Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscriber numbers drop 18% to 2.3 million
Slipping down
Zynga moves for team behind open source iPhone engine cocos2d
13th acquisition in last 12 months
Nvidia makes $367 million move for mobile baseband processor specialist Icera
UK firm to build on Tegra 2's momentum
Gingerbread's slow uptake continues; running on just 4% of Android devices
Froyo rules the roost
PocketGamer.biz readers get a 30% discount for GameHorizon conference
#ghconf It's all kicking off in Gateshead, UK on 28 June
Coconut Island donates iDragPaper advertising to Japan Red Cross's earthquake appeal
Doing its bit
Rovio and NaturalMotion lead the way as Mobile Pie, Unity, Exient and Ideaworks storm 2011 Develop Awards
10 categories gain mobile nominations
Mobclix rolls out 3.0.1 SDK for Android
Adds support for ProGuard
JumpTap secures $25 million in fresh funding round
Ad network's funding surpasses $115 million
Capcom Mobile sees FY11 sales up 13% to $50 million
Thanks to those Smurfs
Qualcomm's Uplinq conference gets talks from Nokia's Elop, HP's Rubinstein and HTC's Cho
And Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will kick things off
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson confirmed as Evolve Brighton keynote
All about integrating social experiences into games
Astraware launches 4 games on Nook Color app store
Astraware Mahjong on Android exclusive to eReader
RedLynx partners with Chillingo for DrawRace 2's iOS release
Looking for publisher push
EA Mobile sees Q4 sales jump 27% as FY11 revenues reach $230 million
99c sales + Chillingo + Dead Space = happiness
Samurai II, Chop Chop Tennis and Battle Bears in first wave of Unity Union games for PlayBook
Five native titles due in the summer
TeePee Games partners with Predictive Intent to launch Geronimo discovery platform
Targets Android, Facebook and web
Nokia unsuccessfully hawked MeeGo to HTC, RIM, Samsung and Motorola
Rivals were afraid of Nokia's control
Samsung Apps unveils carrier billing across Europe and Asia
App store taps into phone bill or PAYG balance
Apple blocks user reviews for games downloaded with promo codes
Just when you thought things had settled down...
May 6 deadline for 2011 Meffys Awards nominations nears
Extravaganza on July 7 draws ever closer
Firemint's Rob Murray: Joining EA can only lead to us producing better games
Developer needs help 'in order to win'
Glu Mobile enters into publishing partnership with Blammo Games
Two titles promised over next 12 months
THQ Wireless completes final full fiscal year with FY11 sales of $5.4 million, down 52%
Currently just servicing Apple App Store
Tapjoy promotes Android app discovery with App Wars event
Hooks up with Apsalar as part of Google I/O on May 10
Glu sees Q1 2011 revenues drop 5%, but smartphone revenue up 94% sequentially
Does 20 million Android and iOS install during quarter
Fluik Entertainment's Office Jerk hits 1.6 million downloads in first 4 days
Tops free charts in 23 countries
Lunaforte's Lunagames XXL bound for iOS as series hits 1 million DAUs
Three releases launch on App Store
EA acquires Firemint for undisclosed fee
Deal to be closed within next 4 weeks
RIM and Microsoft partner up to integrate Bing into BlackBerry
Search and maps incoming
Russian tech blogger Murtazin pegs Windows Phone 7 sales at 674,000 in 2010
Brands platform 'absolute failure'
Mobage meets i-mode as NTT DoCoMo links up with DeNa's mobile social network
App to come pre-installed on handsets
DeNA celebrates record breaking 2010 as annual sales double to $1.38 billion
Q4 2010 net sales hit $393 million, up 67.5 percent
Coin Drop! and Sword & Sworcery EP Micro are top-reviewed iOS games for April
Critical acclaim
Glu signs deal with best-selling author James Frey to serve up novels as mobile games
Titles bound for smartphones and tablets
Microsoft launches API mapping tool to aid iOS developers port to WP7
Guide also on offer
Motorola ships 250,000 Xoom tablets in Q1 2011, 4.1 million smartphones
Net revenues up 22% year-on-year
Scoreloop serves up operator-branded social platform for Hong Kong's CSL
Going white label
GREE bought OpenFeint for 368 times annual revenue
Games network made just $282,500 in revenue in 2010
Gameloft sales hit 39.5 million euros in Q1 2011, up 20% year-on-year
Europe makes up 33% of all sales
AppNation 2011: Some incentivised players are good in the longterm; some aren't says W3i
#appnation Is Apple's tar brush too wide?
AppNation 2011: Android devs need to use all available markets says Google mobile director Jason Spero
#appnation Follow your consumers
AppNation 2011: OpenFeint and ngmoco pleased about Apple's Tapjoy incentivisation ban
#appnation Gaming the App Store is bad
Angry Birds hits 140 million downloads
Up 40 million since mid-March
Zynga acquires UK based GodFinger studio Wonderland Software
Becomes firm's first British development house
OpenFeint teams up with The9 to launch mobile social network in China
The9 Game Zone is go
BSQUARE serves up mobile development platform for next-gen Snapdragon chipset
New MDP ready to go
GetJar integrates Facebook Connect into revamped portal
Looking to foster friend recommendations
AppNation 2011: Tapjoy defends incentivised downloads as being very efficient for quality apps
#appnation Part of an organic ROI marketing plan
AppNation 2011: Barnes & Noble and Amazon focus on customers not the app
#appnation Reversing conventional wisdom