DeNA to deliver 'safe environment' for young gamers with new spending limits
18 and below limited to ¥10,000 a month
Angry Birds franchise passes one billion downloads
While Rovio teases next non-Angry Birds game
Facebook locks in on location with Glancee acquisition
Discovery has its day
Kindle Fire traffic share now slipping against iPad 3
Holiday peak dropping off, reports Jumptap
DeNA has a record Q4, also boosting FY11 sales to a record $1.8 billion
Fingering acquisitions with $720 million cash pile?
GREE's new social gaming platform set to be live in 153 countries and 14 languages by September
20 game released a month from July
GREE announces plans to self-police social platform
Looking to deliver 'worry-free' environment
Acquiring 'one hit wonder' studios makes a lot of noise, but delivers little long term value, reckons EA CEO Riccitiello
Current trend making EA man 'anxious'
Freemium 'fad' fails more studios than it helps, reckons Days of Wonder's Hautemont
Developers should follow their own path
GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka on becoming the Nintendo of social mobile games, but bigger
Still ahead of the curve
Funzio had sales of $12 million during Q1 2012, $5 million in April
Putting that $210 million deal into perspective
GREE booms another record quarter with Q3 FY12 sales up 182% to $560 million
Cash pile up to $625 million
Metaio launches drag-and-drop augmented reality Creator tool
SDK already has 10,000 downloads
Ad engagement outfit SessionM raises $20 million in fresh funding round
Venture now valued at $100 million
RIM appoints Kristian Tear as new COO and Frank Boulben as CMO
Heins' new team in place
Accelerated growth in social video apps eating into YouTube web traffic says Flurry
More disruption inbound
Camouflaj's Ryan Payton on Kickstarter, Republique, ambition, and the possibility of raising $215,000 in three days
Pay for quality and to ditch the suits
Rovio's 2011 sales were 75.4 million euros, with pre-tax earnings of 48 million euros
Bird flying high
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the odds of an EA buyout
Everyone has a price
Samsung's bada-Tizen merger is go as 4.3-inch prototype is unveiled
Android back up in play
EA bringing FIFA, Madden and Tiger Woods to Windows Phone
Supporting C#
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ioPixel's Tip-Off Basketball reaches 6 million downloads
F2P game tops charts in multiple countries
Angry Birds Space and all future Rovio games coming to Nokia Lumia devices, including with exclusive content
Sets up a dedicated dev team
Valve to present Evolve opening keynote at Develop 2012
Holtman to share Valve's business practices
FIFA World Class Soccer on GREE made EA Mobile $30 million in five months
That's over 19% of EA Mobile's H2 FY12 revenue
Updated: Thanks to PopCap and GREE, EA Mobile has a record Q4, boosting FY12 sales 17% to $269 million
Bejeweled is top top grossing game
GREE and DeNA's share price down over 20% on back of Japanese investigation into 'gacha' IAP mechanism
Too close to gambling
Virgin Media challenges devs to deliver 'next Angry Birds' in 100 days
Game to be revealed at Eurogamer Expo 2012
Google Play passes 15 billion app downloads
Did it 'a few weeks ago', says Google
Playcaso's Ninad Chhaya on its 'by developers, for developers' publishing program
Offering full suite of services
The PG.biz Hot Five: Nokia kickstarts WP apps, GREE spends big, and time to write down Draw Something deal?
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Antti Sten and Tuomas Erikoinen on growth, poker and leaving Rovio to set up the laid back but explosive Boomlagoon
Learnings from Angry Birds
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Com2uS sees Q1 2012 revenue up 54% to $10 million
Profits up massively but temporarily
Temple Run and Slime vs. Mushroom2 are the top-reviewed Android games for April
Critically acclaimed
Atari hires former Glu CCO Giancarlo Mori for mobile focus
Set to serve as product development EVP
Buying one-trick ponies won't bring long term success in the free-to-play market says Glu CEO de Masi
You need scale to become a $1 billion company
Only Samsung standing up to Apple onslaught in the iPhone era, reports Asymco
iPhone makes 73% of profits from 8.8% of market
TIGA is 'not a charity', needs financial backing to fight industry's corner
CEO Dr. Richard Wilson hits back
HTML5 Developer Conference returns to San Francisco on 21 May
Google, Microsoft and Nokia in attendance
Indian publisher Playcaso comes out of stealth mode, launching games and its publishing program
Wants to hook up with ambitious indies
EA to close social outfit Playfish's Tromso studio
21 jobs lost
Boku brings direct billing services to Sprint users in US
Online purchases charged to monthly bills
The good, the bad and the ugly: How to make the most of the Chinese Android market
It's big, it's fragmented but it's booming
Apple iPad pushes Kindle Fire out of the picture in Q1 2012
That's despite a shipment slip, notes IDC
Nokia shareholder files lawsuit, claims giant 'misled' investors over Windows Phone deal
Finnish firm hyped up Lumia
Molyneux on board as GameCity 7 returns to Nottingham in October
Event expands to full week
Draw Something brings brands on board as Zynga looks to shore up revenue
Draw what the advertisers tell you
Android to dominate as smartphone shipments hit 1.7 billion in 2017
Google to grab 48% share