Sony shrugs off concern over PS Vita sales figures in Japan
Learning from the past
Staff
Matt Sakuraoka-Gilman
About When Matt was 7 years old he didn't write to Santa like the other little boys and girls. He wrote to Mario. When the rotund plumber replied, Matt's dedication to a life of gaming was established. Like an otaku David Carradine, he wandered the planet until becoming a writer at Pocket Gamer.
Articles by Matt Sakuraoka-Gilman
Zynga poaches EAi executive Barry Cottle to serve as corporate development lead
Joins the Zyngan club of ex-EA execs
CES 2012: Cut the Rope coming to PlayBook with Scoreloop social integration
Part of PlayBook OS 2.0 update
Sulake builds out mobile business with launch of Habbo Hotel tie-in game Niko
All about moving audiences across platforms
Grey Area's Markus Montola to give GDC talk on The Future of Location-Based Games
Lessons from Shadow Cities
Monster Hunter Tri-G is first non-Nintendo 3DS game to do a million sales
And PSP continues to outsell PS Vita
New rumours suggest 'iPad 2S' will be released in March
Internal upgrade but aesthetically similar
Intel heads list of the top US patent assignees again, but Samsung's second
Microsoft, Sony, Qualcomm, Apple and RIM in top 50
CES 2012: Razer presents bizarre concept design for the ultimate PC gaming tablet
sub-$1,000 Project Fiona due late 2012
CES 2012: Lenovo announces first smart TV running Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Also first to use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor
2D Boy's World of Goo does million downloads on Apple hardware
Plus 450,000 on Android
Stream Media launches free Android game discovery platform Applorer
Powered by games testers
Ustwo teams up with Sony to bring smartphone game Dot to Google TVs
Use Android phones as controllers
Angry Birds merch flies into Russia and CIS as Rovio signs distribution deal
Very important market
ZeptoLab launches HTML5-powered Cut the Rope on Internet Explorer 9
Pushing browser's prowess
Nokia Store generating 11 million downloads a day as 177 developers pass million mark
India the most app happy nation
CES 2012: Xperia S leads the way as Sony lifts lid on 'next generation smartphones'
3 other Xperia handsets make the cut
CES 2012: 'Thousands' of new apps on board as RIM dishes the details on PlayBook OS 2.0
Official unveiling imminent
CES 2012: AT&T unveils 130-strong API catalogue for HTML5 web apps
Also set to launch AppCenter marketplace
CES 2012: Samsung unveils Smart TV support through its AdHub advertising platform
Allows access to 3D video through its VOD service
49% of US app consumption time is spent gaming, reckons Flurry
This ignores time spent on Facebook, however
CES 2012: Samsung to release AirPlay for Android rival SwipeIt
Available for videos and photos, not yet games
Learning Android Game Programming book aims to make Android development easy for beginners
With AndEngine framework and Java/Dalvik focus
Two more games for sale on eBay, though prices falling sharply
Bidders drying up
Apple set for combined iPhone and iPad sales of 170 million in 2012, predicts Canaccord Genuity
But Android device sales will be 335.5 million
No other handheld gaming device comes close to the PS Vita, reckons Icon's Hill-Whittall
And Sony the most developer-friendly platform holder
UK indie Icon Games changes focus to Sony after Nintendo's strong arm tactics
WiiWare download figures ban the last straw
Nokia buys turnkey OS outfit Smarterphone for undisclosed sum
Blurring the feature-smartphone gap
Nintendo tells UK indie to remove its WiiWare game download figures from blog
For the record, total was 40,810
Gameloft's looking to HTML5, Windows 8 and Smart TVs in 2012 says Gonzague de Vallois
Also has social network under construction
Mobile dominates Developers Choice award nominees for best handheld game
Only Mario can compete
Inspired by $16,000 sale of Buckshot, Simon Papineau puts 3 apps for auction on eBay
Going twice...
Credit Suisse upgrades Nokia to outperform on back of smartphone growth
But global mobile device shipments growth will slow in 2012
Mind-controlled zombie spoon-bending game 28 Spoons Later out for iOS
Uses NeuroSky's PLX XWave headset
Acer deals with new tablet price reality - 10-inch Icona A200 starts from $330
Or $350 for more capacity
PS Vita outsold 3 to 2 by PSP three weeks after Japanese launch
Re-invigorated 3DS top charts
Gingerbread on more than 50% of Android devices for the first time
ICS makes its first entry with 0.6%
Developer sells ownership of scavenger hunt game Buckshot on eBay, price up to $15,100
Buckshot app now going for major bucks
3DS sales in the US almost double over the holidays to reach 4 million units for 2011
Thanks to Zelda and Mario
Facebook tests game-related posts on its mobile news feed to drive user acquisition
Stretching its viral muscles
AR startup Blippar receives seed funding from Qualcomm Ventures
Total amount undisclosed
Ngmoco beefs up Stockholm studio hiring three from DICE
GM Ben Cousins goes back to source
Apple to host media event in New York City in January 2012
iPad 3 and Apple TV announcements unlikely
2011 in review, Matt Gilman, PocketGamer.biz
Freemium games need legitimate gameplay
Finland focus: Building the next generation of mobile gaming rockstar entrepreneurs
In the Venture Garage and The New Factory
Finland focus: Investing early is risky, but the right team reduces that risk, reckons Lifeline Ventures' Petteri Koponen
Finnish incubator outlines its mandate
Finland focus: Housemarque's Sami Koistinen on the move to iOS and spending 8,441 hours making Furmins
Developer doing it for itself
Finland focus: Frozenbyte's Mikael Haveri on the long road of hard lessons bringing its first iOS title Splot to launch
Console-based Trine dev enters the mobile ring
Finland focus: Tuokio's Jouni Salonen explains its on-device multiplayer game focus
Playing with real friends
Finland focus: Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen on the advent of social gaming 2.0
'Our approach to 'social' is pretty different'