Daily Grind
Following a 4 cent ARPDAU testcase boost, DeNA partners with Fyber in US
Maximising monetisation
Trophy Time
Mobile games clean up at 2015 IGF Awards
80 Days, Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure, and Metamorphabet rewarded
Changing Faces
Oculus' developer relations guru Chris Pruett on converting games for mobile VR
Chris Pruett of Oculus VR shares his tips at GDC 2015
Time To Go
deltaDNA releases free and unlimited game analytics
Leverages high performance big data platform
Brand This
Brands are key to cost effective UA, says Warner Bros' Greg Ballard
My branding brings all the gamers to the yard
Target Acquired
InMobi Appographic Targeting puts the personal in personalised marketing
New service launches at GDC 2015
On The Rocks
GREE's Andrew Sheppard talks talent acquisition, not user acquisition
GREE COO says we're focussing on the wrong things
Placement
House of Cards appearance boosts Monument Valley back up the paid charts
Dedicated Netflix users crucial to recent success
Power Of Brands
Warners Bros doubles down on mobile with Mortal Kombat, Batman, LEGO and Game of Thrones titles
Experimenting with both premium and free-to-play
Losing Control
Can Apple's promotion of paid games stem the rising tide of F2P?
Carter Dotson on losing control of the App Store
Set Free
Unreal Engine 4 goes upfront free, backed by a 5% royalty fee
"Epic succeeds only when creators succeed"
Squeezed Middle
Mid-tier companies need to shrink to indie, warns Tim Merel
GDC 2015 panel suggests a bit smaller is better
Watch And Paid
Crossy Road has now generated $3 million with Unity Ads
Opt-in, seamless and high monetisation
Blown Away
A rebranded Storm8 announces 1 billion downloads
Network is the way
21 Platforms
Split into personal and professional editions, Unity 5 is now live
Added Cloud Build and graphical features
Get Connected
Honed in the Korean PC market, the ProudNet networking engine comes to mobile
Ready for millions of players?
Talk Talk
How adding chat to your iOS games helps solve your engagement gap and makes money at the same time
Affinity Networks on turning talk to cash
Coming Alive
Animoca Brands is making a Paris Hilton mobile game
Endorsing by the celebutante
Do Not Polish
Backflip's 6 essential prototyping tips for mobile games
Tom Blind puts prototyping to the test.
Piggy Partners
U21 payment platform Oink partners with Playerize
Secure payment technology for under-21s
Maximising Ltv
Tapjoy's new platform will predict your players' behaviour and monetisation
Introducing the Future Value Map
Beyond Retail
NPD begins tracking in-app purchases and mobile game sales
Brave new world
Next Week
Are you ready for the PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developers of 2015?
And the winners are...
Strong Start
Bee7 helped devs pull 6.3 million installs in first three months
Android games monetization and UA platform wins out
Reality Check
PopCap co-founder John Vechey launches virtual reality startup
Pluto VR pops into life
Competition
Oculus launches $1 million Mobile VR Jam 2015 competition
Virtual reality contest opens for entries
By Us For Us
Ignited Artists CEO Danielle Deibler on its staff-first approach to making core mobile games
Superpowered by Sega Networks investment
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
World Of Possibilities
Going mobile, NetEase opens US office to become more global
David Ting heads up new move
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
A New Contend-ar
Magic Leap decloaks to give HoloLens some AR competition
Google funded start-up talks
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Who Will Lead The Charge?
Mobile will never just become a core gaming medium
Carter Dotson demands some action
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Amplified Activity
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on why its network-first approach trumps all
Driving syngeries from every game install
Going Global
Google Play opens up merchant accounts for 12 new countries
Big bucks for Bolivia, Bulgaria and more
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Small Screen Wins
Newzoo predicts mobile games sales will overtake console in 2015
New research suggests the only way is up for mobile
Form And Function
Why did the chicken... the making of Crossy Road
Hipster Whale on inspiration and aspiration
Long Game
Why Kabam chose LTV over ARPDAU
Monetizer Mavens on maximising F2P return
Blowing Up
Supercell's Boom Beach blasts into global top 10 grossing charts
App Annie's January Game index is here
Pastures New
Z2Live execs leave to launch alternative publisher Mobile Game Partners
Adam Flanders and Kevin Flynn up and running
Alternate Worlds
DeNA talks Protocol Zero, its stealthy entry into the world of VR gaming
Designing for the spherical environment