Big Fish basks in the success of its 99c App Store Mother's Day promotion
15 iPad games in the top 25 rankings
Ngmoco says Mobage for smartphones will launch this summer, and there will also be new iOS and Android games
It's Suntory time
Tag Games details revenue split: 29% iOS, 26% DSi and 18% PSN
Dundee studio making most money in UK and US
Online media firm Sina set to head up Samsung Apps in China
1000CHI Software Technology to handle store
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens discuss how to make a successful iOS game
Does it have to have a bird in it?
Apple no longer serving iAd in apps aimed at kids
Advertisers keen to avoid empty click throughs
Smaato points to Windows Phone 7 and Symbian as best performing for mobile ad click throughs
At least twice as good as Android
Connect2Media rolls out second game on PrizePlay real reward mobile platform
Tempting players with Bling
Metaflow partners with Mobile Streams, providing developer access to 49 app stores
Including Appitalism social portal
Ngmoco says Mobage for smartphones goes hand-in-hand with new iOS and Android games
Details lost in translation
GetJar acquires app recommendation firm Infrinity
Will improve app discovery and app store usability
Google I/O: Ice Cream Sandwich to run across both smartphones and tablets
And Honeycomb updates to version 3.1
Google I/O: 10 carriers and OEMs commit to update Android devices for 18 months
Fixing fragmentation
Google I/O: Android device total hits 100 million as Android Market tops 200,000 apps
Daily activation rate rises to 400,000
Com2uS' baseball game Homerun Battle 3D logs 200 million online match-ups
High score slugging
Ad network InMobi expands with SmartPay in-app billing platform
Combines payment solution with ad network
Social studio Funzio raises $20 million in funding round as it moves on mobile
Crime City bound for iOS and Android
Google updates Android analytics to SDK to monitor in-app billing
Proving which products are popular and profitable
Capcom limits in-app purchases in Smurfs' Village to 5 items per 15 minutes
Self-imposed cap delivered via update
GREE posts Q3 FY11 sales of $198 million, up 77%
Claims largest Japanese SNS subscriber base
Samsung Galaxy S II pre-orders hit 3 million across Europe and Asia
Firm targeting total shipments of 10 million in 2011
Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscriber numbers drop 18% to 2.3 million
Slipping down
Mobile downloads represent half of all game downloads
40% of mobile downloaders spending less on consoles
Neon Play's Oli Christie on starting a mobile games studio: the lessons and lesions
Kicking those first ideas around
Opinion: Before we get ahead of ourselves, mobile remains a rounding error for Activision Blizzard
Not even small change
Gamevil's Kyu Lee on expanding the visual virality of iPhone hit Air Penguin
More levels, characters and platforms incoming
Zynga moves for team behind open source iPhone engine cocos2d
13th acquisition in last 12 months
Nvidia makes $367 million move for mobile baseband processor specialist Icera
UK firm to build on Tegra 2's momentum
Gingerbread's slow uptake continues; running on just 4% of Android devices
Froyo rules the roost
Windows Phone 7 to become world's biggest smartphone platform by 2015 reckons Pyramid
53% of market will be smartphones in 5 year's time
Samsung slips in US as its market leading share falls to 24.5% says comScore
Apple the only party on the gain in Q1
PocketGamer.biz readers get a 30% discount for GameHorizon conference
#ghconf It's all kicking off in Gateshead, UK on 28 June
The PG.Biz Hot Five: No go MeeGo, Tapjoy taps up Android, and EA's fluid financials
Last week's top 5 stories
Executive briefing: Cross platform mobile game development
Because platforms now matter more than games
Coconut Island donates iDragPaper advertising to Japan Red Cross's earthquake appeal
Doing its bit
PG.biz week that was: DeNA's up 167%, Capcom 13%, while Glu drops 5%, THQ 52%, plus a resurgent EA buys Firemint
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Fashion
Freemium will play a role in gaming's future, not the role
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Cash
Making money with freemium games isn't easy
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Quality
Rise of freemium games strengthens premium market
Rovio and NaturalMotion lead the way as Mobile Pie, Unity, Exient and Ideaworks storm 2011 Develop Awards
10 categories gain mobile nominations
Mobclix rolls out 3.0.1 SDK for Android
Adds support for ProGuard
JumpTap secures $25 million in fresh funding round
Ad network's funding surpasses $115 million
Capcom Mobile sees FY11 sales up 13% to $50 million
Thanks to those Smurfs
Qualcomm's Uplinq conference gets talks from Nokia's Elop, HP's Rubinstein and HTC's Cho
And Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will kick things off
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Snuggle Truck, Burn it All, Par Out Golf
Critically acclaimed
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate the future of social mobile platforms
Will it be OpenFeint/GREE or DeNA/mobage or another?
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson confirmed as Evolve Brighton keynote
All about integrating social experiences into games
Astraware launches 4 games on Nook Color app store
Astraware Mahjong on Android exclusive to eReader
RedLynx partners with Chillingo for DrawRace 2's iOS release
Looking for publisher push
EA Mobile sees Q4 sales jump 27% as FY11 revenues reach $230 million
99c sales + Chillingo + Dead Space = happiness