The most significant events of the mobile market last week: Apple introduces domain registration AppStore.com Google is changing the payment scheme, Amazon is announcing its own currency, and Zynga is summing up the results of the year.

CEO of the company Ouya Julie Urman (Julie Uhrman) in an interview with the famous resource Engadget said that new versions of the eponymous portable game console based on Android will be released every year.

Namco Bandai has announced work on an updated version of the main mobile game of the early 90s – Tamagotchi – for iOS and Android.

DeNa reported on the results of the quarter ended December 31, 2012. Both revenue and profit increased by 50% compared to the same period of the previous year and amounted to $558.6 million and $212.5 million, respectively. 

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Last January, the German HandyGames released three games on iOS at once. After getting acquainted with the projects, we decided to contact the company’s management and talk to them about f2p and cartoon style.

Glu Mobile has announced the opening of a new publishing division that will specialize in helping third-party developers port iOS games to Android and Windows Phone. 

Just the other day we wrote about the opening of an investment program for mobile developers by GameStop with a budget of $ 10 million. And here is the news about the opening of another fund with a similar budget. This time, GREE acts as a kind uncle.

The first mobile devices running on Canonical OS will be available in October this year, and not in 2014, as previously reported. The platform itself will be available to developers at the end of February. 

The latest study of the American smartphone market demonstrates the weak growth dynamics of the Android platform and the good pace of the “Apple” OS. 

The affairs of Mark Pincus’ company are on the mend. Zynga is still not in the black, but hopes to improve its affairs soon with the help of mobile projects and gambling. 

 

Chillingo, together with Samsung, will soon launch a new program aimed at indie developers – 100% Indie. Its main task is to promote small mobile projects. 

Simultaneously with the unexpected announcement of Age of Wonders 3, the continuation of the cult series of turn-based fantasy strategies, it became known that the developers plan to create a portable version of it. 

The dates of the eleventh Game Developers Conference (CRI) have become known. The event will take place at the very end of spring, right after the May holidays.

Amazon is going to launch a virtual currency on the Kindle Fire line of devices this May, for which it will be possible to purchase applications and content inside them in the Amazon Appstore.

The “festive” quarter (October-December) is considered the most profitable, however, for Koreans from Com2uS, it turned out, as for Glu, to be far from the most successful in 2012.  

The American company shared its results for the last quarter of 2012. Despite the “hot” season, Glu Mobile’s revenue increased slightly, and the number of users fell seriously.

Unity Technologies has announced that support for Black Berry 10 OS will be added to its engine SDK very soon.