The console sells games, even if this console is built on Android and costs $99. Apparently, the developers of Ouya understand this perfectly well: the other day it became known that it will be possible to play games with NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 on their console.  

Apple has added warnings about the presence of IAP in the description of applications on the App Store. But will this help parents avoid “unexpected” embezzlement in the future?  

Ludei has announced that its HTML5 platform of the same name now supports 3D. 

A series of high-profile announcements continues. This time the Wizard of the Coast company was pleased. At the Boston PAX East 2013, she announced the transfer of Dungeons & Dragons board games to iOS. 

The marketing company Trademob decided to find out which platform is better for promoting applications: the one from Apple, or the one from Google?

Akin Babayigit, Strategic Partnership Manager at Facebook, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, spoke about the strength of the platform, its significance for developers and focused on its capabilities for mobile games.

The Japanese card hit recently turned one year old. Despite his young age, he managed, in fact, to reshape the global mobile games market, remaining a mystery game for most.

At the Penny Arcade Expo festival, Firaxis Games announced that it is working hard to transfer its last year’s hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown to the Apple mobile platform. 

First results of Real Racing 3; monetization tips from the authors Ridiculous Fishing; Ron Gilbert is making a new game about pirates; Tatem Games reports good downloads; interviews with the creators of Beach Dirl Aloha, as well as much more, read in our digest. 

The company Heyzap, which owns the gaming social network of the same name, announced the official launch of the Ads SDK. The new toolkit integrates advertising modules with an interesting feature into applications.

At the Penny Arcade Expo game festival, the authors of World of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft announced the development of a collectible card game with role-playing elements Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

From May 1, the App Store will no longer support applications that use UDID (a unique device identifier). Anyone who does not have time to abandon it and switch to an alternative solution will have a “path ordered” in iTunes.

Recently, announcements of mobile games based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe have been increasingly appearing. So yesterday it became known that the Vancouver studio Roadhouse Interactive is developing a side-scroller under the license of Games Workshop for iOS.

Are games art or not? In disputes on this topic, many copies have been broken. Moreover, many, arguing about this, come to a different, indeed, philosophical question: what is art?

Kiip, a mobile network that allows companies to reward users for virtual achievements with real prizes, has launched a fund for independent developers. The size of the fund is $100 thousand.

The advertising company Quantcast has launched a new service Measure for Mobile Apps, which collects data on the use of iOS and Android applications.

On March 15, the Beach Girl Aloha game by Dodo Games studio appeared on the App Store. On March 20, she topped the Russian chart of free apps. We asked Artem Zemtsov, one of the studio’s founders, about the project and its promotion in Russia.      

The creators of the Marmalade SDK cross-platform toolkit yesterday announced a new Marmalade Juice solution that simplifies porting iOS games to Android.