Changing Faces
Oculus' developer relations guru Chris Pruett on converting games for mobile VR
Chris Pruett of Oculus VR shares his tips at GDC 2015
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Brand This
Brands are key to cost effective UA, says Warner Bros' Greg Ballard
My branding brings all the gamers to the yard
Target Acquired
InMobi Appographic Targeting puts the personal in personalised marketing
New service launches at GDC 2015
On The Rocks
GREE's Andrew Sheppard talks talent acquisition, not user acquisition
GREE COO says we're focussing on the wrong things
Retention's The Word
Target sticky non-gamers, not fickle gamers, says Mag Interactive's Daniel Hasselberg
Know your players
Squeezed Middle
Mid-tier companies need to shrink to indie, warns Tim Merel
GDC 2015 panel suggests a bit smaller is better
Do Not Polish
Backflip's 6 essential prototyping tips for mobile games
Tom Blind puts prototyping to the test.
Piggy Partners
U21 payment platform Oink partners with Playerize
Secure payment technology for under-21s
Strong Start
Bee7 helped devs pull 6.3 million installs in first three months
Android games monetization and UA platform wins out
Reality Check
PopCap co-founder John Vechey launches virtual reality startup
Pluto VR pops into life
Acceler-asia
GameFounders accelerates into Asia with Malaysian hub
Startup accelerator goes east in 2015
Competition
Oculus launches $1 million Mobile VR Jam 2015 competition
Virtual reality contest opens for entries
Ad This Up
Gameloft combats ineffective ad placements by opening up inventory
UK marketers can delve directly into portfolio
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Speak Up
Ex-Candy Crush Saga games guru Tommy Palm to keynote F2P: Summit
Former King exec heads to Shoreditch
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Cash Injection
UK video games pour $2.2 billion into the economy each year
BFI report reveals games industry economic impact
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
New Birds
Eric Seufert joins Rovio as VP of User Acquisition and Engagement
Someone new is pulling on the Rovio hoodie
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
Hot Five
The making of Crossy Road, Zynga's $153 million from ads, and Finland's bet on culture
Last week's top stories
Watch Us
AppSpy and Pocket Gamer's 12 hour charity Twitch stream now in full swing
Playing the best games ever made
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Going Global
Google Play opens up merchant accounts for 12 new countries
Big bucks for Bolivia, Bulgaria and more
New Hero
Spil Games reboots with new CEO Tung Nguyen-Khac
Mobile is the new business plan
Cash Saver
DeltaDNA releases Go, its free and unlimited game analytics service
Data on the cheap
Here Be Dragons
Tencent sets sights on Europe with majority investment in Miniclip
Miniclip? More like Moneyclip
Team Up
Starcom MediaVest heads into mobile with InMobi partnership
Mobile's the future
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Psych-sess
Indie game Psych scores 1 million downloads in two weeks
Solo indie dev cracks UA
Small Screen Wins
Newzoo predicts mobile games sales will overtake console in 2015
New research suggests the only way is up for mobile
Monkey Maker
Ubisoft rolls out Monkey King Escape to western markets
Cracked China before it targeted the west
Pure F2p
Why Hutch obsesses about metrics, not chart position
The numbers you can control
Blowing Up
Supercell's Boom Beach blasts into global top 10 grossing charts
App Annie's January Game index is here
Pastures New
Z2Live execs leave to launch alternative publisher Mobile Game Partners
Adam Flanders and Kevin Flynn up and running
It's A Deal
YoYo Games CEO steps down following $16 million Playtech deal
Sandy Duncan takes consultancy role
Jam Jute Games
Tag Games doubles office space for ChilliWorks expansion
Tools business on the up
Rejoignez-nous
Execution Labs launches GamePlaySpace to coalesce Montreal indie game devs
The non-profit will unite indie studios under one roof
Pay Once & Play
Apple promotes games without in-app purchases
App Store differentiation
All About Mii
Still wary of mobile gaming, Nintendo announces Mii mobile app
No plans to launch Nintendo classics on mobile
Networking
F2P Summit 2015 unveils speakers from Bossa and Monsters and Monsters
Bound for London on 26 March
Small And Mighty
3 UA megatrends small devs should ride to outperform the big boys in 2015
Eric Seufert calls the changes
Get Involved
Develop: Brighton 2015 speaker applications now open
10th games development conference calls for industry talent
Awards
Monument Valley, Hearthstone and Threes among SXSW 2015 Gaming Awards finalists
'Tis the season of award-ies
Super Success
Did the $15 million spent on Super Bowl XLIX UA ads score app store success?
Post-game app store rankings revealed
Disney Dollars
Tsum Tsum's top grossing success in Japan boosts Disney Interactive's sales
Revenues dipped, but profits were up thanks to mobile
Last Years Love
93 games nominated for 2015's IMGAs
And you can vote for People's Choice
Cash Guzzler
Is TV advertising just for the big guys?
Josh Rinsky of Quaid Media talks about a 2015 megatrend
Sf Merry-go-round
Storm8's Dan Scheidegger joins Scopely as general manager of casual games
Reaching broad audiences