Sf Merry-go-round
Storm8's Dan Scheidegger joins Scopely as general manager of casual games
Reaching broad audiences
Watch
Liam Neeson takes over Super Bowl for Supercell's $9 million Clash of Clans ad
Selling mobile games requires a very specific set of skills
Turn Up To 11
Wargaming.net rocks out with Vevo sponsorship deal
Tanks can't blitz if they don't have a rocking playlist
Looking Forward
VR has a future, but it's not the future
Does the future look cool?
Market Trends
Losing up to 300 jobs, Sega Sammy restructures for mobile and online
Moving from San Francisco
Woods Vs Trees
App stores are dying as a source of organic discovery
Zombie apps are taking over
Future Earnings
Why it's significant Kabam has gifted all The Hunger Games' players $0.14
Switch from monetisation to retention
Extreme Ua
Supercell and uCool battle for a Super Bowl XLIX advertising victory
Clash of Clans vs Heroes Charge
Touchdown Or Sacked?
Should you advertise your mobile game during the Super Bowl?
GrowMobile CEO Brendan Lyall ponders a Hail Mary
Long View
Despite dialling back short-term growth, Kabam's sales hit $400 million in 2014
Tweaking for success
Accelerate
Execution Labs reveals new international line-up, including PewDiePie game
Montreal braces for intense game development program
Pewdie-mario
Nintendo opens entente cordiale with YouTubers through advertising share program
New beta program live
Hallel-ouya
Ouya now boasts Unreal Engine 4 support
Good things come to those who wait
Maus Up To 160 Million
EA Mobile's FY15 Q3 sales down 1% to $121 million
SimCity BuildIt is building it
Sore Thumbs
Average time spent playing mobile games now over two hours a day
Kids play, adult pay
Holo-gaming
Will Microsoft's HoloLens trump the VR competition or fall on its ambition?
Did virtual reality just become obsolete?
Panel Work
How Loveshack found a new order with iOS hit Framed
Non-linear progression
Growing On Controversy
Thanks to #Gamergate, Feminist Frequency's 2014 revenue was boosted 600%
Anita Sarkeesian prepares for 2015
On The Up
Cost of a loyal iOS user rose to $2.10 in December
Peaks and troughs
The Insider
FunPlus hires Greg Essig
Takes head of business role
Options For All
What can you learn from Crossy Road's smart monetization layers?
Like Flappy Bird but with revenues
On The Box
Quaid Media Burst TV promises a mobile gaming UA goldrush
Driving user acquisition, one ad break at a time
Off The Grid
New Fortumo SDK allows offline in-app purchases
Who needs internet anyway?
Chart Of The Year
Are CPI costs really rising?
Yes, but it depends on the UA channel
Crystal Ball
Facebook will consolidate UA dominance in 2015 with 1 billion monthly mobile users
eMarketer forecasts $11 billion of ads
Bay Area Switch
Storm8 hires Zynga's VP of product Pablo Paniagua
Aggressive hiring continues
Flying High
After B funding round, AppsFlyer is $20 million stronger
San Francisco firm take funding total to $28 million
Twitch Time
Mobile game devs need to take advantage of Twitch, says EEDAR's Patrick Walker
Clash of Clans ranked 43 out of 2,800
Wonky Vision
Google Glass: The explorer is lost, maybe forever
Time to reboot
Listen Hard
Somethin' Else on the power of spatial audio to streamline UX
Less talking, more shooting
Top Draw
Banner Saga, Papers, Please, and Sentinels of the Multiverse were highest-reviewed games of Q4 2014
Critically acclaimed
Midwest Move
Glu exec Matt Ricchetti abandons San Francisco for PerBlue's Midwest
West coast blues
Rotten Apples?
Is a blue shell inbound for Apple?
Carter Dotson on a decline in standards
Old Ties
Riccitiello-isation of Unity begins with new CFO
Ex-EA man Mike Foley welcomed into the fold
Console Revenge
GDC report reveals dip in US developer interest on mobile as consoles rebound
Power of the boxes
Into The Fire
DeltaDNA opens doors of new San Francisco office, and announces new hires
California calls for the Scottish analytics company
Paid To Watch
Crossy Road rakes in $1 million on iOS with Unity's incentivised video ads
Inspired by Disco Zoo
Acquisitions
Kabam buys TapZen and Magic Pixel Games
Will be merged into new Los Angeles studio
Fear, Tragedy & Timing
Inside The Game: How bullying came to High School Story
Pixelberry's CEO on the start of an idea
Government
UK government wants to crack down on app regulation
David Cameron wants to ban WhatsApp and iMessage
Virtual Reality
Sixense picks up CES awards for virtual reality controller
Pegs mobile as the way forward for VR
Appointed
Bandai Namco America hires EA Mobile vet Jeferson Valadares
New man in charge of games
Next Step
Behaviour on coming to triple-A mobile with HOME, Pro Feel Golf and Zombie Farm
Exec Jimmy Gendron on plans for 2015
Virtual Reality
Leap Motion announces 3D Jam winners, expands prizes to top 20 winners
VR input specialist reveals 'innovative and compelling' experiences
Resurrected
Behaviour Interactive steps up to mobile, acquiring Zombie Farm IP
Canadian dev enters new market
Gizmos
Best gaming tech from CES 2015
Hot tech surprises from this year's show
Looking Good
The early pioneers of VR have the best opportunity to win big, says Oculus' Rubin
Strike while the VR iron is warming
Jobs
Seriously mines Rovio, Supercell and Fox talent in recruitment drive
Best Fiends dev scales up
Stateside Optimism
After a stagnant 2014, Carter Dotson is hoping for creativity to reign in 2015
Kill the clones
Busy Week
Apple App Store smashes revenue records in first week of 2015
Apple has set the bar high for this year