The popularity of crowdfunding did not come immediately. For a long time, few people knew about the Kickstarter service, and few people believed in it. Everything changed a year ago, when Tim Schafer collected more than $3 million for the development of his new game in a month. 

Which games top the charts of paid apps on the American App Store? If you don’t know, read our latest material about the best paid games.

W3i game producer Ben Sipe shared five tips on how not to do it if you don’t want to fail your free mobile project at the Casual Connect Europe conference currently taking place in Hamburg. 

The Applifter gaming cross-promotion network told a little about the dubious results of the Everyplay service, which records replays from mobile devices, and its new functionality. 

South Korean publisher and developer Wemade may well become one of the central stars of the mobile market this year. The company’s revenue from the native mobile market only for the 4th quarter of 2012 increased by 280% to $8.87 million.

In 2012, smartphone sales in Russia increased significantly. The main drivers of growth were Android and Windows Phone devices.

On March 22-23, the Mobilefest conference-festival for mobile application developers will be held in the Moscow region.

Two Supercell games earn more per month on the App Store than a thousand Electronic Arts mobile games. Many people know this, so we talked with Finnish developers about something else, about inspiration, promotion and the future of the market. 

The platform for the promotion of casual games WildTangent has agreed with Sony to integrate its own app store on smartphones and tablets of the Japanese company. 

Despite its strong position in the mobile market, Big Fish claims that it still earns much more on its web portal. 

GamesAnalytics has launched a free service designed to help developers evaluate monetization and retention levels in f2p games.

Tim Cook said at the Goldman Sachs conference that his company has paid more than $8 billion to developers over the entire existence of the App Store. This is $1 billion more than last January.

Peter Vesterbaka, Marketing Director of Rovio, announced at a press conference in RIA Novosti that several Angry Birds amusement parks will open in Russia in 2013. 

Electronic Arts has announced that the third part of one of the most popular racing series will be distributed on a free-2-play model. 

 

The revenues of leading mobile game developers have quadrupled over the past year, said Anil Dharni, one of the vice presidents of GREE.

We are returning to the weekly releases of reports on the situation in the American mobile application market. There are no unfamiliar or new names here, but there is a fierce struggle for users’ wallets.

Judging by the worldwide shipments of smartphones for the 4th quarter of 2012, the devices of Chinese vendors are beginning to enjoy great popularity. So far, only Apple and Samsung are ahead of them, according to Canalys.