Jetpack Joyride does 350,000 iOS sales in launch week
Halfbrick cashing in quick
Should you be making weather apps? Report says, on average, they make four times more than games on Android
Less is more
Glu Mobile looks to casual freemium, announcing Boo Town and Toy Village
Plus racing and zombies for the boys
Behavioural analytics specialist Apsalar raises $5 million
Thomvest Ventures leads investment
Nintendo unveils extended slide pad for 3DS in bid to boost gameplay
Metal Gear, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter play host
HP offers refund for TouchPad and Pre 3 owners in UK, Germany, France and Ireland
Difference between original RRP and sale price on offer
Analysts predict Nintendo 3DS to fall 16% shy of 16 million sales target in 2011
Sales surge post price cut on the wane
With Rovio making at least $10 million a month from plushes and t-shirts, a survey finds 53% of users are playing free versions
Monetising with merch
After 230,000 downloads of its first advergame, online takeaway service Just-Eat returns for second helpings
Food Chain out on iOS, coming to Android
Nokia and Microsoft host European Windows Phone dev roadshow, starting Sept 21
Coming to Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin and London
GameStop opts for existing Android tablet design as its own-brand hardware is readied for 2012 launch
Will come with external controller
AnandTech benchmarks Mali-400 as the fastest smartphone GPU
Galaxy S II beats everything... except iPad
Zynga lures away Disney veep Adam Sussman for mobile gaming role
Games head makes jump after 8 months
HTC has discussed webOS purchase but won't be rushed
Not really sure if it needs its own OS
Apple readies iOS 5 golden master in time for mid-to-late October iPhone 5 launch
Will allow full scale production late September
Samsung offers Smart TV integrated apps the chance to win $225,000 in Free the TV challenge
Integrate TV apps with smartphone or tablet
DeNA buys Punch Entertainment's Vietnam studio
Hanoi studio to provide support for Mobage
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
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
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