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Keith Andrew
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The key to F2P success: Know your player, says Player Research
McAllister on why monetisation models aren't always to blame
Amazon: F2P success down to play count not play length
Keep them coming back says Daniel Winner
Why players wrought with envy are a free-to-play developer's best friend
Berni Good on the psychology of F2P
Microsoft: Nintendo should report Mario and Pokemon clones on Windows Store
Spotting infringements not Redmond giant's responsibility
Gamevil's spending spree continues, acquires another studio and invests in two others
Com2us wasn't a lone purchase
Discovery derby: Amazon launches developer program to help games get spotted
Just in time for the Christmas rush
Samsung's Galaxy man leaves mobile division
Packingham departs without reason
Independently speaking: Now's the time for a Scottish trade body, says Brian Baglow
About building bridges, not knocking them down
Microsoft: New Surfaces are 'close to selling out' in US
A.K.A how to follow up a $900 million write-down
National interest: Scottish Games Network to serve as Scotland's first games industry trade body
Will work with existing bodies
Opinion: Remember the last big games industry scandal? No, neither do we
Check your social media for details
Seeing double: HTC investigating adding Windows Phone to Android devices
Microsoft considering dropping license fee
GREE offers voluntary retirement to 200 employees, closes Osaka office
Getting leaner and leaner
Mind Candy: Moshi Monsters is 'UK's top licensed property'
Smartphones and tablets now the target
QONQR: Windows Phone can generate twice as much revenue for devs as iOS
And ten times the downloads
Ubisoft sell off was 'difficult', admits Future Games of London
But French publisher is the perfect partner
Capital deal: Ubisoft acquires Future Games of London
Holding on to staff and Hungry Shark IP
Mind Candy mobile chief to headline London's F2P Summit
Erica May bound for Shoreditch on 10 October
Rovio mergers veep Teemu Huuhtanen flies nest to found new mobile studio
Next Games his next move
Did Valve's SteamOS just make the microconsole redundant?
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
Tight at the top: iPhone edges Windows Phone by just 1% in Germany
Microsoft's platform accelerating in Europe
Chart of the Week: Plants vs. Zombies 2 tops iOS downloads in August
But is nowhere to be seen when it comes to revenue
Hot Five: Clash of Clans to hit Android, iPhone tops 9 million, and charting Top Eleven's success
Last week's top 5 stories
Master Chief goes mobile: Microsoft tests Xbox game streaming service for smartphones
Looking to stream to Windows and Windows Phone
All bets are off: Zynga pulls out of gambling games in US
Focus back on free-to-play
Developers have nothing to fear from OFT's gaming guidelines, says tech lawyer
Taylor Wessing's Graham Hann gives his expert view
Report: Candy Crush's King files for IPO in US
Set to float on the Nasdaq
Building a 'sustainable industry' needs to be OFT's priority, says TIGA
UK developers are law abiding
UKIE: In-app purchase guidelines must not 'stifle the creativity of games developers'
OFT must consider UK industry's growth
Child's play: UK's Office of Fair Trading lays out new principles for in-app purchases
Looking to provide more info for children
Open for business: UK pavilion did £11 million worth of deals at Gamescom, says UKIE
Better together
Should mobile developers be aiming to build GTA V style hype?
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
EA denies paid relationship with Apple, brands Plants vs. Zombies 2 debacle an 'unfortunate misunderstanding'
Gibeau's comments 'taken out of context'
EA: Apple paid us a 'truckload of money' to delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android
But Apple denies claim
Melting away: Digital Chocolate offloads Barcelona studio on Ubisoft
Technology and brands included
Opinion: BlackBerry's demise offers no satisfaction for those of us who knew it was game over
Feels wrong to be proven right
It's a record breaker: iPhone sales hit 9 million in opening weekend
But iPhone 5C sales could be as low as 2 million
Hot Five: How to make the perfect screenshots, Zynga embroiled in user review controversy, and how Deus Ex mastered mobile
Last week's top 5 stories
Too little, too late: BlackBerry's consumer retreat will only hasten demise, warn analysts
Will shake confidence in firm
Gaming charity SpecialEffect makes move on Windows Phone
Launches new app to aid gamers with disability
User explosion: Boom! Tanks hits 1 million downloads in a week
Codemasters firing on all cylinders
Chart of the Week: iOS 7 take up twice as quick as iOS 6
New 'flat' look gaining fans fast
Zynga draws suspicion as CastleVille Legends amasses five star reviews
Five star ratings aplenty from Zynga-only reviewers
Flying the flag: Indie collective Best of British rebrands as Full Indie UK
Launches 'fresh wave of public events'
Bigger than GREE, Japanese gaming powerhouse Colopl hits $2.4 billion market cap
But does the firm have global ambitions?
iPhone 5C pre-orders only in the 'hundreds', says French carrier
Launch campaign branded 'disappointing'
Old dog, old tricks: Apple rolls out app compatibility notifications for legacy devices
Fancy updating to the 'last compatible version'?
Mobile gamers spend more, but play less, than those on Facebook
Arkadium talks cross-platform
Apple breaks with tradition, keeps mum on iPhone 5C pre-orders
Does the C stand for catastrophic?