Amazon has announced the launch of the third version of its own Android firmware for Kindle Fire tablets. 

The American company Stardock has announced the opening of Stardock Mobile. The new division will create original games for mobile platforms. This is told by the industrial portal GamesIndustry International.

We have not once or twice heard players sigh, dreaming of the appearance of full-fledged hardcore titles on mobile platforms. And so it happened – Shadowrun Returns, a role-playing game with an action a la XCOM, was released on iOS today. 

ZeptoLab has announced a full-fledged second part of the Cut the Rope puzzle.

The independent studio Subset Games has confirmed that it is working on a version of FTL: Faster Than Light for tablets.

The domestic company Game Insight announced the imminent release of its own three–dimensional runner – The Running Shadow project.

How much mobile application developers earn on their projects, and what is the average number of studios, the organizers of the ADC conference told in their extensive research (the same guys conduct GDC).

A scandal breaks out in the network. The president of EA Labels said that Apple paid a huge sum for EA to postpone the release of the Android version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 to a later date. Apple claims that this is a lie.

There are still very few details about the Tizen platform. What will it look like, what kind of store will it have, how many applications will it have at launch? One thing is for sure: there will definitely be games on Tizen.

Last Thursday, Gartner introduced the report, according to which this year the number of downloads from mobile markets will amount to 102 billion. We offer you a short story about how we tried to understand what Gartner analysts meant by these figures.

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President for Asia John Goodale spoke about multiplatform games in Asia.

More than three months ago we took from Mail.Ru Group interview in connection with the release of their project Jungle Heat on Google Play. After the game appeared on iOS, we decided to ask publishers about how they worked on its promotion on Android, and what they expect from the App Store. 

Pixonic has shared with us an interesting article about how to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising by ROI indicator.

About the most notable and not only game releases in our game digest for the past week. 

Why users have announced a boycott of Kabam, Zynga is suspected of cheating ratings, and in Russia it is necessary to develop games about Putin – read our article about scandals in the gaming industry.

The average check from Candy Crush Saga; the secret of creating perfect screenshots; the latest statistics on mobile market earnings from Gartner – this and much more in our traditional digest.

Following DeNA, Capcom announced a full-fledged JRPG blockbuster for mobile devices called Blade Fantasia.