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
Helping Hands
Does your game need a publisher or not?
Publishers make the case at PGC San Francisco 2015
Secret Recipe
Twitch and Reddit can be a UA goldmine, says Miniclip following 10M downloads of Agar.io
Saad Choudri shares the success behind Agar.io
Touchyfeely
Apple reboots iPod touch range with new colours and A8 chip
Something old, something new
Do It Yourself
How Seriously built the Best Fiends' brand from scratch
Matt McMahon on the journey so far
Ad It Up
glispa gNative ad platform accesses half the world's smartphone users
New native ad platform comes out of Beta
Against The Odds
8 things you need to do to become a successful eSports developer
Smite dev Hi-Rez shares insights
Feed The Small Fish
GameAnalytics enters publishing with indie-focused Runway
Runway will help small indie studios looking to soft launch
Futureshock
With a 10x opportunity in the west, we're not even close to peak mobile gaming. says Neil Young
N3twork CEO is bullish
Concentrating
Inside the Game: Growing pains of taking a company of 10 to 40 (in the same office)
Kara Loo is sitting at a small desk
Levelling Up
Amazon's Mike Hines on moving from players and IAPs to fans and alternative revenue streams
A new way to play
Innovation Through Convention
Zombie Match Defense wins the Very Big Indie Pitch at #PGCSanFran
But VR wins the war
Do Your Ad-ition
New Supersonic Ad placement tool enables rewarded video customisation
Ad Placement Technology helps devs integrate rewarded ads.
Small Screen Heroes
How to harness the volatile power of YouTubers
Seriously’s Phil Hickey on influencing the influencers
Nascent
The challenges and opportunities of Apple Watch development
William Volk sees good and bad
Let's Get Critical
Stugan: How to deal with criticism
The Stugan devs talk game development
Hot Five
Get a job with Wooga, Nintendo eyeballs Kim Kardasian, and dying indie dev dreams
We round up the top five stories from last week
History Ain't Bunk
How DomiNations used world history as IP, while being a notch more complex than Clash of Clans
Tim Train on more interesting decisions
Heart Vs Head
Why the full-time indie game development dream is dead
Carter Dotson sees a dream become a nightmare
Prophetic Words
Flashback Friday: Machine Zone's Gabe Leydon on redefining mobile gaming as an intense 24/7 activity
Everything else will feel slow
Switch
Twitch rakes in more revenue than YouTube, says report
Superdata reveals Twitch's rise to the top
Branded Good
HyprMX launches its simple video incent ad management system HyprMediate
Highest paying videos selection
Futureshock
Four technologies that will change the aesthetics of game development
Benjamin Sutherland is looking ahead
Beam Me In
Disruptor Beams bolsters executive team, hires CMO Pete Arden
Former CCP Games VP goes mobile.
Golden Gate To Success
Why the Bay Area is a such as sweetspot for social game development
SGN's Josh Yguado on the right location
Branded Values
Ad campaign pushes 600,000 players of Google's location game Ingress to visit AXA insurance offices
Click and collect
A #pgcsanfran Marvel
From Marvel Contest of Champions to Frozen Free Fall: Disney on the power of its brands
Disney's Chris Heatherly explains all
Success Story
Her Story scored almost half its sales on iOS
Mobile detectives catch up with PC PCs.
Your Hero
Amazon offers customizable 3D-printed video game characters
Sandboxr offers 3D printing services to Amazon
Switch It Up
EA swipes Samantha Ryan as new head of mobile
Former Warner Bros, Interactive Entertainment VP steps up.
Big Vision
VR will be big but AR will be four times bigger by 2020, says Digi-Capital
Tim Merel's looking into the future at #PGCSanFran
Meet The Marios
DeNA West CEO points to Kim Kardashian Hollywood as example of how its brand-meets-backend Nintendo deal could work
5-game deal is DeNA's "biggest ever"
Less Is More
Samsung positions Galaxy Apps as the curated app store for quality including VR and wearable content
Mihai Pohountu talks at #PGCSanFran
Too Many Too Similar
Why the App Store doesn't need any more Clash of Clans clones
Now is the time to do something different
Hot Five
Fallout Shelter falls out, Supercell shuts Smash Land, and Rami Ismail talks truth
A glance at last week's top stories
Time To #pgcsanfran
Indie-pendence Day! 4 reasons to attend PG Connects San Francisco 2015
Free tickets
Volte Face
Mobile game developers need to value their work and increasingly that starts with price
Carter Dotson wants to pay upfront
One We Made Earlier
Flashback Friday: Pedal to the metal: The making of CSR Racing
Jason Avent on the creation of a freemium sensation
Under Fire
Google startup apologizes for including Nazi death camps in Ingress
Niantic Labs forced to close portals in WWII concentration camps
Ftp Vs Fts
Nintendo reveals 'free-to-start' mobile game price strategy
Don't say "free-to-play" in front of Satoru Iwata
Smart Calls
EEDAR's Patrick Walker on the importance of brands and segmentation in a maturing, global market
Times are changing
Long View
We’re not defensive. Vainglory's monetisation is the least of my worries, says Super Evil CEO
Our raison d'etre is enchanting our players
Angel Returns
Prolific investor Klaas Kersting acquires stake in ZupCat
flaregames CEO sees Argentinian promise
Moba On The Move
As it goes cross-platform with Android support, Vainglory announces 1.5 million MAUs
Also moving into eSports
Untapped Potential
In-app messaging inspires 3.5 times higher retention
But only a third use it
Master Your 'craft
Microsoft encourages classroom crafting with 'Minecraft in Education' portal
Getting teachers up to speed
Scroll Down
Mojang prepares to pull Scrolls plug in 2016
Minecraft developer slims down IP portfolio
Riccitiello Speaks
Unity CEO John Riccitiello on GaaS, EA vindication, and his $5,000 Clash of Clans habit
A chat from Unite Europe 2015