GDC 2012: It's easy to make a game, but hard to find an audience says Zynga, highlighting its new Platform
#gdc Rebellion, Playdemic and Konami new partners
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GDC 2012: We ask 'Are our push notifications beloved?', says Zynga With Friends' Vijay Thakkar
#gdc All communications with players are vital
GDC 2012: The performance and convenience of mobile gaming is killing the console business says ngmoco's Ben Cousins
#gdc Developers need to jump platform now
Sulake CEO Paul LaFontaine on turning Habbo into a key gaming platform for mobile
Teens are voracious players
GREE and FreeAppADay sign comprehensive agreement for promotion of iOS games
Will provide new channels for iOS game marketing
GDC 2012: Applifier's Laakkonen on why Game Center and OpenFeint can't compare with Facebook for mobile game discoverability
#gdc It's all about scale
GDC 2012: PopCap's Contestabile on how setting Bejeweled Blitz free meant 9x more downloads and 5x more revenue
#gdc The power of fun and free-to-play
GDC 2012: We're in the sweetspot of location-based gaming, says Grey Area's Markus Montola
#gdc The future is now
GDC 2012: Pocket Gems' Ben Liu on launching games fast and iterating even faster for App Store success
#gdc New content weekly, new features every 2 weeks
Pocket Gamer's GDC 2012 party photos
Happy people in San Francisco
GDC 2012: Apple killing offerwalls has had a big impact on the viability of iOS F2P gaming, says Riptide's Brian Robbins
#gdc Decision skews market to Android
GDC 2012: Chris Plummer on mobile social RPG Skyfall, ngmocos first DeNA-inspired freemium game
#gdc Bringing exploration to the genre
GDC 2012: How PlayFirst built up Diner Dash to be an iOS hit with 72% retention through 30 updates
#gdc Company has over 6 million MAUs on iOS
GDC 2012: The key metric for us is the lifetime value of a player says Glu's Mike DeLaet
#gdc While Gamevil expects $2M revenue per game to make a sequel
Industrial Toys' Tim Harris on tearing up preconceptions about core mobile gaming
Mixing console and mobile chops to full effect
Appbackr reveals its StoreScore marketability metric, enabling Android app stores to generate their own custom channels
Each app rated on an individual store basis
Opinion: As Apple speeds the end of UDIDs, the industry needs to fight back with a cross platform standard
Flip a weakness on iOS to a wider strength
Creative Assembly announces Unity-powered Total War Battles for mobile
Series reimagined in a distinct new direction
Supercell sets up US office, headed by ex-Electrified Games president Greg Harper
Preps for tablet first approach to social mobile market
Pocket Gamer, Papaya Mobile and Manse Games combine for Tampere networking event
Let's get friendly in Finland on 26 March
GameSpy celebrates the success of its indie developer Open program announcing 1,200 sign ups
Over 600 games in development
Amazon will switch on in-app purchases for Appstore for Android 'soon'
Another piece of the puzzle
Core online F2P outfit Aeria Games commits to mobile announcing US studio and three titles
Powering up for power players
PocketGamer.biz top 50 developers of 2012 available as PDF magazine
For your reading pleasure
GamesAnalytics signs up fiveonenine to improve player experience in its new politically relevant games
Data mining to keep the customer satisfied
Reward network Kiip launches self service option, backed with $100,000 Build fund for new indie games
Levelling up
Peter Vesterbacka on why Rovio is looking to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US
Also planning 100 Angry Birds retail stores in China
G5 Entertainment announces 40 million downloads, 1 million on Kindle Fire
This market's on fire
MWC 2012: Nokia Store over 13 million downloads a day
Numbers to shake an app store at
InMobi's Limvirak Chea on why the mobile ad industry needs to focus on quality, not growth
Incentivised downloads are only short term gain
Here Comes Disruption
Top 10 mobile game developers to watch in 2012
The strategy's in place for our success with BB10 says RIM VP Martyn Mallick
PlayBook is the proving ground for reinvention
MWC 2012: Number of cores matters less than sustained performance, says Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok
Dual cores can be better than quads
Pocket Gamer's MWC 2012 party photos
Made in conjunction with RIM and Appromoter
CEO John Criswick on lessons learned from 10 years of Magmic
The game is always changing
PlayHaven's Andy Yang on providing 'Zynga in a box' tools for the rest of the industry
It's all about actionable data
The PG.biz Hot Five: Fake Pokemon hit the App Store, Industrial Toys decloaks, and the PG.biz top 50 starts to count down
Last week's top five stories
Rumours swirl as Nokia promises 'significant industry news' at Mobile World Congress
Microsoft to splash the cash?
GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs on how its incentivised virtual currency is seamless for users and liquid for developers
Will drive global downloads across Android app stores
Modern Combat 2 and Asphalt 6 go free on PlayBook as part of OS 2.0 update
Building an ecosystem
PocketGamer.biz's top 50 developers of 2012 kicks off
Prepare the drum roll
Global Winners
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2012
The movers and shakers of the past 12 months
Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian steps up to save core gamers on mobile with new outfit Industrial Toys
Dreamworks, Marvel and DC veterans also onboard
Qualcomm announces dates and opens early bird registration for Uplinq 2012
In San Diego, 27-28 June
GREE wins $3 million in damages from DeNA over fishing game copyright infringement
DeNA appeals the ruling
Speculation in Finnish press values Rovio at more than $6 billion
Company shareholding structure also revealed
DeNA builds out Chinese Android distribution for Mobage with Huawei deal
Dedicated section on HiSpace app store
GetJar launches Android-based virtual currency across GetJar, Android Market and Amazon Appstore
Get Gold for downloads
Fast growing Russian social mobile company Game Insight sets up San Francisco publishing office
Looking for North American dev partners
The9's Chris Shen on why DeNA, GREE and The9 should work together to grow the Chinese gaming market
It's too early to get competitive