During the second quarter of this year, almost 154 million smartphones were sold, two–thirds of which are Android-based devices, according to Garther. 

TinyCo, a company known for a number of social mobile games (Tiny Pets, Tiny Monsters, Tiny Monsters, etc.) has announced the opening of a new studio in Vancouver, Canada.

The latest version of the Scaleform program from Autodesk makes it easy to port games written in flash to mobile platforms.

According to a study by Appsfire, a number of words in the names of applications are used more often than usual. With their help, developers and publishers can get an additional opportunity to attract the attention of users.

Today, two of the only employees and founders of the Swedish indie gaming studio Simogo distinguished themselves at the GDC Europe held in Cologne. The guys shared their opinions on how to succeed by doing what you like and not listening to anyone around.

Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore said that the company is in talks with Microsoft to release new mobile games for the upcoming Windows Phone 8. 

YoYo Games has announced the imminent release of a new version of its cross-platform game development toolkit – GameMaker: Studio, which will include advanced monetization tools, as well as support for analytical services.

On September 27, a two-day international conference on social games, Sociality Rocks!2012, will open in Kiev.

The creators of Blackberry last week launched their own cross-platform three-dimensional open source engine created for independent mobile game developers.

The number of downloads of DeNA’s box office hit – the card “butler” Rage of Bahamut – exceeded 3 million only outside the Japanese market, according to the game developers from Cygames. 

According to CNet, sales of Samsung tablets in the American market account for only 4% of total iPad sales.

One of the world’s largest players in the market of “big” games – Activision – has finally begun to be active in the mobile sphere. The other day, the release of the first mobile project developed within the walls of her internal studio, The Blast Furnace, took place. 

Ex-employees of Big Huge Games, closed a few months ago, have started creating a role-playing action game Infinity Blade: Dungeons for the iOS mobile platform.

The With Friends franchise of Zynga has been replenished today with a new iOS game Gems with Friends, which is another variation of the classic match3 gameplay Bejeweled from PopCap.

At Casual Connect in Seattle, venture entrepreneur Tim Chang said that “If content is king, then advertising is an All–powerful God.” It doesn’t matter how high-quality your application is, how high its customer retention rate is. None of this matters if users don’t know about your app. 

In the second quarter of 2012, sales of Android-based smartphones increased more than fourfold compared to the same period last year, according to Svyaznoy.

The French publisher and developer of mobile games presented to the public his first game on the engine from Epic Games – the gloomy slasher Wild Blood.

The Japanese company DeNA, the owner of the social gaming mobile platform Mobage, reported on the results of the quarter ended June 30. The company earned $609 million, which is 37% higher than in the same period a year ago and made a net profit of $131 million.

The management of the Korean company denied rumors about possible cooperation with the creators of BlackBerry.