The first information appeared about the MATE (Mobile Applications & Technologies Expo), an exhibition on the development and “implementation” (perhaps, here we mean, the publication) of applications. It will take place on May 30-31 in Moscow.

The number of paying mobile players in 2013 will exceed the number of paying gamers using portable consoles, analysts at IDC believe. But the ARPU of the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PlayStation Vita will remain higher. 

Little friends is the best tamagotchi for iOS!Discover the fascinating world of Little Friends, in which you have to take care of and take care of your pet.

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. 

It became known which companies will take part in the conference “AINL 2013: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language”. Recall that it will be held in St. Petersburg on May 17-18. 

NAMCO Bandai took an original approach to monetization of its game THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA. The Japanese company has divided it into three parts, each of which is now offered for the price of a full-fledged console project. 

The annual Google I/O Developer Conference is approaching and is increasingly overgrown with rumors. There was information that the fifth version of Android – Key Lime Pie will not be presented on it.

 

Gaijin Entertainmetn CEO Anton Yudintsev in an interview App2Top.ru he told about the company’s new project – a multiplatform MMO game War Thunder, in which users of mobile devices will be able to fight PC players in real time. 

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. 

We have released a version of our tamagotchi project Meow for Android devices. Despite the fact that we did not take any special steps to promote it, the game began to grow rapidly in the ratings.

How often users launch the application correlates with the level of retention and engagement of the project audience, says Pocket Gems executive director Ben Liu in an interview with Pocket Gamer.

Apple devices continue to dominate the mobile advertising market, with the share of the iPad-mini growing by 20% in March alone.

Not all graphic designers are programmers and, unfortunately, not everyone reads the official documentation on UI design. It is for such that a GitHub employee posted a memo on the design of Android applications.

Today, the first smartphones based on Firefox OS have appeared on sale. The budget models Keon and Peak are designed for programmers developing web applications for the open OS from Mozilla. 

Chartboost advertising platform announced the opening of a new office in Amsterdam to support its European clients. 

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. 

The mobile advertising market totaled $4.1 billion in 2012. This year, analysts promise that the market volume will grow to $ 7.3 billion. And most of it will be on iOS. Why?