Nexon didn't care about ARPDAU but whether our games were fun, says Rumble CEO Richardson
Reason behind $17.5 million investment round
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Articles by Jon Jordan
Nexon leads $17.5 million investment in US core studio Rumble Entertainment
Betting on its F2P cross-platform multiplayer vision
Chart of the Week: Brazil's $580 million mobile gaming market
SuperData breaks out the potential
Blood on the tracks: Chinese game stocks hit hard as market sentiment weakens
Over $2 billion wiped off top company valuations
Changyou sees Q3 2013 revenues up 10% to $183 million
Games boosted by 17173.com's popularity
Party with Pocket Gamer and Game Insight at Live Mobile! in Moscow
Expect a warm welcome on 12 November
Fishlabs CEO: If your game can't guarantee $1 million a day, it's hard to raise investment
The corporate tensions behind its job cuts
Opinion: Chinese mobile developers live in the most interesting of times
Don't be fooled by its scale. The east remains wild
Opinion: What does Paul Gauguin's masterpiece tell us about the future of mobile gaming?
Thoughts from App World 2013's opening remarks
HyberBees voted Big Indie Pitch London 2013 winner
Thanks to Vserv, GameSparks and Creative Skillset
Monetizer: Heroes of Camelot
Is Kabam playing its card right?
Zynga sees FY13 Q3 revenue down 36% to $203 million
Losses narrow but pain set to continue
Stepping up? DeNA's Downie resurfaces at Zynga
Corporate packs reshuffled
TVs are now the second screen, says BBC future tech guru John Howard
Tablets and phones come first, especially for children
PlayHaven sees platform usage up four-fold, now powering 20,000 games
That's 800 million unique players
Clash of the clan makers: Space Ape on building the world's #2 mobile RTS
The rise of Samurai Siege
IGG floats on Hong Kong stock exchange
Raising cash for expansion
The Charticle: Game of War is the 6th most lucrative game on iOS
Tracking the Machine Zone game's global assault
Hall of Fame: Trip Hawkins
EA, 3DO and Digital Chocolate founder looks forward
Despite $1.5 billion deal, we're more independent now, says Supercell CEO
Trust is thicker than shareholding
Chart of the Week: Why you should be using interstitial ads for tablets and Android
InMobi reveals its tricks for top click-thru rates
Reading List: The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen's classic challenge for technologists
Floatation News
IGG floats on HKEx, raising $90 million for growth and acquisitions
Four mobile games to launch in Q4 2013
How $50 million round will enable Chukong to go big internationally, and get bigger in China
US GM Lei Zhang provides the vision
Total funding up to $83 million, as Chukong announces $50 million Series D round
New Horizon Capital leads the investment
Small Giant raises $750,000, also looking for more smart small giants
Helsinki's next generation stretches its legs
Chart of the Week: Are you ready for the rise of India, Indonesia and Thailand?
InMobi highlights your next 1.6 billion players
Creative Mobile and Halfbrick line up to talk games at 10th Mobile VAS & App conference
All happening 21-22 November in St Petersburg
The Charticle: Despicable Me: Minion Rush for Kakao
What happens when the pipe is full?
Opinion: Straightforward or not, the Gamevil-Com2uS deal is full of upside potential
A $500 million mobile powerhouse emerges
Monetizer: Is Clash of Clans setting the standard for in-game currency conversion?
Gameloft, GREE and Chair following the pattern
Power of Three: Get ready for the Supercell-GungHo-Softbank Triforce to shake up gaming
Nation of millions, warchest of billions
Peak Games drives usage with connected Facebook-mobile multiplayer strategy
Doing a King
Hall of Fame: Ilkka Paananen
Supercell CEO on the power of the best people
Tencent generates $1 million a day from its WeChat-fuelled 'Wind Runner'
Cool Running Everyday scores big in China
Inode hits 300 million downloads from Nokia Store
Mexican developer now also looking to Windows Phone
Chop Chop Ninja slices his way into TV animation
Canadian hook up
The Charticle: 2 million downloads not enough to stop The Drowning sinking
When a hit isn't really a hit
Monetizer: Dragon Realms
Looking at GREE's F2P tricks and techniques
Chart of the Week: 7.3% of Danes have downloaded DragonVale
After 2 years, Backflip breaks out the infographic
Unity 4.2.2 adds support for iOS 7 game controllers
It's time to Call Input.GetJoystickNames()
Fishlabs polishes Galaxy on Fire: Alliances with 30,000 iOS beta testers
Expect something very shiny in early 2014
IPO prep: Chukong rebrands, formally absorbing Cocos2D-x as it tidies international image
CocoaChina and Punchbox names dropped
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Recruitment? There's an app for it
Real-money skill gaming platform Cashplay goes live on iOS
G4M3's Crazy Lazy Runner is debut title
GamesAnalytics expands, hires I-play VP Keith Adair
Heading up the analytics drive into EMEA region
Chartboost adds ex-Google, Booyah exec Chung-Man Tam as CPO
Headcount now up to 90
Hall of Fame: Perry Tam
Storm8 CEO on shaping the F2P gaming explosion
Dealing with 'PuzDra Shock': Why Puzzle & Dragons has left DeNA and GREE reeling
Adways Interactive's Ken Asakura reveals all
Reading List: The Curve: From Freeloaders into Superfans
Nicholas Lovell's on riding an upward path