Midcore continues to amaze. Yesterday, January 28, Kabam studio, known for the Kingdoms of Camelot strategy, which is not the most friendly to users, announced that in 2012 its gross revenue increased by 70% and amounted to more than $ 180 million.

The success of just one game helped the Japanese company GungHo significantly surpass the capitalization of the American Zynga.

Owners of Android smartphones and tablets who are nostalgic for console retro games received a gift – Libretro has released a RetroArch Android emulator that allows you to run vintage toys on Android.

Briefly about the main “iron” events of today: Samsung shipped 60 million smartphones in the quarter, Nvidia enters the mobile device market, iPad will get 128 GB.

According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2012, Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE, entered the top five, displacing Korean LG and Taiwanese HTC.

According to Localytics, the most popular “tablets” on Google’s operating system are in the United States. American citizens account for 59% of their use.

Samsung summed up the results of 2012 in its own Samsung Apps mobile app store.

The biggest and most significant events of the mobile market over the past week. In this “release”, read about how to get promotion on the App Store, what happened to Temple Run 2 downloads in the first days after the release, and also why there are so few strategies on tablets.

The W3i company, using the example of Battle Bears Royale and Little Dragons, reported exactly what kind of increase in new users and DAU games promoted on Google Play receive.

Mobiap has released an application – Music Box Hip hop for iOS devices. Hip hop Music Box is a music box that contains 25 exclusive samples to create your own mixes.

The other day, the official Facebook developer blog has published examples of how the integration of the social network with game projects affects.

Rovio has signed a contract with the Spanish studio 5 Ants for the publication of the 2D puzzle Tiny Thief. 

Good afternoon.  I want to introduce a new free quiz game “Cinemarama” This game was created as an experiment to test the capabilities of open cross-platform frameworks.

Our site has its own iPad app – App2Top News. Now, in order to find out the latest news of the mobile world, it will be enough just to click on the program icon on your Apple tablet.  

The other day, Mozilla Corporation announced two of its own smartphones running on Firefox OS. Both models are demo models and were created specifically for mobile software developers. 

The developers of the best iPad game of 2012 according to Apple told about how much they spent on the project, as well as about the number of downloads and the reasons for their own success.

The most convenient genre on touch devices after casual games is turn-based strategies. But in the mobile market, he faces two problems at once: a high entry threshold and difficulties with monetization.