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Generating 79% of revenue from IAP, Gamevil sees sales up 40% to $9 million
Lifted by smartphone growth
Indie games agency Bandello announces new LaunchPad PR service for developers
Prepared for take off
Chartboost CEO Maria Alegre on why its direct advertising deal with TinyCo is great for them and for signed up developers
Get your ad cash and the 'middle-man's cut'
Samsung is working on bada tablets
Telling press one thing, developers something else
Com2uS' Lydia Heitman on the impact of the new Games section on the Korean App Store
A great opportunity for local audience and indies
MoVend signs up for appbackr's SmartApps algorithm to populate Asian app stores including Samsung Apps
Reckons it can predict the hits
THQ posts H1 FY12 mobile revenue of $1.47 million, down 51%
Releasing Apples to Apples and Margaritaville Online in Q3
Windows Phone will support native code, but only when Windows Phone 8 is released
C# will be the standard until mid-2012
As it prepares for its most active quarter of releases, Glu CEO de Masi says its scale is crucial for success
Big appetite to win
Konami highlights its status as the world's biggest mobile game publisher, posting $220 million of mobile revenue for H1 FY12
Now has the top 5 games on GREE
PG.biz week that was: Angry Birds does 500m, DeNA's out of beta, GREE's catching it fast, Glu and Tapjoy look to the future, and the Korean App Store gets games
It was all happening last week...
Glu to support Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet with six launch games
We're betting Gun Bros. will be one
Zynga updates S-1 form; mobile DAUs up to 9.9 million
Expected to float before Thanksgiving
Glu Mobile sees MAUs rise to 22.1 million, while average IAP transactions are up 57% to $6.40
34% of its smartphone revenue is now from Android
Glu Mobile estimates global smartphone gaming market will be worth $2 billion in 2012
Split 60:40 between iOS and Android
As it becomes a majority smartphone company for the first time, Glu Mobile sees Q3 2011 revenues up 9% to $16.9 million
Breakeven predicted in early 2013
Tapjoy's cross platform consumer app marketplace is 'visionary' and 'disruptive', argues CMO Peter Dille
New plan more valuable than the old
Qualcomm sees FY11 sales up 36% to $14.96 billion
Now sitting on a cash pile of $21 billion
With 60 million MAUs, Talking Friends company Outfit7 looks to open up its distribution network
Becoming a publisher of family friendly apps and games
Capcom reinforces mobile structure; Beeline to expand, now reports direct to Japan
GREE and Mobage targets for new domestic teams
Capcom becomes a key global mobile player, predicts annual FY12 sales of around $80 million
H1 sales up 89 percent year-on-year
Gameloft continues its upwards trajectory, with Q3 FY11 sales rising 17% to 40.6 million euros
Matches EA Mobile for the calendar period
GREE sets up venture fund to invest in SE Asian internet start ups
Getting in on the ground floor
Ubisoft acquires Trials and DrawRace developer RedLynx
Publisher continues its digital download expansion
Powering ahead, GREE sees Q1 FY12 sales up 145% to $395 million
Net income up 156% to $123 million
No name, few details but GREE announces new best-of-breed mobile social gaming platform for 2012
To combine GREE Japan's ARPU with OpenFeint's reach
Booyah CEO Jason Willig on rethinking location-based games so check-ins are an enhancement, not a turn off
Place as personalised experience
BlackBerry's nextgen 'Colt' BBX smartphones already in the hands of game developers
Expect early 2012 availability
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the prospects for Nokia-fuelled Windows Phones
Lumia - a new dawn?
DeNA lays out an ambitious plan for Mobage Global including $50m of quarterly IAP sales within 6 months
Tiny Tower, Tiny Chef in-coming, plus iOS version
Cash continues to flow at DeNA with FY11 Q2 net income up 7% yoy to $105 million
Sales static on quarterly basis though
US developer Ludei demonstrates triple play, releasing new game on iOS, Android and HTML5
Sumon is everywhere
Samsung Electronics boosted by strong sales of Galaxy devices, with Q3 2011 telecoms sales up 37% to $12.5 billion
Operating profits up to $2.1 billion
Zynga values the price of a Facebook Like as a 2 cent charitable donation
Viral feelgood
Tapjoy gets around Apple's incentivised download ban for iOS with new web-based platform
And there's an app for Android users
EA predicts global digital mobile and handheld gaming market will be worth $4.1 billion in 2011
Up to $5.1 billion by 2013
EA Mobile sees Q2 FY12 sales up 8% yoy to $55 million, while smartphone revenues are up 87%
However sales are down compared to Q1
EA Mobile to offer exclusive games package for Nokia Windows Phone
Plus free Java games for Asha range
Nokia World 2011: Rovio's Vesterbacka: 'People congratulate me but for what? This is only a start.'
#NokiaWorld Digital publishing next for Rovio
Applifier CEO Jussi Laakkonen on his goal to build the largest cross promotion network for mobile games
Building on its Facebook strength
ARM sees FY11 Q3 sales up 20% to £120 million, profits up 47% to £56 million
Added 14 new customers, 1.9 billion chips shipped
BBM social SDK v1.0 released for avatar interaction, achievements and viral app distribution
Get your messenger on
Gameloft taps up US investors with over-the-counter ADR share listing
Available via Deutsche Bank from 27 October
Five key gaming takeaways from RIM's BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011
#bbdevcon This ain't your banker's BlackBerry
Opinion: The painful progression of DeNA and GREE's $500 million US expansion
Culture clashes, staff unrest, slow tech integration
85% of developers in first Pocket Gamer survey are 'positive or very positive' about industry
Future's so bright...
Our goal was coolmercial: ustwo's mills on the making of Whale Trail
Making Willow loop-the-loop
BB DevCon 11: Anders Jeppsson, RIM's first head of games, on the opportunities and challenges with BlackBerry
#bbdevcon We need to create a healthy ecosystem
BB DevCon 11: Magmic on the opportunities of freemium on BlackBerry; top players of Texas Hold 'Em King spend over $5,000
#bbdevcon Playing at the top table