Singular vision: Zynga co-founder Schiermeyer to unite analytics and design at fresh mobile studio
Balancing the scales
The Iap Inspector
How to win at Hearthstone without handing over stacks of cash
IAPs from the players' perspective
PG Connects: Speaker videos from London event now available
Get insights from King, Rovio, Chukong, App Annie, Tencent...
Eastern promises: Chorus Worldwide aims to help developers take flight in Asia
West to East
Sponsored feature: Why Facebook app ads outperform other channels for games
Right tool for the job
Advertising Data
AppFlood sees Q1 2014 traffic up 46% but ad spend is up 62%
Android network extends reach
Ben Cousins leaves DeNA to become free-to-play consultant
Ready to go solo
Puzzle & Dragons hits Japanese arcades with real-time multiplayer mode
Prove you're the best at ¥100 a go
Increasing by a factor of 2048: Nextpeer adds 1.5 million users a day to Android multiplayer network
Team is 'racing to keep up'
Moneti$er
Variation in the dollar value of reciprocity in 15 F2P mobile games
Giving it all away?
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Heikki Repo, Cornfox & Bros
Oceanhorn developer tells us why he's keen for PG Connects
The Finnsider
The next big thing: How Supercell's former analytics ace Achrén set about firing up free-to-play
The story of Next Games
Calling All Devs
Question time: The huge summer developer survey is here and we need your views
Share your thoughts and win a ticket to PG Connects
Indie No More
Giving up going it alone: The tale of the developer who couldn't afford to be indie any more
Can the barriers to mobile development be broken?
Yodo1 and ZeptoLab are bringing Cut the Rope 2 to Kakao
Both companies going Asian
The search for mobile gaming at Coachella 2014
PG talks with Girl Talk and Krewella
Financials
In the absence of major releases, Gameloft sees Q1 FY14 sales up just 4% to $77 million
Looking to Modern Combat 5 and Asphalt Overdrive
Chart Of The Week
How Rovio’s growth stacks up against Mojang, King, and Supercell
Embattled birds
TIGA criticises PEGI's 'unreasonably high' fees as hurting small game studios
Why pay for ports?
Financials
Pause or decline? Rovio sees 2013 profits drop 51% to $37 million
Sales up 2.5% to $215 million
Mobile Mavens
Would Oculus have caught Facebook's eye without the Kickstarter kick?
And should backers get a refund?
Hot Five
Supercell called out at F2P conference, the making of Monument Valley, and does Family Guy deserve your cash?
Last week's top five stories
Charticle
Blizzard's Hearthstone shines strong in the East
But US is darker
Big In Japan
Monsters, mushrooms, meow meows and Puzzle & Dragons hits the arcade
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Promiscuous Gamer
Becalmed in mid-range grind, and surprised by Family Guy's 'Second Mexican' problem
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
Week That Was
A new age for Zynga, Microsoft formally acquires Nokia, and Kabam bullish about IPO
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Life's a beach: UKIE plans a seaside stand for Gamescom 2014
Networking on the sand
Stateside
Early access needs to be a premium proposition, not a borked beta test
Carter Dotson on following the Vlambeer model
Interview
Vungle looks to reboot mobile video ads with Vungle Exchange
It only takes 15 seconds to make a statement
One Microsoft: Elop claims "possibilities are endless" for newly acquired Nokia
Deal goes through
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Temmu Huuhtanen, Next Games
Helsinki here we come
Monetizer Special
Comparing the relative performance of Boom Beach, Frontline Commando 2, Royal Revolt 2 and HonorBound
Beyond damn lies and statistics
Interview
AppsFire on Brichter-San, its new pull-to-refresh ad solution
'Banners are dead. They just don’t know it yet'
Interview
Zynga deal goes beyond the price tag - it's about putting quality first, says Torsten Reil
NaturalMotion CEO on company synergies
F2p Summit
BRIC by BRIC: How Brazil, Russia, India and China are building F2P success
Glispa MD Tim Nilsson on the shifting balance of power
DevGAMM Moscow 2014 expands with Unity, Vlambeer, Facebook and Wargaming
For mobile and online companies on 15-16 May
F2p Summit
Player to player economies: Why mobile needs to do it, and how Hay Day did it badly
Vili Lehdonvirta of the University of Oxford explains all
Update: More big names join Frogmind, Grand Cru, King, Remedy, and Ubisoft for PG Connects
Even more big names heading to Helsinki
Guest Column
Oscar Clark on the reasons to release a paid game
F2P is not the only way
F2p Summit
How Surgeon Simulator rode the viral wave of 2.3 million YouTube videos
Bossa Studios' Roberta Lucca on being F2P without being F2P
Monetizer
Shooting for success with Frontline Commando 2
Glu brings franchise back up-to-date
Mike Bithell, Boss Alien and Twitch lead Develop in Brighton 2014's speakers list
Media Molecule, Nickelodeon, and more on board
Garden-in' & Leave
Zynga founder Pincus out, as Alex Garden becomes head of studios
New chief marketing and visual officers hired
Tough times for Zynga as Q1 2014 sales drop 36% to $168 million
Heavy losses expected to continue into Q2
Interview
PG Connects Speaker Spotlight: Nafna Games GM Nadav Barkama
Helsinki here we come
Unity to back Russian developers with launch of new Moscow office
For Russia with love
Making Of
Stairway to heaven: The making of Monument Valley
How an untypical developer made an untypical game
Pocket Gamer Connects: Developers, secure your place in the I Love Indie showcase
Indie outreach in Helsinki
TIGA announces UK Games Tax Relief Tour to explain benefits to studios
Focus on innovation and experimentation
King launches Japanese base to seize bigger piece of $5 billion smartphone gaming market
Tokyo HQ unveiled