Finland focus: Grey Area's Ville Vesterinen on taking Shadow Cities to the world stage
Singapore and US coasts are up biggest communities
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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
Finland focus: Ovelin's Mikko Kaipainen on how its debut WildChords teaches guitar to the masses
Game solution to a musical problem
Finland focus: Sandbox freemium play is difficult but possible reckons Grand Cru's Markus Pasula
Overcoming the problem of fun
Finland focus: 10tons' Vice CEO Sampo Töyssy on gaining 'relatively good' sales from webOS
Kindle Fire presents discoverability challenge
How Finnish mobile developers are preparing to soar in a post-Angry Birds' world
Taking advantage of the uplift
Tetris guru Henk Rogers calls Angry Birds cute but temporary
I'll show you longevity...
Gameloft issues apology over 'poor gaming experience' in freemium version of Hero of Sparta 2
Bad adverts a turn off for fans
Trio of Angry Birds games finally land on BlackBerry PlayBook
Hardly little, but still too late?
6waves Lolapps first iOS game Yeti Town sweeps to #2 in US top free App Store chart
Just in time for the holiday freeze
MoMinis launches new Android 'Mega-Game' experience PlayScape to incentivise IAP and new game purchases
Claims 5-12% conversion rates
Google's Rubin reveals daily Android activations up to 700,000
Doesn't include re-sold devices
On the back of Social Girl's success, Crowdstar cheekily positions itself as a mobile Zynga
Reaches 1 million downloads in its first week
MocoSpace study shows 45+ year olds are 7.5 times more likely to buy IAP than 18-25s
Less time playing, more time paying
Social game ad specialist appssavvy receives $7.1 million investment
Looks to strengthen monetisation tech
Eric Schmidt suggests Nexus tablet will be out in six months
Reading between Italian lines
GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs predicts Android's #1 status in 2012 but also significant fragmentation and openess issues
Paid apps to fade to memory
Greystripe claims its Ad Boosters raise click through rate of mobile ads by 300%
Social components a 'no brainer' for advertisers
Nordic Game conference 2012 calls out for speakers
Submissions due before 1 February
Zynga posts IPO price at $10 with 100 million shares for sale
With an extra 15 million for surplus demand
Mobile MMO Pocket Legends joins Heyzap gaming network
Now with integrated social network support
Kindle Fire selling like 'hot iPads', millions already sold
Amazon best selling product for past 11 weeks
Sony Ericsson makes Ice Cream Sandwich alpha ROM available for Xperia devices
But only for advanced developers
Command & Conquer franchise goes mobile in upcoming freemium MMOG Tiberium Alliances
EA-owned Phenomic in the general's seat
Beeline teams up with DreamWorks to develop film tie-in social mobile title Shrek's Fairytale Kingdom
Everyone's favourite ogre to get the freemium treatment
Thumbstar's CEO Gareth Edmondson takes over the reins at GameHorizon
Previous CEO Darren Jobling steps down after 7 years
Gunshine studio Supercell now targeting mobile social, announcing asynchronous Battle Buddies
Battle Buddies With Friends
Distimo highlights the download volume required to break into different countries' App Store free charts
USA predictably hardest chart to crack
Android Market's web store gets updated with new user review filters
Search by ratings, versions and models
Sony Ericsson's Arc HD (aka Nozomi) spotted in the wild
12-MP camera, 1280 x 720 pixel, 4.3 inch HD display
Apple's Mac App Store reaches 100 million download milestone
While App Store reaches 18 billion downloads total
Rumour: iPad 3 to launch by April, ODMs now receiving parts
10 million units to be manufactured in Q1 2012
iPhone 4S ready for Chinese release after receiving government permit
Rush release before the end of 2011
Rovio teams up with Lappset as Angry Birds set to take over playgrounds
First Finland, then the world
iQU's Reinout te Brake on creating a centralised marketing place for games, not the 'disruptive approach' of GREE, DeNA and Papaya
Tracking gamer behaviour is the key
Astraware CEO Tomlinson on making the most of platforms such as Nook, webOS and Kindle Fire
Has dropped Symbian, Palm and BlackBerry though
World's first Android retail experience opens its doors in Australia
It even smells of Gingerbread
Sony to remove Ericsson name from future smartphones come mid-2012
Aims to reclaim Android market share
Nexon IPO to raise $1.2 billion, largest in Japan during 2011
Goes live 14 December
The PG.biz Hot Five: FAAD gets new social app, Zynga's bad rep and Nokia big up Lumia 800 sales
Last week's top five stories
Rumour: Tapjoy looking for trade sale with Zynga, GREE and DeNA in the picture
IPO also still on the cards?
RIM reveals unshipped PlayBooks result in a $485 million charge
But still committed to the device
Lack of demand to blame as Astraware drops BlackBerry, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian
Ailing OSes put out to pasture
Sony in negotiations with Adobe to add Flash support to PS Vita
Not dead just yet
Halfbrick's Luke Muscat to present Jetpack Joyride focused design session at GDC 2012
To be held March 5-9 in San Francisco
CrowdStar to launch Android version of mobile social hit Top Girl on Amazon Appstore
Exclusivity deal to last 2 weeks
Sega partners with PapayaMobile to bring social play to Android RPG Fallen Realms
Will launch on Papaya's network
Nintendo 3DS outpacing predecessor as 8 month total tops DS's year one tally, claims Reggie Fils-Aime
An expected recovery?
Atari hires Marvel man Gui Karyo as EVP as firm's mobile move marches on
Breakout: Boost set for iOS splash
HP to decide future of webOS within next two weeks, claims CEO Whitman
To sell or not to sell
Benchmark Games iTunes promo highlights most innovative iOS games
Innovative, Intuitive, Stunning, Quick and Hardcore