PopCap makes merchandising move with Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled
Publisher signs multiple licensing agreements
Everything Everywhere campaigns for faster 4G rollout in UK
Not for profit organisation to build momentum
WeMade Entertainment makes mobile move with 8 game assault
MMORPG specialist says smartphones the future
Apple and Samsung set date for patent feud settlement talks
Mark 21-22 May in your calendars
Social networking apps supersede games at top of the smartphone tree
Games have peaked, say Flurry
Crash Lab's Steve Ellis on the simple, flexible, creative joys of making iOS games
Ex-Free Radical man praises new golden age
The PG.biz Hot Five: Instagram buyout a Facebook fumble, Microsoft risks resetting Windows Phone and Nexon eyes up EA
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ChinaJoy 2012 announces enhanced B2B area to attract over 15,000 industry professionals
Consumer-cum-trade show turns 10
PG.biz week that was: Zynga booms, Apple ka-booms but Nintendo implodes
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As Jeremy Lewis steps down, Big Fish founder Paul Thelen regains CEO role
Transitionary move
Zedge launches games channel for its 16 million Android users
More for its ringtones and theme community
Gree part-owned developer Gumi opens Singapore office
Follows on from Korean expansion
Developers react to WWDC 2012 sell out with IndieDevLab
Running in concurrently in San Francisco
Appoint Solutions builds mobile multiplayer Grabbit in 4 days with CocoonJS
iOS, Android and Facebook on board
Angry Birds architect and artist fly Rovio's nest to set up HTML5 outfit Boomlagoon
Helsinki outfit looking for investors
Gimmie signs up Freshuu's ZiGGURAT for its real world incentivisation platform
Achievements get physical prizes
Were bot farms generating a third of all free downloads on US App Store?
Fiksu's monthly research seems to suggest so
Nintendo to embrace full-game downloads with digital release of New Super Mario Bros. 2
Retailers to set prices on download codes
Amazon's Kindle Fire accounts for half of all Android tablets sold in US
Share doubles between December and February
Nintendo already 'beaten' by smartphones and tablets, say analysts
Mario needs to make move on mobile
Samsung profits double to $5.15 billion in Q1 2012 as it overcomes Nokia to gain top OEM status
Ships over 90 million handsets
Nordcurrent's Victoria Trofimova on how Japan is the Lithuanian developer's #2 market
F2P outfit serving 250 million ads per month globally
Zynga sees mobile daily active users jump 40% in March to 21 million
Claims it's more organic growth than Draw Something
Zynga highlights strong mobile revenue growth as overall monthly uniques rises 25% to 182 million
More users, more payers
Zynga sees Q1 FY12 revenue up 32% to $321 million
Has $1.5 billion warchest
Google looking to Samsung to serve up next Nexus
Motorola snubbed?
17+ rated stickman shooter Clear Vision does one million 99c iOS sales
Gains 5 star average from 110,000 ratings
1 in 4 iPad purchases made by first time Apple buyers
Tablet replaces iPod as 'gateway' device
Playdek celebrates the power of core with one million online sessions of Ascension on iOS
Drops price and reveals expansion
Indiagames makes Windows Phone move as downloads top 100 million on Nokia Store
Moving on with Microsoft
Windows Phone owners need to upgrade to use Marketplace, says Microsoft
Consumers will soon require version 7.5
EA shares jump 8% as report points to Nexon takeover bid
South Korean press sparks rumours
Kiip offers Mega Jump, Dunk Basketball and Monster Shooter players a place in Guinness World Records
High scores win all
Recommendation engine Hooked adds Critic's Choice
App drives 3 million game downloads in four days
Half of UK smartphone owners play mobile games every month
Most active market in EU5
GREE and DeNA to limit teenage monthly spending in Japan
Industry moves before it's pushed
CrowdStar cans new Facebook games as studio switches focus to smartphones
Firm '100% focused on mobile'
Gamelion parent BLStream gets 5.5 million euro investment for new tech and acquisitions
Gives Enterprise Investors 35% stake in return
Adfonic releases new SDK 2.0 using OpenUDID and ODIN-1
Deals with UDIDs and increased eCPMs
Android a better playground for in-app purchases than iOS, reckons Mobile Deluxe
Google more accommodating than Apple
Nintendo posts first ever annual loss of $530 million for FY12
3DS price cut and rising yen blamed
Joypad's Todd Hamilton on how its universal controller app will shake up iPad gaming
50 games already supporting Joypad Controller
Opinion: Facebook's billion buyout of Instagram smacks of an industry hooked on its own hype
Just what did Zuckerberg pay out for?
Global tablet sales to triple to 232 million by 2016
Ownership to jump by 200% in US and W. Europe
NimbleBit flies the flag for Mobage's social clout as Android version of Pocket Planes announced
Tiny Tower's download total now over 13.5 million
OpenUDID gains supporter #17 as Smaato adopts it and ODIN-1 for updated SDK
We don't need no UDID
Jason Citron to reveal new venture at YouWeb and StartEngine's joint demo day
One of 20 start ups in the spotlight
Kabam starts Android assault as hardcore social studio signs up with Mobage
First games due this summer
Galaxy Nexus now available to purchase direct from Google Play
US consumers can buy unlocked handset for $399
Despite less than 500k downloads, Rage of Bahamut shows high ARPU, tops US Google Play grossing chart
Card-battler released through DeNA's Mobage platform