True Engagement
Tutorial completion doesn't drive monetisation
Glispa research highlights data
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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
Mega Rewards
Get Set Games receives $18,000 Unreal Dev Grant for mobile release of Mega Blast
Unreal impressed by Toronto firm's first 3D mobile game
Thieving Epidemic
King of Thieves celebrates 10 million downloads with the launch of Guild Battles
Guild Battles promise to make competition even more cutthroat
Truth In Jest
Rovio bringing virtual reality Angry Birds to Gear VR
Rock in Rio VIPs get first go
Seeking A Billion
Japan #1 Monster Strike raking in $3.8 million per day
Touted as Japan's next billion-dollar mobile game
Pulling Together
5 things we learned about Croatia's games industry at Reboot Develop 2015
Matt Suckley our man on the ground
Less Is More
How Eipix spent 2 years and 7 iterations creating F2P match-3 game Free the Witch
Mirko Topalski shows off Free the Witch
For The Kids
Why TabTale cares as much for its legacy games as new titles
Vic Boaron on the importance of portfolio management
New Year, New City
Reboot Develop 2016 relocated to Split
Damir Đurović confirms the industry and developer's conference will return
Part Of The Process
Leading the Croatian game sector into the future
Machina's Lovro Nola on the step required
Watch And Earn
Video mediation platform AerServ launches incentivised ads
New platform promises more flexibility
All To Play For
Develop:Brighton Indie Showcase 2015 now open for submissions
Free to enter for indie teams and individuals
India's The Place
99Games raises $5 million to target growing Indian market
Star Chef dev sees massive potential in India
Week That Was
Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore, Google's Cardboard VR move, and more Apple Watch games
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Tuning And Time
Delays and roadblocks: the monetisation of Fast & Furious: Legacy
Putting Kabam's movie tie-in through its paces
More Me
Frenzoo raises another $1 million to expand Me Girl franchise
Start-up working towards inter-app synergy
Week That Was
Zynga's rebound CEO, Minions change hands, and Five Nights at Freddy's movie in the works
The past 7 days in bite-sized chunks
Boosting Ad Efficiency
Glispa's revised Quality Optimization Engine promises to fine-tune your campaigns
Backed by OLX
Looking Ahead
VR app store WEARVR raises $1.5 million
Leveraging potential for big investment
Iap Inspector
Good fight: the honourable monetisation of Stormblades
IAPs from the players' perspective
Tailor-made
Gondola launches Dynamic Pricing Engine to match players and prices
Claims 12 percent rise in revenues
Line-up Confirmed
Schedule highlights unveiled for Estonia's GameDev Days 2015
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Unity in attendance
Watch Ads To Stop Ads
Noodlecake's Ryan Holowaty on the experimental monetisation of Tiltagon
Bridging the gap between free-to-play and premium
Week That Was
Supercell's $1.7 billion sales, 242 industry jobs, and how will Nintendo monetise?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
One-touch Success
Super Casual games dominate app stores in February
App Annie highlights success of ZigZag and Crossy Road
Bouncing Bean
Coming on leaps and bounds: the making of Bean Dreams
Kumobius on the development of their paid iOS platformer
Tactile Worlds
Leap Motion and Razer building VR headset with in-built hand tracking
Razer's OSVR meets Leap Motion's tracking tech
The Iap Inspector
Waiting for the end... in World Zombination
IAPs from the players' perspective
Job News
ZeptoLab hiring for 14 positions in its Barcelona office
Barcelona beckoning for UA, community and marketing managers
Magic Number
GetSocial 3.0 launches, powering social engagement for MMX Racing and Ruzzle Adventure
Increasing user engagement, player acquisition, and revenues
Week That Was
Nintendo and DeNA break the internet, King of Thieves examined, and anticipation mounts for PGC Bangalore
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Summit Speakers
Final speakers for F2P Summit 2015 announced
Roll on 26 March
Going Global
Market Tech Holdings acquires majority stake in glispa with $77 million deal
glispa will become full service solution provider
Gotta Gacha
How ZeptoLab uses randomness to monetise King of Thieves
IAPs from the players' perspective
First Class
After 40 million downloads of its kids games, TribePlay rebrands as Dr Panda Games
Rebrand based on the strength of the firm's popular Dr. Panda IP
Social Pays
Social gaming network Pocket Arena launches on iOS
New retention tool
Week That Was
Apple Watch debated and GDC 2015 conclusions drawn
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Week That Was
Top 50 devs revealed, life after Subway Surfers, and President Spacey loves Monument Valley
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Placement
House of Cards appearance boosts Monument Valley back up the paid charts
Dedicated Netflix users crucial to recent success
Power Of Brands
Warners Bros doubles down on mobile with Mortal Kombat, Batman, LEGO and Game of Thrones titles
Experimenting with both premium and free-to-play
Set Free
Unreal Engine 4 goes upfront free, backed by a 5% royalty fee
"Epic succeeds only when creators succeed"
Paying For Players
Japan has highest CPI costs
Geenapp counts country variation
Beyond Retail
NPD begins tracking in-app purchases and mobile game sales
Brave new world
Happy Birthday
Ruzzle celebrates 3rd birthday and 50 million download milestone
The word game stays relevant 3 years on
Up We Go
Fingersoft releases Chinese edition of Hill Climb Racing
Working with MyGamez
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Tasty
From handhelds to mobile and back: the turbulent rise of Pastagames
The Parisian indie embracing risk
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Week That Was
Apple loves premium, Zynga win big on in-game ads, and Hipster Whale talks Crossy Road
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace