Big In Japan
More bad news for GREE and DeNA, but Mixi's on the up thanks to Monster Strike
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Interview
Perfect World on successfully simplifying Chinese games for western audiences
How Lies of Asaroth became Elemental Kingdoms
Pg Connects
Global game strategy, brand marketing and indie tactics to survive and thrive on the agenda at PG Connects
Plus, we deep dive into the Helsinki dev scene
Sign up for the Big Indie Pitch at E3 2014
Impress the press as well as ZQ Games, GREE and Samsung
Game Over
Israeli backend services outfit Applicasa is shutting down
Servers go dark 31 July
The Charticle
Has FarmVille 2: Country Escape planted the seeds of success?
Growing tall
Apple allows developers to give away in-app purchases via promo codes
EA's Real Racing 3 the first to benefit
Interview
Why Chorus is bringing western indie mobile games to Japan
Big, simple market is ripe for new content
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Jiri Kupiainen, Shark Punch
We've reached 'Peak Bird'
Jobs
Vungle looks to triple staff in 2014; appoints Ville Heijari to head Europe
Video ad outfit on the rise
Hot Five
Devs on the brink of murder, the truth behind loading times, and the sexual dilemma facing Candy Crush players
Last week's top five stories
Week That Was
Australia pulls video game funding, iPad shipments plummet, and lots of advice for indies
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Big Indie Pitch winner Foodo Kitchen featured by Apple
Tasty stuff
Must see mobile talks at Nordic Game 2014
We select our potential highlights
Full Indie Uk Column
Public play: 5 lessons learned from taking games out and about
Full Indie UK's Alistair Aitcheson reveals all
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: JV Chardon, HasOffers
#clones versus #originals
Nordic Game
Britain goes big: More UK businesses than ever to hit Nordic Game
It's an invasion
Start your engines: Submissions open for 2014 Unity Awards
New voting process in place
We went local and thought global at our PG Mobile Mixer in Tallinn
Thanks to Creative Mobile, AdCash and Intergame
Financials
Tencent sees Q1 2014 social mobile game sales up 200% to $290 million
WeChat and Mobile QQ drive the growth
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Arthur Chow, 6waves
The global opportunity
Cutting costs: Australian Government pulls video game funding
Trouble down under
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Blek and Minecraft fly high
5 May - 11 May, 2014
RocketCat: "We almost cancelled Wayward Souls"
And how it would’ve played as F2P
Interview
Mike Bithell: Indies, stay off of mobile until you've "built a name for yourself"
Thomas Was Alone heads to iPad
Financials
Gamevil's Q1 2014 profits up 104% to $3.7 million
A record period for the Korean publisher
"We were about to murder each other": How Real Cricket 14's devs went from despair to 1 million downloads
Indie uplift
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Patrick 'Mad' Mork
Looking to replace consoles with tablets
Making Of
Dead and loving it: The making of Wayward Souls
RocketCat on rewriting the rulebook for touchscreens
Trying to optimise ad revenue? Look beyond eCPM
Or else you're only looking at half of the picture
20 percent of mobile gamers would skip sex for Candy Crush
PlayPhone lifts the lid on its research
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Colin MacDonald, Channel 4
Broadcaster's games guru on the challenges of money
Arctic15 startup conference to boost acquisitions in the Nordic and Baltic countries
The ins and outs
Gamehorizon 2014
Angel of the north: 4 things we learned from GameHorizon
Knowledge from Newcastle
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Nathan Lutz, Cie Games
I feel like a breakout game is coming
Back together: Phone leak suggests LG looking to win with Windows Phone
Uni8 will be firm's first WP8 handset
Bag a job at Boomlagoon: Positions open up at Finnish F2P studio
On the hunt for senior programmer and 2D animator
Financials
Nexon sees Q1 2014 mobile game sales down 4% to $70 million
Accounts for 15% of overall revenue
Interview
SkyMobi CEO on why he's looking to succeed in China by publishing western casual games
Quality drives the opportunity
Moneti$er Special
Opinion: Why your game needs to load within 30 seconds
Time is power
Financials
Castle Clash boosts IGG's FY14 Q1 revenue 206% to $44.1 million
Generated $13.6 million in profits
Added flexibility with Flurry's mobile video ads gives Pocket Gems a 5x boost
Non/skippable options are key
iPad shipments suffer "sharpest ever decline" in Q1
But tablet not in trouble, says Canalys
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Ben Cousins
Ex-DeNA man now ripping it up freelance
The Charticle
Has 2048 cloned success?
A numbers game
Hot Five
Family Guy's quest for cash, Windows Phone outsells iOS, and why Rovio's new publishing label is a 'magical place'
Last week's top five stories
Join us in Malmo for our Nordic Game 2014 Mobile Mixer
Let's shake things up in Sweden
Handy Tips
5 top tips for a great indie strategy from Christopher Kassulke
Handygames, Handy tips
Discover the road to El Dorado at Game Monetisation Europe 2014
Learn money-making tips on 14-15 May
Teyon's take on breaking into the Japanese market
Understanding Japan