The company ZeptoLab, known for the Cut the Rope series of games, yesterday announced a new project – Pudding Monsters.

The presidents of GREE USA, who previously headed Funzio, spoke about the main trends in the mobile games market. 

Kabam, a company specializing in hardcore social games, has acquired the Chinese studio Balanced Worlds Studios.

Mobile traffic is growing so dynamically that in some countries it has already surpassed the traffic of desktop systems.

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Western investors believe that the time of crazy money in the mobile app market has passed. Game developers will now be bought with more caution and for much less money.

The official cost of the fifth iPhone on the Russian market will be from 36 thousand rubles. Twice as much as in the American market. 

On the night of December 3 to 4, the Russian version of the iTunes digital supermarket was launched, in which both domestic and foreign music albums and films are already available for purchase.

In an interview with the Gamasutra gaming industry resource, Jens Begemann, head of Wooga, one of the top three developers of social games for Facebook, said that his team has shifted its focus to mobile products.

Tomorrow, December 4, the official opening of the iTunes Store in Russia will take place in GUM. This information is confirmed by both domestic and foreign sources.

The fifth version of the “apple” smartphone will appear on the Russian market in two weeks, Apple officially announced.

Last Friday, App Annie published a report on revenue from mobile platforms. Shortly after the release of the data, Apple turned to the resources that posted the report, wanting to refute the opinion about the drop in revenue from the App Store.

On December 13, 2012, a training seminar “Gaming Abc 3” for developers of mobile games and applications, organized by the Online Games Industry Conference (OGIC), will be held in St. Petersburg.

The team developing Ouya, a miniature Android-based game console, announced that on December 28 it will begin sending out “developer” versions of its device to interested developers.

The first data appeared about the next device in the Nexus line – a super-budget solution for an amount more familiar to “tablets” from Chinese noname manufacturers.

According to the results of the third quarter of this year, Apple took second place among US mobile device manufacturers, overtaking LG, comScore analysts found out.

In his Twitter blog, Todd Brix, director of the Windows Phone Apps Team, shared data that with the release of WP8, the number of mobile app downloads increased by more than 100%.

The most common Android version in the USA is Ice Cream Sandwich. Most American users of Android devices work with it. The second place is for Gingerbread.

The average number of daily iPhone downloads after the new Apple device appeared on the market jumped by almost 1.5 million, while the cost of the user fell markedly.