Gameloft to launch casual games community on Facebook to preserve hardcore appeal
Segregated audiences
Thumbstar staffs up, adding Tony Fitzgerald and Phil Brannelly
Sales and marketing boost
BlackBerry World 2012 registration now open
BB10, PlayBook OS 2.0 and Mobile Fusion on the agenda
Java specialist mig33 pre-installs games on devices from 12 Indian and Indonesian OEMs
Making the most of reach and opportunity
Kindle Fire and Nook Color take 11% tablet market share in 2011, reckons IHS
Global market estimated at 65.2 million devices
Apple secures slide-to-unlock patent case victory against Motorola in Germany
User experience differentiation
Apple asks developers to step up UDID depreciation as security scares spook App Store
App specific identifiers are the alternative
CocoaChina claims Chinese App Store scammers are costing studios 30% of IAP revenue
Firm monitoring offers on auction sites
G5 expands to Nook and Nook Color with 3 titles
Hidden object specialist Barnes & Noble-ing
Nokia the largest OEM in Q4 2011, but Windows Phone won't break Finnish firm's fall, reckons ABI Research
Giant holds 27% global share
Sulake reportedly lays of 25% off Finnish workforce as it switches Habbo to open platform strategy
Taking inspiration from GREE and DeNA?
Mac OS X Mountain Lion to include iOS features such as Game Center
Cross-platform multiplayer for Game Center games
Thanks to Air Penguin, Zenonia and Baseball Superstars, Gamevil posts record FY11 sales of $36.7 million, up 39%
Boosted by third party publishing activity
Unity reveals Unite 12 event bound for Amsterdam
Switches to August timing
Game Connection America announces the 15 games nominated for its Selected Projects program
To feature at San Francisco pitch event
Digital Chocolate, CrowdStar, Gamevil, MocoSpace and PerBlue announced for Mobile Gaming USA 2012
Hitting San Francisco 9-10 May
TIGA submits Games Tax Relief report to UK government, claims it could generate £283 million
Stresses urgent need for a level playing field
LucasArts veterans launch multiplayer platform Suddenly Social for iOS
Taking care of server management and scaling
Establishing itself in the mobile market, Nvidia sees FY12 revenue up 13% to $4 billion
Expect Tegra 3 to continue the momentum
StartApp boasts 40 million downloads are using its Android monetisation system
Search strap-on proving popular
Norway the most lucrative App Store in terms of average price per download
37c compared to 4c in China
Alternative Android app store AppChina raises $6.4 million in round A funding
Home of 40,000 apps and counting
Super Mario 3D Land, Magnetic Billiards, Quarrel, Dead Space and Peggle in the running for a BAFTA
2012 mobile and handheld nominations go public
RIM sees its Canadian tablet market share rise to 15% as Apple's falls to 68%
Apple's iPad losing ground to cut-price PlayBook
Sony completes Ericsson buy out to create Sony Mobile Communications
Joint venture compressed
Apple promises to protect iOS users' contact data in future OS update
Letter from Congress spurs reaction
ZeptoLab, Lima Sky and Game Insight on board for game panel at Moscow's MBLT 12 event
One day conference on 12 March
HP details Open webOS governance model, dubbed more open source than Android
Code developed in public repositories
Beating guidance, burning less cash and leading on Android, we're confident about the future, says Glu CEO De Masi
Expects breakeven in 2012
BlackBerry reportedly looking to launch PlayBook OS 2.0 on 21 February
Plan B looms into view
Social studios shouldn't be afraid to splash out on TV advertising, reckons Somo's Ross Sleight
Thinking differently can pay off
More than 250,000 apps hit UK App Store during 2011, reports madvertise
Games the third fastest growing category
MobileBits brings SoulCraft to Tegra 3 powered Ice Cream Sandwich devices
New York also added to the mix
'We're a very clean company and it's slowed down our growth', says Glu's De Masi
No bot farmers here
HTC rumoured to be working on PlayStation Certified handsets for mid 2012
First third party to support Suite
GREE bolsters hand in Asia, signs up 11 new developers in China and Korea
12 new titles bound for platform in 2012
Former chairman of Disney Consumer Products joins Outfit7's advisory board
Company looks to grow Talking Friends brand
Mobage and GREE 'not even in our ball park', claims Heyzap co-founder Jude Gomila
Looking at competitors a 'waste of time'
Dream Heights' App Store debut marred by myriad of 1 star reviews
Users brand game Tiny Tower 'rip off'
Apple slashes iAd pricing to $100,000 as platform's mobile ad share wilts
Falling behind Google and Millennial
CloudMade's Christian Petersen on how its Sponsored Locations service will drive massive retail footfall through IAP sponsorship
Games the only apps with the scale for bricks and mortar
With mobile DAUs up to 15 million, Zynga posts FY11 revenue of $1.14 billion, up 91%
But takes massive $510M hit due to IPO stock compensation
Top Eleven developer Nordeus poaches CCP's Nikola Cavic as its new head of biz dev
Strengthening the squad
Boasting 'spectacular' upgrades, Unity 3.5 rolls out of beta
Result of a deep dive
iPad 3 rumours suggest quad-core March 7 announcement
Disagreements over LTE support though
More than 1 billion to own a smartphone by 2016, reckons Forrester
App economy to top $56 billion
Angry Birds fans clock up 25 million minutes of playtime in Rovio's Galaxy Note promo
32,000 enter competition for handset
Registration now open for the 2012 Nordic Game Conference
Speakers from id, Supergiant Games, and Square Enix
Gambitious unveils equity-based crowdfunding platform for games industry
Pay to play and take a stake
Samsung relaunches bada's developer site to encourage OS take up
Management process and UI given a tweak