Charticle
How successfully has Hothead's Kill Shot taken aim at top grossing charts?
Taking the shot
Hot Five
Alibaba's rumoured Com2uS move, Monument Valley IAP dissected and the end of free App Store games
Last week's top 5 stories
Reading List
Reading List: So You Want to Make Video Games? A Survival Guide
Game designer Nicholas G. Pendriis takes us from start to finish
Week That Was
Learning from Taylor Swift, Alibaba to spend big, and Nokia and Jolla both announce Android tablets
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
DeNA, Chartboost, Two Tails, Small Giant, Adjust and Leadbolt all hiring now
Positions open
Investment
Pushing synchronous multiplayer mobile gaming, Flow State raises $1 million
SparkLabs Global lead the round
IMGA opens its nominations for 2015
Get your game in play by 31 December
Stateside
Learning from Taylor Swift: Your game is worthless but you can give it value
Welcome to mobile gaming in 2014
How is the mobile games business changing? Make your voice heard by 23 Nov
And maybe win an iPhone 6 or Lumia 930
Studio Profile
Simply connect: How New York studio Dots learned to thrive on mobile
Connecting the dots
Apple waves goodbye to 'free' gaming by rewording download buttons
The end of an era
5 reasons Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015 is perfect for indie developers
Indie jungle, the mobile jungle, we'll help your game to thrive
Having paid out $2 million in 2014, Skillz says that its mobile eSporters aren't just kids
Growing sector
Marketing outfit Crobo opens office in China
Ther journey east
Ukie promotes UK games business in Korea at G-Star conference
Big in Busan
Data
With a conversion rate of 10%, ustwo's Monument Valley IAP has paid off
Update has driven strong top grossing performance
Jolla's crowdfunded Android compatible tablet raises over $500,000 in hours
Sailfish OS-powered hardware is go, go, go
Investment
Disruptor Beam raises $3.2 million for Star Trek Timelines and other projects
Midverse Studios and GrandBanks Capital boldly go
Moving west for talent, Gameloft opens a studio in Seattle
Going midcore
Charticle
100 million strong, but how has Angry Birds Go! found its audience on Google Play?
Checking out Angry Birds Go!, Epic, Stella and Transformers
Spacetime's MMOG Arcane Legends coming to China courtesy of Golden Gate Games
Will be culturalised for local tastes
Mobile Mavens
Was it okay for ustwo to charge for Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores?
Or should it have been a free release?
Apple releases WatchKit as part of iOS 8.2 beta SDK
A new way to play?
Nokia Store will shut in mid-2015, users redirected to Opera Mobile Store
Microsoft twists the knife
DevGAMM Minsk 2014: The official report
Deal
Best Fiends developer Seriously receives $5 million funding boost
Old friends, new challenges
Following 300% Asia growth in Q3, Adjust opens offices in China and Japan
Shanghai and Tokyo are the places to be
Very Big Indie Pitch returns at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015
Deadline for submissions 8 Dec
Devs need to move beyond what's currently top grossing to new worlds, says Spymaster creator
Lasse Seppänen of PlayRaven calls for an end to Clash of the Clones
Stateside
Failure to launch: Why the days of having a launch date for your game are dead
Time to embrace betas and early access
Charticle
Mistwalker's Terra Battle scores big on the Google Play top grossing charts in Japan, France and Spain
But iPhone players don't care
Announcing its N1 tablet, Nokia looks to create an Android iPad for China and beyond
Includes news Nokia Z app launcher
Next Games plays its ace, announcing four game Compass Point series
It's a Wild West themed character-based card-battler
For future success, Sweden's next generation of games gurus go back to the Cabin
Stugan program starts in summer 2015
Toyze adds Talking Tom to its customisable 3D printing portfolio
Your own personal Tom
Deal
Gamevil and XL Games combine to release ArcheAge
Mobile ready
Robotoki drops F2P from forthcoming Human Element, cans Nexon publishing deal
Hindered by model, says Bowling
Opinion
Reaction to Monument Valley's Forgotten Shores IAP shows mobile gaming at its worst
Nothing wrong with paying to play
Interview
Make the game you want to make and make it unique, says Rodeo’s Ben Murch
And don’t forget to launch it properly
Investment
Gunjin Games gains investment from Ian Hetherington and Games Investor
Brighton studio up and running
Fluff Stuff Studios' Polyganic wins Apps World Europe 2014 Big Indie Pitch
Competition is fierce
We'll acquire western devs to generate $50 million by 2018 says Reliance Games CEO
Indian outfit investing to scale up
Hot Five
Cracking UA, the making of Brave Frontier, and why mobile games shouldn't be on your TV
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Samsung goes wearables crazy, Peter Molyneux talks F2P challenges, and our Mavens weigh in on that South Park episode
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs
Gumi hires ex-EA Sports Japan exec to head European push
Are Mack Growen changes continents
Jobs Board
Goodgame, Flaregames, King, InMobi and App Annie all hiring now
Positions open
Finnsider
Not immune but Finland has given GamerGate the cold shoulder
Gender equality reimagined
Tango's Global Games Fund finds its first six titles
Helping hand
Analytics for all: deltaDNA launches non-commercial license for universities and colleges
Player management platform opens up data
Mobile Mavens
Is South Park's criticism of F2P games valid?
Indie Mavens debate the situation