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Studio Profile
Back from the brink: How Lumo Developments dodged death and found success
Live long and prosper
Studio Profile
Walking tall: Set Snail on embracing the experimental side of game development
Raise the snails!
Charticle
A tale of two IPs: Candy Crush Soda Saga vs. Vainglory
Best of both worlds
Hot Five
Balancing Wither, TinyLoot's retention power and the departure of Keith
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Candy Crush Soda Saga goes viral, NativeX gives away $50,000, and what exactly is the point of publishers?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Niccolo de Masi
Glu CEO talks the future of mobile
Making Of
Duck and cover: The making of Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War
The balance between movement and cover
Deal
App discovery platform Geenapp raises $250,000
Putting the 'fun' in funding
Charticle
How successfully has Hothead's Kill Shot taken aim at top grossing charts?
Taking the shot
Hot Five
Alibaba's rumoured Com2uS move, Monument Valley IAP dissected and the end of free App Store games
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Learning from Taylor Swift, Alibaba to spend big, and Nokia and Jolla both announce Android tablets
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs
Small Giant Games seeks senior game designer
Apply within
Studio Profile
Simply connect: How New York studio Dots learned to thrive on mobile
Connecting the dots
Apple waves goodbye to 'free' gaming by rewording download buttons
The end of an era
Google allows Chinese developers to sell their games in over 130 countries
Still can't sell in China though
Ukie promotes UK games business in Korea at G-Star conference
Big in Busan
Deal
Best Fiends developer Seriously receives $5 million funding boost
Old friends, new challenges
Following 300% Asia growth in Q3, Adjust opens offices in China and Japan
Shanghai and Tokyo are the places to be
Very Big Indie Pitch returns at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Deadline for submissions 8 Dec
Charticle
Mistwalker's Terra Battle scores big on the Google Play top grossing charts in Japan, France and Spain
But iPhone players don't care
Deal
Gamevil and XL Games combine to release ArcheAge
Mobile ready
Hot Five
Cracking UA, the making of Brave Frontier, and why mobile games shouldn't be on your TV
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Samsung goes wearables crazy, Peter Molyneux talks F2P challenges, and our Mavens weigh in on that South Park episode
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
Goodgame, Flaregames, King, InMobi and App Annie all hiring now
Positions open
Tango's Global Games Fund finds its first six titles
Helping hand
Deal
Sega and Gumi join forces to release Chain Chronicle in the west
Power combo
Investment
LINE and Tencent invest $110 million Korean startup 4:33 Creative Lab
Double up
Jobs
InMobi recruiting in San Francisco and London
Join the club
Deal
TinyLoot receives additional funding ahead of Series A investment
Cash matters
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Clive Downie
Zynga COO on climbing to the top
GameRefinery says its Game Power Score metric will improve your game's commercial potential
Knowledge is power
Jobs
Lunagames looking for a content acquisition manager to drive its next 180 million downloads
Time to find cool games
Jobs
App Annie seeking two senior mobile marketing experts for San Francisco office
How well can you sell?
Charticle
Walk the LINE: How Disney Tsum Tsum found success in Thailand and Hong Kong
But sunk in the US
Jobs
King hiring hard for its Berlin office
Join the saga
Hot Five
Glu masters in-game ads, new EU VAT rules, and how Oculus will change the world
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Glu sues Hothead, Com2uS and Gamevil's sales explode, and Zuckerburg will measure Oculus' success in millions sold
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
EA-man Nick Earl joins Kabam, Kiip make strategic hires, and Datascope and Vivid hunt down new talent
Positions available
Outfit7 makes its Bee7 discovery and monetisation tool open to all Android devs
Cross-promo or generate revenue
Deal
Midverse signs Disruptor Beam and Imaginary Games to its Invest+Publish program
Combining development prowess and app operations
Data
InMobi extends reach to 872 million users and 138 billion monthly ad impressions
Making an impression
Charticle
Have the soccer-mad countries of the world embraced FIFA 15 Ultimate Team?
They think it's all over...
Jobs
Vivid Games searching for monetisation manager
On the money
Game Connection 2014
Parisian dreams: 5 things we learned at Game Connection 2014
Fratatouille
Mobile Mixer
Our expert Mobile Mixer panel challenges devs to find success their own way
Thanks to sponsors SkyMobi and Cashplay
Investment
DeltaDNA secures another $3 million
Additional investment
Game Connection 2014
Aaron Davis on why Oculus is going to change the world
A matter of time
Jobs
Jenny Richards-Steward becomes CEO of Women in Games Jobs
Realise your potential
Jobs
Ex-EA man Nick Earl appointed Kabam's president of worldwide studios
Moving on