March 30, 2012 Sony launches Ice Cream Sandwich beta for Xperia Play Looking to test games compatibility
March 30, 2012 Mobile games market to triple in size to $7.5 billion by 2015, reckons SuperData Freemium already accounts for 55% revenue
March 30, 2012 Hillcrest Labs launches Freespace motion engine for Android and Windows 8 devices Powered by accelerometers, magnetometers and gyros
March 30, 2012 RIM CEO Heins raises prospect of sell off as founder Balsillie quits board CTO Yach and COO Rowan depart
March 30, 2012 RIM sees FY12 sales drop 7% to $18.4 billion, also posts a Q4 loss of $125 million CEO Heins triggers review of strategic opportunities
March 30, 2012 King.com's Tommy Palm on how the casual giant plans to become a mobile gaming player Established brands, new expertise
March 30, 2012 Kontagent, Chartboost, Playhaven and MdotM offer new MATA alliance and Open API as solution to fragmented monetisation metrics But Mobile Acquisition Transparency Alliance won't solve UDIDs
March 30, 2012 DeNA and Disney bring three co-developed social mobile games to worldwide Mobage platforms Leveraging the power of licences
March 29, 2012 Apple clarifies its UDID position: no rejections yet for use, only for lack of user opt-in Ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it
March 29, 2012 Half of all US mobile subscribers now own smartphones Two-thirds of new buyers opt for smartphones
March 29, 2012 Millennial Media see sharp rise in share price on NYSE debut Shares pop 97 percent in early trading
March 29, 2012 Bleszinski, Molyneux and other industry mainstays to help student dev teams at Make Something Unreal Live On hand to assist iOS Fighting Fantasy projects
March 29, 2012 Inneractive replaces UDIDs with hashed MAC addresses, but Itay Gadot says we should expect more solutions Looking to device fingerprinting
March 29, 2012 Amazon to launch at least two new Kindle tablets in 2012, claims Digitimes Including a sub-$300 10-inch slate
March 29, 2012 China tops US as largest market for free apps on iPad but US still top grossing, claims Distimo IAP drive revenues on the tablet charts
March 29, 2012 TIGA claims mobile games market to grow to $12 billion in 2013 UK devs well suited to console-sized mobile games
March 29, 2012 BlueStacks launches beta version of its Android App Player for PC 450,000 Android apps playable on a billion PCs
March 29, 2012 App Store downloads drop in February but user costs rebound to $1.31, reports Fiksu 'Robotic downloads' crackdown also has impact
March 29, 2012 Rovio announces plan to set up Stockholm, Sweden office Looking for a GM to manage recruitment of 20-30 staff
March 29, 2012 UK outfit HyperBees wins Best Buy's Get Discovered contest for Android Up to $100,000 in seed funding on the way
March 29, 2012 Re-renamed 6waves inks multi-game publishing deals with 32 developers Bringing 40 games to social networks in first half of 2012
March 29, 2012 Addmired relaunches as Machine Zone with $8 million in Series B funding New capital funding to see big recruitment drive
March 29, 2012 'Leaderboards are so 2008. Gamers want competition,' says Yaniv Presler, CEO of platform start up PlayerDuel Claims it will help fix discovery and monetisation
March 29, 2012 Chris Early on mobile's place within Ubisoft's strategy for linking triple-A, free-to-play and companion gaming It's a joined up Ghost Recon world
March 28, 2012 F2P 2012: Studios need to plan for success as well as failure, says Zynga's Matthew Wiggins #f2psummit Wonderland was without a strategy
March 28, 2012 Foxconn parent company Hon Hai spends $1.6 billion investing in Sharp's LCD business Strategic move for Apple TV contract?
March 28, 2012 Adobe announces 9% revenue share for Flash Player 11.2 web games, while mobile developers go free Building a platform so taxing as a platform
March 28, 2012 Chinese App Store rankings see major shifts following algorithm tweaks Importance of daily activity highlighted
March 28, 2012 Samsung announces 5 million Galaxy Notes sold worldwide 10 million by year-end, hopes Samsung mobile chief
March 28, 2012 F2P 2012: Free-to-play established in Europe, but it's a hard sell in UK, says InnoGames' Volker Dressel #f2psummit Playing catch up
March 28, 2012 Zynga's Paul Stephanouk announced as keynote for East Coast Game Conference 2012 Alongside Bioware's Paul Barnett
March 28, 2012 InMobi optimises its advertising network for new iPad with HTML5 Promises adverts with never-before-seen clarity
March 28, 2012 Appsfire's Ouriel Ohayon says replacing UDIDs with MAC addresses would be the wrong approach Offers OpenUDID as a better solution
March 28, 2012 F2P 2012: It's time to be unique, says NaturalMotion's Struan Robertson #f2psummit Magic moments
March 28, 2012 US has 100 million mobile gamers compared to 70 million in Europe, says Newzoo research Estimates market size at $5.8 billion
March 28, 2012 Competition will ensure industry standard UDID replacement will provide best solution, hopes Applifier's Jussi Laakkonen Solution must and will be found
March 28, 2012 There's going to be constant tug-o-war over between Apple and the industry over UDID replacement, says Kiip's Eamonn Carey Privacy versus information battle will be ongoing
March 28, 2012 There is too much revenue at stake for Apple not to address the UDID gap, reckons MoPub's Jim Payne OpenUDID fallback option isn't a longterm solution
March 28, 2012 UDID deprecation is a short term distraction prior to emergence of new industry standard, reckons AdColony's Will Kassoy All will be well
March 28, 2012 F2P 2012: Social games 'inefficient' if they don't tap into a platform, says GREE's Kyoko Matsushita #f2psummit Right tools for the job
March 28, 2012 DeNA signs Mobage distribution deal with China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom Includes carrier billing
March 28, 2012 F2P 2012: Free-to-play business model not exploitative when 95% of gamers don't pay, says ngmoco's Ben Cousins #f2psummit The facts don't lie
March 28, 2012 Tapjoy releases SDK 8.1 to provide 'high quality alternative' to UDIDs MAC address part of a workable solution
March 27, 2012 Millennial Media valuation could hit $974 million as ad network ups IPO share price Now between $11 and $13 per share
March 27, 2012 Game Group administrators on brink of selling off overseas operations 10 days trading security also secured
March 27, 2012 Tablets to 'reinvent' gaming in the living room, says ngmoco's Neil Young 'Awesome' iPad leading the charge
March 27, 2012 Atari looking to aid US indies with Pong developer challenge for iOS Funding, cash prizes and revenue share deal on offer