PressOK CEO Ryan Morel on why now's the time to marry mobile advertising and location-based play in PlacePlay
Meeting the need
LG posts $51 million mobile division loss in Q2 2011 despite smartphone shipment rise
Fifth quarter loss in a row for division
With 320 backers, dev co-op Who Needs Chillingo? rebrands and readies itself for launch
Self-publishing movement unveils new website
Life after Mr Goodliving: How Grand Cru is looking to revolutionise social mobile gaming
Inspired by Habbo Hotel, LittleBig Planet and Minecraft
Freemium revenue from top releases on App Store jumps tenfold yoy
Virtual currency behind the rise
Microsoft confirms Windows Phone Mango app submissions 'about a month away'
Time for devs to pull their finger out
Ovi Store hits 7 million daily downloads milestone
Just days after passing 6.5 million
DeNA and ngmoco roll out Mobage social network across English speaking world
Platform also makes debut in China
Small computer people, big iOS success: The making of Tiny Tower
From Pocket Frogs to BitBook
Android and Java game distributor Flexion adding over 4 million customers a month
Enabling one free trial every second
EA Mobile sustains solid growth in Q1 FY12 as sales rise 9% to $57 million
Overall sales also up 18% to $999 million
Pachter's 'baseless' comments on unpaid developer overtime are 'poisonous', says Spilt Milk MD Andrew John Smith
Now it's Pachter that deserves no sympathy
Apple adds 33 new territories to App Store roster, takes total to 123
From Algeria to Yemen
ARM see half year 2011 revenues up 28% to $376 million
Generated $175 million in cash
Suda 51 prepares to shake up social mobile gaming with bloodiest ever title for Mobage
Plus 100 more ideas where that came from
Sony casts light on PS Vita's revised social features including Near gifting tool
LiveArea now the focus
Angry Birds and co. more than double number of older gamers since 2007
Fruit Ninja and Words With Friends also big draws
DeNA signs up dev stars Keiji Inafune, Suda 51, and Yuji Naka up for Mobage
Yoshifumi Hashimoto and Noritaka Funamizu also on board
Appy's Paul O'Connor on taking Trucks & Skulls from premium to freemium
Free and back again
Look out Mario and Luigi: the 'fat, beardy' Pickford Bros. are back, building their brand
Why mobile was a magnet for Magnetic Billiards' creativity
Average spend per smartphone IAP transaction is $14 reckons Flurry
$1 market is an illusion
Nokia reports its app store has 50,000 apps, is doing 6.5 million downloads daily
Up from 5 million a day in April
Freelance jobs based on Android up 20% quarter on quarter says Freelancer.com
Set to eclipse iOS demand by end of 2012
Social and mobile game recommendation service TeePee hits 100,000 active users
600,000 suggestions served up
Qualcomm acquires gesture recognition technology and staff from GestureTek
Will integrate into Snapdragon
RIM lays off up to 2,000 staff in 'cost optimisation program'
Deep cuts
The PG.biz Hot Five: Rovio's rummage for fresh IP, Gameloft's sliding working conditions, and argument for 'flexible pricing' for apps
Last week's top five stories
Marmalade moves on monetisation as Tapjoy joins partnership programme
Middleware tool becomes one-stop shop
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate whether mobile ecosystems are becoming restrictive
In the shadow of The Open And Free App Movement
Parsith's Mark Allen explains how FriendSt@r will fill Game Center's gaps
Turning likeminded people into playing friends
PG.biz week that was: Top Tapjoy Android game makes $150k/m, Unity raises $12m, Rovio looks to 1 billion fans, and is freemium evil?
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Indian publisher 7Seas targets global market with 10 new mobile releases
Powered by domestic growth
Chillingo experiments with freemium games, re-releases Monster Mayhem
It's all the rage
RIM buys Swedish video editing tool provider JayCut
Pushing moving images to be more awesome
Unknown US developer Parsith Studios announces iOS gaming network FriendSt@r
Filling Game Center's gaps
Nexon's KartRider Rush celebrates 3 million downloads with cut price content package
Another 12 tracks, 8 characters and 6 karts for just 99c
Tim Langdell will be 'put in jail' claims Mobigame CEO Papazian as Edge Games man shirks trademark troll label
'Future made me do it'
ZeptoLab signs deal with Ape Entertainment to deliver Cut the Rope comic
Hitting iOS and print this August
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Reckless Getaway, Paper Munchers, Kard Combat
Critically acclaimed
Angry Birds on top as Rovio wins big at Develop Awards 2011
Takes home Grand Prix trophy
Lodsys adds EA, Square Enix, Atari, Take-Two and Rovio to patents infringement roll call
37 companies now on legal hit-list
Rovio sets sights on 1 billion fans for Angry Birds by 2014
Studio betting the farm on the series
Five things we learned from Develop and Evolve 2011
#developconf Knowledge from the seaside
Connect2Media signs deal with Sonic Boom to bring Pocket brand to Android
Four games on the way
Nectar names Neon Play as 2011's top start-up at Small Business Awards
Apprentice star Karren Brady offers plaudits
Unity Technologies closes $12 million funding round as firm targets Asian expansion
Moving beyond Brighton and Stockholm
Develop 2011: Some freemium companies have been 'borderline predatory' reckons Unity's Erickson
#developconf Amoral business model; how do you use it?
PressOK launches location-based ad tool PlacePlay for games on iOS
Platform also Android bound
Nokia suffers transitions blues in Q2 2011 as sales fall 7% to 9.3 billion
Smartphone shipments down 34% year on year
Qualcomm on board as cloud gaming platform Gaikai closes $30 million investment round
Funds to accelerate availability