Ubisoft acquires Trials and DrawRace developer RedLynx
Publisher continues its digital download expansion
Angry Birds hits 500 million downloads milestone
Flying in the face of franchise peak rumours
Powering ahead, GREE sees Q1 FY12 sales up 145% to $395 million
Net income up 156% to $123 million
Gbanga users spend an average of $14 on in-app purchases
Conversion rate is 10 percent
Lumia 800 'won't change the world', but Nokia will build bridge to feature phone market, reckons Revo's Hanganu
Attractive for new adopters
Windows Phone's move to cloud-based gaming will 'propel us into the next generation' reckons Babaroga's Bachowski
Xbox 360-Windows link up will be a game changer
Microsoft's power to decide what games sell and what don't is killing Windows Phone for indies, reckons Xona Games' Jason Doucette
Your phone could be lying to you
Spil Games receives investment from North Bridge Growth Equity
Money to fuel global expansion
Lack of UDK and Unity support for Windows Phone is a 'serious handicap' says Critical Thought's David Whatley
OS generally great, but needs open dev tools
Appcelerator to expand in Europe and Asia after raising $15 million in Series C round
Lead by Mayfield, TransLink, and Red Hat
South Korea lifts ban on iOS games ahead of iPhone 4S launch on November 11
Games Ratings Board repeals app block
Nokia signs deal with ST-Ericsson to supply chipsets for future Windows Phone handsets
Breaks Qualcomm monopoly over platform
CodeGlue's Peter De Jong ranks Windows Phone Mango on a par with iOS and Android
Thinks Nokia Lumina 800 will expand user base
No name, few details but GREE announces new best-of-breed mobile social gaming platform for 2012
To combine GREE Japan's ARPU with OpenFeint's reach
Smartphones still to come to 70% of mobile market as asymco's colourful graph demonstrates
Non-smartphones sales figures slowing down
Funzio the only gaming entry in VentureWire's FASTech 50
List attempts to cut through the 'me-too' clutter
Flurry launches AppCircle Re-Engagement service to help bring back your existing users
App discovery not the problem
Booyah CEO Jason Willig on rethinking location-based games so check-ins are an enhancement, not a turn off
Place as personalised experience
Educational game developer Mindshapes receives $5 million in series A funding
Magic Town and Language City out next
Samsung announces $1 million bada 2.0 Power App Race popularity contest
10 fastest games and apps to 100,000 downloads win
Urban Airship acquires former partner SimpleGeo in $3.5 million deal
Adds location to engagement platform
Rovio to open official Angry Birds stores in China to fight unlicensed merchandise
Looking to generate $100 million in sales in 2011
Talking Friends studio Outfit7 hits 225 million downloads across iOS and Android
Boasts 60 million MAUs
Samsung ships 27.3 million smartphones to become world's top vendor in Q3 2011, but HTC rules the roost in US
Holds quarter of the market
W3i on how it successfully used MAC addresses instead of UDIDs to identify iOS devices
Deprecated, no matter...
BlackBerry's nextgen 'Colt' BBX smartphones already in the hands of game developers
Expect early 2012 availability
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the prospects for Nokia-fuelled Windows Phones
Lumia - a new dawn?
GREE re-states its FY12 sales up 40% to around $1.7 billion
Accelerating closer to match rival DeNA's clout
HTC shipments hit 13.2 million peak in Q3 2011, up 93% yoy
But manufacturer still misses expectations
Grasshopper Manufacture sets up joint venture with DeNA to make games exclusively for Mobage
Grasshopper Social Network Service, Inc. revealed
DeNA lays out an ambitious plan for Mobage Global including $50m of quarterly IAP sales within 6 months
Tiny Tower, Tiny Chef in-coming, plus iOS version
The PG.biz Hot Five: DeNA and GREE plod along in the west, Tapjoy takes on Apple's incentivisation block and Nokia gets back in the game
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Cash continues to flow at DeNA with FY11 Q2 net income up 7% yoy to $105 million
Sales static on quarterly basis though
PlayPhone unveils virtual goods management suite PXP for iOS, Android and HTML5
Adding features to existing social network
Nintendo rumoured to be working on micro-transaction firmware update for 3DS
First in-game purchases possible in 2012
Tag Games' Funpark Friends wins Herald Scotland Digital Business Award 2011 for best Scottish game
Mark of class
AppMobi launches HTML5 powered web app platform MobiUs for iOS
Android to follow in Q1 2012
US developer Ludei demonstrates triple play, releasing new game on iOS, Android and HTML5
Sumon is everywhere
Strategy Analytics puts Samsung at the top of the pile, with 24 percent of smartphone market in Q3
Apple a close second with 15 percent
Unreal UDK gets updated with better Facebook integration and iOS God Rays
Also gets Flurry support
Motorola Xoom only ships 100,000 units in Q3 2011
Q3 revenues up 20% to $3.3 billion
Samsung Electronics boosted by strong sales of Galaxy devices, with Q3 2011 telecoms sales up 37% to $12.5 billion
Operating profits up to $2.1 billion
Zynga values the price of a Facebook Like as a 2 cent charitable donation
Viral feelgood
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Bike Baron, Worms Crazy Golf, Mage Gauntlet
Critically acclaimed
Mobile games industry is 'more focused on making money than making good products' reckons Rockstar's Dan Houser
Rockstar rocks the boat
Opinion: Winning with Windows: Why the Lumia 800 signals the return of Nokia
Daring to be different
Tapjoy gets around Apple's incentivised download ban for iOS with new web-based platform
And there's an app for Android users
Conclusions from monetisation panel at App Developers Conference
Build your game with your business model in mind
The9 hooks up with Chinese carries to provide access to 30 app stores
Also offers OEMs deal
EA predicts global digital mobile and handheld gaming market will be worth $4.1 billion in 2011
Up to $5.1 billion by 2013