The publisher of popular flash and mobile games (including Gravity Guy, Extreme Skater and the Hambo series) announced that the total number of installations of its projects on iOS and Android exceeded 100 million. 

This became known at the Unity 2012 conference currently taking place in Amsterdam.

On August 21, Nival announced the release of the turn-based online strategy King’s Bounty: Legions in the version for iPad tablets. Thus, the million army of its users who play this game on social networks Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, My World and on the Kongregate portal will be replenished by iPad owners. 

An interesting statistic was published by Anketki Research. According to their report called Digital Parenting Russia Study, mobile devices are rapidly gaining popularity among the children’s audience. 

Rovio has announced a new musical episode of Angry Birds, created in collaboration with the popular American band Green Day.

Yesterday, on the pages of the Gamasutra portal, Henry Fong, executive director of Yodo1, a Chinese publisher that helps Western publishers enter the Celestial market, spoke in detail about what the Chinese gaming application market is today.  

Good news on the street for all fans of zombies and gardening: PopCap Games, which has not spoiled us with releases for a long time, announced the development of a sequel to its tower defense. 

On September 1, the law “On the Protection of children from information that harms their health and development” comes into force in the Russian Federation. In particular, this also applies to the mandatory labeling of computer games by age categories, which are given in the law. 

The first mobile blockbuster Mail.Ru Group has gained more than 1.2 million downloads on the iOS platform since its release on May 10, 2012. 

A little over a week ago, John Jordan, editor of the notorious PocketGamer resource, told in a post with a telling title – “Why 2D battlers will be defeated in the West, but PvP games will succeed”, about what exactly awaits the mobile games industry in the future. We decided to share his vision. 

Lauder Partners investment Fund bought out OnLive, a pioneer of cloud gaming services.

According to analysts from the investment bank Rutberg & Co, mobile applications in the first half of 2012 became the most attractive area for investments by venture capitalists. Of the $3.9 billion invested in mobile companies in the world during this time, about $1 billion, that is, about a quarter, fell on them.

Motorola Mobility, owned by Google, has once again entered into a patent war with Apple. 

One of the largest German developers, HandyGames, will publish games on the Chinese mobile software market. 

Apple has registered a new legal entity on the territory of the Russian Federation – Apple Rus LLC. The main activity of the subsidiary will be wholesale and retail sale of computers.

The game search application from Nvidia Video Corporation has gained more than 5 million downloads. And the last one was typed over the weekend. 

Sega has announced its new initiative, the Sega Alliance, aimed at supporting independent studios developing mobile games.

There is a mobile version of the casual game. There are approximately similar proposals for the publication from Fish, g5, herocraft and nevosoft. Who should I give myself to?

Goko startup has introduced a new platform designed to make life easier for HTML5 game developers.