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)
Last week's top five stories
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
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games DrawRace 2, NFL Rivals
Critically acclaimed
Acer and ViewSonic sign patent agreements with Microsoft for Android smartphones and tablets
Also covers Chrome hardware
Samsung rumoured to reveal first Windows 8 tablet next week
Flight to safety?
Exent brings its GameTanium Android gaming service to Vestel's Smart Box set top boxes
All-you-can-eat in the living room
25 to 34 year olds account for 49% of all freemium IAP reckons Flurry
Generation Y plays, but Generation X pays
Unstructured data suggests the average number of downloads per app on Ovi Store is 2.5 times more than an app on App Store
Probably because there's 90 percent fewer apps available
Adfonic raises $7.5 million to take headcount to 100 and expand in US
Moving across the pond to San Francisco
PopCap adds IAP to iPhone version of Plants vs. Zombies
Nine mini-games for $2.97
Apple attempts to force Samsung devices out of Japan in patent infringement case
Galaxy S and S II, Galaxy Tab 7 targeted
GetJar launches GetJar Gold, a free channel for premium Android content, with Halfbrick's Age of Zombies
Expects to 'give away' millions of dollars worth of apps
Marmalade SDK goes large with native support for LG Smart TV
Sit back and relax
Antix's mobile and web Game Player supported on Broadcom set-top boxes
To be demonstrated at IBC 2011
Some Android licensees more equal than others as internal Google docs show discussion of giving Motorola and Verizon a head start
Revealed as part of Oracle vs Google lawsuit
Distimo adds benchmarking analysis tools to its free app store Monitor service
Global reach across eight app stores
Appitalism reinforces marketing and carrier partnership activity with three new hires
Connecting the dots
IndieCade 2011 announces keynote speakers including Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman
October 6-9, Culver City, CA
Zynga With Friends, Limbic, ngmoco, Papaya and Gamevil announced as part of GDC Online smartphone and tablet summit
Two day track in Austin filling up
Piper Jaffray blows the roof off Apple's earning predictions with FY13 sales estimate of $164 billion
Reckons share price will rise 70 percent
Free Danish GamesBusiness conference opens doors on 15 September
Last minute to Aalborg to hear Kassulke and Hare
iPad 3 rumoured to start mass production in Q1 2012
Batteries to be thinner and lighter
NTI Birmingham announces new February date for its Game Camp: Nano course
Make a mobile game in a month
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang boasts Tegra 2 dominance across Android
It's Nvidia and Qualcomm, mainly Nvidia
Tapjoy underlines growing significance of mobile games, hires ex-PlayStation SVP Peter Dille
Taking chief marketing officer role
RIM urged to sell itself or its patents by a group of Canadian shareholders
Time for Plan C?
Appcelerator opens its $13,500 Hackathon App development contest
Winners to be announced at Codestrong event
YoYo Games' Sandy Duncan on why GameMaker for HTML5 is right place, right time for all developers
This ain't your son's GameMaker
Developers need to consider mobile advertising from the start argues Millennial Media's Matt Gillis
Go cross-platform, tablet, and think about holidays
Blackberry App World updated to version 3.0
Streamlined app browsing
Unity strengthens Japan operations opening a Tokyo office
Local support now available
Tandem gears up for Evolve London and Develop Liverpool
Submissions for speakers now open
Madvertise's Jana Sievers on the mobile ad network's 5 million developer fund and its KatAPPult cross promotion service
Also claims 10x better than average eCPMs