Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Sir Benfro's Brilliant Balloon, Food Fight iOS
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PG.biz week that was: Queues down for iPad as buyers line up for Game, Nokia gives the nod to Windows 8 and how to market your game in 5 easy steps
The past 7 days' news compressed bite-sized
Amazon Appstore hits 31,000 apps as marketplace turns 1
Celebrates with discounts aplenty
Android users file lawsuit against Google over faulty apps
Class action complaint filed in California
Qualityindex.com now includes iPad coverage
Over 100k iPad apps already tracked and 40k independent reviews collated
iTunes credit card scam spreads to the US as Apple promises security clamp down
No decisive action promised yet, however
Fishlabs on the hire to fuel free-to-play drive
InnoGames and Keen Games staff picked up
Apple's iPad launch branded underwhelming as queues fall at flagship UK store
Down 37% from iPad 2 debut, claims Dynamo PR
PlayJam expands games platform to Vestel smart TVs and set-top boxes
Ready for Q2 roll out
Innovation will always beat big budgets on iPad, claims Limbic CTO Schönefeld
Zombie Gunship studio talks up the tablet
China to top US as largest smartphone market in 2012, reports IDC
Cheap devices to drive growth
Sega's latest Sonic sports synchronous play across Xbox 360 and Windows Phone
First game to jump into the cloud
Lenovo rumoured to be readying Windows 8 tablet for October debut
Chinese firm looking to be first
OMGPOP's Dan Porter on how his 'outsider' game design style helped boost Draw Something to 25 million downloads
Via experiments with Facebook and teen dating services
Nokia design chief on Windows 8 tablets: 'We're working on it'
Ahtisaari spends a third of his time on device
Microsoft to launch Windows Phone Tango in China on 21 March
HTC and Nokia on board
OMGPOP considering Draw Something TV show as userbase hits 25 million
Boasts 1 billion ad impressions a day
GREE's North American studio serves up first iOS release Zombie Jombie
US expansion continues
Game claims buyout offer provides 'no certainty'
No guarantee of long term gain
Mobile payment specialist Boku scores $35 million in funding
O2 owner Telefonica one of the backers
Peter Molyneux will have 'tremendous fun' at 22 Cans, reckons ex-colleague Dene Carter
'It's nice to get back to your grass roots'
Smartphone and handheld games can co-exist, claims Capcom's Christian Svensson
There's overlap, but not erosion
Dene Carter talks Another Place Productions' drive to 'craft something for all gamers' on iOS
Ex-Fable creator talks up 'weird' new project
Fable five get creative with new indie outfit Another Place Productions
Studio aiming for 'weird' and 'imaginative world'
iPad 2 games could be hampered by upgraded GPU, claims programming vet Glenn Corpes
Not such a shiny, happy future
Indies wrong to compare iPad upgrades to console development, says Revolution's Tony Warriner
Always a place for 2D
Retina revolution was natural next step for iPad, reckons NaturalMotion's Torsten Reil
No price hike a big bonus
New iPad not out of the indie developer's reach, claims Selfpubd founder Andy Rosic
Self-publishing player backs Apple's vision
Zynga looking to raise $400 million in secondary stock offering
Seeking to avoid share drop off
3DS outsells PS Vita almost 6 to 1 in Japan in 2012
Sony sales hover around 10,000 a week mark
Itsmy to launch cloud-based HTML5 service Game Cloud
Browsers, smartphones and tablets on board
Cross-promotion platform Chartboost reaches out to non-members with Kiosk
Pocket Gems offering support
Handheld gamers increasingly drawn to smartphones and tablets, reports Nielsen
DS and PSP gamers own iOS devices
Comet owner OpCapita makes move to buy Game
Looking to pay off debts
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop brands multi-core mobile processors a battery drain
Single-cores can cope
iPad launch sales could top 1 million according to Piper Jaffray
More than triple first-gen tablet's tally
HP killed Palm's 3 year revival plan after 15 months, claims former CTO Phil McKinney
Apotheker cut the cord
Kindle Fire cuts iPad's worldwide tablet share down to 55% in Q4 2011, claims IDC
Android edging closer to iOS
iPhone 4S surge leading the 4G charge in the US, claims NPD
HSPA+ the most popular technology
Ofcom grants Everything Everywhere permission to launch LTE network in UK
Orange, T-Mobile to use 2G spectrum
Velti sees FY11 revenue up 63% to $189 million
GAAP net loss was $15.4 million
iOS chasing down Android's ad impression lead in Europe, claims InMobi
BlackBerry also holding strong
Game's demise is tragic, but industry's shift towards digital was inevitable claims TIGA
Self-publishing wins the day
Retina-equipped iPad proving problematic for devs, claims 10tons
CEO Alatalo dishes the developer dirt
Microsoft appoints former Sony man Phil Harrison as Interactive Entertainment veep
Joins the old enemy
European Android devs complain of missing Google Play payouts
February earnings MIA
Power of PR: Brian Baglow of IDMT's top five marketing tips for mobile game devs
Advertising isn't always the answer
Android better placed for assault on Java than Nokia, claims Thumbstar
Windows Phone needs to open up
Mobile ad awareness jumps 255% with pre-roll ads, claims madvertise
Need for Speed serves as test-bed
iPad added to the UK inflation basket
Tablets a 'significant and growing market'