Key game trends from the iPhone App Store
What have we learnt from week one?
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Stuart Dredge
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EU cracking down on rogue mobile content services
Shut down the rip-off merchants!
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Greystripe targeting ad-funded iPhone games
Also announces Celltick deal
Medialets releases iPhone App Store metrics
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EA still 'evaluating' their release on this side of the pond
Family Guy publisher gets out of mobile games
Airborne Mobile focusing on other content after MBO
EA Mobile hails the launch of the iPhone App Store
Tim Harrison chuffed with 'revolutionary' user interface
First response to the iPhone App Store
Not quite as polished as we expected
Playman 3 is the best mobile game of 2008, so far...
Summer Games vaults into gold medal position
iPhone App Store goes live earlier than expected
5pm was only the official launch, it seems
RealArcade tops PG.biz Quality Index for Q2 2008
But the big guns aren't far behind
Digital Chocolate's Party Island in Facebook beta
Intriguing next step in connected gaming
iPhone App Store launching tonight at 5pm GMT
Get your game on this evening
Mobile content set to boom in Latin America
But will games firms be able to make the most of it?
Robosoft pitching iPhone porting services
Hoping to capitalise on App Store launch
GCube Ventures aiming to invest in games firms
Is mobile on their agenda though?
UK developer Stainless Games supporting iPhone
They can't say with what games, obviously...
Channel 4 mulls a move into mobile games
Part of wider games funding effort
Granada signs Gameloft and Capcom for TV spin-off mobile games
The Krypton Factor and University Challenge on the way
Fishlabs launching myFishlabs mobile games community
Going it alone with connected features
Greystripe launches Game Download Widget
WAP link offering free games
Oberon delighted with Bubble Town Facebook success
More than 150k daily active users already
Gravity mobile game revenues increase
Ragnarok Online firm seeing growth in mobile
Opinion: iPhone poses a significant threat to N-Gage
Could Nokia's platform risk looking like yesterday's technology
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Get your games in quick to go live on launch day
Forum Nokia launches WidSets developer service
Get on board for mobile widgets
GlobalFun gets aggregator role for PlayNow Arena
Deal follows five years of co-operation with Sony Ericsson
Danish mobile developer 3rd Person shuts up shop
Misslead series also canned
BioWare interested in iPhone development
Makes us wonder if iPhone will spark licensing struggles
Cellufun poaches Gameloft exec Keith Katz
Also nabs Third Screen Media founder Tom Burgess
Mo'Minis mobile game service scoops Israeli start-up award
Mo'Minis: No problems
IG Fun strikes Movaya distribution deal
Using the former's PlugNPlay system
Gameloft experimenting with Facebook games
Brain Challenge first title to transfer from mobile
Former EA exec jumps ship to iPhone games startup
Neil Young brings Ngmoco out of stealth mode
EA Mobile planning cross-platform games
That's mobile to console to PC
Greystripe launches Mobile Engagement Platform
Ad-funded games going beyond just full-screen ads
Xendex secures EUR 2.3 million investment
Expansion into DS development likely
Blyk expanding to Germany, Spain and Belgium
This does mean something for mobile games firms, too
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Really?
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Pixie Hollow giving users the butterflies
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