Amazon’s app store sees massive growth (but it’s no Google Play)

Amazon's app store for Android has grown massively in popularity since the Kindle Fire was released in November 2011, doubling the number of developers who publish to the store and tripling the number of apps. Plus, Amazon says, hundreds of millions of apps have now been downloaded from the store.

Of course, that's barely a blip on the Google's radar, since the official Android market, Google Play, has seen more than 20 billion downloads on 600,000 apps.

Chartboost’s Kiosk program creates new revenue opportunities for mobile game developers

Chartboost's Kiosk program creates new revenue opportunities for mobile game developers.

Chartboost, TinyCo partnership seeks to ‘boost’ game development on Kindle Fire

Chartboost and TinyCo are launching a program to fuel the creation of games on Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. The endorsement shows that the Kindle Fire has a future as a platform for games and that two companies hope to drive …

Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game

With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd with a unique voice-based game that it is unveiling today.

The new game, All Talk, is …

Report: Amazon pulling ahead of iTunes in average revenue per user

TinyCo's report on how well its game Tiny Village is doing across multiple mobile platforms reveals that fragmentation might be to blame in the loss of revenue from Google Play releases.

TinyCo launches Tiny Village mobile game with new cross-platform engine

TinyCo is launching a new mobile game called Tiny Village today. It’s the first game from the startup that uses the Griffin Engine, which allows the company to build social games once and deploy them on Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, …

Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games

Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.

As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …

Storm8 comes on strong with three new Android games (exclusive)

Storm8 has launched three strong games on Android mobile devices in recent weeks, bringing to 13 the number of titles the mobile game company has on Google’s mobile operating system. The titles are simple simulation and role-playing games — City …

And we’re signing up even more great GamesBeat speakers

Today we’re revealing the eleventh group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our newest batch of speakers illustrates the wide variety of speakers and topics we’re getting for our event on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel …

More new speakers for GamesBeat 2011

Today we’re revealing the fourth set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include Tim Merel, managing director of Digi-Capital, Sana Choudary, co-founder of YetiZen game startup accelerator, and Jennifer Lu, director of …