Corona Labs has announced the launch of a set of Corona Cloud cloud services designed primarily for developers of mobile applications using the Corona SDK.

W3i has changed its name to NativeX and launched a new native advertising platform, which, according to its management, will provide the best level of monetization in mobile games and applications.

The creative director of Electronic Arts said that the future of Smart TV is behind the Android operating system.

Company Mail.Ru At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, the Group spoke about its experience of porting the browser role-playing game “Juggernaut” to mobile platforms and its promotion, including in eastern markets.

What do Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Where’s my Water, Starcraft and Mario have in common, or why didn’t Amazing Alex and Pudding Monsters go?

Developers from Pendulo Studios came up with an unexpected approach to porting their game Runaway: A Twist of Fate. Having discovered that its full passage would take about 12 hours, the guys sawed the iOS project into two parts. 

The investment company has invested as much as $5 million in its own Dream Weddings division, which creates games aimed at those who are going to get married. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, i-Free company spoke about its experience in promoting mobile games in China, including how it fought piracy by promoting Pudding Monsters simultaneously in a dozen stores.

The author of Monkey Island Ron Gilbert returned to the pirate theme in his first mobile game with a very long title Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG.

Placed offers developers a new way to monetize applications through the original Placed Affiliate service, which collects information about the location of mobile devices.

The announcement of Flash GAMM Moscow 2013 took place. The conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games will be held as always the day before the CRI, this time on May 14.

Venture capital companies Creandum and Lifeline Ventures have invested $2.9 million in the Finnish-Singaporean studio Nonstop Games, which develops hardcore games for mobile platforms.

A sequel to Draw Something is in development. Zynga is confident that the sequel will not only be much more successful than the original, but will also have a good level of user retention, which means a good LTV.

As part of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, a round table was held on the current situation on the mobile platform market. It was attended by representatives of Google, Microsoft, Yandex, and Opera.

A new company, Tilting Point, created by veterans of the gaming industry, mainly from Electronic Arts, announced that over the next three years it plans to invest a solid $40 million in mobile games from independent developers.

The number of downloads of the new IronMonkeys game in the first week turned out to be more than the total number of downloads of Real Racing and Real Racing 2 for the entire time of their existence on the market. Is it a success?

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