Hot Five: F2P games are like cheap supermarket chickens, investors claim Supercell is worth $3 billion and why The Drowning drowned
Last week's top five stories
Develop, compete, and win $100,000 in the Project Anarchy Mobile Game Dev Challenge
Havok opens doors to Project Anarchy submissions
Chart of the Week: Why you should be using interstitial ads for tablets and Android
InMobi reveals its tricks for top click-thru rates
Reading List: The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen's classic challenge for technologists
Opinion: BlackBerry's collapse could transform Canada into the next Finland
Still a talent titan
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Supercell's worth $3 billion, no one wants a cheap iPhone, and Vancouver booms
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Sponsored feature: Why Google was right to kill spammy ads and push notifications
NativeX's Rob Weber praises Android's switch to quality
A scene 'transformed': Hothead on Vancouver's turbulent transition from console to mobile
From triple-A, to downloadable, to mobile
Humility not required: iOS receives its first indie game bundle
Taking on 'seriously disjointed' app discovery
GMIC Preview: Where will mobile games go in 2014?
A look at the games and platforms that will dominate
Developers, indulge yourself: Why putting yourself at the heart of your game's design can pay off
Tim Wicksteed on avoiding narcissism
AppLift closes new $7 million funding round, hires 2 Rocket Internet MDs
Up, up, and away
Vancouver Week: East Side Games on surviving the city's downturn without going potty
Pot Farm dev on why the studio is staying put
It takes two: Former Zynga exec Todd Arnold joins Tango
Ville leader's hire part of a broader strategy
GMIC Preview: How to acquire, retain and monetise mobile gamers
Top execs to give their insight at GMIC
How to make money from your players when they're not even playing
TrialPay on taking advantage of the offline opportunity
Creative Mobile and Halfbrick line up to talk games at 10th Mobile VAS & App conference
All happening 21-22 November in St Petersburg
User retention to be put under the microscope at GDC Next
Kixeye to talk 'sticky science'
Going nowhere: You can continue to 'count on us', BlackBerry tells customers
Giant looks to calm consumer fears
Got £10 to spare? Become a shareholder in GamesGrabr's social network
Investing in the future
Vancouver Week: GREE on setting up in the city where competition meets co-operation
Steve Lin on the city's sense of community
GMIC Preview: What the $1.5 billion investment in Supercell means for mobile gaming
Segerstrale to discuss funding strategies on 22 Oct
Stateside: F2P needs to earn the player's trust to unlock longterm success, says DragonVale's Backflip
Playing the long game
Guerilla warfare: The making of Killzone: Mercenary
Old franchise meets new format
Monetizer: Is Clash of Clans setting the standard for in-game currency conversion?
Gameloft, GREE and Chair following the pattern
Report: Weaker than expected demand causes Apple to cut iPhone 5C orders
Some component orders cut by 50%
Calling indie devs: Pitch your games to the press in London on 23 Oct
Vserv, GameSparks and Creative Skillset on board
Vancouver Week: Why mobile matters in Canada's capital of creativity
The city that saw off a slump and soared
Future Games of London and Gameloft lead mobile charge at TIGA Awards 2013
Game of the Year voting now open
Peak Games drives usage with connected Facebook-mobile multiplayer strategy
Doing a King
Google, Microsoft, AppAnnie and Flurry bound for Live Mobile! In Moscow this November
Game Insight set to play host
We're a mobile-first company, but Facebook is still half our revenue says Wooga CEO
Making the most of platforms' synergies
Inode hits 300 million downloads from Nokia Store
Mexican developer now also looking to Windows Phone
Chop Chop Ninja slices his way into TV animation
Canadian hook up
Headed to Kiev for Casual Connect? Join us, AppFlood and App Annie for a Mobile Mixer
We invite you to Think. Drink. Connect on 23 October
Microsoft hints at cross-platform play between Xbox One and smartphones
How to follow Halo: Spartan Assault
GMIC Preview: MySpace co-creator Chris DeWolfe on the new royals of gaming
Industry icon talks monster hits
Cheap, but not so cheerful: iPhone 5S outselling 5C by 2 to 1 in US
But is that so bad?
The Charticle: 2 million downloads not enough to stop The Drowning sinking
When a hit isn't really a hit
Opening windows: Microsoft pushes out major Windows Phone update to devs
Bigger display support and app closing on offer
OFT's kids games principles all about 'building confidence with parents', says games lawyer
Charles Russell LLP's Jaclyn Wilkins reveals all
Candy crusher: How to beat the App Store's frozen charts and win
The Mobile Gaming Mavens on discovery in the digital age
Hot Five: Plants vs. Zombies 2 is 'painful', Puzzle & Dragons powers past the competition in Japan, and how to translate your game in 5 simple steps
Last week's top five stories
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: King's job app, Nintendo clones flood the Windows Store, and the psychology of free-to-play
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Monetizer: Dragon Realms
Looking at GREE's F2P tricks and techniques
Chart of the Week: 7.3% of Danes have downloaded DragonVale
After 2 years, Backflip breaks out the infographic
Unity 4.2.2 adds support for iOS 7 game controllers
It's time to Call Input.GetJoystickNames()
Aiming free-to-play games at kids is like selling supermarket chickens for £2
F2P Summit ends with a heated debate
Newbie Mobile Gamer on weeds and stupidity in Plants vs Zombies 2
Truth through inexperience
Fishlabs polishes Galaxy on Fire: Alliances with 30,000 iOS beta testers
Expect something very shiny in early 2014