Clash of Clans has been at the top of the App Store box office for several months now. Kevin Oke, lead designer of Adrian Crook & Associates, an autosource game mechanic company, in an article on Inside Mobile Apps examines in detail why the Supercell project is so successful. 

The list of the 10 most popular Android smartphones in the United States was recently published by Animoca. She also shared data on the most common versions of Android.

Disney has published on the App Store and Google Play its new game Temple Run: Oz, created “based on” the fantastic film of Sema Raimi “Oz: The Great and Terrible” coming out on March 8. 

Registration has opened for the largest international conference in Europe dedicated to the development and promotion of games for mobile platforms – White Nights: Mobile Games Conference. It will take place on June 27-28, 2013 in St. Petersburg.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Google controls too large a share of the local mobile market and does not want to share the source code.

Sega continues to milk its main brand – Sonic the blue hedgehog. The other day, a Japanese company announced Sonic Dash, an endless runner for iOS.

At the Winter Nights conference, John Jordan, co-founder of PocketGamer, talked about how to provide the game with the best PR. 

An article by Ben Holmes, the former director of Playfish and now the main partner at Index Ventures, about the economics of F2P games appeared on the pages of The Wall Street Journal. 

Hello, dear iOS developers and those who are just getting ready to become them.

More recently, we wrote that Puzzle & Dragons owes much of its success in Japan to television advertising. In fairness, we note that many mobile developers resort to this method of promotion in the Land of the Rising Sun. 

Magic Crystals is a classic puzzle game with a lot of exciting new elements.

How Cyto was developed, where its authors were looking for inspiration, why a publisher is needed, and much more, in an exclusive interview with App2Top, the executive director of the studio Room 8 Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy told.

Amazon has introduced its own advertising network for developers of mobile applications for devices of the Kindle Fire line and not only.

Role-playing game developers solve UI problems on mobile platforms in different ways. Some put touch sticks, others reduce any interaction with the world to a single click, others combine hardcore mechanics with seemingly incompatible game genres.

Chillingo, together with Samsung, has finally launched the 100% Indie project, designed not only to bring independent developers together, but also to help them with advice in promoting their own games. 

A survey conducted by the organizers of the largest conference among game developers GDC showed that more than half of them are currently engaged in mobile projects for smartphones and tablets.

Tomasz Kolinko, founder of AppCodes, presented a report on search engine optimization in the App Store at the Winter Nights conference.

iPad mini sales are hitting the iPad’s market position, the NPD analytical company reports in its January study. This is bad or good for developers, the App2Top editorial team was looking into it.

Kabam talks in detail about the midcorn user, a Supercell employee reveals the secrets of successful monetization of runners, and SessionM specialists share tips on user retention.