According to Digi-Capital, online and mobile games will increase the total volume of the video game market to $ 87 billion and will account for half of the revenue (44 billion). The once successful console gaming sector will decline.      

The Cover Orange game for iPad and iPhone appeared at the end of 2010 (November 17 and December 13, respectively). During its existence, it has been both paid and free; almost two months ago, the possibility of in-game purchases appeared in it. In mid-August, the game reached the third line of Top Paid iPhone Apps USA, and since its release, both versions have earned almost a million dollars. The author of the application Evgeny Kuzmin,…

On October 14, a conference of developers for mobile platforms Mobile People will be held in Kazan for the first time.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the number of mobile subscribers in China increased by 81 million users in the first 8 months of 2011. Now the total number of subscribers is a record 940 million.

Representatives of RIM, Andrey Kiselyov and Ola Larsen spoke at the MobileFest conference, which was held in September near St. Petersburg. They talked about the capabilities of devices on the BlackBerry® platform – in particular, they presented a new PlayBook tablet and even played it among the conference participants. 

Apple’s iPhone has always been on the radar in the field of mobile technology, and the release of the new iPhone 5, which is just around the corner, only adds fuel to the fire. However, a recent study has shown that not everything is so simple.

9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011 is another baseball simulator released last year on the iTunes App Store for $4.99 with In-App Purchase option. Subsequently, the price for the game dropped to $ 0.99.

On September 22, a new game “Where’s My Water?” for iPhone / iPad from Disney was released and in just a few days took the top positions in the tops.

Two companies – WapStart in Russia and MediaVest in the USA – conducted research on user activity in relation to mobile advertising during the day.

In order to assess the similarities and differences between iPhone and Android, Com2uS decided to compare how things are going with the sale of two games they produce on both platforms. Two baseball simulators Homerun Battle 3D and 9 Innings: Baseball 2011 were analyzed.

On December 10-11, 2011, the 7th Flash Gamm! conference will be held in Kiev, focused on specialists and experts in the field of flash, social and mobile games. More than 700 participants are expected, including representatives of both large game companies and publishers, as well as small studios and indie developers.

According to a recent report by IDC, Apple’s iPad has increased its share of the global tablet market from 66% in the first quarter of this year to 68% in the second quarter. In the same period, the share of Android devices from Google fell from 34% to 27%. RIM gained 5% market share in the second quarter, which was the debut for its new PlayBook tablet.

Mobile app promotion is not an easy process, especially in markets such as the Apple App Store or Windows Marketplace, where advertising cannot be bought in principle. But is it so important in the end? According to AT&T Mobility, almost half of mobile players learn about new games from their friends.

In March, IDC published forecasts for 2015 for mobile platforms, suggesting that Windows Phone will take second place in the market, Android will remain in first place, and Symbian will almost be forgotten. Recently, another research company, Gartner, also awarded Windows Phone second place in its forecasts for 2015.

We analyzed how many applications appeared in the Games subcategories in a month (from August 4 to September 4, 2011). This information will allow you to assess the level of competition in each of them and choose the most “profitable” section when the game is released. It is logical to assume that the fewer applications there are next to yours, the more likely it will be noticed.

The developers are doing everything to get their app downloaded. And what is important to users during the game? According to AT&T Mobile, more and more users are noting the importance of touch control of the application. This criterion is important for 43% of smartphone users.

For a long time, the Android mobile operating system has been in the shadow of its main competitor – iOS. Tens of thousands of developers, including large corporations and young talents, sought to create an application for the iPhone first and only then for Android smartphones. Now the situation has radically changed. Developers realized that the Android operating system is no less (and maybe more) promising than iOS.

We offer a story about how the Magic Brush application was promoted – one of the most successful domestic products for touch-based Symbian devices. The number of sales of the app only in the Ovi Store reached 4K copies per month, and the Lite version was downloaded in it about 1.7M times.

At the last MobileFest conference, we met with Vladimir Kolesnikov from Microsoft, who introduced himself as an “evangelist developer”. Vladimir is a specialist in interaction with developers and, in particular, he is responsible for the mobile direction. About whether it is worth making applications for Windows Phone 7, what kind of help you can get from Microsoft and, most importantly, whether you can earn money in the end, read in an exclusive interview.