Analyst Ben Evans from Enders Analysis in his personal blog provided interesting data regarding the replacement of users of their mobile phones. According to his calculations, the average “lifetime” of one device for a user is 24 months, that is, two years. 

Gaijin Entertainment has announced a mobile version of War Thunder, its MMO about World War II aircraft. They promise compatibility with the original PC.

ZeptoLab has announced Cut the Rope: Time Travel, the third part of the adventures of Am Nyam. However, there is no detailed information about the project yet.

Last fall, Zynga acquired November Software studio, and recently revealed details about its first project – action/ RPG Battlestone for mobile devices based on iOS and Android.

The lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Jake Solomon from Firaxis Games, admitted that the company is seriously considering the possibility of transferring Civilization V to mobile devices running iOS.

British indie studio Another Place Productions has started developing a mobile version of the “physical” fighting game Rag Doll Kung Fu.

Rovio has announced its plans to move Angry Birds Friends from Facebook to the iOS and Android mobile platforms.

It has been reported that in the near future Apple will officially announce a gamepad for its iOS devices.

The Australian studio Halfbrick, which created Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, will soon release its new creation – Fish Out of Water.

At the round table “Free-to-Play Game Design: a review for the year” at GDC 2013, the speakers analyzed the latest trends in “free” games using the example of the King – Candy Crush Saga project.

A series of high-profile announcements continues. This time the Wizard of the Coast company was pleased. At the Boston PAX East 2013, she announced the transfer of Dungeons & Dragons board games to iOS. 

Recently, announcements of mobile games based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe have been increasingly appearing. So yesterday it became known that the Vancouver studio Roadhouse Interactive is developing a side-scroller under the license of Games Workshop for iOS.

The creators of the Marmalade SDK cross-platform toolkit yesterday announced a new Marmalade Juice solution that simplifies porting iOS games to Android.

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.

The number of installations of games by the California studio Pocket Gems has exceeded the 100 million mark. The company told the Venturebeat portal about this. 

Geolocation in games is not as popular as in social apps. People prefer to have fun in one place rather than running through virtual reality checkpoints. But the developers from Thickpolicy are confident that their new Strut app will find an audience.

Role-playing game developers solve UI problems on mobile platforms in different ways. Some put touch sticks, others reduce any interaction with the world to a single click, others combine hardcore mechanics with seemingly incompatible game genres.

In Russia, more Windows Phone devices were sold in the second half of 2012 than on iOS, IDC announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Less than half a year has passed, and after as many as five beta versions, a full-fledged iOS 6.1 update appeared. There were no surprises and radical changes.