Michael Schade, Executive director of FishLabs, at the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, spoke about the history of the Galaxy on Fire series, about the Sci-fi genre in games, as well as in detail about why he values the Russian mobile application market so much.

App Annie talked about the most profitable games on iOS and Android, App2Top disassembled Subway Surfers into small details, J’son & Partners Consulting reported that the Russian mobile application market reached $160 million, and Rovio released a farm. 

The other day, a new flagship smartphone Galaxy S4 was announced as part of the Samsung Unpacked event. Just a couple of days later, details about the gamepad created by the Korean giant for him became known. What it can become for the industry, App2Top understood. 

3D Realms and Interceptor have announced a port of the Duke Nukem II platformer for iOS. The upcoming release is timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the game. 

A brief analysis of curious iOS gaming projects of recent times. This time we are carefully studying Blendoku and Wide Sky. 

In five months, Microsoft was able to sell only 1.5 million tablets under the Surface brand. 

The Finnish company has published in the App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore its new project – The Croods farm based on the cartoon coming out the other day from DreamWorks.

Chris Williams, Vice President of Big Fish, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about the key data and new trends with which Big Fish is achieving success in this rapidly developing sector of the mobile gaming industry.

Yesterday it became known that the number of downloads of games released by the publishing company G5 Entertainment exceeded the landmark mark of 100 million. 

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age and Arcene Empire have announced the creation of a publishing division – Kabam Publishing.

The MAU of the Finnish game Clash of Clans on iPhone has grown 3 times since September last year, and in January -February Temple Run 2 and Plants Vs. Zombies showed good growth, Onavo Insight reports. 

The conversion rate of users who search for a particular service / product using their smartphone reaches 55% in the first hour. 

The number of devices on the Android operating system has reached 750 million, Google’s executive director said in connection with the departure of Andy Rubin from the post of head of the Android division. 

At the Winter Nights conference, Villa Hejari presented a report on the creation and marketing of Rovio’s largest project to date – Angry Birds Star Wars.

It took only 19 days for the Japanese mobile super hit Puzzle & Dragons to increase the number of its users by another 1 million and thus reach the milestone of 10 million.

The Russian mobile application market earned $160 million last year, according to J’son & Partners Consulting. By 2016, it will grow, according to analysts, to $1.3 billion. Experts are skeptical about this assessment. 

The search giant has launched an updated version of the Google Play Developer Console, which is now the default for all developers who publish apps on Google Play.

Glu Mobile has announced the imminent launch of its first mobile gambling game for real money in the UK.  As we reported last fall, the regulatory company Probability acts as its partner in this project.