rift needs 5 million users for F2P to be viable
CEO Kislyi on the realities of free-to-play
Booming in Berlin: Kabam looking to build on its new European base
Getting its game on in Germany
No Small Success
Minecraft hits 21 million downloads on mobile
Dev to hold live Q&A to celebrate