Social game ad specialist appssavvy receives $7.1 million investment
Looks to strengthen monetisation tech
PS Vita off to a solid start in Japan with 321,407 sold over opening weekend, according to Enterbrain
Now the fun starts
HandyGames bigs up the power of ad-funded business with 300 million ads served in November
Fuelled by Google's AdMob network
Pay to play platform Pocket Change proposes token-based alternative to ads and IAPs
Serves as both full game and demo
Michael Pachter's bullish on Zynga; reckons its mobile business could be worth $150 million by 2013
Sets share price target of $12.50
Glu partners with Sprint to distribute Android-based multi-game packs
Free for Everything Data users
Gameloft releases HTML5 version of GT Racing: Motor Academy on Google+
Taking social to the next level
Eric Schmidt suggests Nexus tablet will be out in six months
Reading between Italian lines
GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs predicts Android's #1 status in 2012 but also significant fragmentation and openess issues
Paid apps to fade to memory
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
IDC predicts global tablet shipments were up 24% in Q3 2011
That's 18 million devices
The PG.biz Hot Five: TinyCo's new Griffin engine, Rovio's play-grounding around and whurley loves Windows Phone
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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Sonic CD, The Bard's Tale
Critically acclaimed
Qualcomm boosts consumer marketing, renames San Diego stadium for Snapdragon
Gains TV audience of 30 million
PG.biz week that was: Zynga IPOs, Rovio thinks about it, Samsung sells 300m phones, Fiksu launches FreeMyApps, and Tiny Tower's ARPU is $2
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
BlackBerry 10 smartphones' launch delayed until late 2012 as RIM hit by chipset slip
Lazaridis breaks more bad news
Greystripe claims its Ad Boosters raise click through rate of mobile ads by 300%
Social components a 'no brainer' for advertisers
Papaya launches accelerator program The Games Academy, offers 100,000 downloads to top title
Office space, expert input and legal advice on offer
Nordic Game conference 2012 calls out for speakers
Submissions due before 1 February
Rovio revenue to hit $100 million in 2011 as studio eyes Hong Kong IPO in 2013
Up from $10 million in 2010
Paramount uses social investment platform appbackr to fund Naked Gun and The Untouchables mobile games
Don't call me Shirley, back me surely
Mobile ad click-through rates on tablets double to over 9%, reports inneractive
iPad's 9.7-inch screen the most prolific
Zynga posts IPO price at $10 with 100 million shares for sale
With an extra 15 million for surplus demand
Mobile MMO Pocket Legends joins Heyzap gaming network
Now with integrated social network support
Microsoft's indie dev challenge Dream.Build.Play extended to Windows Phone
Total of $100,000 on offer to winners
Email outage and PlayBook provision see RIM's Q3 FY12 income down 19% to $265 million
But subscriber base up 35% to 75 million
Kindle Fire selling like 'hot iPads', millions already sold
Amazon best selling product for past 11 weeks
Despite Android's larger userbase, developers still backing iOS this Christmas with 3 times more projects, reckons Flurry
Money the main issue
Sony Ericsson makes Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM available for Xperia devices
But only for advanced developers
NimbleBits doesn't actively track ARPU but Tiny Tower roughly has 5% conversion rate at $10 a payer
Tiny Tower grows higher
Command & Conquer franchise goes mobile in upcoming freemium MMOG Tiberium Alliances
EA-owned Phenomic in the general's seat
Intel merges notebook, tablet, mobility and communications divisions to gain mobile momentum
Former Apple man Bell to head venture
Outfit7's Talking Friends to make merchandising move thanks to licensing deal with Beanstalk Secure
Ten partnerships to expand brand
Beeline teams up with DreamWorks to develop film tie-in social mobile title Shrek's Fairytale Kingdom
Everyone's favourite ogre to get the freemium treatment
Team17 acquires Iguana as it looks to expand into social and mobile development
Worms Social expected soon
Thumbstar's CEO Gareth Edmondson takes over the reins at GameHorizon
Previous CEO Darren Jobling steps down after 7 years
Big Fish Games extends partnership with French outfit Anuman to bring Syberia to iOS
Signifies wider shift to mobile
DeNA partners with Alibaba to take Mobage to cloud-based OS Aliyun in China
Pre-loaded on first handset in early 2012
Gunshine studio Supercell now targeting mobile social, announcing asynchronous Battle Buddies
Battle Buddies With Friends
Nexage adds controls to its mediation platform including option to select and ban ads in real-time
Keeping the customers satisfied
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
Apsalar highlights the power of information with new mobile user tracking and analysis tools
Instrument your apps to uncover lucrative behaviour
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
Ex-Visceral Games team sets up new Melbourne-based mobile studio PlaySide
Aiming for console quality
YetiZen's Sana Choudary on its unparalleled game-focused start up accelerator program
Now open for March intake
Orange standardises its global pre-loaded games business using Flexion's wrapper platform
Across all Android and Java devices
Imagination Tech sees half year FY12 revenue up 28% to £56.3 million
PowerVR chip designs driving growth
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