Deal
Bandai Namco partners with Roadhouse for new western-focused mobile RPG
Bubbling up in Vancouver
Week That Was
Space Ape raises $7M, Monster Strike bests Puzzle & Dragons, and should wearables be subsidised?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Opinion
Why the continued rise and rise of mobile gaming is not guaranteed
What goes up...
Promising to revolutionise your data, Omniata launches Data Apps
Promises to "go beyond data"
Disney reacts to F2P concerns with subscription tie-in for Club Penguin Puffle Wild
Subscribers get everything for free
Solving UA: Pocket Gems hopes its Night at the Museum game will ride third movie's coattails to success
Hidden Object game out now
Opinion
Why it pays to pay attention to retention
AppLovin's CPO Mark Rosner on a metric to monitor
Jobs
GREE is looking for a director of engineering
Level up its RPG studio in San Francisco
Why OEMs, game devs and health companies should combine to make wearables a success
Businesses might need to pay for our wearables if they want to make money from them
Jobs
Vainglory looks to Twitch, hiring George 'Zekent' Liu as video community manager
Building community
Jobs
PlayQ is looking to hire a creative director
Sunny Santa Monica is calling you
Deal
APM deals brings hundreds of thousands of music tracks to Unity Asset Store
Top quality audio at accessible prices
Stateside
With the right attitude, indie game developers can still be successful on mobile
Carter Dotson on cracking the conundrum
Opinion
How rethinking a 5 year-old game in the context of a clone led to Impossible Hex
William Volk on the interaction of influence for new inspiration
Charticle
A tale of two IPs: Candy Crush Soda Saga vs. Vainglory
Best of both worlds
Virtual Reality
Samsung preps Gear VR launch by dropping Note 4 price
The brains of the Gear VR headset targets US gamers in time for Christmas
Mobile Mavens
Can promotional events like Red and Black Friday drive monetisation?
Our Mavens debate charity, sales and engagement
Week That Was
Candy Crush Soda Saga goes viral, NativeX gives away $50,000, and what exactly is the point of publishers?
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Hothead, Zynga, Space Ape, 5th Planet and Pixowl amongst those F2P companies incentivising big on Black Friday
Splashing it over the Tapjoy offerwall
Jobs Board
Nonstop, HandyGames, DeNA and Not Doppler in the hunt for new talent
Positions available
Spend $50,000 on UA with NativeX and they'll spend another $50,000 for you
It's the season to give
Candy Crush Soda Saga bubbles up on 100 million Facebook feeds
Sweet smell of success across seven countries
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Niccolo de Masi
Glu CEO talks the future of mobile
Monetizer Mavens
Carrots and sticks: How F2P designers should balance wither and daily rewards
Our Monetizer Mavens talk appointment gaming mechanics
Inside The Game: Why Oliver Miao almost left gaming
Pixelberry CEO on staying to make a change
Ouya now 1,000 games strong
The unconsole thinks it still can
Opinion
Too little, too soon: Did Apple announce its Watch too early?
More questions raised than answered
Virtual Reality
Apple hiring for virtual reality project
Job posting hints at Apple's renewed interest in VR
Charticle
How successfully has Hothead's Kill Shot taken aim at top grossing charts?
Taking the shot
Hot Five
Alibaba's rumoured Com2uS move, Monument Valley IAP dissected and the end of free App Store games
Last week's top 5 stories
Reading List
Reading List: So You Want to Make Video Games? A Survival Guide
Game designer Nicholas G. Pendriis takes us from start to finish
Week That Was
Learning from Taylor Swift, Alibaba to spend big, and Nokia and Jolla both announce Android tablets
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Jobs Board
DeNA, Chartboost, Two Tails, Small Giant, Adjust and Leadbolt all hiring now
Positions open
Investment
Pushing synchronous multiplayer mobile gaming, Flow State raises $1 million
SparkLabs Global lead the round
IMGA opens its nominations for 2015
Get your game in play by 31 December
Stateside
Learning from Taylor Swift: Your game is worthless but you can give it value
Welcome to mobile gaming in 2014
How is the mobile games business changing? Make your voice heard by 23 Nov
And maybe win an iPhone 6 or Lumia 930
Studio Profile
Simply connect: How New York studio Dots learned to thrive on mobile
Connecting the dots
Apple waves goodbye to 'free' gaming by rewording download buttons
The end of an era
5 reasons Pocket Gamer Connects London 2015 is perfect for indie developers
Indie jungle, the mobile jungle, we'll help your game to thrive
Having paid out $2 million in 2014, Skillz says that its mobile eSporters aren't just kids
Growing sector
Marketing outfit Crobo opens office in China
Ther journey east
Ukie promotes UK games business in Korea at G-Star conference
Big in Busan
Data
With a conversion rate of 10%, ustwo's Monument Valley IAP has paid off
Update has driven strong top grossing performance
Jolla's crowdfunded Android compatible tablet raises over $500,000 in hours
Sailfish OS-powered hardware is go, go, go
Investment
Disruptor Beam raises $3.2 million for Star Trek Timelines and other projects
Midverse Studios and GrandBanks Capital boldly go
Moving west for talent, Gameloft opens a studio in Seattle
Going midcore
Charticle
100 million strong, but how has Angry Birds Go! found its audience on Google Play?
Checking out Angry Birds Go!, Epic, Stella and Transformers
Spacetime's MMOG Arcane Legends coming to China courtesy of Golden Gate Games
Will be culturalised for local tastes
Mobile Mavens
Was it okay for ustwo to charge for Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores?
Or should it have been a free release?