Going Deeper
Retooled DeltaDNA benchmark dashboard offers real-time retention analytics
Retention insights are a key feature of DeltaDNA's new dashboard
Kingdom Of Heaven
Rival Kingdoms smashes 1 million downloads a week after launch
Space Ape Games hits jackpot
The Grass Is Greener
Square Enix shifts focus to mobile after complaining consoles are too competitive
Console giant moves to mobile
Show Stoppers
E3 2015: Experience the evolution
The view from the ESA
Real World Gold
How to leverage brands, licenses and celebrities for your mobile game's success
Ben Figueroa gives you four tips
Deep Wallet
Tencent invests again, injecting $60 million into Pocket Gems
Rumoured to have taken a 20% stake
New Horizons
MobilityWare hits 250 million downloads, sets sights on wearables
Now looks to wearables
Less Is More
Following the closure of its Vancouver office, GREE refocuses international efforts
Finding the balance
Transparency
Millennial Media plays the trust card, offering a 100% viewability guarantee
Get what you pay for
Hr Head
Unity hires Elizabeth Brown as Chief People Officer
Former LinkedIn exec joins Unity Technologies exec team
Ways To Spend
Video and Facebook still the most effective UA channels
AdColony marks the status quo
All Systems Go!
D3Publisher of America rebrands as mobile-friendly D3 Go!
Gets a mobile focus
Clone Wars
Scott Cawthon files subpoena to expose fake Five Night's at Freddy's 4
So-called "Lazada Polodi" ripped off successful franchise on iOS
Open For All
FunPlus launches its transparent PublishingPlus initiative for all F2P devs
Available for any game at any stage of development
Game Cull
Quality control forces Sega to pull games from app stores
Sega won't confirm which games will be axed.
Under The Sea
Sign up for Pocket Gamer's Google I/O 2015 party on 27 May
We're going under the sea for our latest party
Install Me
Facebook powers up mobile app install ads with deep linking
Mobile ads just got a bit more powerful.
Hard Times
Mobile majority Zynga sees FY15 Q1 sales down 5% to $183 million
Losses will continue
Epic Gain
Ex-Epic president Mike Capps takes advisory role at Unity
Riccitiello makes another mark
Tick Talk
Final chance to speak at PG Connects San Francisco on July 7-8
Come share your knowledge
App Scratcher
Firefox OS developers enjoy free app promotion with Tappx
Mozilla partners with open ad exchange for developers.
Blood On The Tracks
Zynga shares up 11% following 364 job cuts
Tough decisions go down well with investors
Man Around Data
Ninja Metrics hires Gordon Bellamy to spearhead predictive analytics
New start, new data
New Angle Of Attack
How Zynga is looking to move mobile strategy from 'breach and flood' to 'rolling momentum'
The thinking behind Empires & Allies
The Wait Goes On
Oculus announces it will be announcing Oculus Rift details later in 2015
Virtual reality headset due Q1 2016
Small Screen Success
Mobile release helps Hearthstone crack 30 million player milestone
F2P card game rakes in the players
Just Swell
App Annie gains 12th office location as it acquires usage analytics outfit Mobida
Analytics outfit grows its numbers
La Style
Youtubers and swag galore promised at Pocket Gamer's E3 2015 party
Chukong and Rovio Stars to sponsor event on 17 June
Filling Your Funnel
Inside the Game: How we went from riding organics to learning the nitty-gritty of UA and spending $100,000s a month
Max Doty on building successful F2P businesses
Time For Tie-ins
EA Mobile looks to brands such as Star Wars, UFC and Minions for success in 2015
Tastes are maturing fast
Leap Forward
EA Mobile sees FY15 sales up 26% to $504 million
Now has 165 million MAUs
Magnifying Glass
Fiksu adds Apple Watch event tracking to existing iOS SDK
New SDK provides visibility into Apple Watch app engagement
Sf Merry-go-round
Former Kixeye-r Bachman-Wood now GMing SGN's San Francisco office
Gaining a veteran
Reward Me
Supersonic opens video mediation platform to all developers
Ready for indies too
Approve This
In the confused world of creative attribution, the App Store approvals process is a busted flush
Carter Dotson says put up or start working
First Come First Served
Apple's new App Analytics is available in early access beta
In-house app analytics rev up for a test drive
Wrists On
Launch Apple Watch game devs on staking their claim for future glory
Devs share their first impressions
Pgc Discount
Final few hours of Early Bird ticket discount for PG Connects San Francisco
May 1 deadline for super value access to July 7-8 conference
Did It Again
Britney Spears and Tencent deals add $116 million to Glu's market cap
Shares now higher than Tencent buy price
Celebrity Sustain
Glu sees FY15 Q1 sales up 56% to $69.5 million
Keeping up with Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
Better & Better
Glu Mobile gains $126 million Tencent investment and signs up Britney Spears
Success breeds success
Port Me
Microsoft creates easy porting path to bring Android and iOS code to Windows 10
Bows to implications of third place
Another Platform
Unity 5 to support Microsoft's HoloLens VR hardware
VR for all
Talk Talk
Join Tencent, Google, DeNA, Glu and Super Evil Megacorp for PG Connects San Francisco 2015 in July
First speakers announced for July 7-8 conference
Behind The Scenes
Levelling up the mobile RPG: The making of Spirit Lords
Creative director Daniel Erickson takes us behind the scenes
Sca_e And Gr_w
3 up for Daily Celebrity Crossword dev PuzzleCreator
Two originators go full-time
Unconsole Goes More Un
Leaked memo reveals Ouya is up for sale
End of the road for VC-funded outfit
Tag Team
Longtu is publishing Kabam's Marvel Contest of Champions in China
The final frontier
Farewell
Indie veteran Jeff Vogel abandons iOS due to Apple's planned obsolescence
Avernum developer reveals why he's pulled all his games from the App Store
Vr For All
Following Mary Lou Jepsen hire, Oculus adds ex-Valve bizdev Anna Sweet
Anna Sweet and Mary Lou Jepsen make a real move