One Billion Downloads Later
From Kabam SVP to DOD Media CEO: Mike DeLaet on sharing his smarts
One door shuts, open another
Indie Games Festival
Google Play names winners of its San Francisco Indie Games Festival 2017
Slayaway Camp, Flipping Legend, and Tiny Bubbles all score wins
That's The Spirit
Middleware firm Spirit AI hires Peter Alau as its new Business Development Manager
First hire the company has made in San Francisco
Who Thinks Of This
Jump from a plane and pitch to investors at Slush's Skydive Pitching event in San Francisco
Can you sell your idea and remember to deploy your parachute?
Humble Promotion
Jam City promotes former EA exec Rod Humble to CEO of TinyCo
Suleman Ali leaves, Matt Gaiser takes over San Francisco office
Very Big Indie Pitch
Space colonisation game TerraGenesis wins Very Big Indie Pitch at PGC San Francisco
We round up the top three games at everyone's favourite indie dev contest
The Charticle
Why did Tencent invest a further $90 million into Pocket Gems?
Tracking the impact of Tencent's millions on Episode and War Dragons
Growing Discord
Gamer messaging app Discord hits 45 million users in two years
A lot of "notice me, Senpai"s sent every day
Gdc 2017 Wraps Up
GDC 2017 attracts 26,000 attendees and 570 exhibiting companies
GDC 2018 dates are already set
Gree San Francisco
Gree International cuts staff at San Francisco office to focus on marketing and publishing
Yet more jobs lost at the company
Zynga Board Additions
Zynga bolsters Board of Directors with two new additions
Carol Mills and Janice Roberts boost numbers to 10
Getting Ahead
GREE on learning from Machine Zone and skating to where the puck is going
Shanti Bergel talks the company's 2017 strategy
Slow Burner
FunPlus' King of Avalon surges to the summit of the US App Store top grossing charts
Aggressive marketing the key?
Kings And Vp's
King hires ex-GSN VP of Creative Steven Meretzky as VP of Design
Industry veteran to work on secret project
New Face
App Annie hires Aaron Mahimainathan as its new Chief Product Officer
20 year industry veteran takes reins on product management
Out Of The West
DeNA dissolves US subsidiary as Western games fail to meet expectations
Publisher to focus on collaborations with external studios
Jam-packed
Ex-EA EVP and Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble joins Jam City
And Robert Zakari joins as General Counsel and EVP of Corporate Development
Zynga Hiring Spree
Zynga hires ex-DeNA VP Doug Scott as its new CMO
Yet another senior hire for Zynga
Google Indie Festival
Registration opens for the 30-game strong Google Play Indie Games Festival
The chance to play mobile indie games before anyone else
Sheppard Leads
Andrew Sheppard named CEO of rebranded GREE International Entertainment
Ryotaro Shima takes his old job as COO
Now In Soft Launch
Indian studio June Software signs publishing deal with Tango, soft launches Warrior Dash
Game launched in seven markets
Pokemon Gone
Iran bans Pokemon GO
And other strange goings-on around the world
Jurassic Going Premium
Why Bebopbee shifted from F2P to premium for Jurassic GO - Dinosaur Snap Adventure
CEO Rajeev Nagpal explains all
Zynga's Latest Exec
Zynga swoops for EA exec Matthew Bromberg as its new Chief Operating Officer
New exec will oversee business operations and Bangalore studio
Taking Its Time
Netmarble and nWay partner once again to bring ChronoBlade to North America
Previously brought it to South Korea
Watch This Space
ColorTV raises $1.5 million for its connected TV marketing platform
Seeded by Foxconn
Future Focus
Kabam trims its sails with further San Francisco redundancies
Mindful of costs
War Chest
DFJ Growth leads Unity funding round of $181 million
Barry Schuler joins the board
Games Meet Movies
SGN targets big brand "gamertainment" with TinyCo acquisition
Gateway to new genres and working with IP
Spreading The Word
App Annie hires Al Campa as its new Chief Marketing Officer
Former RingCentral CMO joins the team
Pushing In The Same Direction
Newzoo partners with push notification service Pushwoosh to crunch more data
Aims to "introduce smart KPIs on device usage."
Next Step
Ex-Fyber VP David Diaz joins Supercell as Media Buyer
Mobile ad expert jumps ship after more than 4 years at Fyber
Ea Reunited
Zynga's poaches EA's SVP Mobile Publishing Bernard Kim to head up revenue push
It's the job merry-go-round
On The Up
How to get a job at San Francisco publisher FunPlus
PR and Partner Manager Keeley Boess shares insights
In The Flow
Why you need to be using personalised, behaviour-based push notifications
Leanplum on relationship marketing
Clients First
NativeX hiring an SF-based Advertising Sales Manager
New blood
Cash In
NetEase leads $2.5 million round in integrated analytics, attribution and aggregation outfit Tenjin
Integrated approach
Competition =/= Sport
Updated: To be an eSport, you have to design a game for spectators as well as players, says Mobcrush
Koh Kim discusses the rise of the spectator
New Studio Lead
Deconstructor of Fun Michail Katkoff leaves Zynga for FunPlus
Deconstructor of Fun editor jumps ship
Stream Everything
Kamcord raises $10 million to expand its video streaming goal from games to all apps
All the world's a stream
All About Samsung
Samsung Developer Conference 2016: A New Beginning
Mihai Pohontu on what's new
New Job
Kabam's Chris Petrovic now SVP at Zynga
New business challenges
The Client's Always Right
NativeX is hiring a Developer Relations Manager
Courting clients and analysing performance
Vr Everywhere
Mobile Mavens reflect on GDC trends and highlights
Back from San Francisco
Go Pokemon Go
Niantic Labs extends its funding for Pokemon GO and other location games to $25 million
Still working on Ingress and new titles
Pg At Gdc
10th birthday party, Big Indie Pitch, and drinks: here's how to meet and hang with Pocket Gamer at GDC 2016
What to do, where to go, and who to meet
New Face
Ex-Fuse, Fyber exec Jeff Sue joins HyprMX as Senior Director of BizDev
Sue to handle HyprMediate strategy
Rapidly Growing
How to get a job at DomiNations publisher Nexon M
Recruiter Richard Diaz-Villanueva provides insights
Bigger, Bolder... Fewer
Kabam lays off 8 percent of staff in multiplayer refocus
Exact numbers still vague
Jackpot
Social casino consolidation continues as GSN Games acquires Plumbee
London dev snapped up