Every day there are fewer and fewer companies in the mobile games market that firmly adhere to the paid distribution model. Most of them have either already transferred, or are transferring their projects to the “shareware” type of monetization. However, one of the authors of Ticket to Ride claims that this is nothing more than a fashion that will soon pass. 

The founder of Electronic Arts, 3DO and Digital Chocolate clearly explains why in today’s mobile platform market you can’t do without a publisher, and states that 30% of Apple and Facebook’s deductions are too much. 

According to the results of the first quarter of 2012, it turned out that only three vendors receive profit from the sale of mobile phones (including smartphones). Moreover, most of them – 99% – are shared between Apple and Samsung. HTC accounts for the remaining 1%. 

Developers from a small studio Tiger Style told why they earned $ 100 thousand less on their second project in two months than on the first. It turns out that it’s all about the price. Their last game cost $ 2 more in the market than the debut project. 

Yesterday in London, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones presented its new flagship Samsung Galaxy S III: a totally new design, four processors, a 4.8-inch screen and 1 GB of RAM on board. Will he be able, following his predecessors, to blow up the mobile device market?

Slotomania goes into absolute box office hits on iOS, and Draw Something retains its previous positions. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 shows excellent box office figures for the single, but does not stay in the lead for a long time. On Android, Rage of Bahamut is still at the top of the top, at the same time, projects such as Airport City and Tiny Village.

According to the latest marketing research by App Promo, about 60% of applications do not pay off. Moreover, 80% of developers developing for mobile platforms do not have enough income to support and develop their own business.  

Zynga lost with the most important game project of the spring. OMGPOP’s hit numbers are plummeting along with Zynga’s stock price.   

There are new rules for applications in the Windows Phone Marketplace. The goal is to rein in unscrupulous developers who are prone to developing low–quality programs, and who like to use other people’s trademarks and strawberries to promote their own projects. 

Newzoo experts shared the results of a new study, during which they found out that micropayments by revenue captured almost the entire mobile games market. Analysts also calculated how many times the revenues of gaming applications from the App Store are more than those from Google Play.

The latest Rovio game turned out to be a real spring blockbuster of the mobile gaming industry, gaining 50 million downloads in record time. 

In March, the number of downloads of free apps in the United States decreased for the first time in six months. And solidly – by 30%. Following this, the cost of attracting users also dropped a little. Perhaps it’s all about the war that Apple has declared on bots. 

Thanks to just one game released “at the right time and in the right place”, a small Finnish studio is now turning into a full-fledged entertainment corporation with its plush toys, animated series and key chains. And, apparently, not everyone in the company is satisfied with this. 

There is such a belief: if swallows fly low above the ground, it will rain. There is something similar in the gaming industry too. If there is a sea and a small ocean of hack & slash on the market, this is for the next Diablo.

In just three months, the Amazon tablet has become the absolute leader in the American Android tablet market, snatching a share of 54%.

MoPub experts have estimated that in the event of a ban on UDID, Apple will cut developers’ advertising revenue by about 24%.

FDG Entertainment’s sniper project under the intriguing name Clear Vision, despite the age restrictions (17+), brought the creators about $ 800 thousand.

The top ten highest-grossing games on the leading mobile platforms iPhone, iPad and Android.

Analysts are lowering their forecasts regarding the bright future of the Windows Phone mobile platform. So far, however, it is not very significant.