History Ain't Bunk
Big Huge Games on taking the long view to strategy gaming success with DomiNations
Tim Train won't repeat his mistakes
Devs Invited
Developers can now sign up for Magic Leap's augmented reality SDK
AR firm courts creators
It's Alive
Inside the Game: The challenges of supporting a game over two years and 30 updates
Keeping the experience fresh
Go Faster
MetalGL brings Metal API support from within OpenGL ES 2.0
iOS graphics bought back cross-platform
All The Answers
How Trivia Crack dev Etermax created a global sensation from Buenos Aires
Building on local victories
Unshackling Devs
Nvidia announces AndroidWorks, a tool suite to streamline Android development
Developer-friendly toolset accompanies Nvidia Shield
Survive & Thrive
Sebastian Kriese, Evan Skolnick, and Sebastian Borget lead Indie Survival Guide track at PGC SF
Everything you need to know about succeeding as an indie
Junk Dna
Why mobile gaming's success is defined as much by its misses as its hits
Carter Dotson takes an ecosystem view
From Apple Watch to APAC, Super Mario to Star Wars, VCs to VR - explore mobile gaming's frontiers at PGC San Francisco
Look into our crystal ball
Cheap But Popular
Google Cardboard underlines its leading VR status, with 1 million sold
Leaving Oculus in the dust
Ouya On Steroids
Nvidia powers up the Android TV revolution with its 4K-enabled Nvidia Shield
Available in $199 and $299 flavours
Changing Faces
Backed with $4.5 million, PC legend Jon Van Caneghem goes mobile
VC Mobile Entertainment moves out of stealth.
Skyrocket
Google Play games revenue in Q1 2105 soared by 50%
Market growth set revenue flying throughout 2014
Global Trends
Kristian Segerstrale and Chris Petrovic confirmed for Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2015
The first content for July 7-8 conference is unveiled
Tick Tock
Native Apple Watch SDK beta expected post-WWDC 2015
Calls time on Phoney War
Irish Charm
Scopely invests in Dublin dev Digit Game Studios for future strategy gaming success
Ireland's largest games developer strikes gold
Sf X 3, La X 2
Pocket Gamer is coming to America – west coast tour kicks off 27 May
Join us at Google I/O, WWDC, E3 and PGC San Francisco
Big Shifts
Chart stasis, the rise of Asia and extreme UA discussed at Apps World SF 2015
Kabam, SGN and Microsoft talk trends
Barbie's New Toy
Mattel partners with Animoca Brands to turn its IP into mobile games
Going mobile
Ad Rank
AppsFlyer crowns AppLovin as best iOS ad network based on 1-, 7- and 30-day retention
Facebook still rules for reach, however
Time Vs Attention
Ubisoft's Chris Early on rethinking the value exchange in free-to-play games
What's your player resource index?
Shooting For Your Gold
War on freeloaders: The monetisation of Frontline Commando: WW2
IAPs from the players' persepctive
Monetizing The 99%
Inside the Game: Mobile game advertising 101
How Pixelberry is using ads to drive revenue
No Lights No Camera Just Action
Mobcrush on why mobile is the native channel for live game streaming
Mobile DNA matters
Talk Torque
Kabam, Wargaming, TinyCo and more revealed in second wave of PGC San Francisco 2015 speakers
Adcolony, Shark Punch and Hints also unveiled for July 7-8 event
Twitching
Pure-play mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $4.9 million
Looking to out-niche Twitch
Targeting 9 June
Join us in Heaven (or Hell) at the Pocket Gamer WWDC 2015 party
We're nicking ideas from Hitman for our Harlot party
Discount Deal
Mid-term tickets to PG Connects San Francisco 2015 still available
Get access to two packed days for less
Silver Lining
Laid off Natural Motion employees crowdfund new company
QA team take matters into its own hands
True Engagement
Tutorial completion doesn't drive monetisation
Glispa research highlights data
Mega Rewards
Get Set Games receives $18,000 Unreal Dev Grant for mobile release of Mega Blast
Unreal impressed by Toronto firm's first 3D mobile game
Outgoings
King sees cash pile fall by 33% to $661 million as it seeks to bolster share price
Sales steady
Going Deeper
Retooled DeltaDNA benchmark dashboard offers real-time retention analytics
Retention insights are a key feature of DeltaDNA's new dashboard
Kingdom Of Heaven
Rival Kingdoms smashes 1 million downloads a week after launch
Space Ape Games hits jackpot
The Grass Is Greener
Square Enix shifts focus to mobile after complaining consoles are too competitive
Console giant moves to mobile
Show Stoppers
E3 2015: Experience the evolution
The view from the ESA
Real World Gold
How to leverage brands, licenses and celebrities for your mobile game's success
Ben Figueroa gives you four tips
Deep Wallet
Tencent invests again, injecting $60 million into Pocket Gems
Rumoured to have taken a 20% stake
New Horizons
MobilityWare hits 250 million downloads, sets sights on wearables
Now looks to wearables
Less Is More
Following the closure of its Vancouver office, GREE refocuses international efforts
Finding the balance
Transparency
Millennial Media plays the trust card, offering a 100% viewability guarantee
Get what you pay for
Hr Head
Unity hires Elizabeth Brown as Chief People Officer
Former LinkedIn exec joins Unity Technologies exec team
Ways To Spend
Video and Facebook still the most effective UA channels
AdColony marks the status quo
All Systems Go!
D3Publisher of America rebrands as mobile-friendly D3 Go!
Gets a mobile focus
Clone Wars
Scott Cawthon files subpoena to expose fake Five Night's at Freddy's 4
So-called "Lazada Polodi" ripped off successful franchise on iOS
Open For All
FunPlus launches its transparent PublishingPlus initiative for all F2P devs
Available for any game at any stage of development
Game Cull
Quality control forces Sega to pull games from app stores
Sega won't confirm which games will be axed.
Under The Sea
Sign up for Pocket Gamer's Google I/O 2015 party on 27 May
We're going under the sea for our latest party
Install Me
Facebook powers up mobile app install ads with deep linking
Mobile ads just got a bit more powerful.
Hard Times
Mobile majority Zynga sees FY15 Q1 sales down 5% to $183 million
Losses will continue