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.
GREE announces new partnerships, including Battle Bears dev SkyVu
There's plenty of debate concerning the wave of card-battling cards from Japanese social networks like GREE.
Maybe that's why it's keen to highlight it's signed up four US and Canadian developers who will be bringing more traditional western mobile games to the platform.
These are Battle Bears developer SkyVu, notorious Ninja Fishing developer Gamenauts, Oceanside Interactive and InfiniDy.
"GREE is committed to maximising our developers' opportunities for success through our platform technology and best practices knowledge sharing, while ensuring independence and ownership of their intellectual property," explained senior director of developer relations, Ben Chen of the benefits of using the network.
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Opinion: It's time for Nintendo to wake up and smell the digital coffeeIn the first of his two opinion pieces last week about console companies, Pocket Gamer EIC Kristan Reed took Nintendo to task.
It's finally given 3DS owners the option to buy full retail games through the eShop. Yet the first game thus available - New Super Mario Bros. 2 - costs full retail price; £39.99 in the UK.
Embarrassingly, you can get it cheaper in many retail stores.
"If the concept of value for money means anything to you at all, there's absolutely no incentive to pick up the digital version, especially given the many other disadvantages involved," Reed points out.
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Opinion: Does the Sony comeback start here?Reed is more positive when it comes to Sony, however.
Following its Gamescom press conference - revealing a solid release line up and Cross Buy feature with PlayStation 3 - he reckons both PS Vita and Sony now have an opportunity for success.
"If Sony can cling on long enough with Vita to get through to 2013's holiday period, and really ramp up Cross Buy, and follow through with a tempting price cut, then all the pieces may fall into place just in time for a injury time comeback.
"Until then, place your bets and grit your teeth. It's going to be a bumpy ride."
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Miniclip surpasses 100 million mobile game downloads
Three years ago, Miniclip was a successful Flash gaming portal. Now it's a successful Flash gaming portal and a successful mobile games publisher.
Its overall vision remains 'Gaming anytime, anywhere, any device'.
Announcing 100 million mobile downloads, the company is now targetting more and faster thanks to its cross-platform X-Port Genie technology.
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Unite 2012: Peter Molyneux reveals the 5 key ingredients to put in your development cooking potYou can always rely on Peter Molyneux for some good quotes, and that was certainly the case at the Unite 2012 conference in Amsterdam.
Giving one of the keynote talks, Molyneux spoke about the challenges of being a start up; something he's experiencing with new outfit 22Cans.
He had five key points: keep things simple; keep things delightful; try to surprise your audience; engage them; and offer them something unique.
PocketGamer.biz editor Keith Andrew also got some quality time in an extensive one-on-one interview, which you should check out here.
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