In the first half of 2013, Gameloft’s sales increased by 15% compared to the same period last year. The growth driver was games for smartphones and tablets. Their income increased by 45%. But the company’s net profit has been declining for the third year in a row.

An unknown buyer purchased part of the shares of Kabam for $ 38.5 million, estimating its full value at $ 700 million, writes The Wall Street Journal.

And the rich cry too. The Japanese giant GREE is winding down its activities in the UK. Now toys for the Western market will be made only in the USA.

With the furious success of Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and Puzzle & Dragons, investors are growing faith in the gaming segment of the mobile market. They are in a hurry to open funds. And they are looking for developers. 

The other day, GungHo published its financial report for April. According to him, the company earned $113 million on Puzzle & Dragons in one month. After the publication of the report, the company’s value jumped to $15 billion.

The Japanese company Capcom reported on the results of the fiscal year ended March 31. Its mobile division contributed ¥11 billion ($117 million) to the total piggy bank, which is 74% higher than the previous year.

Every tenth inhabitant of the Land of the Rising Sun has at least once played the main game of this spring – Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo, says analyst Serkan Toto.

The success of Puzzle & Dragons has made GungHo one of the richest gaming companies in the world. DeNA, Gree and Zynga can only bite their elbows, looking at the financial performance of a competitor. 

Big Fish Company announced yesterday, April 23, that Big Fish Casino has become the highest-grossing App Store app in the world in the “casino” category. In the box office top in all categories, the game is not even in the top ten. 

Against the background of the first decline in Apple’s quarterly profit in 10 years, the Apple company announced how much app developers earn using its platform. 

The third part of Cut the Rope topped the charts of paid App Store apps in several countries at once, including the USA and Russia, Vedomosti reports. 

Every day, Supercell earns $2.4 million on two games. This was told to Forbes magazine by the executive director of the Finnish company Ilkki Paananen. 

The volume of the global mobile advertising market in 2012 grew by 111%, amounting to $ 3.4 billion, according to AdWeek with reference to IAB.

The average annual salary of an American game developer at the end of 2012 was $84 thousand, Game Developer reports in the April issue based on the results of its own survey. This is almost $3 thousand more than in 2011.

The creators of Angry Birds have published a detailed financial report for the past year. According to him, the company’s revenue for 2012 amounted to €152.2 million (or about $ 195.2 million).

The authors of the project from SundayToz stated that the daily revenue of their mobile game is about half a million dollars.

The record-breaking performance of the game from GungHo demonstrated the extremely high potential of the mobile market, against which Supercell earnings seem to be far from the largest on iOS and Android.

Tim Cook said at the Goldman Sachs conference that his company has paid more than $8 billion to developers over the entire existence of the App Store. This is $1 billion more than last January.

Amazon is going to launch a virtual currency on the Kindle Fire line of devices this May, for which it will be possible to purchase applications and content inside them in the Amazon Appstore.