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.

CrowdStar was one of the first studios to gain success on Facebook back in 2009. But, as you know, times are changing. Yesterday, the company announced that it was leaving Zuckerberg’s social network in order to focus its attention on developing games for mobile devices. 

The third part of the mobile blockbuster from the French gaming giant Gameloft will soon appear on iOS and Android. 

During a survey of the audience, a well-known marketing company found out that advertising inside applications and games is much more popular than is commonly believed. 

The leading publishers of mobile games are on the air: Big Fish Games, Nevosoft and Alawar. Experts from these companies gathered to tell who specializes in what genres, how publishers choose projects, and what kind of games young teams need to create.

Having released the Android version of the popular Football Manager game this month, its developers from Sports Interactive said they were faced with the highest level of piracy in the history of the franchise. 

Microsoft and Intel are going to seriously shrink Apple’s share in the tablet market by releasing more than 30 devices on the “eight” to the shelves by the end of the year. 

Kupertinovtsy reported for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012. At the same time, they reported exactly how many Apple devices were sold over the past three months.

Google’s platform took 61% of the smartphone market of the land of the Rising Sun, iOS in second place. 

During the renewal of the IPO application, it became known that in the first quarter of this year, Zuckerberg’s social network earned more than $ 1 billion. 

Autumn is still very, very far away, and the network is already agitated by numerous rumors and speculation about the new, sorry, just about the iPhone 5. According to them, it will be small and thin.

According to the latest NPD data, 40% of users, after playing a freemium game, make an in-game payment.

How much mobile games earn per year and in which markets, what the average mobile player looks like and what types of monetization there are, how much mobile gaming advertising brings and what the industry will be like in three years – analysts from Superdata told about this and much more.

The Redmonds made an unexpected offer to the developers: to transfer their applications to the newly opened new Windows Phone Marketplace markets by Microsoft itself.

Analysts from Javelin Strategy & Research believe that very soon the share of Android tablets on the market will be greater than the share of tablets from Apple. 

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and Amazon Appstore are the fastest growing app stores, – Distimo and CSS Insight claim in their new report. 

Sony has published an open beta of the PlayStation Suite SDK, which allows developers to create games and applications for both Android devices and PS Vita.