Chart Of The Week
RPGs take top grossing share from card-collection games on Japanese Google Play charts
Metaps marks the changes
Jobs
Chris Donahue joins PlayFab as director of developer relations
Customer relations
Investment
UA outfit YouAppi raises $3 million to move beyond installs to LTV
Moving downstream
Investment
Buoyant Helsinki: Small Giant Games raises $3.1 million
Round led by Creandum
Data
Over 100 million smartwatches by 2019 but no killer app
Juniper Research looks into its murky crystal ball
Wearable Mavens
Retail virtual reality: What does it need, and where the hell is it?
Our Mavens look into the future of consumer VR
Investment
Intel Capital puts $28 million into Chinese wearable tech startups
First input from $100 million China Smart Device Innovation Fund
Jobs
RevMob appoints Pedro Jahara as CEO
New dawn
Deal
Skillz brings cash prizes to Big Buck Hunter
Let the hunt begin
Deal
GREE agrees publishing partnership with carrier KDDI
The power of two
Opinion
The brand who cried wolf: Why no-one cares if Lenovo finally swoops for BlackBerry
Death of a mobile giant
Interview
The story so far: Pocket Gems on five years of growth
Daniel Terry looks back and forward
Jobs
MediaBrix builds biz dev team, promoting Art Santos and poaching Appsavvy's Lo Norona
One new, one old
Reading List
Reading List: Freemium Economics: The Savvy Manager’s Guide
Eric Seufert on leveraging analytics and user segmentation to drive revenue
Opinion
Three beautiful, puzzling titles that demonstrate the power of tablet gaming
Propane's Neil Chaudhari has a hot trio
Interview
Reliance Games CEO on making games for the Indian market as well as nurturing local developer talent
Manish Agarwal on the coming opportunity
Charticle
Rovio Star's Plunder Pirates discovers buried treasure in France, China and South Korea
A pirate's life
Alongside new wearables company, Lenovo reveals China-only Google Glass rival
Fits on your spectacles
Deal
OnLive partners with Samsung to give Note 4 users a taste of cloud gaming
Three months for free
Delhi rising: LINE reaches 30 million registered users in India
A billion to go
Mobile Mavens
Apple's iPad reveal: What the industry wanted and what we got
Did reality match up to the hype?
GLAZEDcon set to explore wearable tech trends on 22 October in London
A day of speakers and an evening of showcases focused on wearables and IoT
Stateside
iPads, iPads everywhere, so whatever happened to tablet gaming?
Is the dream of games made specifically for tablets over?
Video
Fiksu's Oliver Clark on overcoming the dangers of discoverability
No reward without risk
Gameloft brings Twitch streaming to iOS versions of Heroes of Order & Chaos
Third game from the publisher to support streaming platform
Hot Five
9 growth hacking tips, Rovio vs King and Supercell, and gameplay first
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
9 growth hacks, Osmo gets $12 million, Apple's transition away from innovation, and Unity's not for sale
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Opinion
How Apple has transitioned from a company of vision to one of operations
When responsibility trumps taking a risk
Jobs Board
Zynga's VP of games jumps ship but WildTangent, Next Games and Supercell hiring
Positions open
Video
TrailPay's Wachtang Budagaschwili on the value of Facebook, Kongregate and Steam
Patience is key
Xiaomi ships 19 million smartphones during Q3 2014
Shipping out
Now we are 5: Apple adds iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 to iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini range
Consumer segmentation runs wider
Investment
Education gaming outfit Osmo raises $12 million
Series A led by Accel Partners
Interview
Tangible Play on $2 million pre-orders, $12 million funding and Apple approval for its Osmo learning platform
Disrupting kids education one iPad at a time
Deal
GungHo and Rovio plan two week Angry Birds and Puzzle & Dragons crossover
When worlds collide
Helpshift introduces free product tier to help indies deal with player support
Reducing your support requests
UK government games policy “shouldn’t pick industry winners”
Nicholas Lovell argues for future-friendly policy environment.
Animoca closes $10 million joint venture deal for Star Girl franchise
Crosby Capital becomes majority owner
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Angry Birds makes its return
October 6 - October 12
Video
Can crowdfunding move from rewards to equity?
David B Hoppe considers the future
Data
Final Fantasy's Sakaguchi first F2P game Terra Battle hits 500,000 downloads
Pushing the social aspect
Jobs
WildTangent searching for business development manager
Join the team
Interview
Okam Studio on its plans for cult comic Dog Mendonca, and the potential of the Latin America market
CEO Martina Santoro on turbulent history and sarcastic humour
LINE expands its vision with native iPad app
The next 70 million
Deal
Thumbstar distributing GunFinger on Android devices
Deal of the dead
Amazon Game Studios ramps up output with 3 new original releases
Exclusives for Fire phone and tablet
Pay-to-play
Pay-to-Play: Does Nitrome’s 8bit Doves deserve your $2.99?
Dream on
9 growth hacking tips to boost your mobile game's success
Pascal Clarysse provide guerilla tactics
Data
Traps n' Gemstones and Galaxy Trucker are highest reviewed iOS and Android games of Q3 2014
Critically acclaimed
Live Mobile
Don't have 10 million MAUs, don't bother with merchandising says ex-Zeptolab CRO
Diana Moldavsky warns a hit game isn't a brand