FGOL's Ian Harper on how the Future Games Network will propel indie games to success
Launching this week with Say What?!
iPad rivals have greater chances of success in Europe than US, but price cuts needed says Forrester
Apple's smaller retail presence a disadvantage
Miniclip partners with Halfbrick adding 30 Barry Steakfries levels to Fragger
Get your Monster Dash on
Apple demands role in Lodsys lawsuit case against app developers
It has the best technical information
Windows Phone GM Charlie Kindel departs after 21 years, but brands OS 'best product Microsoft has built'
Developer ecosystem is in 'fantastic hands'
Glu's De Masi on why he's longterm positive on Amazon and more bullish on Nokia than RIM
Time will come
Is Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick warming to social, mobile games?
He's got a itch. Could it be scratched?
Khronos looks for industry participation in WebCL and StreamInput working groups
Help browser parallel computing and sensor push
Havok builds out middleware offering with the acquisition of Trinigy
Vision Engine will be rebranded as Havok
Glu CEO De Masi on building for future profitability fueled by 20 internal dev teams
Android, IAP and resource management games the focus
Gamevil posts $3.5 million net profit in Q2 2011 as sales jump 46% yoy
Smartphone account for 62% of sales
PopCap survey reveals UK gamers spend 10% of their games budget on mobile
More than half of Europe's adults play games
GREE and Tencent standardise specs to allow devs to target both social platforms
Koei and Taito the first to take advantage
Former Microsoft games head Shane Kim joins board at Moai engine company Zipline
Adding strategy to cross platform approach
The PG.biz Hot Five: Glu buy studios, then waves goodbye to execs, plus Storm 8 rebuffs Zynga interest with $1 billion valuation
Last week's top five stories
Android growing at 5 times the rate of iOS in US as share tops 40%
Up 5.4% in three months
Android the dominant force in US, but 36% of states opt for iOS
Mapping the US of OS
PG.biz week that was: Storm8 might be worth $1b, Mork's off to Google, Amazon's in the doghouse, while Glu buys 2 studios and axes key execs
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Self styled 'app guy' Patrick Mork leaves GetJar to join Google as marketing director for mobile apps
Mad Mork's on a mission
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Groove Coaster and Cut the Rope: Experiments
Critically acclaimed
Sibblingz raises $1 million to extend Spaceport game engine to Facebook's Project Spartan
Platform for the next Zynga of mobile gaming
Survey suggests average spend on virtual items for casual, social games is declining
Bursting bubble?
Mobile Streams widens games and app distribution with Appitalism Wings program
Plug into partners including Qualcomm and Huawei
With #1 and #2 games on GREE, Konami booked $99 million of social mobile revenue in Q1 FY12
Up a massive 225 percent year-on-year
Ngmoco signs up AT&T to make Mobage gaming app available for its Android phones
Via Android Market later in 2011
OpenFeint launches new social features on Android before iOS
Supports 700 games on platform, 24% of top 100
Flurry launches Analytics 3.0, adding audience segmentation features
Will estimate user demographics too
Breaking: Glu Mobile restructures, top execs laid off
CCO Mori and marketing chief Breslin out
Google prepares for multi-billion dollar patent arms race with Apple, Oracle, Microsoft
Information is power
Capcom Mobile plans to release at least 18 games before March 2012
Revving up the pipeline
Thanks to Smurfs' Village, Capcom Mobile sees net sales up 80% to $15 million
Division accounted for 58% of company operating income
In July, Tapjoy delivered 20 million conversions for developers, 10 million for key brand advertisers
Mobile ad network is maturity fast
Malaysian content aggregator mobile9 adds social layer for its 6 million users
Mobile9.com portal is live and viral
AppMobi's cross-platform HTML5 XDK dev tool now free on Chrome Web Store
Includes emulation and debugging
Ex-Vodafone and EA exec Tim Harrison takes new role at Sony Ericsson
Charged with driving Xperia Play strategy forward
Klaas Kersting on leaving Gameforge to launch real world mobile gaming outfit flaregames
Launching first product on iOS in late 2011
CEO Suglobov on G5's goal to become #1 mobile publisher of hidden object and time management games
New investment, more ambition
Rumours suggest Storm8's first funding round will value it at $1 billion
A mobile Zynga is born
Glu goes Google as Gun Bros hits Chrome Web Store
Contract Killer, Big Time Gangta and Bug Village also lined up
RIM unveils August launch for BlackBerry 7 OS, powering five new handsets
Part of product line acceleration program
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