Lion's Share
Apple and Google eat up 83 percent of the world's $24.5 billion mobile games market
Newzoo report reveals the top 25 games companies
Lots Of Friends
Yahtzee with Buddies scores 1 million downloads in four days
Racking up the numbers
See & Control
MergeVR announces $129 headmount and controller
Coming this fall
Wrist Positive
Why Apple Watch will drive LTV for games
Tango's Jim Ying on the next big thing
Launch Of Faith
Soft launch your game as soon as possible, says Zeptolab
CEO Misha Lyalin advises at PGC Bangalore
Rift Opens For Occulus
Google looks to standardise mobile VR around its Cardboard ecosystem
$20 wonder gaining market share
Venting
Is your PR incompetent?
Carter Dotson bites the hands that feeds
Giving It All Away
Amazon gives away $105 app and game bundle to drive Amazon App downloads
Alternative retailing
Fiery Launch
Pocket Gems takes flight with synchronous PvP-focused breed-and-battler War Dragons
Strategy game comes with Watch integration
Back To The Future
How mashing up Forbidden Planet and Cannon Fodder resulted in Space Age
Big Bucket's optimistic nod to 1950s sci-fi
Tuning And Time
Delays and roadblocks: the monetisation of Fast & Furious: Legacy
Putting Kabam's movie tie-in through its paces
Signal To Noise
Is Facebook becoming a more expensive and less effective place to advertise mobile games?
CTRs down, CPCs up
Emerging Opportunity
Bee7 and Vserv forge partnership to solve emerging market monetisation
The next billion
China Awaits
30 million downloads strong, but how well does Marvel: Contest of Champions monetise?
Valued superheroes
Us Move
TabTale nets 5 million new players with Sunstorm acquisition
Publisher makes fourth acquisition
Smor-games-board
Is Netflixification the future of premium mobile gaming?
Carter Dotson wants all-he-can-play
Trio In
Fuse Powered poaches three from Fyber to boost SF team
Good for growth
Simply The Best
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2015
The shakers, makers and movers
NCsoft invests $5 million in Kabam spin-out This Game Studio
Vancouver gets another start-up
Watch This
Scopely partners with Hasbro to bring Yahtzee to mobile and Apple Watch
Popular boardgame goes wearable
3 Minutes Of Insight
Tell Pocket Gamer and TUNE your user acquisition priorities and problems
It's survey time
Something Old
Mattrick out as Mark Pincus regains control at Zynga
Time for a CEO swap
Letting Go
Inside the Game: How writing a story-driven game in four months forces you to trust your team
Lessons from University U.
Retailing Op
Apple adds Games Manager job to 2 existing App Store game positions
Three roles of power are available
Looking Ahead
VR app store WEARVR raises $1.5 million
Leveraging potential for big investment
Lights Camera Horror
Warner Bros. to bring Five Nights at Freddy's to the big screen
Survival horror on the big screen
Minions On The Move
EA steals Minions licence from Gameloft
Minions Paradise hits app stores in summer
Start Your Engine
Amazon makes another strategic gaming move with $50 million CryEngine deal
But what comes next?
Cash In
Rovio wins $4.2 million in toy vending machine copyright dispute
Counterfeit Angry Bird toys spark legal battle
Window Of Opportunity
Make a Windows game using Cocos2d-x and win $25,000
Deadline is 31 May 2015
Play Me
mNectar partners with Branch Metrics to improve playable ads
Playable ad technology combines with deep linking
Tailor-made
Gondola launches Dynamic Pricing Engine to match players and prices
Claims 12 percent rise in revenues
Growth Spurt
RevMob expands Sao Paulo HQ and boosts workforce
Brazillian ad platform grows rapidly
Lane Change
Former EA exec Shawn Conly joins GREE as VP marketing
GREE snaps up new talent
Square Up
Expanded to mobile games, Square Enix Collective adds funding of up to $250,000
Funding, feedback and advice available for indies
Vicarious Visions
John Riccitiello on why Unity talks about the money its developers are making
Tools are a means to an end
For The Kids
Bee7 and SuperAwesome partner up for COPPA-compliant Android CPI ad network
Appropriate for all
New Turf
Expanding to games not using its SDK, Kamcord goes big for YouTubers
First land grab is Clash of Clans
Hot Five
Why you're losing players, Supercell is winning, and how to talk on camera
A glance at last week's top stories
Crystal Ball
Mobile Augmented Reality apps will hit 420 million downloads by 2019
Juniper Research predicts big things for AR
Watch Ads To Stop Ads
Noodlecake's Ryan Holowaty on the experimental monetisation of Tiltagon
Bridging the gap between free-to-play and premium
Collectionism
Will tomorrow's gamers experience today's games?
Carter Dotson says no game left behind
One-touch Success
Super Casual games dominate app stores in February
App Annie highlights success of ZigZag and Crossy Road
Goody Goody
Ex-Disney veterans set up Zig Zag Zoom to combine fun with charity
Gaming turned into charitable currency
Buddy Up
Scopely forges multi-year partnership with Kung Fu Factory
New partnership has scope
Tactile Worlds
Leap Motion and Razer building VR headset with in-built hand tracking
Razer's OSVR meets Leap Motion's tracking tech
The Iap Inspector
Waiting for the end... in World Zombination
IAPs from the players' perspective
Get Sticky
10 reasons players are leaving your game
DeltaDNA gives top retention tips
Stat Attack
Inside the Game: Adding education to High School Story
Jennifer Young on learning through play
Jobs Board
Loveshack looking to hire gamplay programmer
Shacking up in Melbourne