Powering ahead, GREE sees Q1 FY12 sales up 145% to $395 million
Net income up 156% to $123 million
Gbanga users spend an average of $14 on in-app purchases
Conversion rate is 10 percent
Spil Games receives investment from North Bridge Growth Equity
Money to fuel global expansion
Appcelerator to expand in Europe and Asia after raising $15 million in Series C round
Lead by Mayfield, TransLink, and Red Hat
South Korea lifts ban on iOS games ahead of iPhone 4S launch on November 11
Games Ratings Board repeals app block
Nokia signs deal with ST-Ericsson to supply chipsets for future Windows Phone handsets
Breaks Qualcomm monopoly over platform
No name, few details but GREE announces new best-of-breed mobile social gaming platform for 2012
To combine GREE Japan's ARPU with OpenFeint's reach
Smartphones still to come to 70% of mobile market as asymco's colourful graph demonstrates
Non-smartphones sales figures slowing down
Funzio the only gaming entry in VentureWire's FASTech 50
List attempts to cut through the 'me-too' clutter
Flurry launches AppCircle Re-Engagement service to help bring back your existing users
App discovery not the problem
Educational game developer Mindshapes receives $5 million in series A funding
Magic Town and Language City out next
Samsung announces $1 million bada 2.0 Power App Race popularity contest
10 fastest games and apps to 100,000 downloads win
Urban Airship acquires former partner SimpleGeo in $3.5 million deal
Adds location to engagement platform
Rovio to open official Angry Birds stores in China to fight unlicensed merchandise
Looking to generate $100 million in sales in 2011
Talking Friends studio Outfit7 hits 225 million downloads across iOS and Android
Boasts 60 million MAUs
BlackBerry's nextgen 'Colt' BBX smartphones already in the hands of game developers
Expect early 2012 availability
GREE re-states its FY12 sales up 40% to around $1.7 billion
Accelerating closer to match rival DeNA's clout
HTC shipments hit 13.2 million peak in Q3 2011, up 93% yoy
But manufacturer still misses expectations
Grasshopper Manufacture sets up joint venture with DeNA to make games exclusively for Mobage
Grasshopper Social Network Service, Inc. revealed
DeNA lays out an ambitious plan for Mobage Global including $50m of quarterly IAP sales within 6 months
Tiny Tower, Tiny Chef in-coming, plus iOS version
Cash continues to flow at DeNA with FY11 Q2 net income up 7% yoy to $105 million
Sales static on quarterly basis though
PlayPhone unveils virtual goods management suite PXP for iOS, Android and HTML5
Adding features to existing social network
Nintendo rumoured to be working on micro-transaction firmware update for 3DS
First in-game purchases possible in 2012
Tag Games' Funpark Friends wins Herald Scotland Digital Business Award 2011 for best Scottish game
Mark of class
AppMobi launches HTML5 powered web app platform MobiUs for iOS
Android to follow in Q1 2012
US developer Ludei demonstrates triple play, releasing new game on iOS, Android and HTML5
Sumon is everywhere
Unreal UDK gets updated with better Facebook integration and iOS God Rays
Also gets Flurry support
Motorola Xoom only ships 100,000 units in Q3 2011
Q3 revenues up 20% to $3.3 billion
Samsung Electronics boosted by strong sales of Galaxy devices, with Q3 2011 telecoms sales up 37% to $12.5 billion
Operating profits up to $2.1 billion
Zynga values the price of a Facebook Like as a 2 cent charitable donation
Viral feelgood
Mobile games industry is 'more focused on making money than making good products' reckons Rockstar's Dan Houser
Rockstar rocks the boat
Tapjoy gets around Apple's incentivised download ban for iOS with new web-based platform
And there's an app for Android users
The9 hooks up with Chinese carries to provide access to 30 app stores
Also offers OEMs deal
EA predicts global digital mobile and handheld gaming market will be worth $4.1 billion in 2011
Up to $5.1 billion by 2013
EA Mobile sees Q2 FY12 sales up 8% yoy to $55 million, while smartphone revenues are up 87%
However sales are down compared to Q1
EA Mobile to offer exclusive games package for Nokia Windows Phone
Plus free Java games for Asha range
Nintendo posts $923 million half year loss as hardware shipments slide
But 3DS to hold strong at 16 million in 2011
Mobile ad start-up MoPub unveils self service real-time bidding marketplace
'Virtual trading floor' designed to level playing field
DeNA and Square Enix team up to bring Final Fantasy to Mobage
Pre-orders start now
Booyah, Yazino, Facebook and Google confirmed as speakers for Evolve London 2011
Social and casual gaming on the agenda
Chroma Club's Zoo Club tops 1 million installs on Android Market
Heading to iOS and Nook in near future
Sony to acquire remaining 50% of Sony Ericsson for 1.05 billion
Firm to deliver phones 'more quickly and more widely'
Rumour: HP in the process of 'testing' TouchPad on Windows 8
The tablet that refuses to die
Kindle Fire launch prompts biggest ever day for Amazon's e-readers
But revenue drops by 73 percent in Q3
PapayaMobile expands base beyond Android, takes social gaming platform to iOS
Looks to connect two ecosystems
Nokia World 2011: Rovio's Vesterbacka: 'People congratulate me but for what? This is only a start.'
#NokiaWorld Digital publishing next for Rovio
BBM issues force RIM to delay PlayBook OS 2.0 update until February 2012
Beta test to follow
Social to mobile porting platform Pixonic opens US office in San Francisco
'Little Zynga' looking to expand operations abroad
Indie devs can benefit from advance of mobile tech, reckons Bungie Bernie Yee
But social studios should plan for 'transition'
Nokia World 2011: Ovi Store generating 10 million app downloads a day
30 percent from Series 40 devices