It is believed that a single–player game with a good plot, designed for a single passage, as a phenomenon has not really caught on on mobile platforms. The experience of Telltale Games suggests the opposite. We decided to reflect on this topic.    

Official sales of the iPad Mini in Russia will start in mid-January, sources close to one of the major distributors of Apple devices tell Izvestia.

Yesterday, the app store for Windows 8-based devices reached the mark of 20 thousand applications. 

Ed Rumley from Chillingo, in an interview with Inside Mobile Apps, talked about how long they have been working with projects, and also noted that fragmentation is in his company’s favor. 

Samsung’s new flagship will have a five-inch screen. However, the Korean company has not yet managed to start its mass production due to technical problems. Therefore, analysts believe that its release will be delayed.

YoYo Games has announced that the new version of its GameMaker: Studio toolkit will allow developers to “export” their games (both new and existing) to the Windows Phone 8 mobile OS. 

According to analysts from Gartner, in 2013 Lenovo will become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China. 

The famous game designer has started fundraising on the Kickstarter service for his new game – GODUS, the ideological heir to the god simulator of the late 80s Populous.

Peter Vesterbaka said that his company is not going to the stock exchange yet, and also spoke about the success of Angry Birds in the Chinese market.

A couple of days ago, Mixpanel launched the Activity Feed service, which allows you to see every action performed by the user in the application from the moment it was first opened. 

According to forecasts of the analytical company Strategy Analytics, in five years the total number of downloaded applications for all mobile devices will be 350 billion.

We invite everyone to the twitter broadcast from the Mobile VAS & Apps Conference, which is taking place right now in St. Petersburg!

The anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will appear on mobile platforms on December 6, according to Rockstar Games, sharing at the same time a small list of devices on which the game will go.  

Yesterday, at the Slush conference in Helsinki, the Finnish company Jolla presented the Sailfish mobile operating system based on the MeeGo platform.

Recently, Amazon announced the release of new plugins for Unity, which will allow developers to easily integrate the “Amazon” In-App Purchasing and GameCircle APIs into their games on this engine.

The PocketGamer portal presented a chic infographic dedicated to the three-year anniversary of the “bird” saga and, at the same time, the recent appearance of Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile showcases.

Two days ago, Apple started testing Russian iTunes, initially planning to launch the service on November 20. But in Russia, the company faced a problem, because of which it postponed these plans indefinitely.

The Japanese giant GREE plans to release several mobile applications based on popular console and PC games. Including under such brands as Lineage, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy. 

For its employees, Apple launched the “App Discovery” campaign for free download of applications from the App Store.