hóPLAY and the rebirth of videogame development in the Basque Country
Happening in Bilbao on 27 Nov to 3 Dec
TapSense awards $10,000 ad spend to winning team for its 2014 Hacker Bus hackathon
The greyhound for game creation
Deal
Sega and Gumi join forces to release Chain Chronicle in the west
Power combo
Investment
LINE and Tencent invest $110 million Korean startup 4:33 Creative Lab
Double up
Jobs
InMobi recruiting in San Francisco and London
Join the club
Investment
Scopely takes a big bet on its nextgen publishing philosophy with $35 million round
Doing things differently
Samsung announces Gear S and Simband at SDC 2014
Two new wearables for developers to get their hands on
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Candy Crush continues its sweet success
November 3 - November 9
Interview
Handy Games on why it's backing smartwatch gaming not VR
Walk around to gain in-game energy
Intel leads $9 million funding round for VR Kickstarter success Avegant
Hybrid VR headset and headphones gets another cash injection
Samsung's Project Beyond camera to teleport VR users around the world
Redefining reality
Interview
PlayPhone's Anders Evju on viral tokens and social hooks
What to expect from PG Connects London 2015
Innovation Edition of Gear VR out in December
Pre-register now and get an early VR for Christmas
Making Of
The world at war: The making of Brave Frontier
Hisatoshi Hayakashi details the JRPG that's for everyone
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Clive Downie
Zynga COO on climbing to the top
F2P monetisation is extremely challenging that's why mobile devs need to learn about community, says Molyneux
World of Tanks and League of Legends show the way
Sixense STEM adds full motion tracking to Samsung Gear VR
The full picture
10 reasons why you can't miss PG Connects London in January
Buy your ticket before the price goes up
MyGamez on why full localisation wasn't key to Hill Climb Racing's success in China
Test the water before investing heavily
German dev Flaregames hits 100 staff, still hiring, still 'asshole free'
60% still working directly on game development
GameRefinery says its Game Power Score metric will improve your game's commercial potential
Knowledge is power
Inside The Game: Launch marketing and User Acquisition 101
Pixelberry on spending money the right way
M2Games LATAM: distribution, discovery and monetization of mobile games in Latin America
Find out anout LATAM in Miami
Jobs
Flaregames snaps up growth hacking specialist Pascal Clarysse
German developer gains UA talent
Mobile Gaming Mavens
Why mobile games have no future on your TV screen
Industry luminaries talk Apple, Google and Amazon's assault on your TV
Investment
Execution Labs to boost indie outreach internationally after raising $6 million
Canadian media giant Corus leads the way
Stateside
State of play: Will Android ever topple iOS when it comes to mobile gaming?
Google could exploit Apple's weaknesses
Interview
Mike Bithell on finding success from aesthetic polish not the exploitative parts of the F2P business
What to expect at PG Connects London 2015
Jobs
Lunagames looking for a content acquisition manager to drive its next 180 million downloads
Time to find cool games
Imagination GPUs point to graphics boost for wearable tech
What lies beneath
Jobs
App Annie seeking two senior mobile marketing experts for San Francisco office
How well can you sell?
Interview
Jampp's Joff Hamilton-Dick: There's no one-shot answer for UA
What to expect from PG Connects London 2015
Citing exceptional growth, Lunagames hits 5 million downloads on Windows Phone
Launches publishing programme to celebrate
Charticle
Walk the LINE: How Disney Tsum Tsum found success in Thailand and Hong Kong
But sunk in the US
Jobs
King hiring hard for its Berlin office
Join the saga
Hot Five
Glu masters in-game ads, new EU VAT rules, and how Oculus will change the world
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Glu sues Hothead, Com2uS and Gamevil's sales explode, and Zuckerburg will measure Oculus' success in millions sold
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
EA-man Nick Earl joins Kabam, Kiip make strategic hires, and Datascope and Vivid hunt down new talent
Positions available
Holy hopping, Batman, it's Doodle Jump DC Super Heroes
Lima Sky links with Warner Bros
Outfit7 makes its Bee7 discovery and monetisation tool open to all Android devs
Cross-promo or generate revenue
Rovio launches Angry Birds Stella in China with Alibaba
And promotes it via Chinese Idols
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Kicking off 13-14 January
Full Indie Uk Column
Learning to say yes: Why being an indie means putting yourself out of your comfort zone
I went to fear and all I got was this stupid t-shirt
With sales up 28,000% in 5 years, Goodgame is crowned German's fastest growing tech company
Don't blink or you'll miss it
Financials
Despite the strength of 'non-Candy Crush Saga business', King sees FY14 Q3 sales drop 13% to $514 million
But cash pile rises to $976 million
Deal
Midverse signs Disruptor Beam and Imaginary Games to its Invest+Publish program
Combining development prowess and app operations
Discovery platform gamesGRABR looks to crowdfunding to raise $600,000
Turning to crowdfunding and individual investors
Jobs
Gumi Canada opens doors as Japanese publisher starts hiring in Vancouver
Building the perfect beast
80 currencies, 120 payment options, Paymentwall looks to monetise smart TVs
Going beyond the credit card community
Oh deer: Glu sues Hothead Games for 'copying' Dear Hunter 2014
Alleges Kill Shot is a direct rip off