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Other May 30, 2013

First results of Running with Friends

The worldwide release of the free version of Running with Friends took place in mid-May. Just yesterday, a soft launch of the paid version of the game started in Canada. So it’s time to sum up the preliminary results.

Other May 30, 2013

Treasure on wheels – Free Android game

Go for the treasure! Grab the cart and catch the falling rocks!

Other May 30, 2013

Puzzle & Dragons audience continues to grow

Today, on May 30, GungHo announced that the Puzzle & Dragons user base has surpassed the mark of 14 million people in Japan alone.

Industry May 30, 2013

Amazon’s end-to-end authorization system has been launched

Amazon continues its global expansion. Yesterday, she launched the end-to-end authorization service in Android and iOS apps.

Industry May 30, 2013

The Dots version for iPad has a multiplayer mode

The Dots game was released about a month ago and, as we have already reported, almost instantly became popular. Its creators from Betaworks decided not to stop there and prepared a version optimized for iPad and including multiplayer.

Other May 30, 2013

In 2013, tablets will outstrip laptops in terms of supply

The mobile market is under the close attention of many analytical firms. Thus, experts from IDC in the latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker note that this year the volume of tablet shipments will increase from 144.5 million (2012) to 229.3 million, that is, by 58.7%.

Statistics May 29, 2013

Millennial Media spoke about the American mobile OS market

Millennial Media has presented a report on the American mobile device market for the first quarter of 2013. There are some interesting figures. For example, did you know that 25% of iPad users have an Android smartphone?

Other May 29, 2013

Grapple has begun to increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns

The Grapple marketing agency presented the “world’s first” engine created to increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to promote a particular brand, and infographics on the situation on the mobile application market.

Industry May 29, 2013

TestFairy is a new platform for testing applications for Android

The Israeli company TestFairy has launched a platform for testing applications for Android.

Industry May 29, 2013

The sequel to Kingdom Rush will be released on June 6

The release date of the second part of one of the main games in the tower defense genre – Kingdom Rush from Ironhide Game Studio became known.

Statistics May 29, 2013

The Japanese tablet market has doubled in a year

A well-known expert on the Far Eastern markets, Serkan Toto, in his personal blog, cited some data from a study by the Tokyo MM Research Institute concerning the development of the tablet market in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Statistics May 28, 2013

The American Google Play gaming market for the week (13.05 – 19.05)

The latest information on the leaders of the American Google Play games market for the week (13.05 – 19.05) from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

Industry May 28, 2013

Supercell is hosting a free conference for developers

On June 19, Helsinki will host the Free Your Play 13 event for the first time, which will bring together the leaders of the free games market – Supercell, King, GungHo and Wargaming.

Industry May 28, 2013

Mini Golf Matchup has been downloaded more than 10 million times in a month

In March of this year, a small company from New Zealand, Rocket Jump Games, released a Mini Golf Matchup game. On the first day of downloading the game amounted to 1 million. The authors of the project are sure that they owe their success to working with the publisher.

Other May 28, 2013

HopHop: An app created by party people for party people

Novosibirsk IT company Azoft has released an application that unites party-goers around the world.

Statistics May 28, 2013

0.0077% of players are responsible for 33% of revenue

Playnomics has revealed the brutal truth of free-to-play: the difference between the number of paying and non-paying players in mobile games reaches more than 100 times orders of magnitude.

Industry May 28, 2013

Yandex comments on the link “Yandex.Money – iTunes”

Yesterday we wrote that iTunes has learned to understand Yandex.Money. And we tried to understand whether the revenue of the Russian App Store will increase after that. Today we received an official comment from Yandex on this issue.

Industry May 28, 2013

New multiplayer solution for Android

Nextpeer has launched a closed beta testing of its solution that adds multiplayer mode to Android games.

Other May 28, 2013

Marmalade Offers Indie Developers Free SDK Licenses for BlackBerry 10

Marmalade, the winner of many awards in the field of cross–platform development, announced today the launch of a new offer, thanks to which indie game and application developers can apply for a free Marmalade SDK license.

Industry May 28, 2013

Square Enix will create original mobile IP

After the recent announcement of the not too successful results of the 2012 financial year, Square Enix thought about how to fix the situation. According to the latest information, one of the “lifebuoys” for the company may well be the development of the mobile direction.