Opinion
The power of building communities for your games face-to-face
Oscar Clark wants to shake you by the hand
Opinion
Welcome to EGX: The event that highlights the growing indie vs triple-A console divide
Yes, we can have too many Assassin's Creed games
Jobs
AdColony hires ex-Grand Cru, Wooga marketing man Thorbjorn Warin
Bulking up in Europe
The Charticle
The most downloaded iOS game in August, but how well does Crazy Taxi: City Rush monetise?
Converting eyeballs
Jobs
InnoGames on the hunt for UX designer, marketing lead plus backend and Flash devs
New horizons
Expand your skills to extraordinary levels at ARM Gaming Developer Days
London, San Francisco and Chengdu
Mobile Mavens
Advantage App Store? The industry reacts to App Bundles on iOS 8
Can Apple shake up app discovery?
Dice Europe
Where the big boys go to play: 3 big lessons from DICE Europe 2014
Thoughts from a conference in Kensington
Hot Five
Charging for updates, escaping the trope of violence, India is ripe, and refining, refining, refining
Last week's top 5 stories
Week That Was
Are you inspired by Kinder Surprise, can you charge for updates, or escape the troupe of violence?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
Wooga and Kiwi shake things up while Zynga, TellTale, Rovio, and Gameloft all looking for new talent
New positions
Financials
Shanda to award 8 key staff golden handcuffs worth at least $13 million
Please stay
Data
Eight days on, iOS 8 adoption rate is around 30%
Apple's estimate seems rather high
Investment
Skillz raises $6 million for an aggressive UA campaign for real-money skill-based games
Total funding now over $13 million
Full Indie Uk Column
How I went indie, coded Fairway Solitaire, moved continents and took 9 years to make any money
Jake Birkett on making mistakes and surviving
Deal
Pint and publishing deal: Remedy and Flaregames sign Agents of Storm contract in London pub
Three quid well spent says Remedy CEO
Stateside
Escaping the echo chamber: GamerGaters and journalists have more in common than they think
Let some noise in
Video
DeNA on why western best practices don't work in Asia
Kenji Kobayashi on acting local
DevGAMM 2014 heads to Minsk on 17-18 October
Boosting game development in CIS
Data
Mobile games are a force multipler for entire industry says US survey
ESA looks at how mobile engages new audiences
Opinion
Why Wayward Souls' $1 price increase per update is driving sales
A new way of defining value?
Jobs
Following $15 million investment, Kiwi poaches talent from EA, Zynga and GREE
Console transition
Scottish games industry back up to 2008 levels, valued at $160 million
11 percent of UK total
Data
Estimates of British games industry value revised upwards to $2.8 billion
Mobile boosts the figures
Molyneux, Livingstone and Cecil are Best of British at PG Connects London 2015
Industry heavyweights heading to Vinopolis 13-14 January
Profile
Cowboy Games on why game development is a risk, but a risk worth taking
Wild wild west
Video
Can Game Power Score Analysis really predict your game's commercial success?
Markus Ramark certainly thinks so
Dice Europe
Monument Valley designer: Games must "escape the trope of violence"
And money must not be the only reward, says Wong
Data
Puzzle & Dragons hits 38 million downloads of which 5 million are in North America
Planning a community event to celebrate
We’re rolling out the red carpet at the official Samsung Developer Conference 2014 party
We wrap up the SDC2014 in Hollywood style
Deal
Consolidation in mobile monetisation fragments then coalesces as Science Inc buys Upsight's PlayHaven ad network
Now focusing on our individual goals
Following TinyCo's COPPA $300,000 fine, AgeCheq sees demand surge
Leave those kids alone
Dice Europe
It's time for mobile to scale up with conviction, says GREE's Andrew Sheppard
New COO on the industry's next steps
Pocket Gamer and App Annie light up the Tokyo night with VIP-studded TGS party
Japanese mobile gaming glitterati were out in force at Ele Tokyo
Pay-to-play
Pay-to-Play: Why space-age thrill ride ALONE is a steal at $1.99
Are you receiving?
Dice Europe
Nexon: Working in games is like running a restaurant, and now's the time for your cuisine to go global
Min Kim on cooking up a storm
Deal
Millennial Media acquires Nexage for $107.5 million
Ad(d) cash
Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift launching with free app store, paid to follow
There'll be more content when devs can monetise
Dice Europe
Microsoft's Phil Harrison on why developers need to be inspired by Kinder Surprise
Microsoft man on the advantages of wearing another hat
Kiip claims its new reward video ads generate 77% view-through rates and up to $30 CPM
A new way to view
Interview
From charity to $3.5 million: How Grantoo became Fuel to drive competitive casual gaming
Driving the virtuous circle of player engagement
Investment
New company name, faces and direction as Fuel raises $3.5 million
Grantoo is reborn
Deal
KneoWorld receives $6 million to extend its education games to Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin
The price of knowledge
Interview
Things3D on why its 3D printing platform will improve your game's longterm retention and monetisation
Chillingo co-founders get physical
Opinion
Why you should be using Linear, Cumulative and Secondary Indexes to optimize your IAP strategy
New ways to measure player behaviour
Oculus Rift reveals new Crescent Bay devkit headset
But it's "not there yet"
The MIGS14 is getting closer. Are you ready?
10-11 November in Montreal
Chart Of The Week
Body-mounted wearables are attracting the most VC investment
Generating 10x leverage post-crowdfunding
German developer Wooga appoints new head of finance
Money matters
Gamesparks' CEO Griffin Parry on why server-side features spell success
Forget the platform. Just make the game