Exactly half of all profits from the American versions of the App Store and Google Play are distributed among 25 developers, according to App Annie and Canalys.

The company, founded by the creator of the iconic Guitar Hero series, received $6 million in investments to develop a gamepad for mobile devices. Read about the next trend among small OEM companies, the pros and cons of gamepads and the console-mobile future in our material.

The analytical company IDC has published a fresh forecast for the development of the mobile OS market for 2016. By this time, Windows Phone should occupy 11.4% of the smartphone market.

Slant Six Games, which recently completed work on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, has released zombie bowling on iOS and announced work on three more mobile products.

Google Play now has the ability to create corporate application channels to distribute programs between employees.

Google has reported high growth dynamics of the latest versions of Android. The share of last year’s Ice Cream Sandwich is also actively growing – this OS is installed on more than a quarter of all Google devices.

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.