Missed Opportunity
South East Asia’s potential untapped by Western developers
Why Western developers are missing out on a major growth opportunity
3d Goggles
StartApp creates interactive mobile ads controlled by gyroscopes
Platform launches first 360-degree app adverts.
The Few Among The Many
Cost of buying a loyal user rises 30% to $3.21
Download volume also rises
Leaving Beta
Autodesk announces release date for its $30 workflow-oriented Stingray game engine
Going live 19 August
Muse Me
Stugan: What games inspire you?
The indie games chart their top five best games.
Liar, Liar
Bluffing in games is difficult, says TinyBuild's Mike Rose
Mike Rose takes to the stage at GDC Europe
Intelligence
How CIA research into the social life of terrorists will help you improve your game's LTV
Ninja Metrics’ Dmitri Williams on better data
Hot Five
The making of Angry Birds 2, Bethesda's F2P Boogeyman, and Apple and Google unite
We round up the top five stories of last week.
Fast Feathers
Angry Birds 2 scores 10 million downloads in 4 days
Rovio's sequel carries on pulling in interest
Indie Undercut
I like it, but I wish Zynga hadn't made Mountain Goat Mountain
Carter Dotson is conflicted
Eagle For A Buck
Flashback Friday: Rovio leverages 18 million Angry Birds downloads with Mighty Eagle IAP
Don't get stuck on a level. Buy through it
Big Birds
Angry Birds 2 guzzles 1 million downloads in 12 hours
Players flock to play Rovio's sequel
Rocket Fuel
HyprMX parent Jun Group raises $28 million
Throwing petrol on the branded ad opportunity
Legacy Glide
Despite no new launches, EA Mobile sees Q1 FY16 sales rise 7% to $145 million
Squeezing the margins
Two Heads Better
Mobile gaming streamer Mobcrush adds ex-Appler Greg Essig and ex-Googler Koh Kim to team
Beams are crossed
Summoning Downloads
Local branding campaigns power Summoners War beyond 40 million downloads worldwide
Com2uS USA on understanding your market
Seven Months High
Marvel Contest of Champions is Kabam's fastest game to $100 million revenue
Superhero performance
Sheer Weight Of Numbers
The Simpsons: Tapped Out CEO Stuart Duncan launches Icejam, his new big data-focused studio
Canadian reboot
Shock And Horror
Five Nights at Freddy's movie scoops Poltergeist director
Movie pre-production rolls on as Scott Cawthon endures hate
Messiah Complex
Bethesda vs. the F2P bogeyman: Why Fallout Shelter's success is built upon a false premise
Pete Hines' messaging has been off-key
July Gloom
Following GREE, Kixeye is latest SF company to shed jobs
Hasn't made the mobile transition
Casually Connect
Register now for the GungHo and Pocket Gamer-hosted Playphone Summer Bash at Casual Connect
12 August - remember the date
Open Arms Around The World
Why Google's Niantic Labs is taking Ingress' success and scaling up to an open platform
Anne Beuttenmüller shares insights
The End For Ouya
Razer confirms all-cash Ouya acquisition, with software and staff assimilated into Forge TV operation
All-cash deal sees Razer strengthen its Android TV business
Rare Treats
Despite Fallout Shelter's success, Bethesda's not ready to open mobile game floodgates
Not developing for mobile "unless it's a good fit."
Hot Five
How to get a job with Gameduell, and how Siegefall makes money
We round up the top five stories of last week.
Iap Vs Ads
deltaDNA SmartAds increases in-game ad revenue by 300%
Breaking the IAP vs advertising dichotomy
Play For Cash
BigBit partners with Cashplay for real-cash Race Team Manager tournaments
New game mode allows players to compete for money
Brand Intro
HyprMX's Dan Laughlin on bringing big brand advertising to mobile games
Into the mainstream
How To
Stugan: Indie devs share how to choose a game engine
The developers at Stugan explain how they choose a game engine
Watch Out
What does Apple's financial report mean for the Watch?
Tim Cook kept tip toed around cold hard facts.
Bigger Cake
N3TWORK's Neil Young on learning from Japan to drive 10-fold growth in western mobile game markets
The only way is up
From The Top
You can't be lazy about monetisation, says Unity Ads' Mickey Maher
Not an add-in extra
Axe Falls
GREE lays off 30% of its key San Francisco office
Times are hard
Ad Attack
Appodeal's Pavel Golubev on the future of mobile advertising
A deal just for you
Save The Date
Women in Games conference kicks off 2 September
The fifth annual Women in Games conference heads to London
Long Tail Wags
RockYou recycles MavenHut's Solitaire classics
RockYou swipes Solitaire Arena and Solitaire 3
Pgc Hearts Sf
Pocket Gamer Connects lights up San Francisco with over 650 delegates, sponsors, and speakers
First event in the US continues conference series' successful run
Wide Appeal
Zynga's Empires & Allies is off to a solid start, especially in US, Japan and China
Global beachhead established
Ol' Sport
Cashplay and Gamblified launch Dead Trigger 2: eSports Tournament
Betting on the undead
Create Your Own
Fabzat's Florent Pitoun on the opportunity for game devs in the $10 billion 'phygital' merchandising market
New streams
Hot Five
How to become an eSports dev, and pull 10M downloads using Reddit and Twitch
We round up the top five stories from last week
Let's Play
Why Apple needs to get into the mobile game publishing business
Carter Dotson has a radical proposal
Looking Ahead
Flashback Friday: Neil Young on how ngmoco and Freeverse will dominate the iPhone free2play market
40 titles planned for release over the next 12 months
Relative Failure
Did Fallout Shelter really only make $5.1 million during its peak weeks?
Superdata reckons so
Jet Fuel
6 ways to fund your startup
Ignited Artists' Danielle Deibler runs through the options
Piggybacker
Why Supernatural is the ideal TV brand for mobile game exploitation
TinyCo's Jeremy Horn talks licensing
Don't Churn
Perion's expanded Growmobile platform adds engagement solution
Grownmobile launches engagement offering Beta
Lift Off
Kongregate's Launchpad program helps web indies go mobile
Online gaming specialist Kongregate wants small devs to go mobile
Pastures New
Scopely scoops Bernard Chen as GM and VP product
Official blog post welcomes Bernard Chen to Scopely