The platform for the promotion of casual games WildTangent has agreed with Sony to integrate its own app store on smartphones and tablets of the Japanese company. 

Despite its strong position in the mobile market, Big Fish claims that it still earns much more on its web portal. 

GamesAnalytics has launched a free service designed to help developers evaluate monetization and retention levels in f2p games.

Tim Cook said at the Goldman Sachs conference that his company has paid more than $8 billion to developers over the entire existence of the App Store. This is $1 billion more than last January.

Peter Vesterbaka, Marketing Director of Rovio, announced at a press conference in RIA Novosti that several Angry Birds amusement parks will open in Russia in 2013. 

Electronic Arts has announced that the third part of one of the most popular racing series will be distributed on a free-2-play model. 

 

The revenues of leading mobile game developers have quadrupled over the past year, said Anil Dharni, one of the vice presidents of GREE.

We are returning to the weekly releases of reports on the situation in the American mobile application market. There are no unfamiliar or new names here, but there is a fierce struggle for users’ wallets.

Judging by the worldwide shipments of smartphones for the 4th quarter of 2012, the devices of Chinese vendors are beginning to enjoy great popularity. So far, only Apple and Samsung are ahead of them, according to Canalys. 

The analytical company Apsalar has found out which genres of mobile games are best monetized through micropayments, and which projects should not even be taken up.

Last week, 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’s not worth waiting for Infinity Blade: Dungeons. The studio that was preparing a mobile role-playing hack & slash game on the Unreal engine was closed. The official reason is not completely clear.

The most significant events of the mobile market last week: Apple introduces domain registration AppStore.com Google is changing the payment scheme, Amazon is announcing its own currency, and Zynga is summing up the results of the year.

CEO of the company Ouya Julie Urman (Julie Uhrman) in an interview with the famous resource Engadget said that new versions of the eponymous portable game console based on Android will be released every year.

Namco Bandai has announced work on an updated version of the main mobile game of the early 90s – Tamagotchi – for iOS and Android.

DeNa reported on the results of the quarter ended December 31, 2012. Both revenue and profit increased by 50% compared to the same period of the previous year and amounted to $558.6 million and $212.5 million, respectively. 

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Last January, the German HandyGames released three games on iOS at once. After getting acquainted with the projects, we decided to contact the company’s management and talk to them about f2p and cartoon style.