Another Puzzle
iDreamSky bags exclusive Chinese Android rights for Monument Valley
Ustwo sets sights on China
Staff
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Articles by Alysia Judge
Western Proxy
Taiwanese mobile game sector to hit $474 million in 2015
Annual growth of 70%
Watch
Liam Neeson takes over Super Bowl for Supercell's $9 million Clash of Clans ad
Selling mobile games requires a very specific set of skills
Turn Up To 11
Wargaming.net rocks out with Vevo sponsorship deal
Tanks can't blitz if they don't have a rocking playlist
Market Trends
Losing up to 300 jobs, Sega Sammy restructures for mobile and online
Moving from San Francisco
Woods Vs Trees
App stores are dying as a source of organic discovery
Zombie apps are taking over
Accelerate
Execution Labs reveals new international line-up, including PewDiePie game
Montreal braces for intense game development program
Fly Away
Jami Laes leaves "magical place" Rovio for something "interesting"
Rovio loses its head - of games, that is
Pewdie-mario
Nintendo opens entente cordiale with YouTubers through advertising share program
New beta program live
Westernisation
How China's soon-to-be #2 iOS status could shift our perceptions of the F2P Android gaming market
Shake up Shanghai style
Hallel-ouya
Ouya now boasts Unreal Engine 4 support
Good things come to those who wait
Sore Thumbs
Average time spent playing mobile games now over two hours a day
Kids play, adult pay
Growing On Controversy
Thanks to #Gamergate, Feminist Frequency's 2014 revenue was boosted 600%
Anita Sarkeesian prepares for 2015
Light Up
Mobcast buys Lumines and Meteos for mobile reinvention
Pieces of the puzzle
Equivalence
Android game ecosystem now as profitable as iOS
Lower ARPU, but lower UA too
On The Up
Cost of a loyal iOS user rose to $2.10 in December
Peaks and troughs
Crystal Ball
Facebook will consolidate UA dominance in 2015 with 1 billion monthly mobile users
eMarketer forecasts $11 billion of ads
Bay Area Switch
Storm8 hires Zynga's VP of product Pablo Paniagua
Aggressive hiring continues
Next Billion
AppFlood report reveals 70% of new Android users coming from emerging markets
Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe growing fast
Vision-ary
King's Games Guru Tommy Palm leaves to set up VR developer
Resolution Games will explore virtual reality
Twitch Time
Mobile game devs need to take advantage of Twitch, says EEDAR's Patrick Walker
Clash of Clans ranked 43 out of 2,800
Ruzzle To Riches
Mag Interactive invests in upcoming UK studio Delinquent
Swedish studio takes "giving back to the community" literally
Midwest Move
Glu exec Matt Ricchetti abandons San Francisco for PerBlue's Midwest
West coast blues
Console Revenge
GDC report reveals dip in US developer interest on mobile as consoles rebound
Power of the boxes
Into The Fire
DeltaDNA opens doors of new San Francisco office, and announces new hires
California calls for the Scottish analytics company
Paid To Watch
Crossy Road rakes in $1 million on iOS with Unity's incentivised video ads
Inspired by Disco Zoo
New Rules
Free-to-play is a legal minefield, warns top video game lawyer
How will EU regulation affect mobile?
Learning To Fail
Mobile games don't make players feel connected, says Peter Molyneux
Lionhead founder explains where devs are going wrong
Resurrected
Behaviour Interactive steps up to mobile, acquiring Zombie Farm IP
Canadian dev enters new market
Ubijobs
Ubisoft graduate program opens for 2015 business
Opportunity to work with a top studio somewhere in the world
Jobs
Seriously mines Rovio, Supercell and Fox talent in recruitment drive
Best Fiends dev scales up
Market Movement
Com2uS opens Taiwan office to better target Chinese-speaking countries
Aggressive expansion plans in force
Free Event
Registration opens for Microsoft Cloud Gaming Day on 19 January
Head down London way
Busy Week
Apple App Store smashes revenue records in first week of 2015
Apple has set the bar high for this year
Integration
mNectar reveals what ads of the future could look like, and Twitter wants in
Alongside Opera Mediaworks, Sprint and Fuse Powered
Audience
Adult women confirmed as YouTube's fastest growing gaming audience
Female gamers are powering views online
Finnvestment
Finnish investors prefer safe bets not innovation, says Rival Games' CEO
Is Finland taking the fun out of funding?
Awards 2015
A Grand Adventure: 80 Days shortlisted for three awards in IGF 2015
Mobile devs outshines PC
Making Of
Shaking it up: The making of Candy Crush Soda Saga
King reveals how you recreate success
Maturing
Growth of mobile game usage drops 50% in 2014
Users move to entertainment apps
Streaming
Razer Forge TV will unite console and mobile gaming
One half Android, one half surprise
Hot Chips
Nvidia Tegra X1 promises eye-popping console graphics on mobile
And it just might deliver
Crowdfunding
Kickstarter campaigns raised $1,000 a minute in 2014 to fund nearly 2,000 games
Game developers struck gold last year
Chart Of The Week
Stasis at the top: 7 of 2014 top grossing apps were there in 2013
No room at the top
Piracy
Ustwo says only 5% Android users paid for Monument Valley
But ustwo is "not complaining"
Ad Wrists
Is this what ads will look like on the Apple Watch?
Wearable advertising
Sweet Success
Candy Crush Saga is officially the most downloaded Android game of 2014
Google Play Top 5 titles revealed
Going Private
Perfect World founder launches private buyout bid
Share jump sky high
Integrated approach sees The Mobile Majority hit $50 million run rate
The future of mobile advertising is a "holistic system"
Data
Gamers who buy paid games spend more in F2P games
Across the great divide