The PlayHaven platform continues to thrive, according to a recent post by Venture Beat. Representatives of the company have released some information about their activities, according to which PlayHaven is working with 10 thousand developers on 20 thousand games.

Today, the continuation of one of the most high–profile releases of last year, Dead Trigger 2, was released on the App Store and Google Play.

The icon also sells. Depending on what is on it and how it is drawn, the user decides whether to click on it or not, to see if the application is worthy of him. The question is, are there 100% working rules regarding icons?

The other day, the continuation of the tactical turn–based strategy “about airplanes” from the creator of Civilizations – Sid Meyer was announced. 

Big Fish has introduced a new API that allows its customers to publish Android games on PC and Mac.

Immediately after Softbank and GungHo acquired a controlling stake in Supercell, Apple began promoting Hay Day in the Japanese store on the main page. 

Recently, advertising banners appeared in the mobile version of Odnoklassniki. In connection with this event, we contacted Arsen Israpilov, Director of Marketing and Business Development of Odnoklassniki, and talked about what the social network can offer mobile developers today.

At the Cupertino event, Tim Cook and Co presented a new generation of iPad and iPad mini tablets. 

Today, the Facebook group Farminers raised the question: how much will the Russian mobile application market earn by the end of 2013. We also decided to count. What we got – read in the material.

Traffic is a sore point. Where, for how much, how – these questions torment almost all developers of mobile games and applications today. Therefore, we decided to start getting acquainted with the companies offering traffic. The first in the list is AppTools.

The Japanese company Sega has seriously taken up the mobile market. The publisher is going to release four video games for iOS and Android, including the classic platformer Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and a brand new project Demon Tribe. This is reported by Polygon.

Today in Abu Dhabi, the Finnish giant presented its own tablet for five minutes to dead Windows RT 8.1, as well as several new smartphones and phones.

The Chinese company Chukong Technologies received $50 million of investments from the venture fund New Horizon Capital. The money will be spent on creating their own publishing brand, a development department and a department dealing with engines, as reported by GamesIndustry.

Gartner analysts expect tablet shipments to reach 184 million by the end of this year.

Mikhail Katkoff, who recently left Supercell, shared his thoughts on why Plants vs. Zombies 2 is an unsuccessful project for PopCap and EA in his blog.

Today, the Russian search engine announced the launch of its own free analytical service created for mobile application developers.

How much can a Clash of Clans clone earn, who is now on the crest of success in stores, whether it is necessary to cooperate with Kakao in Korea – about this and much more in the selection of the best materials for the past week.