With 16.5 million MAUs, Glu sees IAP volumes up 32% with average transaction worth $4.07
Blammo and Griptonite deals valued at up to $33 million
Snoopy goes social with Beeline as Capcom picks up Peanuts licence
Series of social games on the way
SpongeBob, iCarly and Dora the Explorer come to GameTanium as Exent signs 30 game deal with Nickelodeon
Android titles delivered via subscription service
Samsung bada shipments up 355% to 4.5 million units in Q2 2011
Android not manufacturer's sole focus
All the world's a stage: The making of Shadow Cities
The layer beneath
Zee-3's Ste Pickford on why Nintendo CEO Iwata is wrong to slate quality of mobile games
Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint hits 100 five star reviews
Finally, is this the turning point? Glu Mobile sees Q2 2011 revenues rise 11% to $17.7 million
Smartphone freemium revenue was $7.7 million
Glu Mobile thinks big: doubles internal development talent acquiring Griptonite and Blammo
Spends money to boost release schedule
Namco Bandai sees Japanese mobile game subscribers drop 8% to 2.1 million during Q1 2012
Overall company sales up 8% to $1.1 billion
InMobi buys HTML5 ad platform Sprout to push rich media opportunities
Remains independent, working with competing networks
Cloud platform Appcelerator offers $10,000 cash prize for Codestrong 2011 hackathon
San Francisco playing host to September splash
Amazon halts app submissions in Germany as Apple's 'appstore' challenge takes effect
Attack 'without merit', but approval process on hold
Australian studio Shifty Jelly pulls apps from Amazon Appstore after Free App of the Day fiasco
Claims retailer is 'rotten to the core'
Indie-focused 360iDev conference confirms its schedule
Kicks off September 11 in Denver, CO
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on whether there are any options beyond freemium
Is grind really all there is?
Google rolls out tablet-focused Android Developer Lab days to New York, LA and Seattle
4 leg tour split over 6 days in August, September
14,000 apps strong, Amazon Appstore head Rubenson brands discoverability and monetisation as store's cornerstones
Pricing power key to firm's strategy
PapayaMobile and InMobi integrate into Corona SDK via cloud-based LaunchPad
LaunchPad to offer one-stop dev shop
Spilt Milk's Smith on how to make the most of game conferences
Evolve versus arrested development
Exit Games signs Chinese distribution deal with The9 for Photon mobile networking engine
Pushing online
Unity speeds its 3D Flash implementation, hiring expert Ralph Hauwert
Tech should be available in beta in late 2011
Groove Coaster and DeathSmiles are top-reviewed iPhone games for July
Critical acclaim
AEG's Nightfall boardgame series iOS-bound thanks to agreement with Incinerator Studios
iPad to serve as virtual table-top
Appsterdam's Mike Lee heads up indie studio collective to take on Lodsys IAP patent claim
Out to cap patent trolls for good
With a third of sales coming from smartphones and tablets, Gameloft sees H1 2011 sales up 15% to $110 million
Rest of world now is 39% of business
Despite investing more than $120m in expansion, DeNA sees FY11 Q1 net income up 45% to $123m
Reckons its $12.06 p/m users are worth 18x Zynga's
Leviathan's Van Luchene on why building the biggest library of social gaming patents doesn't mean it will trigger a legal apocalypse
Patent system encourages innovation not lawsuits
Nintendo is preparing premium DLC system for 3DS, but not a true in-app purchase platform
Won't allow freemium games either
Glu partners with TOM Group to launch glu.cn as key Chinese smartphone community portal
Will have a social gaming focus
Google, Unity, Glu, Rovio and PopCap throw their weight behind new, indie-focused Pax Dev event
Precedes Seattle-based Pax Prime on 24-25 August
HTC predicts it will ship a record 13.5 million smartphones in Q3
Shipments to rise 98% yoy
Sega Sammy looks to freemium growth with 1.3 million downloads of Kingdom Conquest
Company had troubled Q1 FY12 however
The PG.biz Hot Five: Pachter gets punched, the fuel behind the rise of freemium, and social gaming gets re-evaluated by Grand Cru
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Rovio to make move on China as Angry Birds passes 300 million downloads
Up 50 million in 48 days
PG.biz week that was: 3DS sales stall prompts price slash, freemium rolling in the revenue, Suda 51 goes social and Pachter gets KO'ed
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HTC revenues top $4.3 billion in Q2 as smartphone shipments jump 123%
12.2 million units hit retail
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Zynga Poker, Deadlock: Online
Critically acclaimed
Mobile sales up 43% but Samsung sees drop in profits to $3.3 billion in Q2 2011
Revenues rise 4% to $37.4 billion
Manufacturers point to September for Microsoft's Mango assault
Windows Phone's next D-day approaches
Nokia remains largest mobile manufacturer despite 20% slip in shipments
88.8 million units sent to retail in Q2
Samsung the big riser, but Apple named as top smartphone manufacturer in Q2 2011
Shipments more than double to 20.3 million units
Motorola Mobility ups Xoom shipments in Q2 2011 but posts $56 million loss
Tablet total sits at 690,000
Honours even as Android takes market leading 39% share in US, but Apple named as top OEM
HTC edges out Motorola, Samsung on Google's platform
Hard Lines downloads jump by more than 64,500% during free for a day promo
Big update set to follow
BulkyPix signs multi-title deal to bring library to PapayaMobile
Route into Chinese market part of the deal
PlayStation goes AWOL as Sony's Products & Services division revenues fall 18% to $9.4 billion
Handheld not worth a mention
Nintendo slashes 3DS price by 40% as firm posts $324 million net loss in Q1 2011
Revenues fall by more than half yoy
GetJar hits 2 billion downloads as app roster tops 150,000
Open approach paying off
EA CEO John Riccitiello: iPad is our fastest growing platform
Consoles have shrunk to 40% of firm's business
Samsung's Galaxy S II hits 5.5 million sales in 85 days
Fastest selling handset in company history