Welcome to PocketGamer.biz's weekly rundown of the stories clocking up the hits, picking up the click-throughs and generally keeping the advertisers happy by serving up page views.
Or, if you'd prefer, the top five stories currently dominating our readers' attention.
Each week, we'll be counting down the biggest news from the previous seven days, giving just a glimpse of the industry's big issues, from five to one.
Android Market tops 10 billion downloads, offering 10 apps for 10p for next 10 days to celebrate
With Android Market celebrating 10 billion app downloads, Google's gone on a big promotional push.
This has seen a total of 100 apps reduced in price to 10c/10p across a ten day period - 10 apps daily.
Still, this download total remains less than that experienced on Apple's App Store in terms of rate, which has a lifetime daily average of 333 million downloads a day compared to 270 million for Android Market.
Tiswaz's Kevin Dent on why App Store failure can actually be a case of falling upwards
Combining two of the mobile games industry's most out-spoken characters, Kevin Dent investigated the parameters of success and failure surrounding ustwo's iOS game Whale Trail.
It's only sold 100,000 copies to-date, but Dent reckons it will accumulate 400,000 lifetime sales, also pointing out that the studio - which makes most of its money from user experience work - has gained massive PR coverage from the launch, thanks to the social presence of its co-founder mills.
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Assassin's Creed, LA Noire and Batman: Arkham City available as OnLive rolls out to iPad and Android tablets
Long expected since the service was demonstrated at Gamescom, back in August, the arrival of the OnLive streaming games service to tablets generated great consumer excitement.
However, with Apple looking likely not to approve the iPad app due to payment methods which don't use iTunes, it's looking like advantage Android in this round of the tablet gaming war.
Of course, that fits well with at least one of OnLive's investors, Android OEM HTC.
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Rovio's Vesterbacka claims Angry Birds' is the largest mobile ad network with 10 billion monthly impressions
Okay, so Rovio isn't a game developer anymore. According to its CMO Peter Vesterbaca, it's the largest mobile ad network, which doesn't sound quite as sexy.
Still, with the company revealing it has four games in development for 2012, including what's expected to be a social mobile freemium game, maybe we'll find out soon enough what the future holds for Angry Birds
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HP says it will continue to invest, support and develop webOS, but makes it open source
The top story of the week, however, was the latest to break, with HP revealing on Friday it will be open sourcing webOS.
It says it plans to continue to be active in webOS' further development and support, as well as investing in its future.
"WebOS is the only platform designed from the ground up to be mobile, cloud-connected and scalable," commended CEO Meg Whitman.
"By contributing this innovation, HP unleashes the creativity of the open source community to advance a new generation of applications and devices."
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Until next week, PocketGamer.biz pickers...
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