Chillingo, together with Samsung, will soon launch a new program aimed at indie developers – 100% Indie. Its main task is to promote small mobile projects. 

Simultaneously with the unexpected announcement of Age of Wonders 3, the continuation of the cult series of turn-based fantasy strategies, it became known that the developers plan to create a portable version of it. 

The dates of the eleventh Game Developers Conference (CRI) have become known. The event will take place at the very end of spring, right after the May holidays.

Amazon is going to launch a virtual currency on the Kindle Fire line of devices this May, for which it will be possible to purchase applications and content inside them in the Amazon Appstore.

The “festive” quarter (October-December) is considered the most profitable, however, for Koreans from Com2uS, it turned out, as for Glu, to be far from the most successful in 2012.  

The American company shared its results for the last quarter of 2012. Despite the “hot” season, Glu Mobile’s revenue increased slightly, and the number of users fell seriously.

Unity Technologies has announced that support for Black Berry 10 OS will be added to its engine SDK very soon.

Kwalee conducted a study of 13 of the most successful iOS games and found out whose approach to monetization is better. Looking ahead: the conclusions were, to put it mildly, unexpected.

FireMonkeys has announced the introduction of an improved “ghost mode” in its yet-to-be-released project. Now it will be possible to compete on the track independently with record results of the standings. 

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot “stay” with Hollywood. Following the creation of a mobile game based on “The Hobbit”, they took up the publication of a game adaptation of the upcoming “Fast and Furious” (well, you know, cars, guns, Vin Diesel).

Imangi Studio continues to cooperate with Disney. On February 27, the release of a special version of the runner Temple Run: Oz the Great and Powerful, timed to coincide with the premiere of a feature film based on the famous book by Frank Baum, is scheduled.

Now you will have to wait longer for the money earned on Google Play. The search giant announced an increase in the payout window from two days after the end of the month to fifteen. 

While Mark Pincus’ company is losing employees, other companies are picking them up. The gaming portal Kongregate has invited the former CEO of Zynga to head an investment fund for mobile developers. 

Why the amount of content in mobile games is much more important than its quality, using the example of Rage of Bahamut, the editor of Inside Mobile Apps Kathleen De Vere (Kathleen De Vere) argues.  

The most significant events of the mobile market last week: advertising on the App Store seriously rose in price in December, Google Play revenue doubled in the fourth quarter, the creators of Kingdoms of Camelot earned $180 million last year. Read about this and much more below. 

Apple is adding new functionality for developers of “apple” content: each application will soon have a direct beautiful link to the domain AppStore.com .

According to rumors, Android OS developers will offer consumers another “dessert” very soon. The other day there were reports of a leak of a Qualcomm presentation, in which it is mentioned several times that Key Lime Pie will be released this spring.

The decline in the cost of iPhone applications led to a 95% increase in their total revenues during the Christmas season in the first three days of sales. iPad programs were less sensitive to discounts. Income from them after lowering the price tag increased by only 51%.