Mikhail Katkoff in his blog told what the developers of endless runners should pay attention to first of all. We have translated and supplemented his text a little.

At the Mobile World Congress 2013 currently taking place in Barcelona, Microsoft shared the latest figures about its Windows Phone Store. Among the main ones is overcoming the mark of 1 billion downloads. 

At the Winter Nights conference, Ivan Bely, team leader of Marmalade, presented a report on a cross-platform high–performance toolkit for creating AAA class mobile games – Marmalade SDK.

The cost of acquiring a loyal user in January fell as expected, and the number of downloads increased, according to Fiksu in its monthly report. 

Today, the mobile market is dominated by iOS and Android. Apple has a monopoly on the first, Google dictates the rules for the second. Vendors lack room for maneuver – at least one more successful OS.

According to The Wall Street Journal, New Jersey has become the third (after Nevada and Delaware) American state in which online gambling is legalized.

In Russia, more Windows Phone devices were sold in the second half of 2012 than on iOS, IDC announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Google has announced the launch of the Google+ Sign-In authorization mechanism, which allows you to use a single login from the Google+ profile to log in to various applications and services.

Relax Auto-training is a set of exercises for relaxation and stress prevention, voiced by a specially selected speaker. Relaxation techniques used in the training were developed by leading practicing psychologists at the Moscow State University.

MDDay with the support of the IMI venture fund.VC will hold the first in Moscow on the Iphone. The selection of ideas runs until March 5.  The second round will take place on March 21. The selected teams will go to the Yakhroma, where they will participate in Mobilefest 2013 for free.

Samsung’s dominance in the Android market forces Google to consider the Korean company as a possible aggressor. Companies may not be able to avoid conflict. 

While the gaming community is discussing the PlayStation 4 announcement, waiting for April, when, according to rumors, the presentation of the new Xbox is due to take place, and wondering what the games of the eighth generation of consoles will be, Nvidia is also not wasting time. 

Artur Shakalis, head of the mobile games platform of the Odnoklassniki social network, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about the potential of the Odnoklassniki platform.ru for mobile applications for Android and iOS.

Deep Silver, a division of the German company Koch Media, engaged in the publication of computer and console games, has announced its plans to develop the mobile games market.