Coconut Island donates iDragPaper advertising to Japan Red Cross's earthquake appeal
Doing its bit
PG.biz week that was: DeNA's up 167%, Capcom 13%, while Glu drops 5%, THQ 52%, plus a resurgent EA buys Firemint
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Fashion
Freemium will play a role in gaming's future, not the role
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Cash
Making money with freemium games isn't easy
Opinion: Freemium is more hype than hope - Quality
Rise of freemium games strengthens premium market
Rovio and NaturalMotion lead the way as Mobile Pie, Unity, Exient and Ideaworks storm 2011 Develop Awards
10 categories gain mobile nominations
Mobclix rolls out 3.0.1 SDK for Android
Adds support for ProGuard
JumpTap secures $25 million in fresh funding round
Ad network's funding surpasses $115 million
Capcom Mobile sees FY11 sales up 13% to $50 million
Thanks to those Smurfs
Qualcomm's Uplinq conference gets talks from Nokia's Elop, HP's Rubinstein and HTC's Cho
And Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will kick things off
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Snuggle Truck, Burn it All, Par Out Golf
Critically acclaimed
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens debate the future of social mobile platforms
Will it be OpenFeint/GREE or DeNA/mobage or another?
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson confirmed as Evolve Brighton keynote
All about integrating social experiences into games
Astraware launches 4 games on Nook Color app store
Astraware Mahjong on Android exclusive to eReader
RedLynx partners with Chillingo for DrawRace 2's iOS release
Looking for publisher push
EA Mobile sees Q4 sales jump 27% as FY11 revenues reach $230 million
99c sales + Chillingo + Dead Space = happiness
Canalys reckons Q1 2011 smartphone sales grew 83% to 101 million
Android winning, but Apple and Samsung bada rising too
Samurai II, Chop Chop Tennis and Battle Bears in first wave of Unity Union games for PlayBook
Five native titles due in the summer
TeePee Games partners with Predictive Intent to launch Geronimo discovery platform
Targets Android, Facebook and web
Nokia unsuccessfully hawked MeeGo to HTC, RIM, Samsung and Motorola
Rivals were afraid of Nokia's control
App industry to hit 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016
Growth of Android and Windows Phone 7 to push take up
App revenues to hit $3.91 billion in 2011 as Apple snaps up 75% share
Market as a whole up 65.7% from 2010
Samsung Apps unveils carrier billing across Europe and Asia
App store taps into phone bill or PAYG balance
Apple blocks user reviews for games downloaded with promo codes
Just when you thought things had settled down...
May 6 deadline for 2011 Meffys Awards nominations nears
Extravaganza on July 7 draws ever closer
Firemint's Rob Murray: Joining EA can only lead to us producing better games
Developer needs help 'in order to win'
Glu Mobile enters into publishing partnership with Blammo Games
Two titles promised over next 12 months
THQ Wireless completes final full fiscal year with FY11 sales of $5.4 million, down 52%
Currently just servicing Apple App Store
Tapjoy promotes Android app discovery with App Wars event
Hooks up with Apsalar as part of Google I/O on May 10
Firemint buyout designed to boost our creative leadership on mobile, claims EA's Barry Cottle
Fusing EA's scale with Firemint's ingenuity
Glu sees Q1 2011 revenues drop 5%, but smartphone revenue up 94% sequentially
Does 20 million Android and iOS install during quarter
Fluik Entertainment's Office Jerk hits 1.6 million downloads in first 4 days
Tops free charts in 23 countries
Lunaforte's Lunagames XXL bound for iOS as series hits 1 million DAUs
Three releases launch on App Store
EA acquires Firemint for undisclosed fee
Deal to be closed within next 4 weeks
RIM and Microsoft partner up to integrate Bing into BlackBerry
Search and maps incoming
Russian tech blogger Murtazin pegs Windows Phone 7 sales at 674,000 in 2010
Brands platform 'absolute failure'
Mobage meets i-mode as NTT DoCoMo links up with DeNa's mobile social network
App to come pre-installed on handsets
Nokia world's largest mobile vendor with 29.2% share, but Apple's quota almost doubles
Worldwide mobile shipments up 19.8% in Q1 2011
DeNA celebrates record breaking 2010 as annual sales double to $1.38 billion
Q4 2010 net sales hit $393 million, up 67.5 percent
Coin Drop! and Sword & Sworcery EP Micro are top-reviewed iOS games for April
Critical acclaim
Glu signs deal with best-selling author James Frey to serve up novels as mobile games
Titles bound for smartphones and tablets
Microsoft launches API mapping tool to aid iOS developers port to WP7
Guide also on offer
10 things we learned from AppNation 2011
The state of the union
PG.biz week that was: Tapjoy tames for Apple, Nokia to serve up 'next iPhone', the real value behind GREE's OpenFeint buyout, and AppNation chatter aplenty
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Opinion: Is Apple the App Store's honest gatekeeper or is it running a protection racket?
You may kiss the ring
Strong sales of Verizon's iPhone 4 hand Apple 14% share in US
Firm edges ahead of HTC, Motorola and RIM
Motorola ships 250,000 Xoom tablets in Q1 2011, 4.1 million smartphones
Net revenues up 22% year-on-year
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games - Sword & Sworcery EP Micro, Gears, Flick Kick Chelsea
Critically acclaimed
Scoreloop serves up operator-branded social platform for Hong Kong's CSL
Going white label
GREE bought OpenFeint for 368 times annual revenue
Games network made just $282,500 in revenue in 2010