Yesterday, as part of the Casual Connect 2012 conference, App Annie’s detailed report on the state of the global mobile market was conducted by the company’s executive director Bertrand Schmidt. Without delay, App Annie employees posted a presentation “based on motives”, thanks to which you can find out the names of the leading countries in terms of revenue, downloads and ARPU, as well as the names of top American and non-American publishers.  

The director of the Amazon Appstore for Android, Aaron Rubenson, shared some interesting statistics regarding monetization in this market. For example, it turned out that in-app purchases priced at $4.99 are more popular than those priced at $2.99.

In the second quarter, Zynga’s business on Facebook, compared with the results of the first fiscal quarter of 2012, declined. In this regard, the company’s executive director Mark Pincus hastened to state that Zynga is considering the mobile and advertising markets as opportunities for further development. Moreover, it is quite possible that the developer will engage in games aimed at a male audience. 

Managing Director of i-Free Innovations Kirill Petrov answered a number of our questions about the choice of a platform for the development and promotion of a mobile application and the features of the Chinese market.

Most often, mobile games are played at home on the couch. This conclusion was reached by the independent research firm Information Solutions Group, commissioned by Pop Cap Games, which analyzed the behavior and habits of mobile players in the United States and Great Britain.

I will try to convey one very simple idea from the pages of this blog – A position in the TOP is not a source of additional loads, but an indicator of the level of additional loads.Top may be a good goal, but it’s not an end in itself. Top is an indicator, and no more! 

On the 27th we will learn something new about Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. Today – on the 25th – its developers posted a large counter on the site, counting down how much is left before this, hopefully, high-profile event.

Facebook believes that the future of the social and mobile market lies in turn-based games, and the Middle East is a promising area for the industry. 

The well-known publisher of social and mobile games 6Waves has launched a new mobile traffic exchange platform WaveX. 

The main novelties of the American chart of free apps on iOS and Android platforms are in detail. This time we will talk about Pyramid Run, Mutant Roadkill, Flick Kick Football, SuperPretzel Factory, Marble Saga and Music Hero.

Apple’s quarterly growth rate in the third fiscal quarter was the lowest in the last two years, with record earnings for the company in April-June.   

One of the company’s executives spoke about the future of the gaming industry, meta-games, and why iOS is still better than Facebook.

At the largest Casual Connect Seattle 2012 conference that opened on July 24 in Seattle, Big Fish Games announced the launch of the Big Fish Unlimited cloud gaming service.

Apple said that the user will no longer need to enter the password from his ID when downloading free apps.

The PlayPhone company, which created the mobile gaming social network of the same name – acting on the same field with the networks of such serious players as Gree, DeNa and Papaya – has announced a new version of its SDK.

The developers of Madfinger Games explained that they made the zombie blockbuster Dead Trigger on the Android platform free because of the incredibly high level of piracy. 

Yesterday, a new HTML5 engine called CAAT (Canvas Advanced Animation Toolkit) was released, which, in theory, allows you to develop and publish games on the market as quickly as possible due to the availability of ready-made code fragments and a large number of libraries.

Alexander Lyskovsky, CEO of Alawar Entertainment, shared with us tips on what a young team needs to do to succeed, and how a publisher can retain a developer who has already released a hit.

Mobile publishers, since January 2012, have managed to earn over $ 400 million on advertising, the number of impressions of which has exceeded the 35 billion mark, according to Opera.