Go With Friends
Pokemon GO's success is built on friends, so what does that mean for longterm retention?
Can you learn anything from 243 Pokemon GO players in New Zealand?
Pikachu, Stats & Lies
Updated: Pokemon GO: The latest bigger numbers
How big? How fast?
Keep Your Players
4 reasons you're losing players and how to get them back
Good advice
Making Of
Sticky snowballs and shifting genres: The making of Tap My Katamari
How do you explain such a bizarre concept?
Rocket Boost
DAUs up 300%, IAPs up 400%: What happened when MobilityWare fell in love with retention and segmentation
Alex Tarrand on the power of data
High Reward, Risk
For unicorn wannabes like Kabam, the mobile games market is now boom or bust
Can you afford a $20 million bet?
The Iap Inspector
A generous heart: The monetization of Kingdom Hearts Unchained X
IAPs from the player's perspective
Known Unknowns
What 1,000 players can really tell you about your game
Oliver Kern on the power of statistics
Eventful
Pocket Gems on the importance and best implementation of in-game events
When to do them, and why they matter
Ongoing Quest
How a retention focus and data-led difficulty helped Sudoku Quest outgross its competition
Hashcube CMO Gurinder Pal Singh on monetising casual games
Switch Off
Retention of Apple TV apps half that of the same apps on iPhone
Adjust runs the numbers
Nice Problem
Why is Clash Royale running out of steam?
Torulf Jernström on what's next for Supercell
Wrist Quick
Wooga's debut Apple Watch game is retaining players twice as well as mobile games
A new way to play
A Level A Day
How Nitrome committed to retention, promising a new level every day for Leap Day
Mat Annal on keeping the customer satisfied
Miito-no
With declining MAUs and falling retention, Miitomo looks like it's on the slide
Slow core loop to blame
A Cat Reborn
Why we ditched "esoteric" UI and fixed poor retention to give Lumo's Cat another life
Steve Stopps on creativity in the right places
Casual-core
Casual games steal midcore's clothes as Candy Blast Mania adds PVP Puzzle Tournaments
A new retention trend
Kesha Of Clans
Experimenting with RPG retention, Glu brings guilds to Britney Spears: American Dream
Spears at the ready
Playing The Long Game
We're more Supercell than Machine Zone, says Nordeus CEO Branko Milutinovic
Belgrade firm takes retention-first, long-term view for next game
Team Up
What's been the impact of adding guilds to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' grossing performance?
How to enthuse already engaged players
Downward Spiral?
Increasing competition sees Day 7 retention for mobile F2P mobile games drop 50%
GameAnalytics has been number crunching
Better Together
How adding guilds plays into longterm retention for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
John Salera on thinking ahead
Iap Inspector
Gifts galore: the monetisation of Tales of LINK
IAPs from the players' perspective
Session Lengths
Video: Nicholas Lovell on why your on-ramp needs to be better than Facebook's
Good luck with that!
Crowned
Monetizer Mavens on the simple, sophisticated, genius, and extremely aggressive gacha monetisation (and retention) of Clash Royale
Smart moves
Friends With Benefits
Balancing real-world friends with in-game acquaintances to maximise short-term virality and long-term retention
Torulf Jernström on making the most of friends
Creativity Through Limitations
ZeptoLab's Eugene Yailenko on lessons learned from King of Thieves
From prototype to 24 million downloads
Iap Inspector
Churning waves: the monetisation of Pirate Power
IAPs from the players' perspective
More Options
How far can your core game stretch?
Torulf Jernström on getting elastic
No Time To Chill
Chillingo on everything you need to know about running a successful live service
How to get users, keep them playing, and keep them happy
Never Let Me Go
3 simple steps to improving your retention
Mike Herron wants you to stay
Product Panel
Indie developers discuss if you should focus on the game or the service
Short bursts of fun or long-term battles?
Player Sessions
Nicholas Lovell on how to extend your player sessions
Or bring them back after they go
Smaller, Leaner, Smarter
How Eight Pixels Square is aiming to dominate the mobile shooting genre
Hugh Binns talks console-mobile transition and 2016 plans
I <3 Players
Everything you ever wanted to know about retention
Torulf Jernström on keeping your players
Unity Ads
Video: Maximise revenue by making ads that players want to watch
Making the most of your monetisation
Wrist Action
How Everywear generated 25% D-30 retention in its Apple Watch game Runeblade
Always on
Iap Inspector
Retain now, spend later: the monetisation of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
IAPs from the players' persepctive
Seasonal Promise
Is your F2P game ready for the twin peaks of Christmas retention?
Isaac Roseboom on December strategy
Keeping The Player
Retention is the new UA, reckons Outfit7
Beyond installs
Long-term Players
Is a 200 basis point increase for Dawn of Titans' 30-day retention significant?
Monetizer Mavens get numerate
Customer Satisfied
How focusing on UX and retention created success for Gram Games' ad-funded 1010!
Making thousands of dollars a day without IAPs
The Flow
How optimising your funnel can improve your F2P game's performance 100,000-fold
Torulf Jernström on important metrics
Cart And Horse
What's the correct order of Acquisition, Retention and Monetization for F2P games?
Monetizer Mavens shuffle the pack
Myth Buster
5 common myths about mobile advertising busted
David Diaz shoots them down
Made To Measure
6 awesome Dashboard charts for F2P games
DeltaDNA has the metrics to measure
Surf's Up
Subway Surfers breaks 1 billion downloads barrier, boasting 27 million daily active players
Danish success story
Testing, Testing
Games that spend more than one month in soft launch can increase retention by 20% says deltaDNA
Patience is a virtue
Keep Them Coming Back
The four pillars of retention
Bee7's John Rankin wants you to read to the end
Razor Sharp
Deconstructing the $120,000 IAP economy of Game of War
Dimitar Draganov looks under the skin