Soft Play
Nintendo's thinking about its post-console future. Are you?
Carter Dotson thinks the industry is getting softer
All Or Nothing
F2P pioneer Jason Citron questions Nintendo's demarcation between design and operations
GaaS approach must be holistic not segmented
Tinker Tailor
One-size-fits-all is the wrong analytics approach, says Kongregate's Emily Greer
Mobile analytics is trickier than web
Omg Acronym Soup Lol
GREE hires Kabam's one-time VP of Revenue as its new VP GM RPGs
Keith Kawahata is levelling up
Top Tips
3 tactics to monetize your mobile game players
A seller's guide
Going Global
Market Tech Holdings acquires majority stake in glispa with $77 million deal
glispa will become full service solution provider
Two Wrongs
Why Nintendo's DeNA alliance is a match made in weakness and doomed to failure
Right move, wrong reasons
It's Me Mario!
How will Nintendo's beloved franchises go F2P?
Mobile Mavens debate Nintendo's entry to mobile games
Less Laissez Faire
Google brings stronger approvals and age ratings to Google Play
Change is in the wind
Platform Focus
Satoru Iwata on the thinking behind Nintendo's "unexpected" alliance with DeNA
Looking for synergies
Call For Speakers
Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco arriving July 7-8
Speaker Submissions open from now until May 8
Hot Five
The best of GDC, Apple Watch Glance for devs, and the making of Angry Birds Epic
Last week's top stories
Open Access
Why Unity and Epic's licensing moves prove the future of gaming is F2P
Carter Dotson says free's the fee
Milestone
StartApp celebrates 350 million monthly active users
StartApp is a dev's best friend
Cheque Book
Facebook taken to court over F2P in-game purchases
Out-of-pocket parents are angry
Reach For The Sky
How to secure your game code in the app store Wild West
You need a weapon in your holster
New Revenue Stream?
Landmark ruling opens door to defend games against fake app store reviews
Defamatory online reviews can be punished
Closing Doors
PlayStation Mobile for Android and Vita will shut 10 September
Sony pulls the plug on mobile store.
Bring Home The Beacon
RevMob on why location will make mobile ads relevant
RevMob CEO highlights the benefits of beacons
Sdk Overload
There are too many SDKs, says Heyzap's Jude Gomila
SDK fragmentation is a big problem
Storytelling
Inside the Game: Creating narrative in Pixelberry Games
Kara Loo is quest building
Record Breaker
GDC 2015 breaks 26,000 attendees, announces 2016 dates
Gargantuan developer conference
The Juice
7 key trends from GDC 2015
What we learned at San Francisco
Looking Good
10 ideas for Apple Watch game Glances
How fast-firing Watch notifications could boost your iPhone game
Ios Extender
From $349 to over $10,000, Apple Watch will be available from 24 April
What's going to be on your wrist?
Quality Drive
Saturation of supply is behind mobile's drive to triple-A, says Behaviour VP
The industry needs to get serious
Surfing Success
How Denmark's top 2 studios are dealing with life after Subway Surfers
The differing approaches of Kiloo and SYBO
Long Term Goals
Jeferson Valadares on building Bandai Namco Games America's mobile business
Waking a sleeping giant
Daily Grind
Following a 4 cent ARPDAU testcase boost, DeNA partners with Fyber in US
Maximising monetisation
Trophy Time
Mobile games clean up at 2015 IGF Awards
80 Days, Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure, and Metamorphabet rewarded
Changing Faces
Oculus' developer relations guru Chris Pruett on converting games for mobile VR
Chris Pruett of Oculus VR shares his tips at GDC 2015
Time To Go
deltaDNA releases free and unlimited game analytics
Leverages high performance big data platform
Brand This
Brands are key to cost effective UA, says Warner Bros' Greg Ballard
My branding brings all the gamers to the yard
Target Acquired
InMobi Appographic Targeting puts the personal in personalised marketing
New service launches at GDC 2015
On The Rocks
GREE's Andrew Sheppard talks talent acquisition, not user acquisition
GREE COO says we're focussing on the wrong things
Placement
House of Cards appearance boosts Monument Valley back up the paid charts
Dedicated Netflix users crucial to recent success
Power Of Brands
Warners Bros doubles down on mobile with Mortal Kombat, Batman, LEGO and Game of Thrones titles
Experimenting with both premium and free-to-play
Losing Control
Can Apple's promotion of paid games stem the rising tide of F2P?
Carter Dotson on losing control of the App Store
Set Free
Unreal Engine 4 goes upfront free, backed by a 5% royalty fee
"Epic succeeds only when creators succeed"
Squeezed Middle
Mid-tier companies need to shrink to indie, warns Tim Merel
GDC 2015 panel suggests a bit smaller is better
Watch And Paid
Crossy Road has now generated $3 million with Unity Ads
Opt-in, seamless and high monetisation
Blown Away
A rebranded Storm8 announces 1 billion downloads
Network is the way
21 Platforms
Split into personal and professional editions, Unity 5 is now live
Added Cloud Build and graphical features
Get Connected
Honed in the Korean PC market, the ProudNet networking engine comes to mobile
Ready for millions of players?
Talk Talk
How adding chat to your iOS games helps solve your engagement gap and makes money at the same time
Affinity Networks on turning talk to cash
Coming Alive
Animoca Brands is making a Paris Hilton mobile game
Endorsing by the celebutante
Do Not Polish
Backflip's 6 essential prototyping tips for mobile games
Tom Blind puts prototyping to the test.
Piggy Partners
U21 payment platform Oink partners with Playerize
Secure payment technology for under-21s
Maximising Ltv
Tapjoy's new platform will predict your players' behaviour and monetisation
Introducing the Future Value Map
Beyond Retail
NPD begins tracking in-app purchases and mobile game sales
Brave new world