Now Microsoft Studios is competing with Google and Apple, said Phil Harrison, vice president of the interactive entertainment division at Microsoft.

The volume of the mobile market in the world will double over the past year, reaching $30 billion, according to experts from ABI Research.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: how to become a millionaire by developing games and apps for the App Store; who are American mobile app developers really are; why card games are so popular and much more. 

There is censorship in the foggy Albion: a mobile game has been banned in the UK, one of the heroes of which is the naked son of Prince Charles. 

In Finland, Angry Birds soda sells better than Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Finns from Supercell, according to unofficial information, were offered about $ 600 million for their company.

It is believed that a single–player game with a good plot, designed for a single passage, as a phenomenon has not really caught on on mobile platforms. The experience of Telltale Games suggests the opposite. We decided to reflect on this topic.    

Official sales of the iPad Mini in Russia will start in mid-January, sources close to one of the major distributors of Apple devices tell Izvestia.

Yesterday, the app store for Windows 8-based devices reached the mark of 20 thousand applications. 

Ed Rumley from Chillingo, in an interview with Inside Mobile Apps, talked about how long they have been working with projects, and also noted that fragmentation is in his company’s favor. 

Samsung’s new flagship will have a five-inch screen. However, the Korean company has not yet managed to start its mass production due to technical problems. Therefore, analysts believe that its release will be delayed.

YoYo Games has announced that the new version of its GameMaker: Studio toolkit will allow developers to “export” their games (both new and existing) to the Windows Phone 8 mobile OS. 

According to analysts from Gartner, in 2013 Lenovo will become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China. 

The famous game designer has started fundraising on the Kickstarter service for his new game – GODUS, the ideological heir to the god simulator of the late 80s Populous.

Peter Vesterbaka said that his company is not going to the stock exchange yet, and also spoke about the success of Angry Birds in the Chinese market.

A couple of days ago, Mixpanel launched the Activity Feed service, which allows you to see every action performed by the user in the application from the moment it was first opened. 

According to forecasts of the analytical company Strategy Analytics, in five years the total number of downloaded applications for all mobile devices will be 350 billion.

We invite everyone to the twitter broadcast from the Mobile VAS & Apps Conference, which is taking place right now in St. Petersburg!

The anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will appear on mobile platforms on December 6, according to Rockstar Games, sharing at the same time a small list of devices on which the game will go.