The creators of the Marmalade SDK cross-platform toolkit yesterday announced a new Marmalade Juice solution that simplifies porting iOS games to Android.

Firaxis Games, the studio responsible for the latest part of XCOM and the Civilization strategy series, today, March 21, announced a project for the iOS platform – Haunted Hollow. 

Corona Labs has announced the launch of a set of Corona Cloud cloud services designed primarily for developers of mobile applications using the Corona SDK.

W3i has changed its name to NativeX and launched a new native advertising platform, which, according to its management, will provide the best level of monetization in mobile games and applications.

The creative director of Electronic Arts said that the future of Smart TV is behind the Android operating system.

Company Mail.Ru At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, the Group spoke about its experience of porting the browser role-playing game “Juggernaut” to mobile platforms and its promotion, including in eastern markets.

Good news came from Kiev last night. Without too much fanfare, Tatem Games announced that the number of downloads of its mobile games has surpassed the 20 million mark. 

What do Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Where’s my Water, Starcraft and Mario have in common, or why didn’t Amazing Alex and Pudding Monsters go?

Developers from Pendulo Studios came up with an unexpected approach to porting their game Runaway: A Twist of Fate. Having discovered that its full passage would take about 12 hours, the guys sawed the iOS project into two parts. 

The investment company has invested as much as $5 million in its own Dream Weddings division, which creates games aimed at those who are going to get married. 

The new Supergiant game is called Transistor. She is the spiritual heir of Bastion, but strategic elements have appeared in her. It will be released no earlier than 2014. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, i-Free company spoke about its experience in promoting mobile games in China, including how it fought piracy by promoting Pudding Monsters simultaneously in a dozen stores.

The author of Monkey Island Ron Gilbert returned to the pirate theme in his first mobile game with a very long title Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG.

Placed offers developers a new way to monetize applications through the original Placed Affiliate service, which collects information about the location of mobile devices.

The announcement of Flash GAMM Moscow 2013 took place. The conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games will be held as always the day before the CRI, this time on May 14.

A French developer has announced a very unusual project called Hox – a runner with a plot and dialogues. About the originality and the project in our material. 

Venture capital companies Creandum and Lifeline Ventures have invested $2.9 million in the Finnish-Singaporean studio Nonstop Games, which develops hardcore games for mobile platforms.

A sequel to Draw Something is in development. Zynga is confident that the sequel will not only be much more successful than the original, but will also have a good level of user retention, which means a good LTV.