Gameloft releases Let's Golf 2 for Verizon's 4G LTE network
Supporting better multiplayer
Android leads the way as Scoreloop sees virtual currency sales up 216% in December
Adds 1.3 million new users over Christmas week
Almost 50% of revenue from top grossing iPhone apps comes from in-app purchases
Angry Birds comes out as 2010's most popular game
Real Racing 2 was the best-reviewed iPhone game of 2010
Critical acclaim
Analysis: The numbers that show Gameloft is making more of the App Store opportunity than EA Mobile
Twice as many releases, more free games, less licences, better pricing strategy
AdMob requests quadruple during 2010, now serving 2 billion mobile ads a day
Asia and Europe key growth areas
RIM rolls out in-app payments beta for BlackBerry App World
Beta Zone users able to access version 2.1
Glu Mobile's share price hits two year high
Market cap now over $110 million
Apple announces over one million downloads from Mac App Store in first day
But no official mention of hacks
Rovio launches Angry Birds Free, independent of Chillingo
Cutting the strings
Devs offer cut price apps for Mac App Store as platform suffers hacks hours after launch
Further attacks planned in coming months
Android overtakes iPhone in US as Samsung's share surges towards 25%
Samdroid in action
Quality index's top-reviewed iPhone games of the week
Shift! 2 and Save Toshi
2010 In Review; Marc Gumpinger, Scoreloop
Take a step back from mobile and think social
Glu signs strategic partnership with Nvidia over Android tablets and super phones
Get your Tegra 2 on
Tapjoy raises $21 million to fund expansion of its app distribution systems
Also looking at media licensing and incubation
Flurry says Galaxy S is propelling Samsung towards Android dominance
Samdroid is squeezing HTC
Apple's Mac App Store launches, games are the largest category
1,604 applications live including Angry Birds
Millennial Media raises $27.5 million for expansion
Ad company looking for further acquisitions
CES 2011: Acer, Samsung and Asus unveil Windows 7 tablets
From dual-screen to sliding keyboards
Gameloft announces Asphalt, N.O.V.A. and Uno for Panasonic HDTVs
Will be available via VIERA Connect Marketplace
CES 2011: Motorola reveals Honeycomb powered tablet Xoom
10.1 inch display, dual-core Tegra 2 processor, 2 cameras
CES 2011: More than 20,000 studios bringing 100 new apps a day to Windows Phone 7
Ballmer claims platform is set for huge 2011
LG showcases 3D mobile phone at CES
Glasses-free display for smartphones and tablets
2010 In Review: Kyu Lee, Gamevil
Carrier billing will be a drive of app store monetisation
Playdom co-founder Thompson picks up $3 million for new mobile gaming outfit Wild Needle
Social studio working undercover
Bigpoint COO Henning on why in-app purchases mean it's the right time to go mobile
Online games giant set to target iOS and Android
2010 In Review: Kris Jones, Thunder Game Works
Freemium needs to explore gameplay diversity
Juniper predicts mobile games ad spend will rise to $894 million by 2015
But end user revenues will remain dominant
Amazon launches developers' portal for its Android Appstore
Consumer store to launch in US later this year
IUGO, ngmoco and ChAIR all confirmed for GDC Smartphone Summit
Two days, 13 sessions and 13 speakers
Amazon announces Kindle for Windows and Android tablets
Riding the CES 2011 tablet wave
FreeAppADay Store downloads top 1.5 million in less than 2 weeks
That's 125,000 downloads a day
2010 In Review: Mark Ettle, Cobra Mobile
Next year will be about Android, tablets and social
Microsoft tables first Windows Phone 7 update NoDo for February
Major update Mango to follow with IE9 and HTML5 support
App stores expand as Angry Birds comes to Intel AppUp and Tetris is prepped for internet TVs
We need a bigger screen
HP to unveil webOS strategy on February 9
Announcing future announcements
Asymco reckons generic Chinese OEMs are driving growth in Android activations
Samsung and HTC being outgunned?
A hundred tablets in development as CES 2011 prepares for an onslaught
Toshiba, Dell, Acer, Asus, HP, Motorola, Lenovo in play
SCVNGR raises another $15 million, gains a $100 million valuation
Google Ventures and Balderton on board
MeeGo makes unofficial leap to HTC HD2
Developer gets latest build running on WinMob handset
Android snaps up 40% of all smartphone sales in the US
Race for top spot with iPhone, BlackBerry too close to call
Last call for entries for IMGA 2011 as January 10 deadline looms
Nominees to be announced on January 17
Firemint acquires Puzzle Quest studio Infinite Interactive
Firms to merge operations under Firemint name
2010 In Review: Dino Decespedes, Appular
2011 will be freemium minus the farming
As Apple's market cap passes $300 billion, Citibank reckons the App Store will gross $2 billion in 2011
Happy NASDAQ year
Pocket Frogs does 4 million downloads
While developer NimbleBit's lifetime total is 15 million
Ngmoco to shutter Miraphonic's freemium Epic Wars series
Servers to be turned off on January 16
Xona Games' Jason Doucette on what Microsoft needs to do to help indies on WP7's Marketplace
No visibility equals no downloads
Team Gambit's Yeo Jingying on the power that comes with partnering with Microsoft on Windows Phone 7
Supercharged from XBLA to mobile