Promiscuous Gamer
Three crazy - and not always in a good way - Japanese games come west
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Week That Was
Hearthstone takes the chill off Blizzard's Q1, King harnesses the power of 143m DAUs, and GungHo's sales rise 62%
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Opinion
Nintendo can steer its ship back on course without moving on mobile, and here's how
The giant's two-pronged strategy just might work
Stateside
Stateside: Why choose between F2P and Premium when you can have both?
An unnecessary choice
Nintendo branded "behind the times" as Tomodachi Life furore builds
Giant is "purposefully limiting players' relationships"
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Neil Rennison, Tin Man Games
The indie scene couldn't be stronger
Big In Japan
Colopl and GungHo post impressive financials, while 3 media giants combine to Reinforce
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Interview
Amazon: People shouldn't have to pay $500 just to play games in the living room
Catering to an audience of millions
Digital Dragons 2014
Orcs eat birds? Success with casual games too much of a "lottery" on mobile, says Gameforge CEO
'Too difficult to break into'
Deal
Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium rebranded as Kabam Field
Getting the name out there
Big Indie Pitch
The sweet taste of victory: Foodo Kitchen wins the Krakow Big Indie Pitch
Popular in Poland
The Iap Inspector
How to wheel and deal in Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
IAPs from the players' perspective
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Corey King, ZenFri Inc
Clandestine: Anomaly man on future visions
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Leo's Fortune topples Agent 47
28 April – 4 May, 2014
Gamehorizon 2014
Jagex: We "weren't brave enough" to really make it on mobile
Sacrifice your sacred cows, says CEO Gerhard
Gamehorizon 2014
Want to reach kids? Forget Facebook, it's all about YouTube
Super Awesome on the challenge of children
Top Trader
Games-trading marketplace app Jiggster hits Android
Looking to help evolve games retail
Interview
We're very enthusiastic about Diner Dash 10, says Glu CEO de Masi
Context of $16.5 million acquisition revealed
King's profits jump 142% in Q1, riding high on Candy Crush and 143m DAUs
Record quarterly mobile gross bookings reported
Hearthstone helps offset sagging profits as Activision Blizzard's digital business booms
Digital sales make up over a third of quarterly revenue
Data
SuperData: China's $3 billion mobile games market will eclipse US soon
US leads on conversion, China wins on ARPPU
Gamehorizon 2014
Mark Rein: Publishers "less willing to take risks", but they're still a viable option for indies
Epic man speaks out at GameHorizon panel
Hall Of Fame
Hall of Fame: Scott Foe
The challenge of the infinitely replayable game
Nintendo vows return to profitability as giant confirms $229 million loss in 2013
Weak sales pile pressure on Iwata
Sponsored feature: How the Israel Mobile Summit 2014 is uniting mobile's brightest and best
4 years and counting
Gamehorizon 2014
Disrupt or die: NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil on My Horse's ride to 35 million downloads
CEO takes to the stage at GameHorizon
Making Of
Eastern monetisation meets Western UX: The making of Heroes of Honor
Henric Suuronen on Nonstop Games' debut
UKIE to host student and indie conference at Staffordshire University
One day event on 20 May
Nintendo automatically pushed F2P game to 3DS systems via SpotPass
A captive audience
Oculus: 'John Carmack did not take any intellectual property from ZeniMax'
No stolen code identified in SDK
Interview
GameLoop: You shouldn't have to be Facebook friends with someone to play with them
Focus on your gaming persona
Helping hand: App Annie launches 2 free services to help devs overcome 'mobile's biggest challenges'
Advertising Analytics and App Store Optimisation are go
Investment
Ex-Rovio team Boomlagoon raises $3.6 million for F2P character-driven gaming
Northzone leads the round
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Oren Todoros, Plarium
Plarium's marketeer on distribution, engagement, monetization
Level up: Rovio announces new publishing label LVL11
Looking to do things outside Angry Birds
Interview
"LVL11 is a kind of magical place": Jami Laes talks Rovio's new publishing label
Going to the next level
Interview
Perfect World CEO Robert Xiao on its 'balanced transition' to mobile games
Mobile games will not destroy PC market
Mobile Mavens
Firing blanks: Is there any hope for the FPS on mobile?
Our Mavens debate
Interview
A lot can happen in a quarter of a millisecond: deltaDNA on the power of real-time analytics
You've got to think fast
The Charticle
Did Family Guy's quest for cash push it to the top of the charts?
Simpsons successor?
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Alexander Krug, Softgames
Go HTML5 or die!
Hot Five
Former Supercell man aims to fire up F2P, how to win at Hearthstone, and the indie who couldn't afford to be indie
Last week's top five stories
Apple's 30% in-app purchase cut criticised as Comixology pulls IAPs on iOS
Android version also impacted
Week That Was
FTL dev not fond of iOS, Glu acquires Diner Dash pub PlayFirst, and Rovio's profits are put on pause
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Hook up with Julian Gollop, Jason Della Rocca and the PlayStation open day at Digital Dragons
Not forgetting the Pocket Gamer Big Indie Pitch
Pg Connects
4 reasons why Pocket Gamer Connects is ideal for indies
I heart Helsinki
TIGA: More than 4,600 jobs to be created in UK games industry in next 5 years
Survey points the way to strong growth
Infographic
The 24 countries where Windows Phone is outselling iOS
Fortumo reveals the spots
'We don't really like developing on iOS,' admits FTL dev team
Justin Ma says studio is PC 'at heart'
Exclusive
Weekly UK App Store Game Charts: Hitman and Spider-Man team up to hit top
Our new exclusive charts courtesy of Apple