Android's dominance in Japan unchallenged as smartphone share tops 61%
iPhone holds second spot
Nextpeer's Shai Magzimof on building a 'Play With Friends' asynchronous platform for all mobile games
Real-time version already has 500,000 users
BuzzCity's mobile ad network jumps 95% in Q1 2012 to more than 45 billion impressions
Served to more than 300 million unique users
Facebook reveals Q1 FY12 sales of $1.1 billion, with mobile users up to 500 million
Advertising dominates the business
Kindle Fire beats rivals to be second most popular Android gaming device
According to players of Animoca's games
Due to demand, Atari Pong Indie Developer Challenge semi-finalists now announced 1 May
Judges comparing 87 submissions
Chartboost hosts Mobile Game Hackathon from 12-13 May
Teams make mobile games to compete for $2,000 prize
Wii U and nextgen console launches to suffer thanks to social gaming surge on smartphones
New machines won't offset longterm decline
ZTE hopes to ship 100 million smartphones per year by 2015
Also launching 2 'phablets' in 2012
Appsfire prepares to open nominations for its third iOS App Star Awards
Enter if your app's out in May
Nokia releases new cloud-based browser for Series 40 devices with focus on web apps
Claims up to 90% reduction in data
Opinion: Microsoft can't afford to press the reset button with Windows Phone 8
WP7 handsets need to be kept in the loop
Samsung set to unveil new Galaxy Tab and S-Cloud at 3 May event
Rumours buzz as May event nears
As industry fights UDID phoney war, Fiksu's Craig Palli says first party cookies offer best compromise
Process will takes months to refine and agree
InMobi's mobile ad activity in US up 18% in Q1 2012, while global market is now 283 billion impressions
Apple and Android rise, while RIM slides
PapayaMobile's Oscar Clark on board for LAUNCH's Mobile Monday in Birmingham
30 April event nears
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss the pros and cons of Kickstarter
Cash in the hand, obligations to follow
New mobile games industry jobs board at PocketGamer.biz
Low-cost, highly-targeted, and just a click away
Hosting 26 million trials during Q1 2012, Flexion sees conversion rates on its Android game wrapper of over 10%
Generated $5.9 million in revenue from 527 live games
The PG.biz Hot Five: iKamasutra puts Apple in a twist, War Balloon's Kickstarter woes, and ustwo loves Windows Phone UX
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AppyNation's Robin Clarke discusses the developer-owned publisher's revolutionary approach
By mobile game developers, for mobile game developers
Quality Index: The week's best Android games - Drag Racing: Bike Edition, Battleloot Adventure
Critically acclaimed
Quality Index: The week's best iPad games - Avernum: Escape From the Pit HD, Cubis Creatures
Critically acclaimed
Kickstarter set to distribute $300 million in 2012
Crowd-funder on track to triple past year's efforts
Mobile advertising revenue rose to $1.6 billion in 2011
Growing a triple-digit rate
Chipmaker Qualcomm warns over 32nm S4 Snapdragon chip shortage
Android and Windows Phones OEMs to be hit
Newzoo user survey suggests US Kindle Fire install base could be as high as 16 million
Numbers and comparative tricks
Halfbrick Studios on Kinect, plushies and why it travels half way around the world to meet the fans
Joining the line at PAX East
GREE part-owned developer Gumi opens Korean office
First step on international expansion
TinyCo says Kindle and Amazon AppStore have higher ARPU than iPad and App Store
Even Google Play is strong
Update: Dutch market research company says Kindle Fire sales break 10 million barrier
Lemons and Apples
First Intel-powered Android smartphone XOLO X900 heading to India
Atom chip boasts speed and multitasking
Speakers from Bioware, Epic, and Playdom talk social and mobile at East Coast Game Conference
Coming to North Carolina 25-26 April
GREE brings Lil' Pirates developer IUGO into the fold with minority investment
Canadian studio bulks out free-to-play capacity
We're the ones raising the bar in hardcore social mobile games says Funzio's Jamil Moledina
Not worried about the competition
Sony's open beta of PlayStation Suite SDK for Android and Vita games now available
Final SDK due later this year
As Facebook market slows, mobile social gaming companies now attract key investment
Digi-Capital forecasts 2012 as bumper year for M&A
Nokia rolls out Lumia 610 in 8 Asian territories including China
Budget Lumia targets young student audience
FourBros Studio earning $1,000 per day from Windows Phone game Taptitude
Ad impressions spike with the launch of Lumia range
Hook Mobile launches beta for its word-of-mouth App Growth Engine marketing tool
Uses phone number not Twitter or Facebook
Nokia's exceeding expectations in US but UK more challenging says CEO Elop
Will cut staff costs and increase advertising
Develop reveals sessions including speakers from DICE, Sony, Jagex, Microsoft and Mindy Candy
And Split Milk's 60 minute indie game challenge
Nokia sees Q1 2012 sales slide 29% as it posts a $1.8 billion loss
Confesses Lumia sales have been mixed
Engineous' Nitzan Wilnai on giving users the power of game creation with Sketch Nation Studio
Free for all
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on a Starck choice
Elegant design down the crapper
Qualcomm books record quarter with FY12 Q2 sales up 28% to $4.9 billion
$26.6 billion cash pile boosted by spectrum sell off
Engineous Games launches amateur game dev community for iOS
Sketch Nation Studio aimed at the green
Intel-powered Windows 8 tablets looking to cut iPad market share to under 50% by 2013
ARM devices coming later
Only 6% of UK consumers interested in apps on TV
But Apple TV could change things
MoMinis' Itzik Frid on building a sticky end-to-end Android gaming platform
Monetised by IAPs and 30 million daily ad impressions