Yesterday we wrote that iTunes has learned to understand Yandex.Money. And we tried to understand whether the revenue of the Russian App Store will increase after that. Today we received an official comment from Yandex on this issue. 

Nextpeer has launched a closed beta testing of its solution that adds multiplayer mode to Android games.

After the recent announcement of the not too successful results of the 2012 financial year, Square Enix thought about how to fix the situation. According to the latest information, one of the “lifebuoys” for the company may well be the development of the mobile direction. 

Russian iOS users have the opportunity to pay for purchases in iTunes using Yandex.Moneys’. Read about whether this will lead to an increase in App Store revenue in Russia in our material.

The good old “Word of Mouth” (Word of Mouth – WOM) is the most important source of information about new applications. This conclusion was made by the analysts of the company Applicier as a result of a survey of 1800 mobile gamers. 

The authors of the last part of Devil May Cry and Enslaved from the British studio Ninja Theory are entering the mobile market. Last Friday, they announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Chillingo to publish their first mobile game for iOS and Android.

Google Play’s revenue from IAP has grown by 700%; Unity has become free for mobile developers; Amazon tablets will be sold in 170 countries – read about this and more in our traditional digest for a week.

Last Friday, Amazon announced the launch of a new analytical service, App Engagement Reports, through which developers will be able to learn more about the lifecycle of their application. 

DeNA announced that she was working with two “desktop” companies at once: Wizards of the Coast, which helps her create Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War, and Hasbro, which sold the rights of the game based on G.I. Joe to the Japanese. Read our material about the expansion of DeNA and its new games.  

WildTangent is going to conquer the mobile market. The next step is a contract with Asus, according to which the gaming service of the American company will appear on all the vendor’s tablets.

One of the largest Russian retailers of household appliances company “M.Video” told about the segmentation of the smartphone market in Russia following the results of the first quarter of 2013. There were some surprises.

Amazon plans to start selling Kindle Fire HD 7 and 8.9 from next month in more than 170 countries.

The German company b-interactive has announced a cross-platform version of the classic checkers game, which provides an online game from any smartphone running Windows Phone, iOS, Android or PC.

The most interesting iOS game releases of this week in one material. In the first issue, read about Poker Night 2, Bam fu, Call of Mini: DinoHunter, Dead Ahead, Epic and Zombie Fish Tank.

Marmalade recently announced that their cross-platform SDK already supports the new Google Play game service. However, not yet in full. 

A study conducted by Tapjoy and the Yankee Group showed that consumer spending on virtual currency in applications will grow in the coming years. By 2017, they will reach $3.2 billion, three times higher than last year.

Another Japanese company noted the fact of a slowdown in the growth of the mobile games market. Following Konami, this was announced by the publisher Capcom, which noted a similar trend in its latest quarterly financial report. 

One of the main franchises of the Games Workshop company is experiencing a real renaissance. In 2013, the third game in the brutal world of Warhammer 40,000 is announced. This time, the brave space marines from the Slitherine studio act as developers.

The Skillz service from the startup of the same name will allow users to compete with each other in mobile games for real money. Recently, its beta version for Android applications was released in the USA. The first results showed a threefold increase in revenue and session length.