Hot Five: Mobile marketing mistakes, Temple Run 2's money worries, and how to make it big in China
Last week's top five stories
Winter Nights 2013: China's app market could grow 10-fold, reckons i-Free
#wnconf But the 200 app stores need to consolidate
Winter Nights 2013: Buy better quality mobile game installs 40% cheaper via Facebook
#wnconf Power of new mobile ad units
Winter Nights 2013: We're looking to publish very casual games, reveals Rovio
#wnconf But still no formal announcement of plan
Winter Nights 2013: Big Fish's mobile F2P business grew 275% in 2012
#wnconf Three games generating $4 million per month
Winter Nights 2013: Russian dev-powered Chillingo drives revenues from carriers, Android
#wnconf Boom times
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Handheld woes, the ultimate guide to mobile games PR, and Temple Run 2 not quite top of the pops
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
Sale now on: PocketGamer.biz tablet market report sees price slashed
£20 off slate briefing
Winter Nights 2013: User acquisition trends; from pricing, to decline of the charts' organic power, and rise of Facebook
#wnconf Thoughts from the panel
Handhelds to become 'niche devices for core gamers' by 2016, reports IHS iSuppli
Smartphone assault to gather pace
Konami still looking to mobile to halt decline as game revenue slips 19% to $930 million
Nine months of strife
Games on the Line messaging service generate $18 million in FY12 Q4
It now has over 105 million users
How changing Trainz Driver's app icon saw sales jump tenfold
N3V Games dishes out the stats
Winter Nights 2013: Play your game as much as possible, says Supercell
#wnconf Advice from Clash of Clans
Party with Pocket Gamer at Mobile World Congress
Playphone and Ludei Barcelona bound
China spotlight: RedAtoms CEO David Liu on the need for bold steps
It's still in the infant stage
Opinion: PS Vita's big room experiences at odds with portable play's new wave
Take on the tablet, not the console
Ouya creators promise annual hardware revisions
And engagement rankings to aid discovery
ARMA dev: Project Shield's success depends on competitive pricing
But device opening doors for PC studios
Android-powered Atlas unconsole adds support for Unity, Marmalade and Corona SDK
Building developer appeal
The who, what, why and when of mobile games PR, by Freyja Melhorn of swordfish PR
A public relations 101
Mexico spotlight: Inode Entertainment's 200 million download success on Nokia Store
Plenty of life in the Java dog yet
PS Vita's 'slow penetration' forces Sony to cut sales projections for third time
7 million handhelds to be sold in FY2012
40 million gamers strong, MoMinis rebrands as PlayScape
Platform outfit hungry for growth
Com2uS on energerising the Korean mobile games market with KakaoTalk social network
Viral distribution platform targets 66 million users
Chillingo unveils online indie dev resource '100% Indie'
Partners with Samsung
Crowd pleasing: AppStori to offer devs 'thousands of dollars' in rewards
Crowdfunding platform signs up Amazon
Infographic: What do western devs need to know to make it in China?
Tracking the mobile revolution in the east
Neon Play on the hunt for UK talent
Are you a Unity or LAMP master?
Gold rush: Amazon to spark user spending spree with new Kindle Fire virtual currency
Amazon Coins is go
Chart of the Week: The hard value of cloud gaming services predicted
Fluffy around the edges?
Opinion: If games retail were an animal, we'd have put it out of its misery by now
Don't feel sorry for the dying beast
Miniclip on the hunt for talent in the UK and Portugal
Roles on offer in Lisbon and London
Glu looks to fill its channels with new publishing initiative
Has also invested in casino start up Bee Cave
2012 sales up 32% to $87.5 million but still no sign of profits for Glu Mobile
The more things change....
Zynga struggles with declining user base as 2012 losses narrow to $209 million
Growing pains become shrinking pains
Russian F2P publisher Game Insight raises $25 million
Means more titles, faster global expansion
Boom times for Com2uS with 2012 profits up 393% to $19 million
Sales up 112% to $72 million
Develop in Brighton 2013 announces call for speakers
Apply now to take to the stage 9-11 July 2013
Stateside: Participation adds value, so why lock people out by charging for play?
Wormhole Games reveals all
PocketGamer.biz briefing: Your free guide to claiming R&D tax credits
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GREE, Zynga, Spry Fox and Capy all confirmed for GDC 2013
Dozens of mobile speakers to speak at San Fran
The ten commandments of app marketing, by Appromoter MD Ed Vause
#7 Thou shalt avoid these 6 prelaunch mistakes
What HeroCraft's learned from 10 years of mobile game development
Moving from hard knocks to a new strategy
Game on: Unity announces support for BlackBerry 10
The secret is out
CEO Fred Wester on why hardcore PC outfit Paradox is coming to tablets
Expects mobile to be 10% of sales by 2014
GREE-ification complete: Last OpenFeint exec Eros Resmini leaves for mysterious meta start up role
Hooks back up with Peter Relan
Kongregate launches $10 million mobile games publishing fund
Former Zynga GM to manage mobile push
The Charticle: Temple Run 2 is mobile's fastest growing game, but how's it monetising?
Your weekly app store analysis
Storm8 CEO Perry Tam on how the social mobile outfit is playing the long game
3 years on, its first game remains top grossing