Series B Success
Playlab lands $5m funding in first external investment
Monk's Hill Ventures expands Playlab's ambitions
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Matt Suckley
About Matt is really bad at playing games, but hopefully a little better at writing about them. He's Features Editor for PocketGamer.biz, and has also written for lesser publications such as IGN, VICE, and Paste Magazine.
Articles by Matt Suckley
Glu Favours Experience
27-year veteran Tim Wilson joins Glu Mobile as global CTO
Glu gets experienced tech leadership
Talkers
Full schedule announced for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2015
Regional and international highlights
Publisher Backing
Mumbai indie underDOGS teams up with Spil Games to launch Skatelander
iOS update and Google Play release on 15 October
Growing Team
Fragment Production hiring for 3 open positions at its Tampere HQ
Game Programmer, IT Admin, and Lead Artist vacant
Forced Into F2p
Crescent Moon founder Josh Presseisen on the quiet death of premium games
New York indie increasingly embracing F2P
Virtually Together
Starship's VR social network vTime gets a trailer and launch date
Comms Manager Vicky Roberts reveals platform's gaming applications
Respun
A second wind: the monetisation of Storm Casters Ultra
IAPs from the players' perspective
No Way Back
Updated: Apple confirms you can no longer re-download bought games since removed from the App Store
Policy shift
Get Hired
Redefine publishing with a job at fast-growing Tilting Point
President and co-founder Dan Sherman shares insights
Outta Ouya
Kellee Santiago joins Google Play Games team
thatgamecompany co-founder in unspecified new role
Get A Job
Tag Games hiring for 14 open positions at its Dundee headquarters
Senior Game Designer, Digital Marketing Exec, and more
Iap Inspector
Mech-ing changes: the monetisation of Dawn of Steel
IAPs from the players' persepctive
Now Hiring
Hothead Games goes coast-to-coast with new Halifax studio
New 25-strong studio to focus on Kill Shot and live ops
Communion Of Clashers
Supercell talks community, ClashCon and eSports
Marika Appel Community Manager shares insights
Get Hired
How to get a job at Scopely
Senior Technical Recruiter Chris Kale shares insights
Take It To The Limit
Google doubles the size limit of Google Play APKs to 100MB
But use wisely, blog post warns
Lively Lyon
Bigpoint hires Ryan McDonald and Christophe Garnier to double down on mobile development
A combined job history including Dreamworks, Disney, and Gameloft
Strong Start
DomiNations surpasses 3 million downloads in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea after only one month
No signs of slowing for Nexon's strategy hit
Brands In Context
Rovio's Wilhelm Taht offers an alternative to the "zero-sum game" of video ads
When is an advert not an advert? When it's "a gift from a brand"
Mobile-second
Nosebleed Interactive's Andreas Firnigl on moving from PlayStation Vita to mobile
Nosebleed's hybrid mobile "experiment"
With Great Power...
I've never seen Star Wars but I am playing Star Wars: Uprising
Why devs shouldn't assume shared culture
Under The Ua Radar
250 million installs without paid UA makes Nekki a Russian success story
Moscow-based firm also announces Vector 2
Alive And Kicking
Unkilled hits 3 million downloads after only 10 days, with an accumulative 1000 years of playtime
Averaging nearly 3 hours playtime per player
All 4 Games
UK broadcaster Channel 4 unveils new mobile games publishing initiative
"A truly first rate team"
Licence To Kill For
Glu Mobile using its Bond licence for multiplayer strategy title James Bond: World of Espionage
First ever free-to-play Bond game "coming soon"
Get Hired
How to get a job at San Francisco mobile developer Pocket Gems
Carrie Simonds, VP of People and Brand, shares insights
Not There Yet
Gimku CEO Rudy Sudarto on how the Indonesian gaming boom isn't being felt by all
Nationwide growth isn't being felt by developers
Iap Inspector
Honed to perfection: the monetisation of Star Wars: Uprising
IAPs from the players' perspective
Slidey Land
Land Sliders, the first game from ex-Halfbrick start-up Prettygreat, to launch on 24 September
Crossy Road inspiration evident
Growth Spurt
Sumo Digital hires industry legend Ian Livingstone, announces plans for new UK studio
Ian Livingstone CBE and Kats Soto bolster a growing Sumo
Super Spider Sequel
2 years, 20 contributors, and "alarming" sales - The making of Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon
Tiger Style on pushing the boundaries of mobile plausibility
End Of An Era
Konami restructures, focusing ongoing development on mobile games
All but PES to be given the boot
More Money, More Fans
Newzoo uprates its eSports revenue prediction to $765 million by 2018
All the insights from Newzoo's eSports report
Bucking The Trend
Spacetime Studios on how Call of Champions can break the Curse of Mobile MOBAs
It's an eSports boom, says VP of Games Jeff Petry
New Challenger
Spacetime Studios launches Call of Champions, the latest attempt to crack MOBA eSports on mobile
Pocket Legends dev designed MOBA around quick mobile play patterns
Data Driven
Scopely hires analytics exec Steve Seoane as SVP, Publishing Platform
Experienced analytics pro joins the California team
Covering Fire
In good health: the monetisation of Unkilled
IAPs from the players' perspective
Get Hired
How to get a job with King
Newly-appointed Chief People Officer Mark Taylor shares insights
Brimming With Experience
Spil Games hires former Ubisoft analytics expert Stefanie Hels
Former Ubi Singapore and Bigpoint analytics pro relocates to the Netherlands
Digging Deeper
Amazon on Underground, its long-term move to rewind mobile game monetisation away from F2P
Amazon Appstore Director shares his goals
Choppy Waters
Battlesheep's Nélio Codices on how to live off game development in Portugal
How Portuguese mobile dev Battlesheep has stayed afloat
History Lessons
Video game historian Ivan Barroso on "the brave and mighty Portuguese industry"
How industry has prospered in the face of crisis
Start Big
Miguel Vicente presents keynote to kick off Lisbon's Microsoft Game Dev Camp 2015
Microsoft Portugal's Audience Marketing Manager keynotes
Get Hired
How to get a job at GSN Games' new Palo Alto office
Karen Lalley, VP of Human Resources, shares insights
For The Love Of Cars
Racing sim GT Spirit will be timed exclusive launch for Apple TV
Also coming to iOS and Android
Not Quite A Console
Apple unveils new Apple TV, starting at $149, available late October
Boasts A8 chipset and new motion remote
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
Apple announces 12.9-inch iPad Pro, starting at $799, available November
Announced on stage at the Apple Special Event
Listen And Learn
Ste Curran and Henry LaBounta revealed as keynote speakers for NASSCOM Game Developer Conference
Former Edge magazine editor and Zynga's Chief Visual Officer take the stage
Dominating Worldwide
DomiNations hits 12 million worldwide downloads in its first 5 months
Average player clocking 36 minutes in daily play