Mobile Content Forum estimated the Japanese mobile content market at $8.8 billion last year, of which $5.1 billion was for games for mobile devices. 

Specialists of the analytical company Forrester presented a new forecast for the development of the global tablet market for the period 2013-2017. The rapid growth in the number of active devices will continue: from 327 million tablets in 2013 to more than 905 million in 2017.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced its intention to expand the selection of applications in the Windows Phone Store by launching a beta version of its new online visual editor Windows Phone App Studio.

Two weeks ago it became known that Behind Studios, the developer of Knights of Pen & Paper, launched a fundraising campaign for a new game – Chroma Squad – on Kickstarter.

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot and Fast & Furious 6 ported one of their main Facebook projects to iOS: the Dragons of Atlantis strategy.

The head of Keen flare calls the success of the release of the game Royal Revolt! for devices on the Windows 8 platform, phenomenal: in just 2 months, the game was downloaded 750 thousand times on Windows Phone alone.

The SessionM marketing grid presented its latest Power Player Report for the second quarter of 2013, in which the company for the first time investigated exclusively gaming mobile applications.

After the closure of Impossible Studios, which worked on Infinity Blade: Dungeons, no specific information was received about the future of the series. However, interesting details have appeared recently.

Chartboost has published an interactive global “heatmap” that displays installation prices (CPI) for iOS and Android by country. There you can also find a CPI chart comparing the average cost of applications for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android.

One of the main box office projects of recent times, the Finnish game Clash of Clans, turned one year old last Friday since its worldwide release. We decided to see what he had managed to achieve during this time. 

The French company Pretty Simple Games has announced its plans to port Criminal Case to the Apple mobile platform.

Japanese developer GungHo has finally revealed the download statistics of his super hit in North America.

Japanese company Gree is shutting down Tellit, a mobile messaging service that was launched last year. According to the company, the reason for this is the need for constant rationalization of costs in a highly competitive environment.

Capcom yesterday announced a whole line of games for mobile platforms. They promised projects under such major brands as Monster Hunter, Street Fighter and Breath of Fire.

Fiksu has published a traditional report on the state of the American App Store for the month. In short: downloads are falling, the user’s price is rising. 

Aggressive financial policy in the case of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, distributed on the App Store at a price of $19.99, worked.

App Annie specialists have published an overview of the mobile market for the second quarter of 2013.

The Korean messenger Kakao “lowered the bar”. Starting in August, it is enough for a mobile game to meet only one of two conditions to enter the Kakao Game Platform.

A shelf of publishers has arrived: Wooga has announced that it is no longer an independent developer distributing and promoting its games independently, but a full-fledged publisher.