The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on their New Year's Resolutions
No XVGA jokes, we promise
2011 in review: Ville Vesterinen, CEO, Grey Area
Location, location, location... and relax
2011 in review: Giordano Contestabile, franchise business director, PopCap Games
It's been about scale. Next year, we'll need to be better
2011 in review: Tomas Slapota, co-CEO, Madfinger Games
Pushing for triple-A quality in 2012
2011 in review: Gary Gattis, CEO, Spacetime Studios
Play with anyone, anywhere, anytime
2011 in review: Efim Voinov, CTO, ZeptoLab
Extending the Cut the Rope, and more
2011 in review: Josh Presseisen, creative director, Crescent Moon
Having to deal with the rise of IAP
2011 in review: Peter Farago, VP, Marketing, Flurry
Charting the rise of the mobile games business
2011 in review: Mike DeLaet, VP, Sales & Marketing, Glu Mobile
Riding the Android rocket to profitability
2011 in review: Bart Decrem, GM, Disney Mobile
Riding the Android, freemium wave for the first billion
2011 in review: Rob Weber, SVP, W3i
How Amazon is shaking up the industry
2011 in review: Jon Jordan, PocketGamer.biz
There are no users in this industry
2011 in review: Keith Andrew, PocketGamer.biz
Expects solid Windows Phone growth in 2012
2011 in review, Matt Gilman, PocketGamer.biz
Freemium games need legitimate gameplay
Finland focus: Investing early is risky, but the right team reduces that risk, reckons Lifeline Ventures' Petteri Koponen
Finnish incubator outlines its mandate
Finland focus: Housemarque's Sami Koistinen on the move to iOS and spending 8,441 hours making Furmins
Developer doing it for itself
Finland focus: Frozenbyte's Mikael Haveri on the long road of hard lessons bringing its first iOS title Splot to launch
Console-based Trine dev enters the mobile ring
Finland focus: Tuokio's Jouni Salonen explains its on-device multiplayer game focus
Playing with real friends
Finland focus: Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen on the advent of social gaming 2.0
'Our approach to 'social' is pretty different'
Finland focus: Grey Area's Ville Vesterinen on taking Shadow Cities to the world stage
Singapore and US coasts are up biggest communities
Finland focus: Ovelin's Mikko Kaipainen on how its debut WildChords teaches guitar to the masses
Game solution to a musical problem
Finland focus: Sandbox freemium play is difficult but possible reckons Grand Cru's Markus Pasula
Overcoming the problem of fun
Finland focus: 10tons' Vice CEO Sampo Töyssy on gaining 'relatively good' sales from webOS
Kindle Fire presents discoverability challenge
Nexage's Victor Milligan on outperforming the mobile ad market with clients like Rovio and Backflip
Nexage on outperforming the mobile ad market
WildTangent's Sean Vanderdasson on why its curated and rental game service is ideal for Android
Great games, flexible access
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on OnLive's ability to disrupt the mobile games industry
Pushing the right buttons?
Arash Keshmirian on combining the desire to feed core gamers' appetites with Limbic's burning need to explore new worlds
It's not camping down on Zombie Gunship
Magmic's Troy Johnson on how BlackBerry's share is growing, not shrinking, and why HTML5 is a false prophet
Teaching the old dog new tricks
Apsalar CEO Michael Oiknine on providing developers with a causal link between in-game behaviour and revenue
Making the most of data and analysis
Concentrating on one device when developing across iPhone and iPad leads to better games, reckons 36peas' Gareth Jenkins
Design suffers when you mix-and-match
YetiZen's Sana Choudary on its unparalleled game-focused start up accelerator program
Now open for March intake
Fiksu CEO Micah Adler on why its incentivised download site FreeMyApps is good for free apps and paid games
Download free stuff, get paid games for free
Nokia on Windows Phone will draw consumers away from Android and BlackBerry, reckons Chaotic Moon's whurley
Playing for a long term win
TinyCo's Jennifer Lu on the advantages of launching iOS and Android social mobile games simultaneously
New capability thanks to internal Griffin engine
GREE and DeNA making a mistake trying to apply Japanese social gaming model in the west, claims PlayPhone's Anders Evju
One size does not fit all
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on what Rovio should do next?
Angry Birds' rebooted
Supermono's Tak Fung on Red Robot deal and why he's always wanted to do a location-based game
Now he has the tech and resources
Chartboost CEO Maria Alegre on why network scale is less important than providing consumers with a quality experience
Best users are most important
Ben Vu on Battle Bears' freemium debut and his 10 game roadmap for the humorous shooter franchise
Also pitching for TV series
Kontagent's Josh Williams on why its enterprise quality kSuite analytics platform is right for mobile
But only if you're big enough to take full advantage
iQU's Reinout te Brake on creating a centralised marketing place for games, not the 'disruptive approach' of GREE, DeNA and Papaya
Tracking gamer behaviour is the key
Gary Nichols on Playbox's rebranding as Atomicom; now prepared for a mobile-only future
Following the excitement and money
Astraware CEO Tomlinson on making the most of platforms such as Nook, webOS and Kindle Fire
Has dropped Symbian, Palm and BlackBerry though
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on how to make the most of the Holiday download frenzy
The Elf-ephant in the room or a Sanity Claus?
Neon Play's Oli Christie on the importance of cross-promotion and the increasing squeeze on freemium social games
'Savage churn rate' of App Store free chart
CGO Philip Reisberger on why mobile and tablets will be very important for Bigpoint in 2012
Bringing Farmerama companion app to iOS any day
W3i's Ryan Weber on spending its AppX 'real cash' $10 million user acquisition warchest across 50 games
Size reflects company's and market's profitability
Kiip CEO Brian Wong on how its 'non cannibalistic' reward network boosts gamer engagement and retention
GameSalad integration is the first step of master plan
PapayaMobile's Oscar Clark on the market's move from 'pay at the door' to 'buy at the bar'
How freemium equals freedom
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens talk Android Market's contentious app returns policy
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