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Industry March 14, 2014

The tablet market in Russia grew by 108 in 2013%

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, 2.48 million devices were sold in Russia, and last year Russians purchased 8.58 million tablets,” IDC reports.

Industry March 14, 2014

PopCap breaks up with employees

The studio that created Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bejeweled has laid off 30 employees.

Industry March 14, 2014

The number of active smartphones in China is 700 million

According to the latest data for 2013, there are more than 700 million smartphones in China, according to the Chinese analytical company Umeng.

Industry March 14, 2014

Unity has bought an Applicier

Unity has acquired the authors of the Everyplay service, which allows you to record the gameplay in mobile games, the reaction to user events using the front camera, as well as embed video ads.

Industry March 12, 2014

The creator of Flappy Bird is thinking about returning the game

On the pages of the March issue of Rolling Stone appeared the story of the creation of one of the main phenomena of the mobile games market this year – the game Flappy Bird.

Industry March 12, 2014

Google bought Green Throttle Games

Failure stories rarely end well, but Green Throttle Games, which released a gamepad for Android games a year ago, was lucky. Today it became known that Google acquired it (or rather what was left of it).

Industry March 11, 2014

Newzoo: 310 million mobile gamers in China

Another couple of years and the Chinese mobile games market may well overtake the American one in terms of earnings. The Newzoo company told in detail about the Chinese market in its latest research.

Industry March 11, 2014

Kabam bought the authors of Underworld Empire for $90 million

Having earned over $360 million last year, the American company Kabam decided to diversify its business by buying the Phoenix Age studio based in San Francisco.

Platforms March 7, 2014

Each IAP will require you to enter a password

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has demanded that Apple introduce a number of changes that tighten the rules for making purchases inside apps for iOS and Mac.

Industry March 6, 2014

Team17 has become a mobile publisher

The authors of the Worms series have announced the launch of a program for publishing third-party projects on the mobile platform market.

Industry March 4, 2014

The authors of Canabalt have opened a new studio in Austin

The new studio of Canabalt developers Adam and Rebecca Saltsman (Adam Saltsman, Rebekah Saltsman) is located in Texas and is called Finji.

Industry March 4, 2014

25.5 million Russians use the mobile Internet

Company Mail.ru The Group has published a study “Mobile Internet in Russia”. About its main results – in our material.

Industry March 4, 2014

Mail.ru Group Estimated the mobile games market in Russia at $150 million

In his study “Mobile Internet in Russia” Mail.ru The Group said that in 2013, the mobile games market in Russia “grew to $150 million.”

Industry March 4, 2014

In 2013, almost twice as many Android tablets were sold as on iOS

The iPad no longer dominates the “tablet” market, Gartner announced yesterday. Android has captured this mobile device market as well.

Industry March 4, 2014

ARPPU Games in China – $25.31

Yesterday we published data from the latest TalkingData survey on the Chinese market. Today, the company shared an infographic based on this research. There is not much new data in it, but we could not get past it.

Industry March 3, 2014

10% of Chinese mobile gamers pay in games

The number of active smartphones in China has crossed the mark of 550 million devices, – said the Chinese company TalkingData. According to analysts, 96% of devices have at least one mobile game installed.

Industry February 28, 2014

The European Union has taken up free-to-play

The European Commission, the highest executive authority of the European Union, is concerned that applications with IAP are called free.

Industry February 28, 2014

Interview with Game Insight about “Natives and Castles”

Game Insight producer Vyacheslav Kokorev shared with App2Top.ru the story of the creation of the first part of the “Natives” and told about the key innovations of the sequel.

Industry February 27, 2014

App Annie: Mobile and Portable Games Market Report for Q4 2013

The analytical company App Annie together with IDC last night presented the traditional quarterly report on the market of games for mobile and portable platforms. We offer its full Russian version.

Industry February 27, 2014

10 trends of the mobile games market in 2014

In the blog of KamaGames Studio on habrahabr.ru there is a curious material about what awaits our industry this year. With the kind permission of our colleagues from KamaGames Studio, we publish this material on App 2 Top.ru .