The three-day Casual Connect conference starts tomorrow in Kiev for the 7th time. Editorial Office App2Top.ru I prepared a special project by interviewing the leading companies of the casual games market, which are now actively developing in the mobile direction. But first we want to introduce you to Jessica Tams, Executive Director of Casual Games Association.

Opened this summer, the European division of the large Japanese multidisciplinary media corporation Marvelous AQL announced the launch of a new indie developer support program called MarvDev. As part of this initiative, developers of mobile f2p games will receive assistance in financing, advertising and solving the problem of attracting users.

Speaking at the Korea Games Conference in Seoul, the executive director of App Annie Bertrand Schmidt (Bertrand Schmitt) said that from January to August in South Korea, the revenue of the official Android app store grew more than six times and overtook the revenue from the App Store.

Unofficial information has appeared about the search giant’s plans to demonstrate a whole line of gadgets under the Nexus brand at the presentation on October 29.  

In terms of tablet sales for the fourth reporting quarter, Apple surpassed itself. The company has set a new record by selling more than 18 million iPad tablets.

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The popular franchise of the Texas company Gearbox Software will soon honor mobile platforms with its presence as a gaming application.

The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation decided to adopt Apple’s experience in introducing high-tech devices into the educational process.

The number of downloads from Google Play in India has increased by 400% over the past year. Users of the country that gave the world the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata have installed more apps in the last six months alone than in the previous three years combined. 

According to the Android Police resource, one of the key changes to Android 4.2. will be support for “multi-profile”.

Apsalar company from sunny California has developed a tool capable of real-time tracking the effectiveness of Facebook ads in the mobile segment. 

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: even games that are not in the top hundred cash applications can earn several hundred thousand dollars every month; there are 1 billion active smartphones in the world, Carmageddon has been released on iOS and much, much more.

Mike Montgomery, co-founder of the iconic British studio Bitmap Brothers, said that other popular titles of this company will soon follow the famous Speedball 2 and Z games that have already been released on mobile devices.

Wish lists have been added to the Google Play app store. Now users will be able to add the app or content they like to their wish list.

Today Mozilla has opened an alpha version of its Firefox Marketplace app store for Android devices.

According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Google managed to sell from 800 thousand to 1 million Nexus 7 tablets in the third quarter.

The Chinese company has officially announced that it plans to introduce a giant smartphone with a screen diagonal of 6.1 inches.

Yesterday, Gree introduced an open source tool that allows you to develop Unity and HTML5 applications with Flash content.