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Chart of the Week: Mobile to be largest game segment by 2017
Beating out retail, digital distribution and PC
It's hard to keep gamers fed. There's an insatiable appetite for mobile games, says Sony's emerging platforms director
Feast or famine for the platform holders
Medio offers 2,500 free downloads per month for first devs to sign for new virality engine K-Invite
Transform your players' friends into players
User acqusition isn't just about spending. Think email, SMS, virality and ROI, says #mgusa panel
Traditional marketing is being overlooked
#mgusa We want to publish games that will do $10 million a year, says Gamevil
First learning from Mobile Gaming USA West 2013
Beachfront releases Beachfront.iO, its nextgen mobile ad platform
Control for advertisers, cash for developers
Chart of the Week: DeNA has halved the cost of a new Mobage user
Power of the network
Renren invests further in mobile gaming as Q1 FY13 losses increase to $27.5 million
Revenues up 45% to $45.5 million
Disney starts to take Club Penguin mobile with iPad-only My Penguin
Brings synced experience with exclusive elements
Chinese web gaming outfit Forgames makes a strategic minority investment in Animoca
Pair look to other's expertise to expand globally
Breaking the 100 million download barrier, Capcom Mobile sees FY12 sales up 74% to $117 million
Mobage and GREE success, Snoopy 2 inbound
Testflight's support for beta Android app distribution goes live
Get your .IPAs and .APKs from one place
Nexon's mobile games business does $81 million in Q1 2013
But expect this to fall in Q2
Already 10 million MAUs-strong, kids game maker Sunstorm invests for the next 10 million
Keeping pace with player expectations
Zynga's Travis Boatman on bringing something different to the endless runner genre
Running (somewhere new) With Friends
Com2uS posts a record quarter with FY13 Q1 sales up 121% to $22.4 million
KakaoTalk success lifts income 120% to $7.7m
Havok adding Tizen support to its free Project Anarchy mobile game engine
Expects to provide code in Q3
Ngmoco acquisition justified: DeNA made $160 million internationally in FY12
Western operations to be profitable this summer
DeNA sees FY12 sales up 38% to $2 billion as profit hits $775 million
West generating around $70 million a quarter
Ouya closes $15 million round, pushes back US retail launch until 25 June
Cites 'higher than expected demand'
Halfbrick's 200 million Chinese Fruit Ninja downloads generate 50 million MAUs
Working with local partner iDreamsky
Curiosity Chart of the Week: After the initial excitement comes cube-tapping hard graft
Currently taking 10 hours to destroy a layer
Fuse Powered's Walsh on building a boutique ad network to solve the fragmented audience problem
A few developers but a lot of eyeballs
The Charticle: After 12 months, Blood Brothers still pulling in up to $225,000 a week on iOS in US
$1.7M for Q1 estimated, much more on Android
Estonian accelerator Gamefounders opens applications for its third intake
Deadline is 20 June
As EA sees FY13 sales drop 8% to $3.8 billion, EA Mobile leaps 26% to $339 million
The Simpsons: Tapped Out nears $50 million
iVentureCapital invests in German social-mobile developer Kamicat
Taking Kamicat Football to new heights
Get 30 percent off ChinaJoy and World Mobile Game conference tickets
Offers closes 10 May
Facebook is best channel for driving app discovery at volume, reckons AppsFlyer
And it's got a graph to prove it
Bluestacks now enabling Android apps and games on 10 million PCs and Macs
Everything, everywhere
Marvelous AQL rebrands US operations with separate console and mobile/online focus
Simplifies nomenclature
As EA gets core console licence, Disney retains Star Wars IP for mobile, tablet and web games
Promises original games with new stories
PlayScape partners with Amazon to launch games catalog for Kindle Fire HD
10 titles to start, 40 to follow during 2013
Fan-tastic: Fantasy sports developer DraftKings raises $7 million
In the game
Amazon opens Chinese version of Appstore for Android
Working with local devs for free and paid apps
Going mobile gives us global reach and a 10-fold increase in player sessions over browsers, says LEGO game dev 4T2
But F2P kids' games need a hard IAP limit
How InMobi increased Ruzzle's eCPMs in Italy by 20%
Quality inventory meets premium campaigns
Social casino outfit Dragonplay embraces new genres with publishing initiative
Puzzle & Dragon-esque Gun N' Blade comes first
Chart of the Week: Is LINE or KakaoTalk growing faster?
Hare vs hare
Unity brings games to Tizen through its Union initiative
Emerging OS will have games
HTML5 game engine Turbulenz goes open source
Take your game everywhere
Curiosity Chart of the Week: How end-game news boosted in-game activity in 22Cans' Curiosity
50 levels and counting down
Forget user acquisition until you've honed retention and monetisation, says PlayHaven CEO
And he has the tools for the job
KakaoTalk rolls out game platform in Vietnam and Indonesia
Messaging service expands
Glu cuts headcount by 12% as Q1 FY13 revenue drops 11% to $19.1 million
But looking to hire game-as-a-service experts
GDC Europe 2013 kicks off 19 August in Cologne
Another summer on the Rhine
As PlayHaven's tools go free, platform's reach booms; now reaches 523 million unique players
Adding another 14 every second
Puzzle & Dragons and Candy Crush Saga rule the global charts in March
Cross-platform approach pays off big time
Rank competition and user costs steady on US App Store, reckons Fiksu
New normal suggests maturity