Facebook Instagram social network announced that it is buying the Instagram photo service for about $1 billion in cash and shares. 

There are rumors and rumors. In some, a small but extremely important detail is in doubt, in others, absolutely everything is in doubt. The electronic edition of Verge recently just told one of these dubious stories about the new Google tablet.

Following GTA and Baldur‘s Gate, the cult action movie Max Payne is going to come to mobile platforms.

The creative director of Kiloo company told exactly how much you can earn per day on advertising in mobile applications for iOS.

Complex geometry, shaders and transparency are not for the third iPad, some developers claim. In their opinion, the most technologically advanced games are slowing down on the new Apple device. 

The author of the original game twenty years ago in 28 hours scored more than $ 400 thousand to develop a remake: a turn-based role-playing cyberpunk game for iOS and Android.

Canadians from RIM in honor of the festive event – the “blackberry” app store turned three years old on April 1 – shared the achievements of the store.

Apparently, having given $ 180 million for OMGPOP, Zynga will soon have to fork out another $30 million bonus to the company’s employees. 

Google has shared new data about its platform, according to which the OS version under the serial number 2.3 remains the most popular among users. 

Google’s creation has about 50 million mobile subscribers, providing the platform with 50.1% of the smartphone market in the United States.

A turn—based role-playing game on an iPad is something like a fix idea for old hardcore guys who are lucky enough to get an iPad. And many of them sincerely do not understand why there is nothing useful, not counting the strong Hunters and the ugly Avadon: The Black Fortress, as well as a whole brood of Final Fantasy ports from Square Enix at crazy prices of $ 16-20 on the platform is not. More…

Website Editor pocketgamer.biz Following the results of the conference, GDC identified 21 trends in the modern mobile industry. Here is the third and final part of this article.

Distimo, together with CCS Insight, shared data on the daily earnings of the App Store and Google Play, and also introduced a new market monitoring service that collected this data.

The spring blockbuster, which we could not pass by in any way, is, of course, the Sky Gamblers arcade flight simulator: Air Supremacy. A kind of “Il-2: Stormtrooper” for iOS is insanely beautiful (within the framework of the platform), complex and, what is also important, promoted by Apple itself.

Western journalists are sure that the Apple company is developing an original controller for its devices.

The authors of one of the bloodiest platformers announced that they will release a special version of the game on iOS and other mobile systems.

The cost of attracting a user in February increased significantly, and the number of downloads decreased due to Apple’s active actions. 

During the day, the Imangi Studios game was downloaded by more than 2 million Android platform users.

Analysts from Distimo shared interesting data revealing why Android is not such a profitable platform for developers as iOS.