The Discounter application gives you the opportunity to earn money by completing simple tasks – You install the application, complete the task, save points on a virtual account and withdraw money in a convenient way for you.

How exactly the user ratings of applications in the App Store are interconnected with the tops, the other day the company Appurify told on the pages of its blog. 

The best games of August, the secrets of monetization from Gamesbrief, data on the number of smartphones sold on Windows Phone – read about this and much more in our digest for the week!

Unity spoke in detail about the work of a new toolkit that allows the company’s engine to create two-dimensional games in the shortest possible time.

Millennial presented a report for the 2nd quarter of 2013 on mobile devices. Recall that the company publishes statistics of market leaders on the number of advertising views from them.

Analysts of SponsorPay told about how they see the near future of mobile advertising.

The game and application development platform Corona has announced a partnership with PlayHaven. Corona customers will have access to tools for attracting, retaining and monetizing users.

The total revenue of Android apps for 2013 will double, according to analysts at ABI Research in their latest forecast.

Call of Duty: Strike Team unexpectedly appeared on the App Store yesterday. Moreover, according to the first reviews, the Activision project is surprisingly good.

MDDay published the program and told about the speakers of the future conference.

PlayFirst, a developer and publisher of casual games from San Francisco, has absorbed a small startup Big Head Mode (formerly GameFace). The goal is to increase the effectiveness of targeting and cross-advertising campaigns.

The Russian Mobile Awards’ 2013 contest will be held as part of the tenth Mobile VAS & Apps Conference. The acceptance of applications for participation in it has already begun.

Google Glass augmented reality glasses will get their own app store in 2014.

In August, 33.8% of visits to Pavel Durov’s social network site occurred from mobile devices, writes Roem.ru with a link to LiveInternet.

The revenue of the Chinese mobile games market by the end of this year will amount to $ 1.2 billion, representatives of Niko Partners assure in their latest research. 

On the pages of Gamesindustry, the author of the first part of Deus Ex and the Epic Mickey series, Warren Spector, shared ten rules from which he starts when creating his own games. We, in turn, have selected illustrative examples of these rules.

Since the launch of the Android mobile platform on September 23, 2008, it has been activated 1 billion times, the search giant reported yesterday, and we decided to calculate how many iOS and Windows Phone devices have also been sold in the world.

The online edition of Gamesbrief has presented a gorgeous infographic telling about how to properly monetize games. 

At WWDC, the Apple company announced that simultaneously with the release of iOS7, a new category of applications for children will appear on the App Store. The first details have recently become known.