NimbleBits doesn't actively track ARPU but Tiny Tower roughly has 5% conversion rate at $10 a payer
Tiny Tower grows higher
Command & Conquer franchise goes mobile in upcoming freemium MMOG Tiberium Alliances
EA-owned Phenomic in the general's seat
Intel merges notebook, tablet, mobility and communications divisions to gain mobile momentum
Former Apple man Bell to head venture
Outfit7's Talking Friends to make merchandising move thanks to licensing deal with Beanstalk Secure
Ten partnerships to expand brand
Beeline teams up with DreamWorks to develop film tie-in social mobile title Shrek's Fairytale Kingdom
Everyone's favourite ogre to get the freemium treatment
Team17 acquires Iguana as it looks to expand into social and mobile development
Worms Social expected soon
Thumbstar's CEO Gareth Edmondson takes over the reins at GameHorizon
Previous CEO Darren Jobling steps down after 7 years
Big Fish Games extends partnership with French outfit Anuman to bring Syberia to iOS
Signifies wider shift to mobile
DeNA partners with Alibaba to take Mobage to cloud-based OS Aliyun in China
Pre-loaded on first handset in early 2012
Gunshine studio Supercell now targeting mobile social, announcing asynchronous Battle Buddies
Battle Buddies With Friends
Nexage adds controls to its mediation platform including option to select and ban ads in real-time
Keeping the customers satisfied
Magmic's Troy Johnson on how BlackBerry's share is growing, not shrinking, and why HTML5 is a false prophet
Teaching the old dog new tricks
Apsalar CEO Michael Oiknine on providing developers with a causal link between in-game behaviour and revenue
Making the most of data and analysis
Apsalar highlights the power of information with new mobile user tracking and analysis tools
Instrument your apps to uncover lucrative behaviour
Concentrating on one device when developing across iPhone and iPad leads to better games, reckons 36peas' Gareth Jenkins
Design suffers when you mix-and-match
Ex-Visceral Games team sets up new Melbourne-based mobile studio PlaySide
Aiming for console quality
YetiZen's Sana Choudary on its unparalleled game-focused start up accelerator program
Now open for March intake
Orange standardises its global pre-loaded games business using Flexion's wrapper platform
Across all Android and Java devices
Imagination Tech sees half year FY12 revenue up 28% to £56.3 million
PowerVR chip designs driving growth
Fiksu CEO Micah Adler on why its incentivised download site FreeMyApps is good for free apps and paid games
Download free stuff, get paid games for free
Fiksu does a Tapjoy and launches consumer-facing iOS incentivised download service FreeMyApps
Currently only available for US iTunes accounts
Nokia on Windows Phone will draw consumers away from Android and BlackBerry, reckons Chaotic Moon's whurley
Playing for a long term win
TinyCo's Jennifer Lu on the advantages of launching iOS and Android social mobile games simultaneously
New capability thanks to internal Griffin engine
GREE and DeNA making a mistake trying to apply Japanese social gaming model in the west, claims PlayPhone's Anders Evju
One size does not fit all
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on what Rovio should do next?
Angry Birds' rebooted
Windows Phone president Lees given critical Windows Phone-Window 8 task by Steve Ballmer
Whatever it is, he's got to do it quick
Distimo highlights the download volume required to break into different countries' App Store free charts
USA predictably hardest chart to crack
Tapjoy does a Flurry and hires head of analytics to highlight market trends
Phil O'Neill will be joining the dots
Android Market's web store gets updated with new user review filters
Search by ratings, versions and models
Sony Ericsson's Arc HD (aka Nozomi) spotted in the wild
12-MP camera, 1280 x 720 pixel, 4.3 inch HD display
Apple's Mac App Store reaches 100 million download milestone
While App Store reaches 18 billion downloads total
Rumour: iPad 3 to launch by April, ODMs now receiving parts
10 million units to be manufactured in Q1 2012
iPhone 4S ready for Chinese release after receiving government permit
Rush release before the end of 2011
Samsung claims a record 300 million handset sales in 2011
Up 20 million on 2010
Rovio teams up with Lappset as Angry Birds set to take over playgrounds
First Finland, then the world
Facebook gaming has begun its downward trend but iOS is on the up, says PlayForge producer Tami Baribeau
More open market, more open to innovation
The PG.biz Hot Five: webOS goes open source, OnLive live on Android, and Angry Birds' as the mobile ad network
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Critically acclaimed
GREE plans to double US headcount with 100 hires expected during 2012
Gaining attention with zombie dog freeway billboards
FunMobility adds to exec team with ex-Glu producer Peter Traugot
And new downtown San Francisco office
Spacetime rolls out seamless support for iOS, Android and Chrome for its mobile MMOGs
Pocket Legends and Star Legends break down barriers
HP says it will continue to invest, support and develop webOS, but makes it open source
The answer is blowing in the wind
Barnes & Noble ups Nook Tablet production for 2011 by 200,000
Expects to have one million in retail channel
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus points to mobile growth with company up to 13 million DAUs
Words With Friends has 10 million player base
Russian combat sim specialist Gaijin Entertainment expands to Android
Releases Modern Conflict and Gomoku With Pals
Steel Media releases Free App Alliance app for iPhone
Finest free content highlighted daily
Supermono's Tak Fung on Red Robot deal and why he's always wanted to do a location-based game
Now he has the tech and resources
Nokia launches Lumia 710 in Taiwan, Singapore, India and Russia
Labels it 'personal, colourful, accessible, affordable'
Red Robot Labs buys Supermono for undisclosed sum, adds Phil Harrison as advisor
Ex-SCEE faces Hawley, Fung and Harrison reunited
AR specialist metaio launches free version of mobile SDK for iOS and Android
Already used in 70apps with 10 million downloads