A study of the mobile audience conducted by Flurry showed that older users prefer tablets to smartphones, the main activity of “tablets” falls at nine in the evening, and also that they play on them much more than on “smart tubes”. 

The first snow has fallen – we can assume that winter has come. This means that the coolest mobile gaming conference Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference will take place soon.

The German studio Wooga yesterday announced the release of its very popular Facebook game Bubble Island on the iOS platform.

The number of iPhone users intending to purchase a smartphone of the same brand in the future has decreased for the first time since 2007, according to Strategy Analytics. 

Strategy Analytics has published a report on the analysis of the smartphone market for the third quarter of this year. According to the data obtained, the combined supply of market-leading Apple and Samsung occupy more than half of the global smartphone market.

Last night there was a large-scale malfunction of iCloud, during which a warning hung on the official Apple website to users about the impossibility of using any iCloud services other than Mail and iChat.

The indie team of industry veteran Peter Molyneux 22Cans has announced that the release of its experimental mobile game Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube for iOS and Android will take place on November 7 at 0:22 Pacific time.

Yesterday Microsoft released a full working version of the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 for creating applications for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.

Last week, Casual Connect Kyiv 2012 was held in Kiev. Surely you have already got acquainted with our series of interviews dedicated to this event. Today we offer some notes about the event itself.

Big Fish and Betable have announced that their joint project, the mobile gambling game for real money Big Fish Casino UK, has finally launched in the UK App Store for iOS.

ComTech analysts analyzed smartphone sales figures on the global market for the third quarter of this year and came to the conclusion that Android is losing the American market.

In the last days of autumn, St. Petersburg will host a major international forum Mobile VAS Conference dedicated to mobile technologies and applications. The forum participants include Creative Mobile, AppAnnie and Xyologic.

Mobile and social games will become a priority for the gaming division of the George Lucas company, which is now owned by the Disney Corporation.

The American publishing house reported for the second quarter of 2013. The net income of its mobile division was $89 million. This is 60% more than last year. Most of the amount came from games for smartphones and tablets. 

The number of applications in the Google Play store has reached 700 thousand, as close as possible to the “Apple” App Store.

Activision has announced the launch of its own mobile social network called Activate.

Yesterday, the search giant presented three gadgets of the Nexus line at once. We talked about one of them yesterday, but not about the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 yet. 

It has been reported that the American company InMobi, engaged in mobile advertising and its monitoring using the original Ad Tracker service, is leaving Russia and Eastern Europe.

The Chinese mobile games market is still a mystery for developers wondering if it is possible to make money on it. As the experience of Punchbox Studios shows, it is possible, and a lot.