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Matthew Diener
About Representing the former colonies, Matt keeps the Pocket Gamer news feed updated when sleepy Europeans are sleeping. As a frustrated journalist, diehard gamer and recovering MMO addict, this is pretty much his dream job.
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Technology Strategy Board announces five £25,000 projects for UK start-ups
Sony, Intel, Crytek and Google all involved
Very engaged: Xiaomi's users downloading 26.5 apps per quarter
That's double the rate of App Store and Google Play
Sony launches Third Party Production to bring established IP to its devices
Aimed at ports and localisations
PG.biz Week That Was: Nintendo baffles us with the 2DS, Unity turns publisher, and Asphalt 8 analyzed
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China's #7 phone OEM snags Android VP for global push
Hugo Barra joins Xiaomi for new challenges
Want to reach an extra 260 million players a month? Facebook's new Unity SDK has you covered
Port your game in a few clicks
Unity unveils Unity Cloud, including analytics, cross-promotion and advertising
2D Tools also revealed
Playnomics says its Churn Predictor will stop you losing 70% of your players in the first month
New addition to the PlayRM platform
King sues 6waves for allegedly copying two Saga games
Showing its teeth before IPO?
Opinion: Don't drop the beat - why you should care about your game's audio
Music is everything
Muteki Corp's Adam Rippon on how Sony saved the indie studio 'from the brink of death'
And the importance of store curation
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: PvsZ 2 does 16M downloads, Oculus Rift eyes Android, and 78% of IAP big spenders happy with purchases
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AppVersal on the difficulty of app discovery
It's all about better brand recognition
Creative Mobile, TinyCo and Animoca add support for subscription-based unconsole GamePop
Android focus
Chart of the Week: Android game revenue now bigger than 3DS and PS Vita
App Annie and IDC have the breakdown
Opinion: After its initial failure, Sony's now looks to turn PS Vita into a mini-PlayStation 4
Time for a pivot
Extreme Motion SDK 'motionizes' snowboarding game with Kinect-like control
Uses front-facing camera on tablet or laptop
As Plants vs Zombies 2 hits 16 million downloads, EA takes FIFA 14 free-to-play
The transformation is complete
Get ready for an eyeful - Oculus Rift's John Carmack working on mobile SDK
Android support coming first
Exclusive: 78% of mobile gamers spending $50+ on IAP say they've received 'their money's worth'
EEDAR survey of 3,000 reveals surprising facts
Are you an indie dev looking to make it big? Enroll in Chartboost University
It's all about the hothouse
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: BlackBerry's future, King's billion daily gameplays, and PopCap defends PvsZ 2's F2P model
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Social gaming and charity network Gramble closes out $5 million seed round
A real charity case
LOGIN 2013 conference kicks off with keynote on mobile games
Running 26-27 September in SF
King hits a billion daily gameplay sessions
Papa Pear Saga is the next to go mobile
Nextpeer brings its iOS multiplayer SDK to Android for cross-platform play
Leveraging a network of 15 million unique users
Opinion: Mobile gaming's throne of power is the toilet, not the sofa
Where unconsoles are going wrong
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Android powers past Apple, OMGPOP is shuttered (again), and what's next for Glu?
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Mobile the one silver lining to Disney's $58 million loss
'Decline in console game sales' cited
Mobile mover: Namco Bandai opens up new Vancouver studio
Set to focus on North American market
Web ready: Amazon opens up its Android Appstore to HTML5 apps
Unveils one-stop-shop for web devs
The Room and Year Walk lead the mobile charge at Unity Awards 2013
And they're not alone
Apple's iPhone slips to 7th spot in China's smartphone wars
Losing in a core market
Ouya, Nvidia and Flurry bound for GDC Europe's Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit
The rise of the unconsoles
OMGPOP's move to buy back its site shut down by Zynga
Sources suggest social giant said 'no'
Zynga shutters OMGPOP.com and four Facebook games axed
Draw Something franchise unaffected
Viral walk-on-bys: Nintendo makes $4 million from StreetPass games
Flexing its tiny channels
Casual Connect 2013: PerBlue on how your thriving RPG could earn you $145 per player
Epic loot
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Puzzle & Dragons hits a million in the US, Zynga's in need of friends, and Android tablets overtake iPad
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Casual Connect 2013: Steps to mobile success in China, Japan, and Korea
Go east, young dev
Usain Bolt: When Imangi asked me to be in Temple Run 2, I said yes 'straight away'
A tandem run
Casual Connect 2013: TapStar's Chris Gray on 5 tricks indies need to topple giants
David vs. Goliath 2.0?
Casual Connect 2013: Spacetime's Gary Gattis on balancing monetisation and fun
Providing legendary examples
Casual Connect 2013: Making Fun's Shea Dinkin on why character matters, even for F2P games
Recognition = retention
Casual Connect 2013: SomaTone's Nick Thomas on making your audio sing
Fighting back against the mute button
Beachfront Media on the power of video ads for user acquisition
New dev-friendly SDK announced
Powered by Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo reveals daily revenue rate of $4.9 million
But sales set to slow in second half of 2013
Kiwi Inc. closes $9 million funding round lead by Sequoia Capital
Playdom folks regroup
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Apple get hacked, EA names the App Store as its biggest money spinner, and we go big on China
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