Hot Five
Lessons from Develop in Brighton, the making of Clash of Clans, and why YouTubers won't wipe out 'traditional' games journalism
Last week's top 5 stories
Reading List: The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver’s classic on prediction versus forecast
Week That Was
Atari launches first LGBT game, UK's rise continues, and why YouTubers won't destroy games journalism
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Dead Trigger 2 fires its way to Best App Ever 2014 victory
Madfinger game blows away competition to win the top prize
EC orders Apple and Google to clamp down on 'exhortative' F2P games
Consumers need to be informed of costs
Full Indie Uk
Development perspective: What lessons did Develop 2014 teach our indies?
Games by the sea
Monetizer Special
Analysing the big winners and relative losers in the social casino genre
Using open source data to better understand app store performance
Interview
PerBlue on switching from location-based games to a community focus
Why games should be played anywhere
Deal
Changyou buys 51% stake in Dolphin Browser outfit MoboTap for $91 million
Buying distribution and eyeballs
SponsorPay rebrands as Fyber
Aiding better digestion of the app ecosystem
Investment
Italian start-up BadSeed raises $330,000 early stage investment
Start of a relationship with United Ventures
Play with pride: Atari to launch its first game aimed at LGBT community
Pridefest charges players with hosting own parade
Join Pocket Gamer at Casual Connect USA 2014
Come to our epic bashes in San Francisco on 21 July
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Fit the Fat dominates the free charts as RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 loses out
July 07 - July 13, 2014
Microsoft to cull 18,000 jobs, Nokia to suffer bulk of cuts
A painful evolution
Video
5 key ways in which Cursor boosted the games industry in southern Finland
Top insights from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2014
Video
Get smart: MAG CEO Daniel Hasselberg on the power of free growth opportunities
Why blow your UA budget?
Opinion
How to make the most of the opportunity provided by alternative app stores
Stefan Bielau thinks outside of the box
Big Fish on a roll with new Luxury Slots gameplay
Cashing in on $650 million social casino market
Opinion
Press pause for reflection: Why the rise of YouTubers isn't going to kill off the games journalist
Time to end the culture of 'anyone can do it'
King of the castle: Google Play downloads dwarf App Store's by 60 percent
East versus west?
Finding (and funding) the next Supercell: European devs to be boosted by millions in seed funding
London Venture Partners on backing fresh talent
Video
Game changer: Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka on why brand building is the future
Detailing the '100 year plan'
Gamevil: 400 million downloads and counting on smartphones
But growth is slowing
Ninja skills: Square Enix's Mini Ninjas hits 6 million downloads
Zen mode
UKIE: UK Gov needs to support British businesses 'flying the flag overseas'
Speculate to accumulate
Stateside
Apple TV can't afford to sideline F2P if it wants to take on PS4 and Xbox One
Monetisation should co-exist
Faster, more furious: Racing Rivals hits 12 million downloads with Google Play launch
Going cross-platform accelerates business
Up to date: 90% of iOS devices now running iOS 7
One last hurrah
Opinion
Bull or Bubble? How to make sense of mobile gaming M&A activity
Conclusions from Digi-Capital’s Q2 Investment review
Opinion
The value of getting inside the mind of a gamer
Oscar Clark looks inwards
The write stuff: Pocket Gems' interactive story platform Episode hits 500,000 author signups
175 million chapters read
The Charticle
The art of the sequel: Did Bubble Witch 2 Saga outperform its predecessor?
Bubble bobble
Video
How to Finnish first: Cursor's Mikko Kähärä on encouraging innovation in Finland
Top insights from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2014
Tapjoy names former Zynga man Rob Dyer as VP of dev relations
Dyer's "diverse experience" key
UK forecast to be Europe's premier development hub within 5 years
Sweden set to be dethroned
Develop 2014
Big in Brighton: 5 things we learned at Develop 2014
Our guide to happenings at the Hilton Metropole
Hot Five
The making of Supernauts, a F2P debate, and Kim Kardashian heads for Europe
Last week's top 5 stories
Wayward Souls and Xac USA: Pop Culture Trivia the top rated iOS and Android games of Q2 2014
Critically acclaimed
Week That Was
Grand Cru on creating Supernauts, developers take back control, and is F2P a form of digital pollution?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Develop 2014
Power play: Developers, not publishers, are now pulling the strings, says Giordano Contestabile
Former PopCap man on the digital revolution
Develop 2014
Free-to-play a form of 'digital pollution', says Professor Richard Bartle
Here today, gone tomorrow?
ThisWayUp's PaperLander tops the first Big Indie Mixer
Thanks to sponsors Samsung, Immersion, Everyplay & Unity, and the Trailer Farm
Interview
Chinese outfit KoramGame on coming to the west with build-and-conquer tank game Steel Avengers
Leveraging experiences from browser MMOGs
Social Party launches frequent-flyer-points-to-iOS-game redemption scheme with Finnair
Turn those useless points into Angry Birds and Badland
Develop 2014
We need a new name for free-to-play, says former Zynga man Wiggins
Too "generic" to have any meaning
Weekly UK App Store Charts: Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 stays on track
Atari's mobile reboot retains top of iPhone paid charts
Develop 2014
How Bithell did it: PR supremo Simon Byron on how indies can hit the top
Being like Mike
Interview
Flaregames on becoming a boutique publisher and taking Fieldrunners F2P
Next chapter in TD game series will be out in 2015
Monetizer Mavens
On the balance F2P designers tread between encouraging players to pay and manipulation
The Monetisation Maven ponder ethical boundaries