Ustwo's mills on rejecting freemium and spending £100,000 developing a premium 69p game
Whale Trail won't fail
The PG.biz Hot Five: Nintendo's phone dilemma, Android will eat itself, and Union wants to make Unity developers millionaires
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PG.biz week that was: Google buys Motorola, HP drops webOS, HTC sues Apple, EA, Digital Chocolate and Zynga buy studios, and Richard Garriott's back, going mobile
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Anomaly Warzone Earth, Aces 3D Brick Breaker, Flick Soccer!
Critically acclaimed
Opinion: Nintendo investors right to urge iOS development, but for the wrong reasons
Time to prepare for the future
Learning from MySpace's failure: Tag Games' Simon Adams on avoiding freemium apathy
Sidestepping 'band spam'
Updated: Mario perfect for mobile, but developers question whether now is the right time for Nintendo's smartphone assault
Investors out on a limb?
Opinion: Android will eat itself: Why Google-Motorola deal is great news for Nokia
Like Saturn devouring his son
The PG.biz Hot Five: Apple gets legal (again), VegasTowers doing $40 per IAP, and titanic Tegra turning round fortunes at Nvidia
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Analysis: What ratios tell us about the relative performance of EA-Gameloft, Gamevil-Com2uS and DeNA-GREE
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PG.biz week that was: Apple stops Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch, VegasTowers' average IAP is $40, Spacetime gives away $330k, and Rovio could be worth $1.2B
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Why app store incompatibilities ended up with Spacetime Studios giving away $330,000 of in-game currency
Barriers to a universal wallet
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Wooords, Cordy, Mega Mall Story
Critically acclaimed
Dancing to a different beat: The making of Pulse: Volume One
Radial lines
PlayScreen's William D. Volk approves of gamification but thinks we can do better
Grind doesn't have to be the game
Capcom is the fastest growing mobile company, but DeNA remains the most impressive
Good news too for EA, Gameloft, Gamevil and Glu
The PG.biz Hot Five: Glu buy studios, then waves goodbye to execs, plus Storm 8 rebuffs Zynga interest with $1 billion valuation
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PG.biz week that was: Storm8 might be worth $1b, Mork's off to Google, Amazon's in the doghouse, while Glu buys 2 studios and axes key execs
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Groove Coaster and Cut the Rope: Experiments
Critically acclaimed
All the world's a stage: The making of Shadow Cities
The layer beneath
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on whether there are any options beyond freemium
Is grind really all there is?
Spilt Milk's Smith on how to make the most of game conferences
Evolve versus arrested development
The PG.biz Hot Five: Pachter gets punched, the fuel behind the rise of freemium, and social gaming gets re-evaluated by Grand Cru
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PG.biz week that was: 3DS sales stall prompts price slash, freemium rolling in the revenue, Suda 51 goes social and Pachter gets KO'ed
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Zynga Poker, Deadlock: Online
Critically acclaimed
Appy's Paul O'Connor on taking Trucks & Skulls from premium to freemium
Free and back again
The PG.biz Hot Five: Rovio's rummage for fresh IP, Gameloft's sliding working conditions, and argument for 'flexible pricing' for apps
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The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate whether mobile ecosystems are becoming restrictive
In the shadow of The Open And Free App Movement
PG.biz week that was: Top Tapjoy Android game makes $150k/m, Unity raises $12m, Rovio looks to 1 billion fans, and is freemium evil?
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Reckless Getaway, Paper Munchers, Kard Combat
Critically acclaimed
Mobile Pie's Will Luton says Android ain't no gold rush, but there's still money in them there hills
The wild frontier
Report: Angry Birds' effect: Why Helsinki is the hot spot for mobile start ups
Experience, finance and confidence driving activity
The PG.biz Hot Five: Levine's not a fan, Zynga buys again, Tapjoy loves Android, Kiip's disruptive, while Apple's hiking UK App Store prices
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PG.biz week that was: EA's $1.35B PopCap buyout, UK App Store prices bumped up, Android loses favour with developers and Steel Media swoops for AppSpy
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Jack of All Tribes, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer
Critically acclaimed
iOS developers on Apple's decision to hike App Store prices in UK
Bringing the UK in line, or likely to damage sales?
MobileBeat 2011: Microtransactions will continue to be mobile's money maker
Count the coins
World of Goo, Sword & Sworcery, and First Touch Soccer are the top-reviewed iPhone games of Q2 2011
Critical acclaim
PlayScreens William D. Volk asks is Nokia the MySpace of mobile?
It's even failing when it succeeds
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the value of developing games for niche platforms
Is iOS, Android and Windows Mobile all there is?
The PG.biz Hot Five: Console studios go mobile, the fundamentals of freemium, and Zynga, Zynga, and more Zynga
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PG.biz week that was: Freemium games hit 65%, HTC ships 11M, Tapjoy raises $30M, and Steve Jobs isn't Patrick Mork's dad
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games DeathSmiles, Async Corp.
Critically acclaimed
Distinctive's Nigel Little on designing mobile games for freemium success
Balancing download volume with IAP density
The PG.biz Hot Five: RIM in ruins, Infinity Blade's ode to IAPs, and PS Vita whips up a storm
Last week's top five stories
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the potential of HTML5, WebGL and Project Spartan
The rise of web gaming?
PG.biz week that was: Zynga's $1 billion IPO, Infinity Blade's $9 million profit, Android's up to 500k devices daily, while RIM's in exec meltdown
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Hard Lines, Continuity 2: The Continuation
Critically acclaimed
Five seemingly contradictory things we learned from GameHorizon 2011
Sturm und drang
PapayaMobile's Si Shen on how mobile gaming could be more viral
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