Samsung bada Launch - Live Blog
Live from Vinopolis in London for the launch of Samsung's new application portal
The reason iPhone game developers are becoming digital retailers
If the App Store is Walmart, it's time to break out your own yard sale
Sponsored Feature: Samsung Application Store Developer Challenge 2009 open for entries
Win up to $100,000 for your working application
Opinion: Black Friday is more Mass Teen Fainting than a business model
What happens when the Beatles arrive in town?
Opinion: Does mass Peggling work?
Lessons from Konami's experiment
Roll for success: The making of 10 Balls 7 Cups and its remaking as Skee-Ball
The name of the game
Aurora Feint's Relan: free-plus-paid VSL won't nickel and dime players
Pay 99c for level/item pack or just play harder
Greystripe: Price deflation is driving the uptake of in-app advertising
Monthly revenues of $10k per app claimed
Ideawork's Closs: We're excited to see what the indies do with Airplay
New licensing deal will see creativity blossom
Enter Brain Ment is kickstarting Berlin iPhone game development
Game design graduates hit the ground running
Epic quest: The making of Zenonia
When iPhone went role-playing
Opinion: Five principles for designing iPhone achievements, awards, and trophies
How to avoid frustration and reward skilled gameplay
Exclusive: How Chillingo's social networking platform Crystal will be seamless for gamers and developers
Usability and quality are key
Red Rocket's Jung Suh on becoming a cross-platform publisher
All about sparking unexpected combinations
Exclusive: Chillingo on why Crystal will outdo the competition and take social networking one step further
Theres a new contender for the social gaming crown
One-man band: Glenn Corpes on how old skool tricks kept Ground Effect under 10MB
Twenty years of programming nous compressed
Lima Sky's Pusenjak: Free-plus-paid will shake up the App Store charts
This is huge on so many levels
Build it and they will play: The making of Fieldrunners
Miniaturise your vision to think big...
Glu on Java and BREW, App Store's $4.99 sweet spot, and gunning for Facebook
Everything to play for
Scoreloop's Gumpinger on deep integration, white label solutions, and making money from free services
Will even offer co-ownership of player data
Com2uS: 30 percent of Korean mobile gamers will pay for micro transactions
Publisher will be bring free-plus-paid MMOG to App Store
Pangea's Greenstone: We won't be releasing free-plus-paid games
Our apps will always be in the Paid list
Backflip's Farrior: Free-plus-paid will make free the new 99c
More yield for developers and less initial commitment for users
App Store Analysis: US Top 100 dances to the beat of Tap Tap Revenge 3
Glu charts with Family Guy and Super KO Boxing 2
Debutant Szymon Masiak on why his beat-'em up Revenge of the Mad John isn't 99c
Even $1.99 is lower than he thinks it should be priced
Gaming trends: Are we at the end of the line-drawing genre?
The future that Firemint sketched
Trip Hawkins reckons Apple's new free-plus-paid model is 'very important'
DChoc will definitely be releasing such titles
Tag's Farley: Micro-transactions in free games could result in a premium App Store by default
Will everyone shift their 99c games into the Free chart?
Gamevils Kyu: Micro-transactions in free games will increase App Store ARPU
Publisher is waiting for intermediate currency and sub-99 cents charges
Four Door Lemon on the answers to the App Store's quiz
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ICS Mobile on credit crunch, credit card funding, and taking on the tower defense genre
Will it be third time lucky?
Opinion: In-app transactions for free apps will be the death of a thousand cuts for some developers
Even 99c is a better model than free
Hands-On Mobile on being a PSP Mini launch publisher
Also planning DSiWare debut
ustwo: We need upside from our App Store work-for-hire projects
Shifting sands of the commercial environment
Vivid's Koscielny: Low cost countries have an advantage when it comes to 99c games
Polish developer not so keen on Android or J2ME though
ustwo on its first 48 hour game and a 5,750 sales break-even point
It's breaking the futility of develAPPment
Bolt Creative's Castelnuovo: Combining Flash assets with custom code would be ideal
Adobe's Notus is only the first step
Distinctive's Little: Flash games will dominate the 99c price range
Another reason to go upmarket?
Opinion: Ten simple steps for App Store success
If you're not doing these, don't bother with the game
BlueskyNorth on Fickleblox - a launch iPhone Flash game
Notus is the secret sauce
ustwo: Native Flash will be great for iPhone prototypes but not for apps
Performance and API access are obstacles
One-man band: From Rockstar Games to Low Five Games
With greater creative control comes greater responsibility
Opinion: It's a micro-transactional tipping - or tapping - point
Tap Tap Revenge 3 and Pocket God going for gold
Offerpal make the connection between offers and surveys, and in-app currency
Generating 30 percent of gpsAssassin's revenue
How to charge for App Store upgrades
New features shouldn't be free argues Markus Nigrin
Trip Hawkins on how Bo Jackson inspired Digital Chocolate's NanoVerse
Several games already in development
Backflip on 11 million downloads, $1 million sales, and the power of in-app advertising
Taking a portfolio approach
Freeverse: Our publishing expertise is attractive to developers
Providing a competitive advantage
App Store Analysis: Top 10 goes 99c, while EA's FIFA and Madden dominate $10 pricing
Top 100 is being forced in opposing directions
Gaming trends: The episodic App Store
Whatever happened to little and often?