Newzoo analysts have prepared a list of trends of the outgoing year and a forecast for the next year. There are about subscriptions, money, VR and the cloud.

Mobile advertising with the ability to try out a game or an application is gaining popularity among advertisers, according to a study by the analytical firm AdColony.

Romantic games for girls (otome sim) are growing in popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun, EDGE reports.

What is PuzDra Shock, why did the Japanese start developing native applications, and DeNA and GREE are no longer the main ones in the market of games of the Land of the Rising Sun? 

Users began to purchase “tablets” instead of devices based on electronic ink. But so far this process has not affected Russia. Our readers are still wildly popular.

Slant Six Games, which recently completed work on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, has released zombie bowling on iOS and announced work on three more mobile products.

A little over a week ago, John Jordan, editor of the notorious PocketGamer resource, told in a post with a telling title – “Why 2D battlers will be defeated in the West, but PvP games will succeed”, about what exactly awaits the mobile games industry in the future. We decided to share his vision. 

CrowdStar was one of the first studios to gain success on Facebook back in 2009. But, as you know, times are changing. Yesterday, the company announced that it was leaving Zuckerberg’s social network in order to focus its attention on developing games for mobile devices. 

The second part of the article written following the results of the GDC 2012 conference by John Jordan, editor of the site pocketgamer.biz , about the main trends of the mobile industry this year.