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Imperial Game Studio's Martin Flensburg on cross platform deployment and Android fragmentation
Google needs to create Android device reference groups
Urban Airship's Scott Kveton on filling in the IAP gaps left by Android Market
Value-add services
Game discovery platform TeePee Games gains investment from Turner Broadcasting Europe
Boost to launch strategy
PocketGamer.biz readers get a 50% discount for AppNation conference
Save money at the Show Me The Money bizdev show
iDreamsky's Michael Chen on building a Chinese Game Center for Android
And why western developers should get involved
PG.biz week that was: Gamevil likes Amazon Appstore, Honeycomb will be open, AGON stops, Zipline starts, HTC profits, Xoom hasn't, 4th & Battery rejected, and Apple gets game PR
The news of the past seven days compressed
Having poached Nintendo dude, Apple UK gets Activision's European PR head Nick Grange
Games guys to spearhead press push
Learn about app discovery, monetisation and bizdev at AppNation
Happening in San Francisco on April 27 and 28
Great launch, but publishers also want IAP, alternative billing, Game Center, and global rollout for Amazon Appstore
Keeping the customer satisfied
Amazon Appstore for Android is perfect mass market channel says HandyGames' Christopher Kassulke
Great opportunity for distributing free games
With half its Android revenues coming outside the official Market, HeroCraft has high hopes for Amazon's Appstore
Openess trumps Apple's central planning system
Namco Bandai's Jonathan Kromrey says the Amazon Appstore is becoming a force du jour
Now all it needs is IAP and Game Center
Gamevil's Kyu Lee on why the Amazon Appstore will bring a lot of value to Android
Another strong piece added to a fast maturing ecosystem
Storm8's Johnny Coghlan on making social games that are downloaded hundreds of millions of times
The network effect
PopCap stops its designers' heads exploding with launch of experimental label 4th & Battery
First game will be Unpleasant Horse for iPhone
Following 5.5 million downloads of Slice It!, Com2uS' Don Lim says Android is becoming a 'free plus' market
Waiting on Amazon Appstore maturity
Zipline announces Moai, its Lua-based cross platform game middleware
Supports iOS and Android
Oberon drops internal development, becomes pure distribution channel
Retrenchment continues
DistinctDev brings The Moron Test to BlackBerry
Intel AppUp and Mac App Store future targets
AGON Online servers to be permanently shut down on June 30
Mobile social network folds
Game Doctors' Hochsmann on why zombie killing gameplay will always be guilt-free
Welcome to ZombieSmash! Camp Nowhere
We welcome competition. It's good for publishers and consumers, says Tapjoy's Deng-Kai Chen
Incentivising the incentivisers
Analysis: Amazon Appstore has cheaper and exclusive Android titles, but Glu is selling freemium games
Reverse psychology
Glu and HandyGames are the biggest early supporters of Amazon Appstore for Android
EA Mobile and Gameloft seem unconvinced
Union deal will see dozens of Unity games coming to BlackBerry PlayBook from the summer says GM Brett Seyler
Will include new IP as well as iOS and Android faves
Android/iOS road navigation app Waze promotes US Nintendo 3DS launch
Routes to the magic mushroom
RIM will control and curate Android content; only available via BlackBerry App World
Repackage, submit and hope?
Ideaworks and Unity add game support for BlackBerry PlayBook
Integrated into Airplay plus titles from Union
Record year for RIM with FY11 revenue up 33% to $19.9 billion and income up 47% to $3.4 billion
Shipped 52.3 million smartphones
Amazon wants broadest possible selection of apps on AppStore for Android says Aaron Rubenson
Catalog expansion follows successful launch
Miniclip's Sergio Varanda on expanding its 25 million iOS download success to Android
And why straightforward game controls are key
Gameloft sees 2010 profits jump 127% to a record 13.6 million euros
iOS sales up 63%. Next up social games assault
Apple forces adult Android app store MiKandi to rebrand as an adult app market
Lawyers and swinging dicks
First impressions of Amazon Appstore for Android
Solid launch is win-win for the Android platform
Bizmey CEO Arfan Chaudhry on how competition will drive innovation in mobile monetisation strategies
Plus the untapped market of Indonesia gamers
Gamagio's Dom Duhan on how the irresistible lure of mobile and social gaming triggered the start up
From road friction coefficients to HTML5
UK racing sim studio Slightly Mad retools as social mobile/web outfit Gamagio
Facebook, HTML5, iOS and Android targeted
Chris Wright on how GamesAnalytics will help you make better, more profitable games
The power of real-time data
Qualcomm bigs up the power of its Snapdragon and Adreno processors
Powering WP7, Xperia Play, TouchPad and more
New mobile monetisation outfit Bizmey seeks to boost your revenue
Mixing virtual currency with per install model
Zynga buys Floodgate team, rolled into Zynga Boston
Mobile and PC dev snapped up
Banned from App Store and Android Market, iBoobs finds a home at MiKandi
Jiggle ladies' chests for IAP
Gameloft reveals its first MMOG - Order & Chaos Online
Breaking out from premium model
Two years on, Lima Sky says 10 million seller Doodle Jump has Angry Birds potential
Coming to iPad, Kinetic, Windows Phone 7 and more
Investors' experience will help Rovio become a global market leader say CEO Hed
VC round was more than cash in
Digital Chocolate joins Sony Ericsson to claim social gaming audience for Xperia Play
Tapping 'new gamer segments' apparently
Apple separates iTunes log-ins for app downloads and in-app purchases in iOS 4.3
One way of solving accidental Smurfberry purchases
Opinion: Rovio's switch from counting downloads to boasting Angry Birds' 40 million MAUs demonstrates key change of focus
From one-shot to service
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Those who did were all happy folk