BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Anders Jeppsson on making BlackBerry a great platform for gaming
Giving developers the tools they need
iPhone apps are stealing your contacts without you knowing, claims designer
Apple facilitating contact detail theft
Triple Town and Run Roo Run are the top-reviewed iPhone games for January
Critically acclaimed
Train2Game and Epic Game secure Fighting Fantasy IP for Make Something Unreal Live final
Games to hit App Store this spring
Music education app WildChords set for expansion as Ovelin raises $1.4 million in seed funding
True Ventures the biggest backer
App Store bot farms are mobile's 'dirty little secret', earning perpetrators upwards of $50,000 a day claims iOS developer
Have been around for some time
Glu's revenues rise 3% in 2011 to $66.2 million, but firm still posts $21.2 million loss
Company beats Q4 estimates
Mobile payment specialist Bango unveils Facebook as latest partner
But details kept under wraps
iOS 5 beats out Ice Cream Sandwich when it comes to HTML5 support, claims Sencha's Bansod
Safari still has the edge
Nokia to axe 4,000 manufacturing jobs across Hungary, Mexico and Finland in 2012
Direct assembly positions to move to Asia
Share of US smartphone and tablet owners downloading games more than doubles in last 3 years, reports Park Associates
Up from 8% to 18% in 2011
Users engage more with play if achievements have economic value, reckons Beintoo CEO Tormarcho
Let users decide how they should be rewarded
NimbleBit's Tiny Tower tops 10 million downloads on iOS
Studio gives away virtual currency to celebrate
Change to App Store submission process hints at retina display equipped iPad 3
All screenshots must be retina compatible
Unity enabled games bound for smart TVs as firm links up with LG
Gyroscopic motion controller equipped
Gameloft rolls out social platform Gameloft Live on Android Market
Publisher's gaming network spreads base
Alleged 'bot farm' TopDealApps uses 200,000 US iTunes accounts to boost app rankings
Real users voluntarily download apps, claims site
24MAS makes freemium splash on iOS with launch of Kimi Räikkönen's IceOne Racing
Backed up by US and EU marketing push
BBDevCon 2012: RIM-owned cross-platform gaming network Scoreloop now has 25 million MAUs
#bbdevcon Powering games like PES 2012 on iOS
App Store 'bot farms' deliver up to 50,000 strong download spikes, reveals iOS developer
No reviews, no ratings, and no increase in ad revenue
DeNA's sales climb 16% to $445 million in Q3 2011 as social giant touts overseas expansion
But net income falls 26% to $78 million
BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Sean Paul Taylor on providing robust game development tools for BlackBerry
#bbdevcon Creating an itch and eating its own dog food
Zynga guilty of cloning and 'choking out the competition', claims former studio engineer
Social studio's practices branded 'creepy'
GamesAnalytics' Mark Robinson argues that even free players are your friends
We are all individuals! We are all different!
New Apsalar analytics tool groups users together to cast light on retention and monetisation
Daily Cohorts added to MEM and ApScience platforms
Opinion: Apple may have outlawed them, but are App Store 'bot farms' such a bad thing?
Getting caught up in the promo loop
BBDevCon 2012: RIM's Chris Smith talks up the gaming potential of PlayBook 2.0 and BB10
#bbdevcon Plus BBM and Scoreloop
Monetisation platform SponsorPay generates double the revenue of IAPs on Android, claims Creative Mobile
Offers making Google platform profitable
Outfit7's Talking Friends tops 300 million downloads, launches virtual merchandise range with Iconicfuture
Brands itself fastest growing entertainment network
BBDevCon 2012: 40% of top grossing App World apps are PlayBook games says RIM's Alec Saunders
#bbdevcon It's in the game
BB DevCon 2012: Thorsten Heins on RIM's commitment to developers and BlackBerry's vibrant platform
#bbdevcon And PlayBooks for all
Trevor Cornwell on filling stores' wholesale gap with appbackr's AdSense meets eBay app financing platform
Employ your social network for 54% return
Apple offers official warning to App Store 'manipulators'
Threatens to remove devs employing rank boosting services
FGOL's Grabatron does 30,000 sales on Android Market in last 2 weeks of January
Promo push from Google does the business
Cross promotion platform Chartboost hits 1 billion ad impressions in 9 months
Network looking to expand in Europe, Asia
Pixel Story disappears from App Store in US and UK amid Clonegate furore
But Tiny Tower rival remains in Europe
Remedy's $1 million Death Rally success example of revenue console devs can accrue on iOS, reckons analyst
High launch price and IAPs win the day
Spry Fox's Edery slams 6waves Lolapps 'disingenuous defence' over Triple Town clone case
'Additional facts' to surface at trial
The PG.biz Hot Five: NimbleBit rules out legal action against Zynga, Dent dishes dirt on contract law's dirty underbelly and Clonegate reaches fever pitch
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Developer claims unnamed company offering guaranteed top 25 App Store spots for $5,000
Bots download titles over and over
PSN rebranded Sony Entertainment Network ahead of PS Vita's debut
Sony aims for global integration
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on the fine line between drawing inspiration and cloning
Legislate and be damned
Google hires Apple hardware head Simon Prakash for 'secret project'
Put to work on Motorola mission?
Konami powers ahead on GREE and Mobage, with nine months FY12 sales up 173% to $343 million
#1 GREE game Dragon Collection has 5 million players
Com2uS plans over 40 releases, including 20 freemium games, as it predicts FY12 sales growth of 50%
Big push on third party publishing too
Boosted by rising overseas smartphone market, Com2uS sees FY11 sales up 17% to $31 million
But rising costs means net income remains static
Naoki Aoyagi on how Android's growth will fuel GREE's one billion mobile gamer goal
Spending $50 million on new platform launch
Mobile makes up 23% of Capcom's operating income as nine months FY12 sales rise 68% to $52 million
Total downloads hit 48 million
Motorola looks for 2.25 percent of Apple's 3G sales as German court suspends iPhone ban
Firm offers olive branch?
Amazon poaches Windows Phone dev lead Watson to head up Kindle team
Cross-platform Kindle apps the focus