BB DevCon 11: PlayBook Android Player is an opportunity for experimentation but native is best says RIM's Alec Saunders
#bbdevcon Especially for high end gaming
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BB DevCon 11: Scoreloop's Marc Gumpinger reveals social gaming network has 80 million users
#bbdevcon Hosted 750 million sessions, 5 billion scores
BB DevCon 11: 65% of Android apps should work on PlayBook without code changes, reckons RIM
#bbdevcon Although certain APIs aren't supported
BB DevCon 11: 'We're turbo charging our games catalog,' says RIM's Chris Smith:
#bbdevcon Thanks to Marmalade, Unity and ShiVa3D
RIM announces BBX platform, releases Native SDK for PlayBook and beta for Android runtime
Scoreloop SDK also in beta
BB DevCon 11: BlackBerry App World is the second most profitable app store claims Alec Saunders
#bbdevcon 13% of devs made +$100k apparently
BB DevCon 11: BlackBerry App World hits one billion downloads, 5 million apps per day
#bbdevcon 25 million BBM Connected apps already
BB DevCon 11: We're aligning behind BBX - the best of BlackBerry and the best of QNX, says Lazaridis
#bbdevcon RIM co-CEO remains bullish
10 things that I'm going to be thinking hard about following GDC Online 2011
#gdc_online And that's a wrap
Johnny Coghlan and Elliott Chin announce new mobile publisher Ayopa Games
Ex-Chillingo/Storm8 chap joined by Sega/Logitech exec
GP Bullhound's Dafferner expects a couple of $100+ million mobile game M&A deals
Investment bank releases research paper
As Rovio talks up $1+ billion IPO, rumours suggest DAUs for the original Angry Birds game are dropping
Have we reached the start of Peak Angry Birds?
DeNA's Mobage platform off to a slow start says JP Morgan
At least according to Android Market metrics
GDC Online 11: MocoSpace on the opportunities and challenges of the 'HTML5 gold rush'
#gdc_online Build me a cross platform future
Ubisoft re-enters mobile space as part of wider digital push
Working with Bulkypix for first iPad release
GDC Online 11: John Vechey on the social gaming transition and why PopCap now has monetisation designers
#gdc_online Change is always in the air
GDC Online 11: Our focus on metrics and monetisation is killing mobile games, rants Graeme Devine
#gdc_online Shout, shout, let it all out
GDC Online 11: Zynga With Friends' Thakkar on why the studio forces users to update their games
#gdc_online Rules from the cross platform trenches
Union's refocused not derailed; our commitment to developers is even stronger, says Unity's Erickson
First games for Nokia N9 have gone live
GDC Online 11: Funzio, Pocket Gems, TinyCo and Storm8 talk user acquisition, Facebook and the race to a billion dollars
#gdc_online Masters of the social mobile universe
Confusion over Unity's Union program as Brett Seyler and Brian Bruning leave
Getting out of the custom aggregation business?
GDC Online 11: Developing and distributing games for China, Korea and Japan panel
#gdc_online Looking for Eastern opportunity
GDC Online 11: Android's piracy and compatibility issues mean it's not a viable platform for us says Appy's Sargent
#gdc_online Piracy rate was 70:1 compared to 3:1 on iOS
GDC Online 11: PopCap's Contestabile says Android ARPU could rise from 20% of iOS to 50% by end of 2012
#gdc_online Following the green robot
Gameloft retrospectively turns Brothers in Arms 2 and Fishing Kings into free-to-play titles
Buy weapons and equipment to go faster
Pocket Gamer will be at GDC Online
With additional party time
Jobs' death meant Apple-Facebook HTML5-iOS 5 announcement was postponed reckons Robert Scoble
Pulled from F8, pushed from Let's talk iPhone
Steve Jobs dies at 56
'His spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple'
G5 Entertainment's doing 4 million downloads a month on iOS and Android
Russian publisher looking up
Parallel Kingdom's players buy 838 Soup Can Hats to fund Kenyan famine charity
Uses PlayMob's GiverBoard tech
Kindle Fire pre-orders 'leaked' at 254,074 in first five days
Fastest 'tablet' 'sales' to-date
Claritics adds HTML5 support to Social Intelligence analytics suite
Track users across mobile, Facebook and browser in one framework
Kick up the arse of the law: Making of Hector: Badge of Carnage
Point and flush
Infinity Blade has generated more than $20 million
Paid download total around 5 million
Epic and Adobe raises mobile and browser gaming to console level with Unreal Engine 3 support for Flash 11
Your console is dead
EA sells 879,000 copies of FIFA 12 on iOS in launch week
All kicking off
Game Center has 67 million users
Conversion rate guestimated at less than 50 percent
FGOL sees Hungry Shark installs rise by 5 million in 8 weeks as it switches to freemium
Series total downloads now 24 million-strong
DeNA heads into Latin America with Atakama Labs acquisition
Part of masterplan to increase headcount to 1,000
HTML5 is at least 10 times faster on iOS 5 than iOS 4, says YoYo Games boss Sandy Duncan
Apple plans to dominate native and browser gaming
DS Effects' Dario Sciacca on selling its 200-strong HTML5 game catalog to operators
Hooks into advertising, premium SMS and subscription
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on what's going to be the most exciting Apple news of the week
Plus a bonus gold versus APPL shares question
Tapjoy presentation suggests top iOS and Android games should be monetising 10% of players at $0.15 ARPDAU rate
Plus an additional $2 eCPM for adverts
Tapjoy's working to become a consumer brand says new CMO Peter Dille
Ex-Sony man bringing mobile ad company centre stage
PG.biz week that was: Amazon gets serious with $199 Kindle Fire, Microsoft releases Mango, and Unity embraces the future in Unite 11
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Playfish exec Shanti Bergel joins GREE as SVP of business development
Follow the money
Ex-QNX, Microsoft and Versatel exec Alec Saunders replaces Tyler Lessard as RIM's developer relations head
Looking forward not back
Hairbrained Schemes' Jordan Weisman on the fresh intrigues and challenges of mobile gaming
Ex-Microsoft man on Crimson's success
Ex-IUGO and Glu Mobile exec Sarah Thomson joins OpenFeint as director of developer relations
Right person to keep platform growing
Emerging markets social publisher Peak Games raises $11.5 million, looks to increase releases, move into mobile
Further studio and user acquisition on the cards