Cave accelerates social smartphone business; signs strategic partnership with GREE
Gains $2.3 million investment too
Pandigital and Skytex to pre-install GetJar onto their latest tablets
Including the upcoming Pandigital Planet and Alpha 7'
Rovio's Vesterbacka dismisses 'games company' tag, claims studio building 'next gen entertainment franchise'
A strong brand can take you anywhere
Nintendo urged to begin iOS development, as Apple becomes world's most valuable company
Smartphone killed the videogame star?
Freemium iOS hotel builder VegasTowers does 1 million downloads; average IAP is $40
Not so tiny
Cut the Rope studio ZeptoLab opens up UK office as downloads top 45 million
9 million paid on iOS
Nokia video leak reveals multiple Windows Phone handsets
And they're lookers
Smartphone penetration sits at 34% in US as 155 million stick to feature phones
But Windows Phone finally starts to grow
HP looks to launch 7-inch TouchPad Go after FCC filing
Current model sees price slashed by $100 in US
Dancing to a different beat: The making of Pulse: Volume One
Radial lines
Gamevil hits accumulative total of 50 million mobile game downloads
Vast majority paid, majority Java
Despite current lack of revenues, Chinese ISP Tencent is 'investing significantly' in mobile platforms
Highly popular, hopes business models will emerge
Nvidia, RIM and ARM on board for metaio's insideAR 2011 in Munich
Mark your calendar for September 26-27
55.9% of Android owners still use Froyo, only 24.3% now running Gingerbread
Transition is slow
Apple begins legal action in Germany against Motorola over Xoom design
European tablet wars heat up
With Q4 growth accelerating, GREE posts FY11 sales of $794 million, up 82%
Net income up 59% to $225 million
PlayScreen's William D. Volk approves of gamification but thinks we can do better
Grind doesn't have to be the game
Nokia won't release its one and only MeeGo phone in US or UK
NoGo for N9
Android Market developers complain as Google payouts fail to match actual sales
Studios missing out on revenue
Nokia to drop Symbian in North America when Windows Phone launches
Giant planning biggest ever push with Microsoft's OS
OpenFeint brings over 60 Android games to China through The9 Game Zone
Distribution through 30 app stores
Motorola CEO Jha floats the idea of supporting Windows Phone
But focus currently Android
Apple gains preliminary injunction against Samsung; stops European Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch
German court plays it by the book
Capcom is the fastest growing mobile company, but DeNA remains the most impressive
Good news too for EA, Gameloft, Gamevil and Glu
Rovio signs SwaddleDesigns deal to bring Angry Birds to babyware
Studio looking to 'increase power of brand'
FGOL's Ian Harper on how the Future Games Network will propel indie games to success
Launching this week with Say What?!
iPad rivals have greater chances of success in Europe than US, but price cuts needed says Forrester
Apple's smaller retail presence a disadvantage
Miniclip partners with Halfbrick adding 30 Barry Steakfries levels to Fragger
Get your Monster Dash on
Apple demands role in Lodsys lawsuit case against app developers
It has the best technical information
Windows Phone GM Charlie Kindel departs after 21 years, but brands OS 'best product Microsoft has built'
Developer ecosystem is in 'fantastic hands'
Glu's De Masi on why he's longterm positive on Amazon and more bullish on Nokia than RIM
Time will come
Is Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick warming to social, mobile games?
He's got a itch. Could it be scratched?
Khronos looks for industry participation in WebCL and StreamInput working groups
Help browser parallel computing and sensor push
Havok builds out middleware offering with the acquisition of Trinigy
Vision Engine will be rebranded as Havok
Glu CEO De Masi on building for future profitability fueled by 20 internal dev teams
Android, IAP and resource management games the focus
Gamevil posts $3.5 million net profit in Q2 2011 as sales jump 46% yoy
Smartphone account for 62% of sales
PopCap survey reveals UK gamers spend 10% of their games budget on mobile
More than half of Europe's adults play games
GREE and Tencent standardise specs to allow devs to target both social platforms
Koei and Taito the first to take advantage
Former Microsoft games head Shane Kim joins board at Moai engine company Zipline
Adding strategy to cross platform approach
The PG.biz Hot Five: Glu buy studios, then waves goodbye to execs, plus Storm 8 rebuffs Zynga interest with $1 billion valuation
Last week's top five stories
Android growing at 5 times the rate of iOS in US as share tops 40%
Up 5.4% in three months
Android the dominant force in US, but 36% of states opt for iOS
Mapping the US of OS
PG.biz week that was: Storm8 might be worth $1b, Mork's off to Google, Amazon's in the doghouse, while Glu buys 2 studios and axes key execs
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Self styled 'app guy' Patrick Mork leaves GetJar to join Google as marketing director for mobile apps
Mad Mork's on a mission
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Groove Coaster and Cut the Rope: Experiments
Critically acclaimed
Sibblingz raises $1 million to extend Spaceport game engine to Facebook's Project Spartan
Platform for the next Zynga of mobile gaming
Survey suggests average spend on virtual items for casual, social games is declining
Bursting bubble?
Mobile Streams widens games and app distribution with Appitalism Wings program
Plug into partners including Qualcomm and Huawei
With #1 and #2 games on GREE, Konami booked $99 million of social mobile revenue in Q1 FY12
Up a massive 225 percent year-on-year
Ngmoco signs up AT&T to make Mobage gaming app available for its Android phones
Via Android Market later in 2011