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.
Zynga looks to improve iOS retention and drive downloads with Player Love Week
Following its December IPO, Facebook gaming giant Zynga is planning a major mobile assault in 2012.
Of course, this isn't to say it's been ignoring the platform as it's already released 16 iOS games; the latest being Scramble With Friends.
But in order to further encourage its mobile (and Facebook) audience to play more on-the-go, it's launched Player Love Week. Running until next Wednesday, playing one of its mobile game will see gamers rewarded with virtual currency or virtual goods.
ZeptoLab launches HTML5-powered Cut the Rope on Internet Explorer 9
While Google has been attracting plenty of attention to Chrome, thanks in particular to its app store, Microsoft is fighting back in the ongoing browser wars.
It's done a deal with Cut the Rope developer ZeptoLab to port the hit mobile game to HTML5.
Of course, it also works on Chrome and other HTML5 browsers, but if you use Internet Explorer and pin the game to your Windows taskbar, you'll get seven levels, on top of the standard 25.
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Gameloft's free-to-play woes continue as Urban Crime unmasked as a rehash of Gangstar
Given the criticism Gameloft has received for cloning console games, it must have realised it was taking a risk when it took the map, location and objects of its paid Gangstar: Miami Vindication game, reworking them into free-to-play title Urban Crime.
The negative reaction given on iTunes and the game's failure to chart to-date suggest it wasn't a risk worth taking.
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No other handheld gaming device comes close to the PS Vita, reckons Icon's Hill-Whittall
As the PS Vita's 22 February launch in North America and Europe gets closer, so the focus of gamers and developers is shifting to whether the portable console can find success in a mobile-centric gaming world.
Developers like Icon Games Richard Hill-Whittall are certainly keen, however.
With two games ready for launch, he says, "No other handheld gaming device comes close in my opinion."
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iPad 3 in March a reality, but October launch for iPad 4 'made-up nonsense' says Daring Fireball's Gruber
Like the poor, rumours about Apple's future hardware are always with us.
At least when it comes to the next expected announcement, there appears to be a consensus forming. As reported by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, the retina resolution A6-powered iPad 3 will roll out in March, with iPad 2 reduced in price to combat the new generation of Android tablets.
As for the likelihood of iPad 4 in October, Gruber refers to that as 'completely made-up nonsense'.
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Until next week, PocketGamer.biz pickers...
