Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and Amazon Appstore are the fastest growing app stores, – Distimo and CSS Insight claim in their new report. 

Sony has published an open beta of the PlayStation Suite SDK, which allows developers to create games and applications for both Android devices and PS Vita.

The top five highest-grossing games of this week in the US version of iTunes Apple Store and Google Play. From now on, on Thursdays on App2Top.ru .

The truth is told: “appetite comes with eating“: less than a month after the OMGPOP takeover, Zynga is already in search of another prey. But this time she is ready to spend much more than $180 million.

Yesterday it became known that the Android version of the arcade hit Temple Run from Imangi Studios was downloaded more than 10 million times in 20 days.

Casual Games Association (CGA), an international organization that holds a series of annual Casual Connect conferences in different parts of the world, is expanding its field of activity to the east. On May 22-24, 2012, the conference will be held in Singapore for the first time.

We present a new series of virtual round table issues. Today we are visiting major publishers of mobile games – Big Fish Games, Nevosoft and Alawar. Experts will discuss the phenomenon of the Draw Something game project: what is its uniqueness, what determined the success, etc.

It’s all about search engine optimization. Fiksu found out that in most cases, users find applications in Android stores thanks to search, not charts and ratings.

Revenues from micropayments in mobile games by the end of 2012 in the United States will amount to $ 500 million. This is $150 million more than last year. 

As soon as Apple released a new iPad, rumors began to spread about a new, new iPad. They say it will be quite small. Why its release will not take place, read below.  

Amazon has improved the mechanism of so-called parental control on its devices. After that, it gave developers the opportunity to set the price for in-game purchases above $ 20.

Google’s mobile search platform has doubled its share of the smartphone market in the People’s Republic of China. 

The latest mobile release of Rockstar Games proves that paid apps can also be very profitable. However, only if there is a powerful IP.

The largest Russian mobile operator has concluded an extremely profitable agreement with Google Corporation, having traded for itself a part of the revenue received by Google Play from the Russian market. 

On June 7-8, the VIII International Business Forum “The World of Mobile Content – MoCO 2012” will be held in Moscow.

The “yablochniki” have another trouble. The US Federal Court has met angry parents who consider API applications a sophisticated type of fraud.  

MotorStorm: RC diverges on PSP Vita no worse than a good project for iOS and Android. The secret of success lies in the pricing policy that Sony has adopted from the market of applications for handheld devices. 

The new strategy of the French company Gameloft works perfectly on mobile platforms: in just 7 days of “rental”, a free game based on a popular cartoon turned out to be in the top five highest-grossing projects in 50 countries around the world. 

The former producer of Metal Gear Solid 4, who was also responsible for the design of Halo 4, is developing survival-horror specifically for iOS.