Cloud burst: Big Fish shutters its Unlimited casual game streaming service
Costs too high, uptake too low
Newbie Mobile Gamer likes Icebreaker but thinks its IAP is 'cheating'
Truth through inexperience
Creative Mobile, TinyCo and Animoca add support for subscription-based unconsole GamePop
Android focus
Cologne Big Indie Pitch proved a love-in for devs and journalists
Thanks to sponsors Sega and Apmetrix
iOS gameplay video sharing outfit Kamcord announces 1 billion recordings
Plus additional funding brings seed round to $2.5 million
Sponsored feature: Why all game developers need to take notice of BlackBerry 10
Anders Jeppsson highlights 'fastest growing ecosystem'
Chart of the Week: Android game revenue now bigger than 3DS and PS Vita
App Annie and IDC have the breakdown
Opinion: After its initial failure, Sony's now looks to turn PS Vita into a mini-PlayStation 4
Time for a pivot
There was plenty of fizzy pop and chocolate cake at PG's Mobile Mixer in Cologne
Thanks to sponsors PapayaMobile, Immersion, Grand Cru, Everplay and King
From $60 console game to $20 iOS game in 9 months: The Making of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
The platforms they are a-changin'
Extreme Motion SDK 'motionizes' snowboarding game with Kinect-like control
Uses front-facing camera on tablet or laptop
Monetizer: Plants vs. Zombies 2
What are Crazy Dave's F2P tricks and techniques
Gameloft bringing a further 15 games to Windows Phone 8
Taking 2013's slate up to 25
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[Updated] Pocket Gamer's Ultimate GDCE and Gamescom 2013 Party Guide
From Saints Row to CCP, Rovio, and beyond
Stateside: The ethics of IAP are complex which is why the industry needs to define them
Because if we don't do it, others will
As Plants vs Zombies 2 hits 16 million downloads, EA takes FIFA 14 free-to-play
The transformation is complete
Linking fiction to action: Why touchscreen controls depend on pace, position and direction
Anna Marsh talks non-literal actions
'No one wants to be Zynga anymore': Lessons from the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer
F2P, monetisation, and is there a third platform?
Get ready for an eyeful - Oculus Rift's John Carmack working on mobile SDK
Android support coming first
Exclusive: 78% of mobile gamers spending $50+ on IAP say they've received 'their money's worth'
EEDAR survey of 3,000 reveals surprising facts
Are you an indie dev looking to make it big? Enroll in Chartboost University
It's all about the hothouse
The Charticle: A year on from relaunch, The Simpsons is EA Mobile's biggest earner
Franchise generating $100 million per year
Don't count on chat apps being the next big gaming platform, warns GameDuell
#GDCEurope KakaoTalk and co. not the answer
Make love, not metrics: Wooga on the importance of romancing the player
#GDCEurope Timo Dries talks Monster World
Will a BlackBerry buyout save its bacon?
Our Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss
Synchronous multiplayer on mobile is going down the toilet, says PerBlue
#GDCEurope CEO Justin Beck flushes out the myths
Hot Five: Windows Phone outsells iPhone, the making of Rymdkapsel, and what happened when Apple messed with the App Store
Last week's top 5 stories
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: BlackBerry's future, King's billion daily gameplays, and PopCap defends PvsZ 2's F2P model
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Social gaming and charity network Gramble closes out $5 million seed round
A real charity case
PopCap: Going free-to-play with Plants vs. Zombies 2 is worth the 'flak'
'Evil' model hasn't hindered success
Goko's new CEO on its HTML5 pivot, launching Dominion, and creating Catan for the mobile generation
Kate Connally is building a better deck
Cologne Week: 'Berlin is buzzing, but Cologne is Germany's media hub'
RockAByte on the city Gamescom calls home
Freemium first: In-app purchases to push app spending to $75 billion by 2017
Premium model to drop to 25 percent of revenue
Cologne Week: How developers can get ahead of the game in Cologne
Find your funding with AV-Gründerzentrum
Peter Relan's new incubator offers $110,000 to game devs looking to apply their smarts more widely
Deadline for first applications ends 31 August
LOGIN 2013 conference kicks off with keynote on mobile games
Running 26-27 September in SF
King hits a billion daily gameplay sessions
Papa Pear Saga is the next to go mobile
Charticle Special: What happened last week when Apple altered the App Store's top grossing algorithm?
'Refund tweak' hit some F2P games hard
Party with the cool kids in Cologne at Pocket Gamer's GDCE party
Sponsored by NativeX, Creative Mobile and Qihoo 360
Mobile advertising and analytics outfit Apsalar raises $9 million
Series B round lead by Kakao investor DCM
Nextpeer brings its iOS multiplayer SDK to Android for cross-platform play
Leveraging a network of 15 million unique users
Ad video platform Vungle raises $6.5 million
Has hosted 2 billion views since launch
Why would anyone want to play your game?
Oscar Clark questions your 'unique player proposition'
No BlackBerry bounce back as Windows Phone secures third spot in smartphone race
But Gartner claims Android still in charge
Cologne Week: Why Cologne is Germany's transmedia titan
The Good Evil on how devs can take advantage
Zynga COO David Ko handed $562,500 payoff as social giant restructures
Mattrick heralds end of firm's 'first chapter'
Monetizer: The Drowning
Looking at F2P tricks and techniques
Come along to the Pocket Gamer Big Indie Pitch in Cologne
You pitching apps, the press watching, Sega sponsoring
Amazon adds push notifications to its iOS and Android email and text service
Fire out one million a month for free
Cologne Week: How Cologne plans to step out of Gamescom's shadow
Indie outfit Nurogames reveals all