Slow Start
Why Apple Watch won't hit its stride until Q4 2015
Our Wearable Mavens discuss the first three weeks
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Articles by Jon Jordan
Are We There Yet?
Neil Young to kick off Evolve at Develop: Brighton discussing 'Peak Mobile'
Ex-ngmoco CEO ponders the future
Play Games, Win Money!
Win cash at our Nordic Game Mixer by playing Touchdown Hero
Cashplay highlighting its cash platform in situ
Outgoings
King sees cash pile fall by 33% to $661 million as it seeks to bolster share price
Sales steady
Money For Nothing
Why Nintendo and Konami need to take heed of Nexon's cautionary tale of mobile failure
The hardest game in the world
Quality Mark
Nexon sees FY15 Q1 mobile sales up 16% to $70 million
Top of Tanker and DomiNations launched well
Deep Wallet
Tencent invests again, injecting $60 million into Pocket Gems
Rumoured to have taken a 20% stake
It's Getting Better
Why market conditions have shifted to favour mobile game developers
Your publisher needs you
Boom Continues
Despite spending $15 million on UA, Com2uS sees FY15 Q1 profits rise to $25 million
Another record quarter for Korean publisher
Less Is More
Following the closure of its Vancouver office, GREE refocuses international efforts
Finding the balance
Transparency
Millennial Media plays the trust card, offering a 100% viewability guarantee
Get what you pay for
Smart Move
GameGenetics to massively enlarge R&D base thanks to major investment
Targeting control and transparency
Coming Up Trumps
When it comes to Hearthstone's Asian success, Japan is the outlier
Phone version has provided another boost
Cash In
Touchdown Hero goes the extra mile with Cashplay real money tournaments
Back your skill with cash
Vr Dawning
Is the 12-month wait for Oculus Rift a disaster or an opportunity for VR?
The Mavens debate when virtual reality will dawn
Ways To Spend
Video and Facebook still the most effective UA channels
AdColony marks the status quo
All Systems Go!
D3Publisher of America rebrands as mobile-friendly D3 Go!
Gets a mobile focus
Adding Xp
Ex-Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada joins Metaps' board
Going for growth
Hard Times
Mobile majority Zynga sees FY15 Q1 sales down 5% to $183 million
Losses will continue
Alive
Rough Cookie Erik t' Sas takes live ops role at GameDuell
Veteran adds another notch
Epic Gain
Ex-Epic president Mike Capps takes advisory role at Unity
Riccitiello makes another mark
Jackpot
Everything you wanted to know about the social casino market in 15 minutes
Plumbee CEO Raf Keustermans braindumps
New Angle Of Attack
How Zynga is looking to move mobile strategy from 'breach and flood' to 'rolling momentum'
The thinking behind Empires & Allies
Time For Tie-ins
EA Mobile looks to brands such as Star Wars, UFC and Minions for success in 2015
Tastes are maturing fast
Leap Forward
EA Mobile sees FY15 sales up 26% to $504 million
Now has 165 million MAUs
Gift Impulse
Could Trophit's gift-voucher approach to UA increase your LTV 3-fold?
A better approach to acquire
Is Apple's aggressive attitude to deprecating devices good or bad for game devs?
Mobile Mavens discuss where Apple could do more
Best Fiends With Seoul
How Seriously is crafting its approach to the competitive, lucrative and culturally vibrant Korean market
Working in conjunction with Incross
Qualified Success
Dungeon Hunter 5 launch underlines Gameloft's relative F2P success
How good is best?
A Word From Our Sponsors
Why in-game ads - native, video and brands - will unlock the next wave of F2P monetization
Monetizer Mavens go ad-funded
Did It Again
Britney Spears and Tencent deals add $116 million to Glu's market cap
Shares now higher than Tencent buy price
Celebrity Sustain
Glu sees FY15 Q1 sales up 56% to $69.5 million
Keeping up with Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Better & Better
Glu Mobile gains $126 million Tencent investment and signs up Britney Spears
Success breeds success
Port Me
Microsoft creates easy porting path to bring Android and iOS code to Windows 10
Bows to implications of third place
Another Platform
Unity 5 to support Microsoft's HoloLens VR hardware
VR for all
Another Hero
Herocraft marketing man Alexey Sazonov announces Krabwerk start-up
Kaliningrad gets a new developer
Sca_e And Gr_w
3 up for Daily Celebrity Crossword dev PuzzleCreator
Two originators go full-time
Rebound
With Dungeon Hunter 5 leading the charge, Gameloft sees FY15 Q1 sales up 17% to $71 million
New year, new hope
Can't Buy Love
Despite $50 million Crytek deal, Mavens split over whether Amazon has a future in mobile games
So hard to create relevance
Game Glances
10% of Apple Watch apps are games
Tail is already wagging the dog
Ultron Alert
Why Marvel Contest of Champions is the perfect game for Avengers: Age of Ultron cross-over
Super heroes squared
Making The Switch
Changyou selling Wartune dev 7Road as it focuses on mobile future
Announced in FY15 Q1 financials
Strategy Evolved
Tracking DomiNations' rise up western top grossing charts
Big Huge Games rethinks strategy
Rising Tide
$7.7 billion Chinese mobile game market to overtake US in 2016
Newzoo calls the changes
Wrist Wrappin'
From Best Fiends and Real Racing 3 to Runeblade and Spy_Watch - 29 games for Apple Watch
Our big list of games with glances
Jobs Merry-go-round
Following Mattrick out from Zynga, Clive Downie is Unity's new CMO
As one door closes...
Experience Injection
Zynga strengthens board with ex-Big Pharma CFO
Louis J. Lavigne Jr. lends support
Call For Quality
Spil Games' CEO explains Unsung Heroes, its move to get the best games to the widest audience
A new publishing initiative
Entries Open
Spil Games' Unsung Heroes will launch your game to 130 million gamers
Plus $50,000 marketing support
Sisters Take Flight
Angry Birds Stella games pass 30 million downloads
Angry Birds Stella POP! does 5 million in launch month