With Fishing Joy's monthly sales over $6 million, CocoaChina points to growing and lucrative Android market
Fixing China's distribution and billing issues
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F2P version of Plants vs. Zombies launches in Indonesia via Antix Player
Channel pre-loaded on SpeedUp's tablets
The key 18 talks you should check out at GDC 2013
What to do while waiting for the parties
With 5 titles in co-production and Subway Surfers hitting 25 million DAUs, Kiloo shapes to become global hit factory
New approach for multiple success?
From East to West: Robert Hayes' vision for global success from China
Fei Hu's debut cross-platform game due March
Game Connection announces its 15 Selected Project nominees for San Francisco
The new harvest
Sign o' the times: Cash-strapped Sony sells its DeNA shares for $440 million
Purchased by Nomura Securities
Russian search giant goes head-to-head with Google Play, launching Yandex.Store
Android app store already has 50,000 titles
Unity, Kongregate, Ninja Kiwi, Adobe and Berzerk talking at Flash Gaming Conference
Plus Mochi awards for best Flash games
MWC 13: Video interviews with AppGratis, Appsfire, Distimo and Antix Labs
Lights, camera, information
Telltale Games win the Best App Ever 2013 award for Walking Dead: The Game
Ceremony for iOS awards held at MWC 13
It was Pocket Gamer party time at Mobile World Congress 2013
Thanks PlayPhone, BlackBerry, Ludei & Immersion
Gameloft, Playfirst, TinyCo, Wooga, DeNA and King.com all talking at Game Connection America
Plus early bird pricing for Asia event in May
Brand advertising shouldn't be in the game. It should be the game, says agency Proelios
The new way to influence people
Cross-platform plans: Cmune's Bodin on bringing Facebook FPS UberStrike to iOS and Android
Learning new ways to play
The Charticle: Gameloft, Blitz Brigade and the trouble with gating F2P shooters
They want to shoot, they don't want to wait
Chart of the Week: Even at Christmas, mobile games outsell portable games
And that's not taking ads into account either
SessionM highlights the value of the Power Users who account for 70% of your IAP revenue
Supercharge your apptivity
Execution Labs launches Lab Partners to boost indie cross-promotion
Incubator offers service through Chartboost
Chartboost announces the 7 teams coming to its pre-GDC boot camp
Looking to hothouse success
Despite a drop of 48% in its 2012 mobile game sales, KongZhong looks to smartphone growth in 2013
Sales will rise from $21.2 million nadir
SupersonicAds on how its unified Ultra ad server can raise your revenue 30%
Integrate your revenue streams to one dashboard
PlayHaven opens European office, headed by ex-Rovio SVP Heijari
Angry Bird man flies nest
MobCrete on Pucca and fashion games to going global and midcore
Korean start up on changing markets
Gaming's not about a console now, says Sony, announcing PS4. It's about the best places to play
Widening horizons
TestFlight rolls out private beta for Android app and game distribution
Easing pre-release distribution woes
Simply everyone was at PocketGamer's Casual Connect party
Thanks to sponsors W3i
Cmune closes VC round to expand audience for social shooter UberStrike
Will bring FPS to Android and beyond
Nvidia enters the mass smartphone chip market with its SoC Tegra 4i architecture
Claims highest performance per silicon area
Agawi opens the doors to one-stop cloud gaming with launch of True Cloud
Cloud reference architecture gains partners
Boss Alien's accelerating CSR brand, hires Xbox veteran Ben Board
Meet and party with Pocket Gamer at Mobile World Congress
All happening in Barcelona next week
Peter Molyneux to keynote third F2P Summit with talk of Curiosity and Godus
Happening 18 April in London town
Was EA right to take Real Racing 3 free-to-play? The Mobile Game Mavens debate
Cue an argument about indies' competitive advantage
Generating +$50M/month, is Puzzle & Dragons the most lucrative mobile game in the world?
Publisher Gungho now worth more than GREE
The Charticle: Real Racing 3's soft launch proves its monetisation but EA's going to have to tweak further
Australian gamers not yet convinced
GREE and Yahoo! Japan invest $2 million for new social-mobile games start up GxYz
Reinforcing the domestic market
Merlin's Rage spearheads Renren's efforts to make quality games for the west
The whole world's a stage
Hot Five: Real Racing 3's 'cut and shut job', Kabam's midcore gamer, analysis and the ascent of Supercell
Last week's top five stories
Aiming and Sega Networks partner up for international expansion
Games will be published under Sega x Aiming brand
Gangnam style: Gamevil booms with 2012 revenue up 64% to $66 million
And it expects to hit $94M in 2013
Supercell overcomes EA to gain #1 top grossing game and company status on iOS
With King.com hot on their heels
Vita's not dead yet: Jetpack Joyride does 475,000 downloads
Core gamers like their free-to-play
CocoaChina expands into US with publishing and tools push
Engineering hire Kai Zhao to lead the charge
DeNA's Ben Cousins on The Drowning's balance of coherent monetisation and restrictive game sessions
Inspired by CSR Racing, Infinity Blade & more
A market of 140 million: Fishlabs explains why Russia matters
Can't get enough of Galaxy on Fire 2
Kongregate on its $10 million bet to bring core mobile games to its core audience and beyond
Sign up now for its Mobile Developers program
Tapjoy hires ex-EA CFO Warren C. Jenson
Joins board of directors
With Q4 sales up 230% to $8.9M, WeMade looks to go very big on mobile in 2013
Wind Runner currently top grossing in Korea
Even Tetris is now embraced within EA Mobile's free-to-play revolution
Blitz mechanics applied to falling blocks