A celebration on the street of fans of “Star Wars” and the bird series Rovio. On September 18, the day before the official release, the second part of Angry Birds Star Wars was released on the App Store and Google Play.

The RIA Novosti group has released a new photo application for iPad “In the Lens”, which can be downloaded for free in the AppStore app store.

According to Mixpanel, which launched a special dashboard that tracks downloads of the new version of Apple’s mobile OS, more than 25% of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users switched to iOS 7 during the day.

We waited. After 21.00, the seventh version of the iOS mobile operating system became available for download.

It is well known that one of the main problems of the App Store and Google Play today is the findability of applications. Because of this, both developers and users suffer.

As part of the third investment round, App Annie received $15 million from Sequoia Capital.

A paying Candy Crush Saga player brings King $40 a year, said gaming market analyst Michael Patcher at NY Games Con in New York. 

On the App Store, overtaking the release of iOS 7, the third part of Infinity Blade 3 was released today. About the first reviews of it – in our material.

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.