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Strong Start
Bee7 helped devs pull 6.3 million installs in first three months
Android games monetization and UA platform wins out
Reality Check
PopCap co-founder John Vechey launches virtual reality startup
Pluto VR pops into life
Competition
Oculus launches $1 million Mobile VR Jam 2015 competition
Virtual reality contest opens for entries
By Us For Us
Ignited Artists CEO Danielle Deibler on its staff-first approach to making core mobile games
Superpowered by Sega Networks investment
New Ninja
Ninja Metrics hires ex-GM of Wargaming America as Chief Customer Officer
Jeremy Monroe set to "bridge the gap"
Truly Social
Nextpeer launches Social SDK, its Xbox Live for mobile
Connect, play, share
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Swappings
Scopely scoops Zynga's Roy Rosenthal as head of business affairs
Rosenthal's horizons have scope
Steam Powered
Valve enters the virtual reality game with SteamVR at GDC 2015
Game developers invited to test it out at GDC 2015
World Of Possibilities
Going mobile, NetEase opens US office to become more global
David Ting heads up new move
Ac/dc
Metaps seeks the most similar and dissimilar Google Play game markets
Not all markets were created equal
A New Contend-ar
Magic Leap decloaks to give HoloLens some AR competition
Google funded start-up talks
The Iap Inspector
KingsRoad: the action RPG that's paved with gold, gems, XP, lockboxes and discounts
IAPs from the players' perspective
Who Will Lead The Charge?
Mobile will never just become a core gaming medium
Carter Dotson demands some action
Twice As Nice
Latest BlackBerry 10 update adds Amazon Appstore
Amazon Appstore becomes BlackBerry's second marketplace
Analyse This
New Upsight Marketing platform claims to simplify real-time analytics
A year in the making
Unreal Funding
Epic's new grants give Unreal 4 devs up to $50,000
A helping handful of cash
Amplified Activity
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on why its network-first approach trumps all
Driving syngeries from every game install
Going Global
Google Play opens up merchant accounts for 12 new countries
Big bucks for Bolivia, Bulgaria and more
New Stream
Zynga generated $153 million of revenue from in-game ads in 2014
Money for old eyeballs
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Small Screen Wins
Newzoo predicts mobile games sales will overtake console in 2015
New research suggests the only way is up for mobile
Form And Function
Why did the chicken... the making of Crossy Road
Hipster Whale on inspiration and aspiration
Long Game
Why Kabam chose LTV over ARPDAU
Monetizer Mavens on maximising F2P return
Blowing Up
Supercell's Boom Beach blasts into global top 10 grossing charts
App Annie's January Game index is here
Pastures New
Z2Live execs leave to launch alternative publisher Mobile Game Partners
Adam Flanders and Kevin Flynn up and running
Alternate Worlds
DeNA talks Protocol Zero, its stealthy entry into the world of VR gaming
Designing for the spherical environment
Rejoignez-nous
Execution Labs launches GamePlaySpace to coalesce Montreal indie game devs
The non-profit will unite indie studios under one roof
Pay Once & Play
Apple promotes games without in-app purchases
App Store differentiation
Grinding Up
How Heroes Charge charged up the top grossing charts in Germany, Russia, Korea and the US
Power of TV advertising
Slowing Decline
Despite going majority mobile, Zynga sees 2014 revenue down 21% to $690 million
Hard year ahead
Includification
Why your games should play well with disabilities
Carter Dotson makes the moral call
Banhammer Trumps Guns
Apple bans App Store screens with characters holding guns, but not melee weapons
Enforcing 4+ age ranking on metadata
Battle Nations Saga
Expanding into new genres, King buys Z2Live for up to $150 million
Second midcore acquisition
Flash Cash
Spouting a fountain of cash, King sees 2014 sales up 20% to $2.4 billion
More players, less payers but they're paying more
Think Drink Win
4 free Pocket Gamer events at GDC 2015
Awards, Party, Big Indie Pitch and Drink Up to fulfil all your needs
Totally Unique
InMobi's network now over one billion devices strong
Mobile ad platform hits milestone
Players Not Wallets
5 monetization missteps in Midnight Star's UI
Time to streamline the flow
Vision Becomes Reality
Open Source Virtual Reality signs up 13 new partners
Partnership requests accelerate, and Academia Support Program detailed
Keep It Core
Tencent leads investment in Hammer & Chisel's Series B
Funding success fuels Citron's ambition
Cheaper Better Users
Retargeting your way to success in 2015
Don't let your players get away
Rival Realities
Has Microsoft HoloLens helped augmented reality overtake virtual reality?
Our VR Mavens discuss the impact of the new holographic headset
Small And Mighty
3 UA megatrends small devs should ride to outperform the big boys in 2015
Eric Seufert calls the changes
Oops I Did It Again
Glu's market cap rises $150 million on strong 2014 financials and the promise of Katy Perry
Overnight sensation
Awards
Monument Valley, Hearthstone and Threes among SXSW 2015 Gaming Awards finalists
'Tis the season of award-ies
Super Success
Did the $15 million spent on Super Bowl XLIX UA ads score app store success?
Post-game app store rankings revealed
Post Kardashian
Glu Mobile looks to roar with Katy Perry-themed game
Here's hoping for a Russell Brand easter egg
Cash Guzzler
Is TV advertising just for the big guys?
Josh Rinsky of Quaid Media talks about a 2015 megatrend
Vr Vision
Imangi Studios on remaking Temple Run for Gear VR
A new perspective