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Advertising is a major source of revenue for mobile developers, but how do you take full advantage of it without deterring players and ruining your game? James Batchelor asks experts for their advice

Ability to designate apps as ‘VR Listener’ or ‘VR Helper’, as well as ‘sustained performance’ hardware support flag, hint at greater versatility for virtual reality experiences

US retail giant GameStop has launched a publishing division called GameTrust. The firm has signed new games from well-known independent studios including Ready at Dawn (The Order: 1886), Tequila Works (Deadlite, Rime) and Frozenbyte (Trine). The company also announced in March it was working with Insomniac (Ratchet and Clank) on …

Studio Wildcard has reached a settlement agreement with Dungeon Defenders dev Trendy Entertainment. The terms of the settlement – not unusually – have not been publically released, though Studio Wildard Susan Stieglitz reportedly said on Twitter to a fan – who shared to Reddit – that the firm ended up …

Develop: Brighton board member Simon Oliver discusses the evolution of the smartphone gaming market

Japanese multimedia composer Baiyon will serve as creative producer

Joost van Dreunen suggests mobile developers should pay more attention to the TV industry

Developer Yacht Club Games has revealed just how well its indie darling has performed. The studio has revealed that between its launch in June 2014 and December 2015 the platformer sold more than 1m units in total – physical and digital. But in February, the Kickstarter game’s digital sales figures …

Team behind VR headphones preparing for production as Kickstarter campaign draws to a close

Veteran Finnish developer co-founded studios Church of Electronic Entertainment, Dreams Interactive and Chat Republic