In six months, interest in the budget device of Amazon has fallen by almost two-thirds. Analysts are sure that such a decline is due to the fact that many users are dissatisfied with it, despite its low cost. 

The revenues of Russian operators from the sale of mobile content for the first quarter of 2012 increased significantly compared to the same period of 2011.

In the near future, the Google corporation platform may not only give way to the conditional palm of iOS, but also lose the mobile device market. 

On iPhone and iPad, Mega Run turned out to be the most popular application. Zombie Swipeout Free and Little Generals also performed well. But Heroes Call, despite the Apple feature, shows far from the best results.   

Sony has added HTC to its PlayStation Certified license program. This means that in the near future, games that were previously intended exclusively for mobile devices under the PlayStation brand will appear on the Korean company’s Android smartphones. 

Analysts from comScore shared the latest data on the American market of mobile phones, smartphones and operating systems. It turned out that Apple is doing the best right now, but Android may soon have to tighten its belt. 

Peter Molyneux, the former head of Lionhead and Bullfrog, the creator and ideologue of games such as Fable, Black& White and Dungeon Keeper, announced a mobile experimental application Curiosity.

For the game adaptation of Brave, a new cartoon from Pixar, Disney has contracted the developers of one of the most successful games for iOS – Imangi Studios, the creators of Temple Run. 

How many devices are needed to test the game for Android, – the authors of the blog Tesgish asked themselves, and turned to the developers of mobile programs with it. The answers of some of them may well scare even a seasoned tester. 

As part of the E3 gaming exhibition taking place in Los Angeles, the creators of Shadowgun announced a new game – Dead Trigger, and also demonstrated the power of the latest version of the Unity engine by its example.

Looking at the success of their Death Rally, Finnish developers from Remedy are going to focus on developing mobile games.

Along with the release of the new service, Distimo shared interesting data about the American mobile app market over the past April: Google Play overtook the number of free downloads of the App Store; 37% of the most successful applications on the Android market can be found in the iPhone version. 

Push notifications noticeably affect the lifetime of applications on mobile devices: users who allow notifications to be sent to themselves continue working with the application for much longer and do it more actively than those who refuse notifications.

The Australian “simulator” of a positive ninja has passed the 300 million downloads mark in the two years since the game appeared on the App Store. 

The box office leaders have not changed for a long time. Over the past week, only one top – ten cash register applications for iPhone – has a “new face” that has never been “lit up” before – the role-playing MMO Haypi Dragon from the authors of Haypi Kingdom.

Revenue from content on mobile devices is growing, but there is still little investment in advertising in this segment. ARPU and eCPM in mobile games also lag behind the indicators of desktop systems. 

According to GameTrack monitoring, Angry Birds is the most popular game series in the UK, leaving Mario, Call of Duty and FIFA far behind.

The most popular free game on iPhone and iPad is Cut the Rope: Experiments from the domestic ZeptoLab team. In terms of growth rates, Hide the Fart, an ugly-looking gas emission simulator, turned out to be ahead of everyone. Subway Surfers and MiB 3 also performed well.

The other day we wrote that Angry Birds and PES do not work on new budget smartphones from Nokia (namely Lumia 610). Just last night it turned out that the problems are not only with the gadgets of the Finnish manufacturer. It turns out that in addition to the mentioned applications on budget devices, about 25% of mobile Xbox Live games will not work on Windows Phone.