The upcoming conference will feature presentations by Apple iOS 7, King, Gameloft, DeNA, Rovio, Warner Bros. and many others. Also, 1 million rubles will be raffled among game developers.

The average application development time for iOS and WP platforms is longer than for Android, experts from Evans Data assure in the latest report.

Thanks to the growth of the mobile and online games market, the total revenue of the gaming industry could reach a shocking $100 billion in three years, according to Digi-Capital.

The Finnish-Singaporean studio, founded by immigrants from Wooga and Nokia and raised $2.9 million last spring, is launching a hexagonal online RTS for iOS this week.

The German market is the largest in Europe, Newzoo reported. In 2013, its gamers spent $4.1 billion on games, $595 million of which fell on the mobile sector.

Due to the specifics of one of the Google Play algorithms, Turkish users massively give one star to good applications, while leaving a positive review.

Get Set Games has launched Mega Jump 2. The continuation of the legendary arcade is already available in New Zealand. On January 16, there will be a worldwide release in the App Store.

Pixel Licker Games company is going to reboot its Slayin project in the near future. 

Starting from the 2014 fiscal year, which will begin only next April, EA plans to launch all its mobile titles in China through one of its external companies – PopCap China.

The average number of gaming sessions per mobile device increased by 66% over the year, according to Flurry analysts. However, in terms of growth rates, they have seriously lagged behind the dynamics of the market as a whole. 

We wrote the other day that the App Store earned $1 billion in the last December. Analysts from Azimco shared the figures for January and demonstrated the dynamics of payments since 2011.

Nintendo announced that the number of 3DS consoles sold in the United States amounted to 11.5 million since the device appeared on the market in 2011. At the same time, 16 million games for them were sold in 2013 alone.

The start of the Christmas season seriously raised the cost of a loyal user, but almost did not affect the number of daily downloads in the United States, Fiksu said.

According to eMarketer, 55% of marketers consider retargeting as one of the most effective types of targeted advertising. Fiksu has proposed using this mechanism as a service for mobile developers.

On the Fiksu website there are very interesting graphs with which you can compare the popularity of “apple” devices with each other. 

Not exactly mobile news. The German developer and publisher Gameforge is forced to withdraw certain formulations from advertising the virtual content of its title Runes of Magic.

In 2013, the company had no paid releases. In this – everything is somewhat different. Just yesterday, Castle Doombad was released on the App Store. It has a price tag of $2.99. Why is Adult Swim no longer “about free-to-play”?

Alibaba has announced the development of its own mobile gaming platform. The new service will compete with WeChat.

CD Project RED and Fantasy Flight Games will release a board game based on the Witcher universe. An iPad port is also planned.