iOS has every chance to become the largest platform in the history of the gaming industry, according to analysts at Azimco.

South Korean developer and publisher of mobile games Com2uS reported record results in the last quarter.  The company’s revenue amounted to $19.7 million, which is 158% higher than in the same period last year. And net profit increased by 490% to $5.31 million.   

Journalists from PocketGamer have drawn a colorful infographic that clearly explains why mobile developers and publishers need to pay close attention to the rapidly developing Asian market.

According to the IDC report, in the second quarter of this year, global smartphone shipments increased by 42.2%, amounting to 154 million devices. The lion’s share in 85% of deliveries belongs to the undisputed leaders in the market of operating systems – Android and iOS.

Despite Apple’s legal difficulties in China, the iPad has become the undisputed leader in the Chinese tablet market. 

German startup Elblabs has entered the market with an original advertising exchange platform in mobile, social and online games.

It occurred to me that there are so many abstruse conclusions based on data taken from nowhere that I also wanted to build my own statistics.

Acer admits that they do not know how to react to the imminent release of the Surface. Microsoft itself regards the tablet as a potential competitor to other Windows 8-based devices.

The Russian division of Microsoft has launched a special program to support developers of applications for Windows Phone.

The screen resolution of the iPhone 5 will be 640×1136 pixels. 

Sales of Angry Birds plush toys by the end of 2012 will amount to $ 400 million, – said Rovio partners from Commonwealth Toys & Novelty.

American women like the Kindle Fire more than the iPad, according to comScore analysts, who recently published data on smartphone and tablet users in the United States. 

According to a survey by the recruiting portal Superjob, Russians began to use gadgets more often during their holidays. Moreover, the popularity of the tablet as a device that you can take with you to the beach or to the country has more than tripled in a year.

Samsung delivered 50 million smartphones in the second quarter, which is twice as much as Apple sold in the same quarter. Moreover, according to IDC, this is generally a record number of devices ever shipped in the world by any vendor. But does it make sense?

According to the Taiwanese company HTC over the past quarter, the popularity of its devices continues to roll down. 

At the Siggraph 2012 conference currently taking place in Los Angeles, Geomerics announced the introduction of support for iOS and Android mobile devices in the Enlighten (Battlefield 3) engine. 

Amazon announced in the official blog about the opening of its own game studio – Amazon Game Studios.

Looking at the success of Rage of Bahamut, DeNA decided not to reinvent the wheel, but, as they say, “take the bull by the horns” and release two more mobile card projects to the world market: Transformers Battle and Marvel: War of Heroes.

According to the estimated data of PrivatBank, the total amount of payments made by Ukrainian users in the Apple App Store over the past year amounted to $2 million, while the average payment amount is about $ 7.