East Shift
Asia to be more than half the world's $45 billion mobile game market by 2018
Digi-Capital research predicts big changes.
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Alysia Judge
Articles by Alysia Judge
Reward Me
Supersonic opens video mediation platform to all developers
Ready for indies too
Full Vision
Tommy Palm's VR outfit Resolution announces C-level execs and board
King's former Games Guru reveals new company
First Come First Served
Apple's new App Analytics is available in early access beta
In-house app analytics rev up for a test drive
Wrists On
Launch Apple Watch game devs on staking their claim for future glory
Devs share their first impressions
Shake Up
Personagraph and WWO bring private marketplace to Indian mobile ad market
Transparency data-driven approach
Behind The Scenes
Levelling up the mobile RPG: The making of Spirit Lords
Creative director Daniel Erickson takes us behind the scenes
Vinyl Slugs
Seriously takes the next step in Best Fiends franchisation with Kidrobot hook-up
Best Fiends creator has big plans
Talent Acquired
Super Evil Megacorp hires to push Vainglory into Asia
Yun sets sights on APAC
Unconsole Goes More Un
Leaked memo reveals Ouya is up for sale
End of the road for VC-funded outfit
Tag Team
Longtu is publishing Kabam's Marvel Contest of Champions in China
The final frontier
Farewell
Indie veteran Jeff Vogel abandons iOS due to Apple's planned obsolescence
Avernum developer reveals why he's pulled all his games from the App Store
Sonic Boom
iPhone and iPad boom in China as Apple pays out $2.5 billion to its developers
China earns Apple $16.8 billion
Vr For All
Following Mary Lou Jepsen hire, Oculus adds ex-Valve bizdev Anna Sweet
Anna Sweet and Mary Lou Jepsen make a real move
Big Bucks
Premium on mobile still not dead, says late entrant Kalypso
Marcus Behrens is backing the premium business model
Watch This
Over 3,000 apps available for Apple Watch, but games not yet key
App Annie track the newcomers
Top Dragon
Newzoo and TalkingData combine brains to track Chinese games market
New report available
Rim Of Fire
Centre of gravity swings east as APAC game market rises to $43 billion in 2015
China to overtake US as #1
Loss Of Support
UPDATED: Most of Club Penguin's redundancies are support staff
Brighton office closed
Window Of Opportunity
Why Windows Phone was the best launch platform for racer Perfect Shift
Lextre CEO highlights the benefits of developing for Windows Phone
Good Start
New Legend of the Sword 3D rakes in $1.6 million on first day
CMGE's RPG reveals launch figures
Lab Rat
Vungle helps devs design better mobile ads with its creative labs service
News service for "premium advertisers"
Axed
Disney Interactive begins “targeted reduction" of Club Penguin workforce
Teams behind popular brand are shrunk
Child's Play
Joyful Works on making money from kids games without using IAPs and ads
Basar Simitci sheds light on growing interest in children's games
Development 101
What the west could learn from Indian game developers
Taking a leaf from India's book
Fan Power
97.6 percent of all YouTube game views are bagged by fan-made channels
Newzoo and Octoly research shines light on viewer habits
New Frontier
6 things we learned about India's games industry at PGC Bangalore
There's a rumbling in the east
Cough Up
TIGA survey reveals programmers got biggest pay rise
Annual salary survey sheds light on development pay packets.
Lion's Share
Apple and Google eat up 83 percent of the world's $24.5 billion mobile games market
Newzoo report reveals the top 25 games companies
Lots Of Friends
Yahtzee with Buddies scores 1 million downloads in four days
Racking up the numbers
Launch Of Faith
Soft launch your game as soon as possible, says Zeptolab
CEO Misha Lyalin advises at PGC Bangalore
Talent Show
Why talent acquisition is vital to India's gaming success
All In A Day's Play co-founder Abhinav Sarangi puts out a call for talent
Growing Opportunity
The Indian mobile market will eclipse PC and console, says Manish Agarwal
Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore kicks off
Stand Out
Heed my advice and ignore advice, says Mike Bithell
Thomas Was Alone developer takes to the PGC Bangalore stage
Racing Ahead
Angry Birds Go smacks down Mario with 130 million downloads
Rovio spin-off game raises the stakes
Emerging Opportunity
Bee7 and Vserv forge partnership to solve emerging market monetisation
The next billion
Loudspeaker
Rami Ismail to keynote IndieDev:Day at Develop: Brighton
Vlambeer co-founder leads fifth IndieDev: Day
Hot Five
Apple Watch games, making money with Best Fiends, and Amazon swipes CryEngine
A glance at last week's top stories
Us Move
TabTale nets 5 million new players with Sunstorm acquisition
Publisher makes fourth acquisition
Crash Dummy
In China, the other engines are still playing catch up with Cocos2d, says Chukong
“Other game engines are still playing catch up with Cocos in China," says Chukong exec.
Cunning Fox
Rovio hires ex-Fox exec Alex Lambeek to push Asian business
New chief commercial officer brings Asia Pacific experience
Happy Sg50
Singapore celebrates 50th birthday with five F2P mobile games
Developers mark the country's anniversary
Watch This
Scopely partners with Hasbro to bring Yahtzee to mobile and Apple Watch
Popular boardgame goes wearable
Retailing Op
Apple adds Games Manager job to 2 existing App Store game positions
Three roles of power are available
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Lights Camera Horror
Warner Bros. to bring Five Nights at Freddy's to the big screen
Survival horror on the big screen
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Start Your Engine
Amazon makes another strategic gaming move with $50 million CryEngine deal
But what comes next?
Cash In
Rovio wins $4.2 million in toy vending machine copyright dispute
Counterfeit Angry Bird toys spark legal battle
Window Of Opportunity
Make a Windows game using Cocos2d-x and win $25,000
Deadline is 31 May 2015