Godzilab, One Man Left, Retro Dreamer, Matt Rix and Fargoal band together for Christmas charity
Supporting Child's Play and Doctors Without Borders
Neon Play's Oli Christie on the importance of cross-promotion and the increasing squeeze on freemium social games
'Savage churn rate' of App Store free chart
Android's continued ascent in US sees BlackBerry lose 4.5% share in 3 months, reports comScore
4S launch also sees iPhone jump 1%
The PG.biz Hot Five: FAAD gets new social app, Zynga's bad rep and Nokia big up Lumia 800 sales
Last week's top five stories
PG.biz week that was: Rovio goes nutty, Zynga gets angry, Bigpoint looks to mobile, and W3i offers developers $10 million
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Infinity Blade II, Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion
Critically acclaimed
EA, BioWare and Zynga execs form Rumble Entertainment, secure $15 million of funding
Social aspect including mobile
Rumour: Tapjoy looking for trade sale with Zynga, GREE and DeNA in the picture
IPO also still on the cards?
RIM reveals unshipped PlayBooks result in a $485 million charge
But still committed to the device
Facebook signs up Sencha's James Pearce as new head of developer relations
Bolstering social network's move on mobile
CGO Philip Reisberger on why mobile and tablets will be very important for Bigpoint in 2012
Bringing Farmerama companion app to iOS any day
Lack of demand to blame as Astraware drops BlackBerry, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian
Ailing OSes put out to pasture
Sony in negotiations with Adobe to add Flash support to PS Vita
Not dead just yet
Halfbrick's Luke Muscat to present Jetpack Joyride focused design session at GDC 2012
To be held March 5-9 in San Francisco
DeNA and Square Enix confirm Final Fantasy Brigade bound for Mobage in Japan this December
Beta to launch mid-month
Lustancia launches global app ranking tool for Android Market...on iOS
Tracks rank, price and feature information
CrowdStar to launch Android version of mobile social hit Top Girl on Amazon Appstore
Exclusivity deal to last 2 weeks
Evolve London 2011: Tag Games' Paul Farley on freemium ethics, and its naivety when it launched Funpark Friends
#evolveconf Changing shades of grey
Sega partners with PapayaMobile to bring social play to Android RPG Fallen Realms
Will launch on Papaya's network
PlayHaven opens mobile marketing platform up to iOS publishers and third-party providers
Tap.Me TeleSocial and PressOK on board
Evolve London 2011: Tequila opens up its 4 million-strong Tequila Planet mobile gaming platform for third party developers
#evolveconf Doing a GREE
Rovio links up with Wonderful Pistachios for branded Angry Birds browser game, The Hunt for the Golden Pistachio
Includes real reward element for US residents
Evolve London 2011: Google's Paul Kinlan on why iOS and Android developers should also be targeting the Chrome web store
#evolveconf 200 million users, 95:5 revenue share
Nintendo 3DS outpacing predecessor as 8 month total tops DS's year one tally, claims Reggie Fils-Aime
An expected recovery?
Atari hires Marvel man Gui Karyo as EVP as firm's mobile move marches on
Breakout: Boost set for iOS splash
HP to decide future of webOS within next two weeks, claims CEO Whitman
To sell or not to sell
Promo site Appvent Calendar rolls out third annual free app giveaway
Launches official iPhone app
AR specialist metaio adds Unity3D support as mobile SDK version 3.0 gears up for December 8 launch
Designed for 'natural AR experiences'
Evolve London 2011: Gareth Davis on how Facebook will unpin the future of multi-platform gaming
#evolveconf And why HTML5 is the current hot topic
Burstly secures $5.5 million in funding to launch offer mediation tool Burstly Rewards for iOS, Android
Opening up the monetisation options
Gameloft releases UNO for Free on Android, backed by in-app ads and incentivised downloads
Experimenting with $2.99 of virtual value
Kontagent hires ex-Google Docs lead Evin Levey to head up kSuite user analytics platform
Looking to scale up
Backflip partners with mobile ad specialist Nexage to monetise its 27 million MAUs on iOS
Hooking into real-time bidding and mediation platform
Free app downloads on US App Store jumped 70% over iPhone 4S launch weekend reckons Fiksu
Handset triggered 'frenzied' activity
Brightcove unveils cloud-based mobile app platform App Cloud for iOS and Android
HTML5, CSS and JavaScript support on board
Benchmark Games iTunes promo highlights most innovative iOS games
Innovative, Intuitive, Stunning, Quick and Hardcore
W3i's Ryan Weber on spending its AppX 'real cash' $10 million user acquisition warchest across 50 games
Size reflects company's and market's profitability
Neon Play CEO Oli Christie named entrepreneur of the year by National Chamber of Commerce
Picks up tenth award in 6 months
Unity's Helgason looking at HTML5, but not convinced it's game ready
'Cool demos' but held back by performance
DeNA and Daum target 10 million South Korean Mobage users in 2012
To be branded Daum Mobage
Nielsen studys shows 83% of all US app downloads are via iPhone or Android
From 71% ownership base
AppNation to launch app incubator thanks to strategic investment by Black Ocean
Looking to pick out talent entrepreneurs
Zynga prepares for IPO: investor roadshow kicks off next week
Now planning for mid-December listing?
Marmalade updates SDK to add support for Ice Cream Sandwich, Kindle Fire and bada 2.0
Pushes joint deployment across iOS and Android
W3i announces $10 million AppX game developer fund for user acquisition on iOS and Android
Gain more, better monetised users faster
FreeAppADay pushes virality, virtual rewards and app discovery with its iOS FunChat-powered social app
Due to launch 6 December
Windows 8 has missed window of opportunity in tablet market, reckons Forrester
Consumer interest falling steadily
Unity now has 750,000 registered developers
Of which 26% of which are active monthly
Futuremark to create first gaming performance benchmark for Android tablets in 2012
3DMark standard extending to Google OS
Nival invests undisclosed sum in HTML5 specialist Bytex
Firms come together on collectable card game