As they say, they did not wait. The founder and CEO of Nival Sergey Orlovsky became one of the directors of Alexander Lyskovsky’s company – Alawar, reports CNews.

Yesterday, January 30, a presentation of RIM took place in New York. At it, the Canadian company announced its own rebranding, and also officially introduced two new devices. 

Gameloft has announced an online mobile third-person shooter Blitz Brigade for iOS and Android and at the same time “quietly” closed its Indian studio in Hyderabad.

Brothers Ian and David Marsh (Ian and David Marsh), authors of Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes, are working on a mix of a snake and a role-playing game under the uncomplicated name Nimble Quest. 

The Epic Citadel application, demonstrating the power of the Unreal Engine mobile version, has appeared in the official Android store. Just two years after the release on the App Store.

Employees continue to leave Zynga. According to the Polygon news site, Brian Reynolds, the chief game designer at Mark Pinkus’ company, recently left it.  

In December last year, advertising companies asked for one and a half times more per user than in October, Fiksu company reports in its monthly review of the American iPhone application market. The number of downloads, according to her data, has also increased significantly. 

The creators of the Modern Combat, N.O.V.A. and Asphalt series reported a 27% annual increase in revenue. They would have been more significant if not for the mediocre results of the fourth quarter.

Revolution Software company has notified fans of classic adventure games that the release of Broken Sword: The Serpent Curse is postponed to the second half of 2013.

The size of apps on the App Store is growing. Recently released Baldure‘s Gate weighs 1.7 GB. One issue of Edge or Cosmopolitan magazine is slightly smaller – about 1 GB. Space ceases to be enough even for users of the 64 GB version of the iPad. Apple has offered a way out.

Recently, Mike Rose’s interview with Supercell’s lead producer Lasse Louhento appeared on Gamasutra, in which the British journalist tries to find out what the secret of the Clash of Clans that blew up the box office tops is. We offer a short version of the material. 

Less than half a year has passed, and after as many as five beta versions, a full-fledged iOS 6.1 update appeared. There were no surprises and radical changes.

The success of the platform and any game console is determined by the content. Until recently, it was not entirely clear how the sensational Ouya was doing with him. A few days ago, something became clear.

Midcore continues to amaze. Yesterday, January 28, Kabam studio, known for the Kingdoms of Camelot strategy, which is not the most friendly to users, announced that in 2012 its gross revenue increased by 70% and amounted to more than $ 180 million.

The success of just one game helped the Japanese company GungHo significantly surpass the capitalization of the American Zynga.

Owners of Android smartphones and tablets who are nostalgic for console retro games received a gift – Libretro has released a RetroArch Android emulator that allows you to run vintage toys on Android.

Briefly about the main “iron” events of today: Samsung shipped 60 million smartphones in the quarter, Nvidia enters the mobile device market, iPad will get 128 GB.

According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2012, Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE, entered the top five, displacing Korean LG and Taiwanese HTC.