Hot Five
Get a job with Wooga, Nintendo eyeballs Kim Kardasian, and dying indie dev dreams
We round up the top five stories from last week
History Ain't Bunk
How DomiNations used world history as IP, while being a notch more complex than Clash of Clans
Tim Train on more interesting decisions
Heart Vs Head
Why the full-time indie game development dream is dead
Carter Dotson sees a dream become a nightmare
Prophetic Words
Flashback Friday: Machine Zone's Gabe Leydon on redefining mobile gaming as an intense 24/7 activity
Everything else will feel slow
Switch
Twitch rakes in more revenue than YouTube, says report
Superdata reveals Twitch's rise to the top
Branded Good
HyprMX launches its simple video incent ad management system HyprMediate
Highest paying videos selection
Futureshock
Four technologies that will change the aesthetics of game development
Benjamin Sutherland is looking ahead
Beam Me In
Disruptor Beams bolsters executive team, hires CMO Pete Arden
Former CCP Games VP goes mobile.
Golden Gate To Success
Why the Bay Area is a such as sweetspot for social game development
SGN's Josh Yguado on the right location
Branded Values
Ad campaign pushes 600,000 players of Google's location game Ingress to visit AXA insurance offices
Click and collect
A #pgcsanfran Marvel
From Marvel Contest of Champions to Frozen Free Fall: Disney on the power of its brands
Disney's Chris Heatherly explains all
Success Story
Her Story scored almost half its sales on iOS
Mobile detectives catch up with PC PCs.
Your Hero
Amazon offers customizable 3D-printed video game characters
Sandboxr offers 3D printing services to Amazon
Switch It Up
EA swipes Samantha Ryan as new head of mobile
Former Warner Bros, Interactive Entertainment VP steps up.
Big Vision
VR will be big but AR will be four times bigger by 2020, says Digi-Capital
Tim Merel's looking into the future at #PGCSanFran
Meet The Marios
DeNA West CEO points to Kim Kardashian Hollywood as example of how its brand-meets-backend Nintendo deal could work
5-game deal is DeNA's "biggest ever"
Less Is More
Samsung positions Galaxy Apps as the curated app store for quality including VR and wearable content
Mihai Pohountu talks at #PGCSanFran
Too Many Too Similar
Why the App Store doesn't need any more Clash of Clans clones
Now is the time to do something different
Hot Five
Fallout Shelter falls out, Supercell shuts Smash Land, and Rami Ismail talks truth
A glance at last week's top stories
Time To #pgcsanfran
Indie-pendence Day! 4 reasons to attend PG Connects San Francisco 2015
Free tickets
Volte Face
Mobile game developers need to value their work and increasingly that starts with price
Carter Dotson wants to pay upfront
One We Made Earlier
Flashback Friday: Pedal to the metal: The making of CSR Racing
Jason Avent on the creation of a freemium sensation
Under Fire
Google startup apologizes for including Nazi death camps in Ingress
Niantic Labs forced to close portals in WWII concentration camps
Ftp Vs Fts
Nintendo reveals 'free-to-start' mobile game price strategy
Don't say "free-to-play" in front of Satoru Iwata
Smart Calls
EEDAR's Patrick Walker on the importance of brands and segmentation in a maturing, global market
Times are changing
Long View
We’re not defensive. Vainglory's monetisation is the least of my worries, says Super Evil CEO
Our raison d'etre is enchanting our players
Angel Returns
Prolific investor Klaas Kersting acquires stake in ZupCat
flaregames CEO sees Argentinian promise
Moba On The Move
As it goes cross-platform with Android support, Vainglory announces 1.5 million MAUs
Also moving into eSports
Untapped Potential
In-app messaging inspires 3.5 times higher retention
But only a third use it
Master Your 'craft
Microsoft encourages classroom crafting with 'Minecraft in Education' portal
Getting teachers up to speed
Scroll Down
Mojang prepares to pull Scrolls plug in 2016
Minecraft developer slims down IP portfolio
Riccitiello Speaks
Unity CEO John Riccitiello on GaaS, EA vindication, and his $5,000 Clash of Clans habit
A chat from Unite Europe 2015
New Tricks
Western devs should look east to improve monetisation, says Fuse Powered's CEO
What to expect at PG Connects San Francisco 2015
Sitting Pretty
Inside the Game: Adding the Prom Throne to High School Story
Andrew Shvarts on a balancing act
Supercharged
Glu beefs up Racing Rivals with month-long WWE event
Muscle men meet muscle cars
Franchise Power
It's peaked but what's surprising is Fallout Shelter's top grossing decline is so slow
Two weeks on, still strong in UK and US
Free Fun Zone
We'll be aggressive on fun, not monetization, says Zombie Gunship Inc dev Limbic
Arash Keshmirian likes to blow up zombies
Not Yankee Doodle Dandy
Was Apple right to yank games using the Confederate Flag?
Mavens debate a great cultural divide
Time To Go Native
Despite Everyplay, Kamcord, Twitch and YouTube Gaming, Apple can win the gameplay video war
Carter Dotson explains the strategy
All For All
Flashback Friday: David Helgason on Unity's ability to 'give indies nuclear weapons'
All roads lead to Amsterdam
Don't Be Sneaky
How to monetize your users without alienating them
AerServ CEO Josh Speyer on maintaining a dialogue
Skyscraping
Demi Lovato joins the celebrity mobile game deal club
US singer signs on the dotted line.
Success Story
Fallout Shelter is being played 70 million times a day
Bethesda's breakout hit breaks records
Adding For Wearables
Phil Sahyoun joins MobilityWare as VP of engineering
MobilityWare hires tech specialist
More Mobile, Please
In the year mobile game spending eclipses consoles, it's even starting to show at E3
This year's show smashed mobile records, but we still have a ways to go.
Key Conferencing
Less than two weeks to go: PG Connects San Francisco 2015 is ready to rock
Mobile gaming industry gathers on West Coast for inaugural PGC US event
Diminishing Returns
Is your portfolio diversified against brand and celebrity market saturation, asks TinyCo's Jeremy Horn?
What to expect at PGC San Francisco 2015
Loyalty Not Ua
Three reasons why focusing too much on user acquisition is a costly mistake
Appsaholic's Zach Redler says look wider
Cashin' & Kingin'
Mobile eSports outfit Cashplay kicks off celebrity push with Tyga - Kingin' World Tour game
First deal of many
Helping Hands
Moonrise dev hires Microsoft and Square vet Ted Woolsey as GM
Another notch