Cave underlines the phone nature of PS Vita: announces it's bringing Mobage hit Build a Castle to the console
Including location-based check-in features
Qualcomm looking to release 2.5GHz Snapdragon processors in 2012
Hard-cores
Sony commits PS Vita to December 17 launch in Japan
But no word on Europe or US
Samsung take Apple battle to France, claims tech patents have been infringed
European patent road trip continues
Nvidia launches Windows 8 developer program as quad-core Kal-El powers demo units at BUILD 2011
Platform to deliver 'seismic shift'
Topdown view: Rodeo Games on the making of Hunters: Episode One
Pick your targets, level up
Kwalee's David Darling on the new challenge of making games and apps for iOS
Bringing Codemasters' experience to the mobile market
Google to optimise future versions of Android to support Intel's Atom processors
ARM is not the only choice
Qualcomm points to Snapdragon's support for Microsoft's PCs, tablets and smartphones
Architecture works for Windows Phone and Windows 8
Verizon drops V Cast to launch new Android app store with search specialist Chomp
Verizon Apps to be premium curated marketplace
Ngmoco acquires social sports studio Lionside, sets to work on games for Mobage
Studio confirms buyout
Jetpack Joyride does 350,000 iOS sales in launch week
Halfbrick cashing in quick
Should you be making weather apps? Report says, on average, they make four times more than games on Android
Less is more
Glu Mobile looks to casual freemium, announcing Boo Town and Toy Village
Plus racing and zombies for the boys
Behavioural analytics specialist Apsalar raises $5 million
Thomvest Ventures leads investment
Android passes iOS to account for almost 1 in 4 smartphone users across EU5
But still trails Symbian by some distance
Nintendo unveils extended slide pad for 3DS in bid to boost gameplay
Metal Gear, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter play host
Get Set's Matt Coombe on why incentivised actions are worth more than IAP in Mega Jump
And why it's using Flurry and Kiip as Tapjoy replacements
A third of Android developers reckon piracy is costing them more than $10,000 a year
Says Yankee Group survey of 75 companies
HP offers refund for TouchPad and Pre 3 owners in UK, Germany, France and Ireland
Difference between original RRP and sale price on offer
Analysts predict Nintendo 3DS to fall 16% shy of 16 million sales target in 2011
Sales surge post price cut on the wane
With Rovio making at least $10 million a month from plushes and t-shirts, a survey finds 53% of users are playing free versions
Monetising with merch
After 230,000 downloads of its first advergame, online takeaway service Just-Eat returns for second helpings
Food Chain out on iOS, coming to Android
Nokia and Microsoft host European Windows Phone dev roadshow, starting Sept 21
Coming to Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin and London
GameStop opts for existing Android tablet design as its own-brand hardware is readied for 2012 launch
Will come with external controller
AnandTech benchmarks Mali-400 as the fastest smartphone GPU
Galaxy S II beats everything... except iPad
Zynga lures away Disney veep Adam Sussman for mobile gaming role
Games head makes jump after 8 months
HTC has discussed webOS purchase but won't be rushed
Not really sure if it needs its own OS
Apple readies iOS 5 golden master in time for mid-to-late October iPhone 5 launch
Will allow full scale production late September
Samsung offers Smart TV integrated apps the chance to win $225,000 in Free the TV challenge
Integrate TV apps with smartphone or tablet
DeNA buys Punch Entertainment's Vietnam studio
Hanoi studio to provide support for Mobage
Adobe brings iOS on board as HTML5 support hits Flash Media Server
Single workflow exports Flash content
Codemasters' founder David Darling announces mobile app and game start up Kwalee
Looking to hire key people
Game designer and futurist Jane McGonigal to speak at BlackBerry DEVCON Americas 2011
Solving the world's problems with mobile games
Samsung to roll out bada 2.0 across all Wave handsets
But lower specs may hamper performance
Hogrocket's Peter Collier on its iOS debut Tiny Invaders and the refreshing aspects of making games for everyone
Developers, doing it for themselves
Android is better for freemium monetisation than iOS, says Game Insight's Darya Trushkina
Huge volume, less competition
The PG.biz Hot Five: Nvidia claims Android dominance, GameMaker for HTML5 coming, and Zynga-Glu deal (again)
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PG.biz week that was: Android downloads will beat iOS, PopCap adds IAP as Flurry and MocoSpace analyse usage, and GetJar goes gold
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Mobile educational developer Fingerprint raises $1.4 million from THQ, K2, Reed Elsevier and Suffolk Ventures
Boasts Leapfrog, PlayFirst, LucasArts and 2K talent
Leading Chinese ISP Tencent launches its own app store
Android focus but other OSes supported
MocoSpace's ethnicity study reveals Caucasians are strongly over indexed in terms of IAP
Make up 18% of audience but 26% of purchases
Gamers sourced by incentivised downloads can be six times more valuable than organic traffic says W3i
Lemons are not the only fruit
Samsung announces bada Student Developer Challenge for 10 UK universities
Abertay, Imperial College, Oxford, Brunel all signed up
Apple's Samsung injunction upheld, Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Germany
Samsung will appeal
App Nation is looking for companies for its 10 All-Stars pre-event pitch session
Take to the stage
Android downloads to overtake Apple in 2011 according to Ovum
8.1 billion vs 6 billion predicted
Re-styled, renamed, re-released: Rail Maze finds success with 5 million downloads in a month
What was Doodle Train
Xperia Play coming to AT&T in the US on September 18
$49.99 on a two-year plan
Activision's CFO says it will invest in mobile and social development 'methodically'
Looking to avoid a bubble