SGN's CEO Breen: We're going to be one of the iPhone companies to break away from the pack
Android titles coming in 2010 too
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Articles by Jon Jordan
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Predicted sales growth 28 percent in 2010
Noel Llopis of Snappy Touch on the rise, fall and rise of Flower Garden
Eight months. $21,500. $13.44/hour. But getting better
Casual online portal SkillPod goes mobile with Ovi and iPhone
Android and BlackBerry to follow too
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Lots of apps for this and that
Smaato reckons average mobile ad fillrate is 55%
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First Crystal social networked games to launch in January
Guerrilla Bob shoots up with new community features
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Switching from Microsoft to Google
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A really soft launch reckons Flurry
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Free for a day then revenue for months
Ovi Store opens up for Nokia N900
Includes Maemo 5 version of Bounce Evolution
Entry for International Mobile Gaming Awards closes 18 January
Innovative mobile game makers better get their skates on
FreeAppaDay to offer a free iPhone game daily
Will be backed by promotion within OpenFeint
Celebrate The Best
The Top 50 iPhone Developers of 2009
We salute the teams and individuals who made 2009 such a brilliant year for iPhone gaming
Phoenix New Media launches iPhoneGameRebate.com
Another way to promote games
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Our approach is now for service-orientated games
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AT&T and Samsung will be launch customers
AT&T goes high-end with Android and mid-range with Brew
Will have Dell's first phone exclusively
Gameloft's sold 10 million iPhone games
Paid downloads please note
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We need one-touch billing integration for mobile devices
Ubisoft muscles out Gameloft over key iPhone titles
Sibling rivalry kicks off in 2010
Google launches 'first in a series of superphones' - Nexus One
Experimenting with direct to consumer web store sales model
The 10 most significant iPhone games of 2009: part 2
From Skee-Ball to Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies
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The money is where the audience is
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Over one billion ad requests serviced
How NimbleBit made a return of $1,687 per dev hour on Scoops
Only $59 per hour on Moon Drop though
Hands-On CEO de Masi jumps ship to Glu Mobile
Executive headhunting meets musical chairs
Palm announces 600 paid apps live in US webOS store
European shop front to open in March
The 10 most significant iPhone games of 2009: part 1
From Terminator Salvation to Rolando 2
That was the year that was: Jason Citron, Aurora Feint
In-app purchases will really hit their stride in 2010
That was the year that was: Kyu C. Lee, Gamevil
2010 will be a year of platform competition
That was the year that was: Stephen Hey, Connect2Media
2010 will see more demanding customers
Fairlady reveals user stats behind the million downloaded Spazzle
Very low percentage of jailbroken play
The top 10 most significant mobile gaming stories of 2009: part 2
From the rise of BlackBerry to 99c iPhone games
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Developers need to focus on quality, not volume
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Now supporting over 650 games
The top 10 most significant mobile gaming stories of 2009: part 1
From the end of N-Gage to the rise of app stores
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Up over 120 percent in the UK
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From WoW on iPhone to $20 App Store premium section
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In-app purchases in My Brute are already a great success
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Discovery of iPhone games will be key
Doodle Jump does 79,422 sales on Christmas Day
Sales accelerating with 500k predicted in December
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The freemium business model is win-win
Downloads to iPod touch jump 1,000% over Xmas reckons Flurry
2.5 times more volume than for iPhone
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Prepare for sequels, collaborations, big brands and cross-platform development
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Charging 99c for a game is silly
Happy Christmas from PocketGamer.biz
Shouldn't you be doing something else today?
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Laying the foundations for cross-platform development
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