The company Fireproof Games has announced that it is working on a sequel to The Room, “The best iPad game of 2012” according to Apple.

Canonical announced Ubuntu for “tablets”, and at the same time told in detail about its revolutionary features. 

China is one step away from becoming the largest market for active iOS and Android devices in the world. The number of such gadgets in Russia is much smaller, which does not prevent our homeland from being in the top ten largest mobile device markets. 

App Annie has started displaying statistics on the Amazon Appstore. Now, from the website of the American company, you can track the position of paid and free applications in this store. 

Mikhail Katkoff, Supercell Product Manager, spoke at the Winter Nights conference. In his report, he shed light on the success story of Clash of Clans, told about the difficulties the team faced and what experience it gained in preparing the game for launch.

Newzoo summed up the results of 2012. According to them, in total, smartphone and tablet users spent $9 billion in 2012. This is 32% more than a year earlier.

The record-breaking performance of the game from GungHo demonstrated the extremely high potential of the mobile market, against which Supercell earnings seem to be far from the largest on iOS and Android.

The other day there was the release of Wanderer: War Song, a strange project that made us wonder why such games are still appearing on the mobile market. 

Not the smallest companies in the Japanese market decided to combine their efforts in the field of development and management of social mobile projects, investing $ 2.1 million in a new company. 

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.