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.

As part of yesterday’s Xbox One presentation, Xbox Live Vice President Mark Whitten announced that the number of downloads of the Xbox SmartGlass mobile app exceeded the milestone of 10 million.

It has been reported that Aspyr Media is porting the iconic role-playing game in the Star Wars universe Knights of the Old Republic to Apple tablets. 

Facebook announced the introduction of a native share dialog for iOS applications. Do we expect an increase in virality in the mobile market?

The multiplatform Godus project, for which Molineux 22cans successfully raised £526,000 last December, will be published by the Japanese giant DeNA on iOS and Android platforms.

Everyone knows last year’s story about the loud rise and scandalous fall of Draw Something indicators. The second part of the game, judging by the first results, repeats the fate of the original.

David Helgason, executive director of Unity, said that the basic mobile licenses for the engine of the same name, including versions for iOS and Android, are now distributed for free.  

Singapore-based studio Lambdamu reported that its Pixel People game has gained more than 2 million downloads in three months since its release and brought $ 700 thousand to the company’s piggy bank. 

According to the Strategy Analytics report, the Korean company accounted for 95% of the total revenue from sales of Android smartphones in the first quarter of 2013.

While Benoit Sokal is writing the script for the third part of Syberia, Big Fish has released the original 2002 game on iOS. So far, however, only for Canadian iPhone and iPad users.

Last Friday, May 17, Google talked about the work of the Google Play search engine, as well as how developers can improve the visibility of their programs with its help.

On Friday, May 17, a few days ahead of the announced deadline, the acceptance of pre-orders for the NVIDIA Shield portable Android console began.