The market has changed little in a week. The main box office hits on the American market of mobile games for iPhone, iPad and Google Play remain Clash of Clans, Candy Crush Saga, Minecraft and Rage of Bahamut.

Even before the release of Rage of Bahamut, Cygames studio was confident in the success of the project on the market, but they, like many others, did not even guess about its future scale, underestimated the mechanics of collectible card mobile games. What is its secret, read below.

On February 8-9, the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference was held in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the development and promotion of mobile games. It was attended by 600 people from 270 companies: developers, publishers and everyone who works in this industry.

2012 was in many ways the year of Korea. Last year, the whole world sang a song by rapper PSY, after that I watched how the elections were going there, in which a woman won for the first time, and now Korea is one of the most profitable Google Play markets.

Linux fans will have a holiday in a couple of days, namely on February 21: a preliminary version of the Ubuntu mobile OS for Android devices will be released. 

The most significant materials of last week: the results of Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, everything about the most profitable genres, an exclusive interview with Supercell, development tips from W3i, a report by Euroset on the Russian smartphone market.

Game Closure has released its own toolkit that allows you to develop Javascript applications that are not inferior in performance to native programs.

Rovio has strengthened its advertising department with people from Apple, Millennial Media and InMobi. The plans are, at least, to conquer the world.

Scenarios are a sore spot in mobile games. Only giants like Rockstar Games and Square Enix, porting their hits to iOS and Android, manage to tell the story intelligently.

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.