Google’s AdWords app has appeared in the App Store.

The analytical company Fiksu has studied how much it costs to get into the top 25 free App Store apps in different countries. It turned out that the most “expensive” country is the USA.

About half of European developers plan to release games for mobile. This is reported in a study conducted by representatives of the European branch of the GDC.

The New Year is getting closer, which means it’s time to sum up. The Gamasutra resource shared with readers exactly which genres were leading in the App Store in the outgoing year.

Users of Amazon’s mobile devices tend to spend more on games than owners of iOS or Android smartphones, according to a study conducted by the analytical firm Newzoo.

The game industry in England has 1,902 studios and can cost up to $2.8 billion, which is twice as much as according to official estimates it was in 2012, – Ukie, a non-profit association of game manufacturers in the UK, together with the charity Nesta, wrote in its report.

Today Sony XDev Europe announced the game Run Sackboy! Run. In addition to the PS Vita, the game unexpectedly comes out on iOS and Android. The hero of the LittleBigPlanet spin-off will be the same sakboy.

The analytical company Distimo has published a fresh review of the mobile app market: over the past six months, Google Play revenue has increased by 67%, and the App Store has shown only 15% growth.

Specialists of the analytical company Forrester presented a new forecast for the development of the global tablet market for the period 2013-2017. The rapid growth in the number of active devices will continue: from 327 million tablets in 2013 to more than 905 million in 2017.