Anton Volnykh, the founder of Playmous, answered a number of our questions about the success of the mobile application. 

The distribution of income generated by mobile applications is becoming, as journalists put it on Inside Mobile Apps with reference to Flurry, more democratic. According to the latest report of an American analytical company, if in 2010 applications from the top 25 accounted for 28% of all premium and IAP revenue, then in 2012, according to preliminary data, this figure will be only 15%. 

Recently, EA announced the first project of Firemonkeys (formerly FireMint and IronMonkey) as part of the annual Summer Showcase – a new game in the popular mobile racing series Real Racing 3.

One of the largest German operators has successfully proved itself in the mobile games market: the number of downloads of its first projects in a couple of weeks exceeded 2 million. 

In an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins admitted that his company is not able to compete with Apple and Samsung without outside help.

Another Finnish news: perhaps in 2013, Rovio will launch an IPO. This was stated by its financial director Mikko Setala in an interview with the Swedish economic magazine Dagens Industrii.

The Galaxy Note sequel will debut and go on sale on August 29 on the eve of the IFA 2012 exhibition, – reports Reuters with reference to Samsung representatives.

Ex-Nokia employees who founded the company Jolla Mobile are working on a new operating system for smartphones. 

Global smartphone shipments for the second quarter of this year increased by 47% and reached 158.3 million devices (with China’s share of 27%). Moreover, according to the analytical agency Canalys, Android has only strengthened its leadership in this market.

The Finnish developers decided that they were getting too little on their main franchise and added not only 15 new levels to the next update of Angry Birds, but also several IAP tricks that seriously upset the balance of the game. 

The American studio Imangi Studios has announced that the number of downloads of its mobile game Temple Run has exceeded 100 million.

The conversation with Leonid Bugaev, Creative Director of Nordic, took place within the framework of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference.

In the second quarter of this year, the share of tablet shipments from the total number of computers shipped was 22% (for comparison, in the first quarter of the year, this figure was 19%).

In three days, the number of downloads of a new f2p game for iOS called Bubble Mania has reached the millionth milestone, – the authors of the game from Storm8 report.

Square Enix has officially announced that the classic jRPG Final Fantasy 3, previously released on the Nintendo DS handheld console (2006) and on iOS (2011), will be optimized for the Ouya platform and will be included in its launch line.

Despite the sale of more than 17 million iPads in the last quarter, Apple’s share of the tablet market has declined markedly over the year, according to a new study by the American consulting company Frank N. Magid Associates.

Among the largest game publishers, perhaps, it is Electronic Arts that is most actively and consistently developing the digital and mobile directions. And although the company earned less on the mobile front in the last quarter ended June 30 than in the previous three months, there is a clear general trend towards an increase in revenue in this sector.

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Sega’s management expects that the mobile market will help the company get back on its feet and return to profitability.