“Apple removes recommendation apps from the App Store because they suck,” writes Venture Beat, according to a new player in this market, Hooked Media. 

DeNA announced that she was working with two “desktop” companies at once: Wizards of the Coast, which helps her create Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War, and Hasbro, which sold the rights of the game based on G.I. Joe to the Japanese. Read our material about the expansion of DeNA and its new games.  

WildTangent is going to conquer the mobile market. The next step is a contract with Asus, according to which the gaming service of the American company will appear on all the vendor’s tablets.

One of the largest Russian retailers of household appliances company “M.Video” told about the segmentation of the smartphone market in Russia following the results of the first quarter of 2013. There were some surprises.

Amazon plans to start selling Kindle Fire HD 7 and 8.9 from next month in more than 170 countries.

The German company b-interactive has announced a cross-platform version of the classic checkers game, which provides an online game from any smartphone running Windows Phone, iOS, Android or PC.

The most interesting iOS game releases of this week in one material. In the first issue, read about Poker Night 2, Bam fu, Call of Mini: DinoHunter, Dead Ahead, Epic and Zombie Fish Tank.

Marmalade recently announced that their cross-platform SDK already supports the new Google Play game service. However, not yet in full. 

On the pages of Fierce Developer, Microsoft evangelist Jesse Freeman talked about what the game needs to succeed in the casual market. 

A study conducted by Tapjoy and the Yankee Group showed that consumer spending on virtual currency in applications will grow in the coming years. By 2017, they will reach $3.2 billion, three times higher than last year.

The global mobile games market will grow to $12.3 billion by the end of this year, Newzoo reports in its latest report. Analysts say that this is 35% more than last year. 

According to Insidesocialgames, SlotoQuest: Gambling Adventure from the game publisher Renatus holds the first place in the top of actively growing games on Facebook, increasing its audience by 19,901 monthly active users and thus ensuring a 24% increase in the gaming audience.

Another Japanese company noted the fact of a slowdown in the growth of the mobile games market. Following Konami, this was announced by the publisher Capcom, which noted a similar trend in its latest quarterly financial report. 

Vice President of Taptica Matt Tubergen tells on the pages of Pocket Gamer how to work with analytics. We offer a translation of his third article, “Key Questions to Data”, devoted, respectively, to key questions on analytics.

One of the main franchises of the Games Workshop company is experiencing a real renaissance. In 2013, the third game in the brutal world of Warhammer 40,000 is announced. This time, the brave space marines from the Slitherine studio act as developers.

The Skillz service from the startup of the same name will allow users to compete with each other in mobile games for real money. Recently, its beta version for Android applications was released in the USA. The first results showed a threefold increase in revenue and session length.

As part of yesterday’s Xbox One presentation, Xbox Live Vice President Mark Whitten announced that the number of downloads of the Xbox SmartGlass mobile app exceeded the milestone of 10 million.

It has been reported that Aspyr Media is porting the iconic role-playing game in the Star Wars universe Knights of the Old Republic to Apple tablets. 

Burstly, a provider of solutions for mobile developers, has announced that its services will be available to all developers, not just the creators of the “coolest” applications.