PG.biz week that was: Amazon gets serious with $199 Kindle Fire, Microsoft releases Mango, and Unity embraces the future in Unite 11
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Playfish exec Shanti Bergel joins GREE as SVP of business development
Follow the money
Diablo creator David Brevik predicts a golden age of gaming
Portable, freemium, cloud-based and browser-y
Former Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs starts new casual mobile company City State Entertainment
First Android and iOS title due Q4 2011
Mika Mobile's Battleheart wins Best Game Award at Unite 11
Android/iOS game best made on the technology
Survey of 252 developers finds half have made less than $3,000 lifetime revenue per app on iOS
Only 25% have picked up more than $30,000
Nokia completes Symbian's handover to Accenture
2,300 jobs transferred
RIM dismisses PlayBook discontinuation rumours as 'pure fiction'
Remains committed to tablet
Ex-QNX, Microsoft and Versatel exec Alec Saunders replaces Tyler Lessard as RIM's developer relations head
Looking forward not back
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Quarrel Deluxe, The Secret of Chateau de Moreau, Samurai Bloodshow
Critically acclaimed
In first month, GetJar has given away free apps worth $1 million through GetJar Gold
Downloads rise by 5,000%
Mobile apps superseding television and internet as the prime slot for advertising, reckons Flurry
App usage higher than rivals 6am-6pm
EA announces marketing data aggregation platform EA Legend
To be presented in NYC on October 4
Freemium the current favourite, but subscription services may steal its thunder reckons Sega's David Zemke
Constantly moving mobile market unlikely to settle
Halfbrick partners up with iDreamSky to take Fruit Ninja on Android to China
Signs up to gaming platform SkyNet
Kiip partners with Guinness World Records, gives Mega Jump gamers chance to become world record holders
Names to feature in Gamers Edition 2012
Apple's App Store has nearly 10 times as many promo opportunities as Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's platform one step away from greatness
Massive Damage raises $325,000 to fund location-based zombie fest Please Stay Calm
Title amasses 120,000 check-ins in Canada alone
Unity opens Canadian office as engine teams up with Luma Arcade on Bladeslinger
Support for N9 also in the mix
Facebook leak reveals Project Spartan snaps as platform gears up for big reveal
But will it launch at Apple's iPhone 5 showcase?
Nokia set to axe 3,500 jobs in 2012 as firm takes 'painful but necessary' steps to realign business
Job cuts pass 10,000 mark
Mobile ad network madvertise triples turnover for first half of 2011
35% international revenue increase
Codemasters founder Jim Darling takes up role as chairman at Kwalee
Joins son David at developer's helm
App Store's 'rich get richer' culture inevitable in a nascent marketplace, reckons Z2Live CEO David Bluhm
iOS ecosystem serves only a few studios
Unity 3.5 bringing universal achievements, analytics and IAP into play
Levelling up
Microsoft and Samsung sign cross-licensing patent agreement as firms vow to push Windows Phone
Samsung to pay out for every Android phone sold
HTC: Windows Phone moving in on Android, already accounts for 30% of handset sales
Microsoft to 'give Android a run for its money'
TeePee Games partners with Setgo to bring Castaways to discovery platform
Studio's first title expands base
Amazon unveils $199 Android powered 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, US launch on November 15
Worst kept secret a secret no more
InMobi study reveals 39% of UK mobile users planning to buy iPhone 5
48% of those to buy within first 6 months
Freemium games could make up 95% of iOS downloads in one year's time, reckons PopCap's Giordano Contestabile
And 80 percent of its revenue
Sony Ericsson signs up Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light as Xperia Play exclusive on Android
150 games now optimised for handset
GREE looks for US push as social giant picks Duncan/Channon to head first ad campaign
Japanese firm ready for the US market
Linux Foundation pulls plug on MeeGo, folds OS into new project Tizen
But Samsung might still be interested party
Halfbrick makes move on publishing as studio partners with Spry Fox on Steambirds: Survival
Bound for iOS this October
Hairbrained Schemes' Jordan Weisman on the fresh intrigues and challenges of mobile gaming
Ex-Microsoft man on Crimson's success
Chillingo not totally sold on IAP, should be deployed on case-by-case basis says co-GM Joe Wee
One model doesn't fit all
All go for MeeGo as Samsung rumoured to be interested in bada link up
Platform could underpin Korean firm's OS
Microsoft begins global Mango roll out across Windows Phone handsets
UK handsets to receive update before end of October
Nokia's Ovi Store boasts most localised marketplace, 29% of apps published exclusively in one country
US, UK, Australia and Canada form social block
Ex-IUGO and Glu Mobile exec Sarah Thomson joins OpenFeint as director of developer relations
Right person to keep platform growing
Autodesk hails Tag Games' use of 3ds Max for forthcoming freemium iOS game Funpark Friends
How to stand out
Nokia begins roll out of MeeGo-powered N9
Finnish firm begins shipping units to stores
Emerging markets social publisher Peak Games raises $11.5 million, looks to increase releases, move into mobile
Further studio and user acquisition on the cards
Rumour: Amazon used BlackBerry PlayBook as template to 'shortcut' Kindle Fire development
Both made by ODM Quanta
1 million downloads proves monetising from search bolt-on works on Android, says StartApp's Itay Rokni
Advertising not the only answer
Nvidia Tegra 3-powered ZTE T98 tablet spotted
First sighting in the retail wild
Details emerge of Motorola's Xoom 2 tablets
Xoom xoom
Microsoft rolls out web-based Windows Phone Marketplace
11 months late better than never
Android destroyed new purchases of BlackBerries in US over past 3 months says Nielsen
Accounted for 56% of market