The platform continues its aggressive offensive on the mobile sector: about 50% of Unity’s business is for iOS and Android development. However, the company does not intend to stop there, it is aiming higher.  

We present our new audio project – a virtual round table! You don’t need to go anywhere to find out the opinion of mobile app market experts: we ask them questions, they answer, and you listen. In the first issue, experts will talk about what the threshold for entering the market is now and what startups should focus on.

Mobile games will have a huge impact on the industry of large console projects in the near future. Ultimately, everything will come to the point that developers of large projects will have to adopt the experience of those who work on mobile applications.

Developers will have problems when developing an application for the new iPad, – according to the studio 10tons. In addition, the developers doubt that the third iPad will pull applications in this resolution.

There is a little more than a week left before the Mobilefest “mobile” festival, which means it’s time to reveal some details: what will happen in the afternoon and evening, as well as why mobile developers need skis.

The Finnish mobile giant is going to start selling tablets under its own brand in October this year. 

Plants vs. Zombies has accomplished a feat – interested the casual audience in a strategic game. At GDC 2012, its creator told how he managed it. 

The founder of CrowdStar explained in his interview why it is now better to work in the mobile market of social games than just in the social market. 

This working week promises to be long. To make it go faster, we have prepared an overview of four small projects that will definitely brighten up your working days. So, meet: Requiem: Unleashed, Mafia Rush, Nose Invaders and Rocket Weasel.

Today we will talk about the cost of attracting users to the App Store, about Amazon, which is going to introduce micropayments, and also about the fact that women prefer more often and for free, and men — less often, but for money.

The second week of spring turned out to be extremely eventful. Tim Cook announced the new iPad; Rovio spoke in detail about the new version of Angry Birds; GDC managed to start and end in San Francisco. About all this and not only in our new material.

Google has launched its own “cloud” service Google Play. Now all applications, music, videos and books uploaded by users will be stored on Google servers, and they can be accessed from a smartphone, tablet or PC. In terms of functionality, the novelty, to put it mildly, resembles Apple’s iCloud.

Last Friday, Microsoft presented the new OS at the Windows 8 Camp event and talked about its features, development tools and the new Windows Store application store. You could follow the course of events on our Twitter, and now we offer a small report.

On June 14-15, 2012, White Nights: Mobile Games Conference will be held in St. Petersburg – the first and only international conference dedicated to mobile games in Russia. Not apps, not app stores, not platforms, but games on mobile platforms. The App2Top portal acts as the main information sponsor.

Google has announced that now the size of applications uploaded by developers to the Android Market can reach 4GB. At the same time, the size of the APK (Android Package) file of the program should still not exceed 50 MB.

Over the weekend, a clone of the popular Temple Run game appeared on the Android Market, which was downloaded 23 thousand times in a couple of days. In early February, Apple conducted a global “sweep”, removing dozens of applications that were outright clones of popular applications. Google will probably have to take action, too.

Apple has spent $ 50 million to acquire startup Chomp Inc., which specializes in the development of search algorithms for mobile applications. What does this mean for developers and publishers?

The creators of Kindle Fire have finally decided to introduce micropayments into Amazon Appstore applications. However, it is unclear exactly when developers will be able to monetize their products.

On May 17, 2012, the Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 conference dedicated to the development of flash, social and mobile games will be held in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel.