A major developer of casual and social games King.com The fourth-ranked developer on Facebook has entered the mobile market with the iOS version of the popular Bubble Witch Saga game.For those who don’t know: Bubble Witch Saga is a colorful “bubble shooter”, perfect for everyone who loves Halloween with witches, big cauldrons, skulls and bats.

The iPad is spent more often and more than on any other mobile devices, be it smartphones or tablets, – the specialists of the payment company Adyen found out as a result of an eight-month study.

The share of the iPad in the Russian tablet market has significantly decreased: from 51% last year to 32% this year,” the official report of the Svyaznoy retail chain says. 

Amazon has problems: the company’s net profit in the second quarter of 2012 fell by 96% compared to the same period last year. 

The French performed well in the second quarter of this year, collecting 119% more money on smartphones and tablets than in the second quarter of last year. 

According to analysts of consulting and research firm Gartner, consumer spending on mobile apps and content will increase to $61 billion by 2016.

The world’s largest social network Facebook, together with the Taiwanese company HTC, plans to release its own smartphone model next year. Facebook representatives are sure that if this is not done, the network risks becoming an ordinary application.

Electronic Arts (EA) has announced the merger of its two leading Australian studios engaged in projects for mobile platforms, Iron Monkey and Firemint. Now the companies will work under the general brand of FireMonkeys. 

Yesterday, as part of the Casual Connect 2012 conference, App Annie’s detailed report on the state of the global mobile market was conducted by the company’s executive director Bertrand Schmidt. Without delay, App Annie employees posted a presentation “based on motives”, thanks to which you can find out the names of the leading countries in terms of revenue, downloads and ARPU, as well as the names of top American and non-American publishers.  

The director of the Amazon Appstore for Android, Aaron Rubenson, shared some interesting statistics regarding monetization in this market. For example, it turned out that in-app purchases priced at $4.99 are more popular than those priced at $2.99.

In the second quarter, Zynga’s business on Facebook, compared with the results of the first fiscal quarter of 2012, declined. In this regard, the company’s executive director Mark Pincus hastened to state that Zynga is considering the mobile and advertising markets as opportunities for further development. Moreover, it is quite possible that the developer will engage in games aimed at a male audience. 

Managing Director of i-Free Innovations Kirill Petrov answered a number of our questions about the choice of a platform for the development and promotion of a mobile application and the features of the Chinese market.

Most often, mobile games are played at home on the couch. This conclusion was reached by the independent research firm Information Solutions Group, commissioned by Pop Cap Games, which analyzed the behavior and habits of mobile players in the United States and Great Britain.

I will try to convey one very simple idea from the pages of this blog – A position in the TOP is not a source of additional loads, but an indicator of the level of additional loads.Top may be a good goal, but it’s not an end in itself. Top is an indicator, and no more! 

On the 27th we will learn something new about Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. Today – on the 25th – its developers posted a large counter on the site, counting down how much is left before this, hopefully, high-profile event.

Facebook believes that the future of the social and mobile market lies in turn-based games, and the Middle East is a promising area for the industry. 

The well-known publisher of social and mobile games 6Waves has launched a new mobile traffic exchange platform WaveX. 

The main novelties of the American chart of free apps on iOS and Android platforms are in detail. This time we will talk about Pyramid Run, Mutant Roadkill, Flick Kick Football, SuperPretzel Factory, Marble Saga and Music Hero.

Apple’s quarterly growth rate in the third fiscal quarter was the lowest in the last two years, with record earnings for the company in April-June.