To improve the cross-platform performance of their own games, experts from Arkadium interviewed 1,500 American users.

The other day Microsoft announced its successes in the mobile field. According to the company, there are as many as 9 million transactions with the Windows Phone Store per day in the world.

The Australians are going to light up. The authors of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride publish a simulator of a recording studio on mobile platforms. 

Very soon, “we will go, we will rush.” The main mobile indie team – NimbleBit – announced that their new game will appear in the App Store next Thursday.

The unexpected is near. Chinese users don’t like mobile online games. 

At the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, Vice President and head of the QuickLaunch business unit of Conduit, Yaron Moradi, told how to bring users into the game and increase revenue using the lock screen.

An unexpected twist. The management of the Finnish company Jolla has solved the problem of the lack of applications for its own system in an interesting way. They just made Sailfish compatible with Google’s OS.

Hot tablet summer. Euroset reported: in July-August 2013, tablet sales in Russia increased by 155% compared to the same period last year. 

Expansion to the east. The British company King has launched its mega-popular title Candy Crush Saga on the Kakao Talk platform in South Korea.

How important are user ratings, what trends are observed in the Russian mobile device market, how much money top developers earn on the App Store in the USA – the answers to this and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week. 

Electronic Arts is trying to conquer the Japanese market with the help of role-playing tetris, looking back at the experience of GungHo. 

The numbers decide. MediaBrix has published a study of the mobile and social gaming markets. It contains a comparison of CTR for social and mobile games, a detailed analysis of the American online advertising market, and much more. 

New axis, new icons. The first information appeared on the web about what exactly designers should pay attention to when developing icons for iOS 7.

It’s more fun together. Companies engaged in video advertising of mobile applications have launched a joint program. 

Nicholas Lovell, founder of the Gamesbrief blog, thought about how the number of downloads of a free game will increase within a year after launch. To answer this question, it is necessary to understand when the title will begin to generate income.

In July, Distimo published statistics of top iOS apps. Based on these figures, the authors of Gamesbrief calculated how much cash applications earn per year.

Not a day without an announcement. Ubisoft announced the imminent release of Assassin’s Creed Pirates. The novelty will be released on mobile devices and tablets this fall.

The Japanese company Square Enix is preparing to release the Final Fantasy Agito freeplay on mobile devices.