Get Set Games' van Vliet says $95 Mega Jump in-app purchase has become one of our most lucrative sources of revenue
And adding TayJoy tripled income
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Trinigy rolls out Vision engine for mobile and handhelds
Vision is now on the Go
New social and mobile studio Outplay Entertainment sets up in Dundee
Now looking for talent
HP reveals iPad-esque 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet but with Flash and video calling
New smartphones too - 2.6-inch Veer and 3.6-inch Pre 3
RealNetworks cuts 130 jobs, Mr Goodliving rumoured to close
Final step in restructure to save $11 million annually
It's two years old and cost ten bucks but World of Goo still did 125,000 iPad sales in its launch month
$874,125 the richer, 2D Boy is surprised
Gameloft matches EA's 99c Valentine's App Store sale with 13 games cut and a vote for the 14th
Love for Verizon's new customers is in the air
With 10 million downloads, highest IAP for Mega Jump raised to $95
Mega bucks
Backflip's Farrior on why the smart money is on a multi-pronged approach to game monetisation
Less crying, more innovating please
Nokia updates Ovi Store with Qt based installation for Symbian^3 and full Arabic support
Getting better every day
EA cuts the prices of 27 iOS games to 99c in 'i love 99c' sale
Down in the US until February 9
With over 15 million iOS downloads to-date, Miniclip demonstrates App Store appeal
Doing 900,000 free downloads a day
Qualcomm releases a sneak peak of its $200,000 Augmented Reality Developer Challenge entries
Let's hope the money's real
Backflip sees total downloads hit 77 million, with 23 million MAUs and 830 million monthly ad impressions
Colorado-based studio also aggressively hiring
Gameloft's Sacred Odyssey try-before-you-buy model off to a slow start
Barrier to entry?
Stick Skater developer Traction Games is considering response to Stick Sports' IP infringement claim
Suggests US skateboarder fans unlikely to be confused
Get the full 53 minutes of Google's Android 3.0 press conference
From February 2, 2011
Stick Sports trademark infringement complaint could expand to more app stores
Passing off argument is core
Is $9.99 too high for the App Store? Firemint drops Real Racing 2 to $4.99
Sale until Valentine's Day
GREE sees Q2 FY11 net sales up 75% to $175 million
Riding the smartphone expansion
THQ Wireless sees Q3 FY11 sales drop 25 percent to $1.7 million
Only good news is slide is decreasing
RIM updates BlackBerry App World to support in-app purchases
Bit more for a bit more
Google launches web interface for Android Market
I can see clearly now
Namco Bandai sees mobile game subscriber numbers drop 3% to under 2.5 million
Downward trend
DeNA predicts full year sales of $1.3 billion as Q3 sales rise 153% to $359 million
Net income up 173% to $100 million
Save 25% on PG.biz Mobile Games Trends Report 2011
Early bird gets a £125 discount
EA targets Japanese social mobile gamers with Cave co-development deal
Heading for GREE platform
Capcom's mobile sales for nine months of FY11 hit $29 million
Smurfs' Village, Street Fighter and DeNA on the money
EA Mobile sees Holiday quarter sales up 5% to $59 million
App Store 99c sale and Chillingo reverse Q2 slump
ARM sees FY2010 revenue up 33% to $631 million
Profits surge 73% to $260 million
MocoSpace's HTML5 social mobile game Stage Hero has 350,000 MAUs within six weeks
Who needs apps?
Sponsored developer feature: Viaden Media
From Casino for iPad to All-in Fitness
Gameloft sees 2010 sales rise 16% to 141 million euros
iOS revenue up 63% compared to 2009
Samsung ships 25 million smartphones in 2010 as mobile sales rise 10% to $37 billion
Expects 2011 shipments to more than double
Angry Birds total downloads now over 50 million
It's still got wings
Rovio and Fox announce animated movie tie-in game Angry Birds Rio
Extending brands
Seven things we're going to ponder following Mobile Games Forum 2011
After the discussion comes thoughtfulness
Nokia's Ovi Store is the most popular app store in China
250 million mobile owners can't be wrong
MGF 2011: Future panel: Mobile evolves into everything, subsumes portables and consoles
A rising tide floats all mobile developers?
MGF 2011: Mobile Pie on adding a location-based compulsion loop to social freemium game MyStar
Title also highlights new API of UK operator Everything Everywhere
MGF 2011: Payment panel: On freemium hype, Angry Birds undersell, and attracting whales
The mechanics of monetary extraction
MGF 2011: OEM panel: Nokia fighting back with 3.5 million Ovi Store downloads per day
Samsung bullish on bada: more than an OS - an application framework
MGF 2011: We hope HTML5 will be a game changer for mobile says Facebook
Not the holy grail for games though
MGF 2011: XMG Studio's Ray Sharma on how EA screwed the App Store, why Blackberry is screwed and why you should move to Toronto
Technically the VC and research panel
Glu Mobile does 26 million iOS and Android downloads between October and December
Gun Bros. up to 2 million monthly active users
MGF 2011: Panel: So what's the point of a mobile publisher anyway?
Does a fish need a bicycle?
MGF 2011: The future for indie developers with Lima Sky, HandCircus, Wonderland, ustwo... and Google?
Fear, loathing, success, Android and app stores
MGF 2011: European mobile gaming market is 57 million strong and growing 51% yoy
Over 50% of iOS and Android owners are gamers
Adknowledge launches integrated monetisation and distribution Android SDK for freemium games
Plug, play and pay
Com2uS sees 2010 sales drop 12% to $25 million
But looking to iOS to drive 40% growth in 2011