GAMESbrief unveils revenue projection tool for freemium games
Six ways to boost your takings
HTC revenues jump 79% yoy to $4.4 billion in Q3 2011
Net profit surges by 68%
Swedish government hits app developers with double VAT charges for EU distribution
25% national VAT on top of EU tax
Pocket Gamer will be at GDC Online
With additional party time
Disney rumoured to buy remaining share of Indiagames
Could cost around $50 million
Jobs' death meant Apple-Facebook HTML5-iOS 5 announcement was postponed reckons Robert Scoble
Pulled from F8, pushed from Let's talk iPhone
DataWind's Aakash Android tablet will be world's cheapest at $50 when it launches in India
Indian government to give them away to students
Microsoft unveils Xbox Companion app, turns Windows Phone into Xbox 360 remote control
Marketplace options also on board
Steve Jobs dies at 56
'His spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple'
G5 Entertainment's doing 4 million downloads a month on iOS and Android
Russian publisher looking up
Parallel Kingdom's players buy 838 Soup Can Hats to fund Kenyan famine charity
Uses PlayMob's GiverBoard tech
Gingerbread on the march; jumps to 39% share of Android devices
Share grows tenfold in 5 months
Real Racing 2 to receive iPhone 4S and iOS 5 update with AirPlay and Party Play
Local wireless multiplayer for up to 4 people
Big Blue Bubble signs multi-title deal for PlayPhone's social network platform
Four games due by the end of 2011
Kindle Fire pre-orders 'leaked' at 254,074 in first five days
Fastest 'tablet' 'sales' to-date
Nexon and DeNA team up to bring mobile social RPG MapleStory to Mobage in Japan
Making a Maple-move on mobile
Claritics adds HTML5 support to Social Intelligence analytics suite
Track users across mobile, Facebook and browser in one framework
Apple opens floodgates to iOS 5 app submissions ahead of October 12 arrival
Gold master SDK submissions now allowed
BioWare looking to mobile to support big console releases, say founders Muzkya and Zeschuk
Moving on from Mass Effect: Galaxy
24MAS partners with Vodafone to launch games store in Czech Republic
Part of firm's European expansion
Infinity Blade has generated more than $20 million
Paid download total around 5 million
Epic and Adobe raises mobile and browser gaming to console level with Unreal Engine 3 support for Flash 11
Your console is dead
Apple unveils iPhone 4S, promises 7x graphical leap with dual core A5, due October 14
Prices start from $199, while 8GB iPhone 4 to live on
EA sells 879,000 copies of FIFA 12 on iOS in launch week
All kicking off
Infinity Blade 2 to demonstrate the power of iPhone 4S in December
Infinity Blade: Awakening eBook available now
App Store customers have downloaded 18 billion apps
As Apple pay out $3 billion to devs
Game Center has 67 million users
Conversion rate guestimated at less than 50 percent
iPhone 4 makes up more than half of all iPhones sold says Tim Cook
Let's Talk iPhone delivers the numbers
PixoFactor taps into Tapjoy's $5 million Android dev fund with launch of Gaslight
Partnership to produce further releases
Pocket Gamer will be at Droidcon London, 6-7 October
And, of course, we're having a party
Russian publisher Nival sets up new smartphone studio in Kiev
Nival Red is its fourth studio
Rovio breaks 70:30 revenue split rule on Android thanks to carrier billing deal with T-Mobile
Demonstrates biggest brand can get better deal
Two more join Fishlabs as it builds up for freemium MMO version of Galaxy on Fire
Plus another new project in the universe
Angry Birds movies will 'create mythology' around Rovio series, claims former Marvel man Maisel
3D epic could be next Iron Man
Xperia Play is our gateway device into the US says Sony Ericsson CEO Nordberg
AT&T and Verizon deals now in place
Australian indie-focused marketing agency Surprise Attack launches
Free campaigns for early birds
FGOL sees Hungry Shark installs rise by 5 million in 8 weeks as it switches to freemium
Series total downloads now 24 million-strong
DeNA heads into Latin America with Atakama Labs acquisition
Part of masterplan to increase headcount to 1,000
Android projected to hit 1 million activations per day in late October
Or perhaps in December
Ballmer's annual bonus capped at $682,500 as Windows Phone misses 2011 sales target
Microsoft man's reward tied to performance
HTML5 is at least 10 times faster on iOS 5 than iOS 4, says YoYo Games boss Sandy Duncan
Apple plans to dominate native and browser gaming
Chartboost launches ad platform to allow push cross-promotion between developers
Cutting out the middle man
OpenFeint loses another exec as carrier expert Scott Prather joins PlayPhone as bizdev director
Change in the air
Tap.Me announces integration of its ad system within iOS and Android Unity games
Will be available via the Unity Asset Store
Jetpack Joyride and DrawRace 2 are top-reviewed iPhone games for September
Critical acclaim
Amazon reportedly leading race to purchase Palm from HP
Future Kindles could benefit from webOS
MocoSpace acquires location-based social network Geocade
Founder Caralis installed as VP of HTML5 platform
GamesAnalytics starts supporting iOS and Android through its Predict and Engage platforms
Data miner adds mobile gaming to its roster
BlackBerry PlayBook Native SDK available for select developers
Designed for performance
Sony rep claims PS Vita 3G downloads to be capped at 20MB for launch
Taking the wi-fi only route