EA Mobile Q3 FY12 sales up 19% to $70 million
Accounts for 26% of digital revenue
Swiss investor Digital Capital unveils plan to finance smartphone studios
Looking to offer 'fairer deal' to devs
Chillingo, Glu and Rovio among 110-strong list of buyers attending Game Connection America 2012
Nintendo, SCEE, Sega and Square Enix also there
Free-hotspot.com provides free 3DS wi-fi at restaurants and hotels across Europe
McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and Subway
Boosted by emerging markets, Gameloft sees FY11 sales up 17% to 164 million euros
41% of revenues now from smartphone and tablets
Apple set for more expansion as China Telecom secures iPhone 4S for February launch
Region's third largest comes on board
Monster Hunter goes social mobile in Japan thanks to DeNA's Mobage
Popular franchise turns to card battle format
Steam companion app now available on iOS and Android
Store and community access for all account holders
Localytics reckons Android is less fragmented than you'd think; 73% of handsets run Gingerbread
OS and form factor not such big issues
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Brigade passes 1 million users on Mobage Japan in 26 days
Airships and Chocobos still popular
Epic unveils January 2012 beta for Unreal Development Kit
iOS gains new colour grading support
DeNA partners with Baidu to bring Mobage to Android in China
Dedicated Mobage section in the Yi Store
Digital Harmony's Keren Kang on starting a mobile tech company but finding fun with games
Flower child approach to real-time multiplayer
Aggressive Kindle pricing sees Amazon's 2011 income down 45% to $631 million
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Tapjoy announces its cross-platform incentivised action platform has 70 million MAUs
This audience will be auctioned for virtual currency
We're not the first but we aim to be best says Zynga CEO Pincus, refuting Clonegate
Internal memo reveals stance on plagiarism
Ian Marsh on NimbleBit's origins, keeping it small and development fast, despite the pressure of success
Strong foundations before the upwards elevator
Miniclip launches physics puzzler Fragger on Android exclusively through GetJar
After 100 million plays on iOS and the web
Develop Brighton puts out call for speakers for July conference
Evolve and Indie Dev Day also on board
Samsung under investigation by EU Commission for not sharing essential telecom patents
A result of ongoing Apple action
ARM sees FY11 sales up 21% to £492 million, with profits up 37% to £230 million
Looking to Windows 8 and smart TV for future growth
Submissions open for YetiZen's second Game Pitch competition at GDC 2012
Deadline for applications 26 Feb
Cost of acquiring US users hit 2011 peak in December of $1.81 reckons Fiksu
Downloads up 7 percent over the month
Google reminds developers that physical Menu button has been dropped from Android devices
Assume tablets and phones are now button free
Nexon to merge with Nexon Mobile as it plans aggressive smartphone strategy in 2012
Slate of 10 games on the way
Court upholds German Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction, but it's not the big win Apple wanted
Local victory, not European precedent
Paid games aren't dead, just count our downloads, argues Crescent Moon's Josh Presseisen
99c still a real sweet spot
Windows Phone Tango update to deliver support for native code
Platform also expands to 120 languages
Amazon sold 6 million Kindle Fires in Q4 2011, reckons analyst
Jordan Rohan labels device a real contender
Copycat companies might not lose lawsuits, but they should lose our respect, argues Kevin Dent
He's calling out Zynga, LOLApps and Escalation Games
Lumia 910 to launch in UK this summer
LTE-lite handset boasts 12MP
Piracy can help, not hinder, your game, reckons Rovio's Mikael Hed
No point in taking on small offenders
PerBlue's location-based title Parallel Kingdom surpasses million player milestone
Everyone gets free golden in-game trophy
NPD Group predicts massive surge in tablet market - 383 million units annually by 2017
Driven by emerging markets
Apple could sell as many as 40 million iPhones in China during 2013 reckons Morgan Stanley
Needs to drop exclusively though
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein quits HP
21 months enough for ex-Apple man
Buffalo Studios copies NimbleBit, pens open letter criticising Zynga of cloning Bingo Blitz
Clonegate rolls on
Amazon's focus on content sees Kindle Fire users download 2.5x more paid apps than Galaxy Tab users, reckons Flurry
Surge sees Amazon's Apple-like focus on content pay off
NEC looks to cut 10,000 mainly mobile jobs on the back of predicted $1.3 billion loss
Japanese handset market in transition
Appbackr highlights its win-win funding model with 27% return on Kuyi Mobile's Card Drop
Bringing cash and developers together
Rumoured Facebook IPO could see social network valued at $100 billion
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Spry Fox suing 6waves Lolapps over copyright infringement
Yeti Town inspired by Triple Town?
CRO Martin Koppel on taking Fortumo's 61 country-strong carrier billing SDK global
Up to 9x better conversion rate than credit cards
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Gameloft partners with Sprint to launch two Sprint ID game packs for Android in US
Widgets, apps and wallpapers on offer
Apple named as top smartphone vendor in Q4 2011 as Nokia's share halves to 13%
Samsung slips to second