Tap Me's Joshua Hernandez on moving beyond incentivisation to better engagement
Keep eyeballs in the game
Native check-ins for Windows Phone 7 reportedly in development
Microsoft looking to fight Foursquare?
Microsoft and Nokia's alliance could serve up the next iPhone, reckons Babaroga CEO Djokovic
Developer already focused on 'what's next'
91% of developers looking to work on iOS as support for WP7, BlackBerry falls back
Android suffers plateau
Half of all smartphone consumers opting for Android as interest in rivals wanes
Last six months sees Google clean up
Tapjoy responds to Apple's incentivisation block with self-imposed promo cap
Apps can't make it into top 25 on pay-per-install alone
LG licenses ARM Cortex-A9 and Mali-T604 GPU for future devices
Ramping up for cutting edge
Com2uS Q1 2011 revenue up 6% to $6.8 million but net income hit 53%
Balancing feature phone-smartphone swap
Greystripe acquired by online marketing specialist ValueClick for $70 million
Management team retained
Lenovo readying 10.1 and 7 inch Honeycomb tablets for late 2011
ThinkPad joined by mysterious smaller brother
Outfit7 claims the crown as the fastest mobile developer to hit 100 million downloads
And still growing strong at 15 million monthly
Froyo update hits Nook Color as Barnes & Noble launches dedicated app store
Angry Birds, Flight Control on board
Mobile Pie's Will Luton on how to turn pirates into useful mobile consumers
Unauthorised free can be profitable
Nintendo's profits plunge by 66% in FY2010 as 3DS sales hit 3.61 million
Down for the second year in a row
Sony unveils two tiered tablet strategy: the S1 and S2
To go on sale in the autumn
Glu Mobile's Mike Breslin on selling freemium games to a hardcore audience
The market's moving in the right direction
HandyGames' Christopher Kassulke on why he's totally committed to Xperia Play
Get your fingers off the screen
The PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens on: IGDA versus Amazon Appstore
Responses range from the right thing to cheap publicity
Introducing the PG.biz Mobile Gaming Mavens
Squeezing the industry's elite on the hottest topics
Nokia offers developers 3% CTR, higher than both iPhone and Android
Inneractive gives studios tips for advertising success
PG.biz week that was: Apple alters ranking algorithm, blocks app incentivisation, sues Samsung and sells 189m devices, while OpenFeint and SGN buyouts get cash flowing
The past seven days' news compressed bite-sized
Games the focus as Apple preps devs for iPhone 5 with A5-equipped iPhone 4
Making the most of iPad 2's chipset
GREE, KDDI and Tencent launch $100 million Android development fund
The A-Fund needs you
GREE on its plans to become the No.1 social gaming network
All systems go
OpenFeint's Jason Citron on $104 million GREE deal and 'stepping on the gas pedal'
Targeting 1 billion mobile gamers
Japanese social gaming platform GREE buys OpenFeint for $104 million
Will invest further cash for accelerated growth
Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Coin Drop, You Dont Know Jack, Woozzle
Critically acclaimed
Gameloft's cross-platform drive continues as N.O.V.A. makes leap to Facebook
Going social
RIM's PlayBook launch day sales estimated as 50,000
Solid start
Speaker line up confirmed for GameHorizon's Go Go Games mobile event
Mark Rein joined by ustwo's mills and Metro's Nyborg
iOS userbase hits 28.9 million in EU5, double Android
Apple snaps up 12.4% market share
Qualcomm has a record Q2 2011; revenues up 46% to $3.88 billion
Now sitting on a $22 billion cash pile
Nokia to launch a new app store based on Windows Marketplace
Plus unified submission for WP7, Symbian and Series 40
Apple's Samsung legal action reveals iPhone sales at 108 million and iPod touch at 60 million
What it told the judge
Nokia has solid Q1 2011 with sales up 9% to 10.4 billion
But profits down 10% and market share sliding fast
Nokia and Microsoft put pen to paper, sign strategic partnership ahead of schedule
Finnish firm making good progress with first handsets
Replica Software teams up with Ideaworks Labs to integrate online multiplayer into Airplay SDK
Cross-platform play on offer
Angry Birds Free with Magic to deliver multiplayer on Nokia NFC handsets
To come preinstalled on Nokia C7 post Anna update
Apple has sold a total of 189 million iOS devices
Including 19.5 million iPads
Apple posts another record quarter: Q2 2011 profits up 95% to $5.99 billion
18.7 million iPhones, 4.7 million iPads sold
FADE estimates Android Market game sales in Q1 2011 at $8.8 million, up 330%
Top game was Robo Defense with 186,000 sales
EA and Sega cut the prices of 27 games in Easter App Store sale
FIFA, Super Monkey Ball and Dead Space all down
New App Store algorithm favours specific categories, not app usage claims Fiksu
Games slip from the top of the charts
W3i's Hayden Creque on why developers need to be open about how they are using personal data
If we don't self regulate, Apple will do it for us
Battle Bears -1 and Cordy join first wave of Unity titles for Xperia Play
Union division delivers
1 in 12 buy tablets instead of PCs, laptops and netbooks in UK
But consumers want sub £250 price tag
IGDA brands Amazon Appstore a 'threat' despite clarification of pricing terms by retailer
It's not right, and it's not okay
Digital Chocolate franchises bound for Appitalism as two firms sign partnership
Publisher looking to extend its reach
Playforge's Thomas Chung on why Apple's incentivisation rejection doesn't solve iOS discoverability
One step forward?
iOS userbase hits 37.9 million in US as Apple's reach outperforms Android by 59%
Taking into account iPad and iPod touch