French mobile game developer Gameloft has rolled back support for titles for the Windows Phone mobile platform.

The highest average retention level in mobile games over the past year was observed in games released on Windows Phone, – analysts from devtodev told us.

How much a game on Windows Phone can earn, why it is better not to use the Russian market for a “soft launch”, what you should pay attention to when porting the game to WP, and many other things were told to us by Sergey Babaev, director of business development at Nekki.

Two years after the release on iOS, Candy Crush Saga appeared on the Windows Phone Store.

King company will not continue working on games for Windows Phone yet, writes the French online edition Pocketgamer.fr .

It is quite possible that there will be no more Windows Phone mobile operating system. The management of Microsoft Corporation is going to shorten its name to Windows, reports The Verge.

Yesterday, at the App Summit 2014 conference, it became known that the user base of three Game Insight games released as separate distributions for Microsoft platforms totals 5 million.

Strategy Analytics has published the results of a survey of 1,600 mobile app developers. More than 32% of respondents intend to support Windows Phone in 2014, which is 2 times higher than this year.

The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.

Today in Abu Dhabi, the Finnish giant presented its own tablet for five minutes to dead Windows RT 8.1, as well as several new smartphones and phones.

The other day Microsoft announced its successes in the mobile field. According to the company, there are as many as 9 million transactions with the Windows Phone Store per day in the world.

Microsoft’s mobile platform was the second most common in Latin America, according to IDC.

According to the latest data from the research company IDC, sales of Android smartphones increased by 73.5% compared to last year. 

The head of Keen flare calls the success of the release of the game Royal Revolt! for devices on the Windows 8 platform, phenomenal: in just 2 months, the game was downloaded 750 thousand times on Windows Phone alone.

Many developers of Windows Phone apps have not received download statistics for a month now, according to our colleagues from Pocket Gamer. 

Microsoft has announced the Halo: Spartan Assault project, which will be released only on Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms.

Microsoft has made it known that in July next year it will stop all support for its Windows Phone 8 mobile system, whose official release took place in December 2012. 

At the Mobile World Congress 2013 currently taking place in Barcelona, Microsoft shared the latest figures about its Windows Phone Store. Among the main ones is overcoming the mark of 1 billion downloads. 

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.