Quietly and imperceptibly, a new trend has emerged in the mobile entertainment industry: porting games from current-generation consoles. The release of Pocker Smash is proof of that.

According to the results of the third quarter, the iPad accounts for only 55% of global tablet shipments. Android tablets are eating away an increasing share of the market, analysts at ABI Research found out.

Microsoft and Amazon are planning to launch smartphones under their own brands by mid-2013, according to the DigiTimes resource.

Being aware that pushy projects often repel as many users as they attract, the authors of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride decided to study them carefully.

The authors of Clash of the Clans are confident that in a few years tablets and games for them will become the center of the gaming industry. 

The Chinese tablet market grew by 63% in the third quarter. Apple dominates it. In second place are “tablets” from Lenovo.  

Apple is once again the leader in smartphone sales in the US, but the company’s share in Europe continues to decline under the pressure of Android devices and, attention, Windows Phone.

The former head of games at Disney became the executive director of the advertising mobile platform Tapjoy. Mihir Shah was told “bye”.

Last Thanksgiving, the number of downloads of mobile games increased, not only in the United States, where this holiday is celebrated, but also around the world.

To write a comment on any application on Google Play, you will now need to register on the Google+ social network.

The release of the mobile version of the role-playing classics is postponed again for some time, according to the developers of the remake from Overhaul Games.  

“Professional Russian”, who performs under the nickname Dmitry Potapoff on the FPSRussia channel, is leading a campaign to raise funds for the development of the FPS Russia mobile game: The Game.

Benoit Sokal will write the script for the third part of the adventures of Kate Walker. Elliot Grassiano, who managed Microïds in the early noughties, will lead the work on it. The game will become multiplatform.

Microsoft Corporation is planning the first update of the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system.

Sales from smartphones last Thanksgiving, compared to the same day last year, jumped by 221%, and on Black Friday – by 128%, according to the commercial startup Branding Brand.

Freeze Tag Studio has signed an agreement with Activision Mobile Publishing and Flurry to publish the mobile game Grimm Reaper: Hidden Tales.

Facebook has launched a comprehensive Droidfooding program for the transition of its employees to Android devices.

Another sex scandal in the mobile app market. Virtual companions from the children’s game Boyfriend Maker turned out to be very frank guys, ready to talk to a real girl on any forbidden topic. For this application, they removed it from the shelves of the digital store. 

The Korean company managed to sell more than 5 million boxes with its tablet phone among its suppliers worldwide in two months.