First Bungie Aerospace release Crimson: Steam Pirates to hit iPad on September 1
Free to play release benefits from indie project
Crowdfunding platform Appbackr sells $1 million worth of mobile apps
Launches analytics tool SmartApps to celebrate
Samsung, LG and the Korean government to lead program for a new open source PC/mobile OS
Just in case Google does the unthinkable
Microsoft accuses Motorola of 7 patent infringements in its Android phones
Calls for import ban in US
Microsoft courts webOS developers, offers free phones and dev tools
How to mop up a dying ecosystem
Opinion: Consumer demand for TouchPad post-demise proves price is the only way to combat the almighty iOS ecosystem
Have to subsise the app deficit with competitive price
ngmoco appoints TV exec Joanna Drake Earl as COO to drive Mobage launch
Staffing up
Google TV gets app happy as Google opens gates to Android developers
Preview plug-in for Android SDK is go
Claritics offers user behaviour based analytics and optimisation platform for Android
'Social Intelligence suite' makes debut outside web
Flash stream tool iSwifter to generate $10 million in revenue in 2011
Workforce to expand sixfold before year's end
Freemium games generate 3 times more revenue per daily user on iOS than Android, reckons Godzilab
But downloads higher on Google's OS
Educational games are raising the bar for all mobile apps reckons Mindshapes' Jinhee Ahn Kim
Industry could learn from dev process
Ustwo's mills on rejecting freemium and spending £100,000 developing a premium 69p game
Whale Trail won't fail
Nicholas Lovell's GAMESbrief Unplugged Volume 2 book ponders the power of free
Games industry consultant condenses wisdom
Clapfoot Games, 10tons and Occamy Games each gain $150,000 in Nokia's $10 million Ovi app challenge
18 games named by Calling All Innovators
Urban Airship pushing out 13,000 push notifications per minute as lifetime total tops 5 billion
Business growing at 500% year on year
Rovio prepares for Angry Birds animation with appointment of ex-Fox exec Andrew Stalbow
Will become general manager of Rovio North America
Moneymen Robert Baird highlight iPad's dominance of tablet market but suggest Amazon will disrupt it
Nextgen Kindle predicted 3 million sales in year one
AppNation III announced, running 30 Nov-1 Dec in San Francisco
Call for speakers now open
Nokia dominates global ad scene with 39% share, but Android to take top spot by end of 2011
Google's Motorola acquisition no surprise says firm
SNL Kagan estimates 2011 US mobile games revenue will be $1.5 billion
Up to $7.8 billion by 2020
Vodafone rolls out operator billing for Android in UK and Germany
Claims a first for Europe
Apple changes the rules again; deprecates UDIDs from iOS 5
Tells devs to make their own app-specific tracking IDs
Namco Bandai and DeNA form smartphone-focused joint venture BDNA
$1.3 million funding split 75:25
Cave's COO Mikio Watanabe on the transition from bullet hell to mobile social success with GREE and Mobage
Going global, Android and more shoot'em ups
The PG.biz Hot Five: Nintendo's phone dilemma, Android will eat itself, and Union wants to make Unity developers millionaires
Last week's top five stories
Robert Scoble reckons HP's 2,000 patents are worth up to $3 billion
But the team is the real prize
Foss Patents lists the 19 ongoing lawsuits between Apple and Samsung
12 courts, 9 countries, 4 continents
PG.biz week that was: Google buys Motorola, HP drops webOS, HTC sues Apple, EA, Digital Chocolate and Zynga buy studios, and Richard Garriott's back, going mobile
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
With 40 million downloads in July, white label specialist Appia claims crown as fastest growing app store
Rubs it in with claim of rival GetJar's decline
Madvertise rolls out four new ad formats for iPad
Richer media, better CTR
Ex-Palm VP says HTC, LG, Sony Ericsson and Samsung should be hiring webOS staff
How to supercharge your Android devices
iPad 3 to go Retina: get ready for 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution
Four times the pixels
DeNA adds to Chinese and Korean operations, setting up DeNA Asia in Singapore
Looking for localisation and new acquisition targets
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Anomaly Warzone Earth, Aces 3D Brick Breaker, Flick Soccer!
Critically acclaimed
Pictures from the Pocket Gamer, PapayaMobile and Super Rewards' GDC Europe 2011 party
What do we love?
As it considers whether to spin off its PC business, HP drops support for all webOS devices
It's over for TouchPad, webOS options to be explored
MocoSpace doubles down adding $1 million to its HTML5 game fund
Browser's the future
Motorola sued from within as shareholder disagrees with $12.5 billion sale to Google
Offer is less than Motorolas intrinsic value
3DS begins recovery in Japan, outsells PSP five to one in first week after price drop
Software sales picking up, too
Nokia CEO Elop sees 'signs of danger' for Googles Android partners after Motorola Mobility acquisition
Warning over possible preferential treatment
Atari bolsters senior management team as it shifts focus to casual, social, and mobile gaming
Robert Mattes, Owais Farooqui, and Maria Pacheco on board
How SNSGame and The Playforge successfully launched the Chinese version of Zombie Farm
Everyone likes planting zombies
GDCE 2011: SCEE - PS Vita dev kit priced at a very affordable 1,900
Significantly cheaper than PSP, PS2, and PS3 launch dev kits
HTC files patent lawsuit against Apple, patent wars rage on
'Apple needs to stop its infringement'
Dusseldorf court overrules Galaxy Tab 10.1 EU injunction
Going Ban-anas
Glam Media launches its iAd competitor - GlamMobile premium ad platform
Encouraging top advertisers to go mobile
Rumour: Apple to invest $1 billion in Japanese Sharp factory, securing supply of iPhone and iPad screens
Looking to diversify in the wake of Samsung battle
iOS developer of kid-friendly games fined $50,000 for breaching child privacy laws, marking first of its kind
It's a fair COP(PA)
FGOL sees 250,000 daily downloads and average IAP of $3.26 as it sets Hungry Shark Pt 3 free
Series total installs now 18.5 million