In the mobile business today, one of the main components of success is the monitoring of statistical data. Numerous mobile services allow you to literally keep your finger on the pulse of the player, track what he is interested in and what is not.

Electronic Arts unexpectedly announced mass layoffs at EA Mobile Montreal, which was developing games for smartphones and tablets. 

At GDC 2013, PocketGamer portal published its annual top 50 mobile game developers. As it turned out the other day, almost a quarter of the teams from this list work on Cocos2D-x. 

At the Winter Nights conference, Marianna Polyakova, Director of Product Management at PlayFirst, answered several questions to our editorial staff. The interview was conducted in English.

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.

According to According to the British Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), mobile advertising spending in the United Kingdom in 2012 increased by 148% compared to the previous year and amounted to £526 million.

The Twitter service has added “deep links” (deep-links), which allow developers to link certain game events to tweets. There is an opinion that this innovation has made Twitter a full-fledged platform for the distribution of games.

Digi-Capital analysts claim that 65% of all investments in the gaming industry in the first quarter of 2013 were in the mobile segment.  

On June 4 and 5, Moscow will host the IX International Business Forum “The World of Mobile Content • MoSO 2013”. The forum will discuss trends in the mobile content market, mobile commerce, mobile applications in the B2B segment, and long-term strategies of market players. 

On May 17-18, a conference “AINL 2013: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language” will be held in St. Petersburg, dedicated, among other things, to the development and use of intelligent linguistic systems. 

The number of Puzzle & Dragons users continues to grow, but this applies only to Japan. Its downloads in the US do not show significant results, and revenues are falling. 

Chris Williams, vice president and general manager for Free-to-Play at Big Fish, answered several questions about the development of f2p projects at the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.

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.

The turnover of mobile advertising in the United States by the end of 2013 will amount to $7.29 billion. More than half of this amount will fall on Google, according to Emarketer.

Today the game “Hypnosis” was released on iOS. This is a big and bright quest that the internal studio of Nevosoft has been working on for more than two years. Alexey Serebrov, Director of the Nevosoft Development Department, told us about the stages of development, mistakes and victories.  

Ed Rumley, Executive Director of Chillingo, answered a number of questions about the features of publishing and monetization of games on various platforms to the editors of App2Top during the Winter Nights conference. The interview was conducted in English.