App Annie and IDC claim that mobile games have overtaken portable console games in terms of user spending in the first quarter. It also turned out that there are 1.1 billion smartphone users and 160 million tablet users in the world.

The company of one game is a statement of a clearly negative nature. So they scold those studios that have been living on earnings from a single title for many years now. But is it really that bad (to live thanks to the brand)?

The British casual monster King announced that in early summer a mobile version of Pet Rescue Saga, the third part of the “royal saga”, will appear on iOS and Android. 

Paying players in the US spend more every month on mobile games than ever before in history, reports PocketGamer.biz with a link to SuperData.

Expert project Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru and IDC conducted a study of the Russian smartphone market in the first quarter of 2013.  According to its results, the share of Android-based devices in shipments for the year increased from 39.7% to 70.9%.

The second day of KRI was held under the banner of Game Insight. As part of the game developers conference, the authors of “Natives” and “Dragons of Eternity” held their own mini-event – a four-hour seminar “Mobilization”.

Google has published in the official developer blog some details about the Google Play Game Services service, and also talked about the launch line of games. 

Ubisoft, at a conference of game developers taking place in Moscow, told by its own example exactly how to recruit game designers.

Korean developer of free-to-play games Nexon has published a financial report. Compared to last year, the company’s revenue grew by 46% and reached $ 437 million, and net profit for the first quarter of 2013 amounted to $ 129 million. 

Yesterday, May 15, the Google I/O 2013 conference opened in San Francisco. Naturally, there were figures indicating the continued growth of the Android platform, and loud announcements. But let’s talk about everything in order. 

On the first day of KRI 2013, a round table “The present and future of mobile games” was held, which was attended by representatives of App Annie, Flurry, Game Insight and Zeptolab.

According to analysts from Gartner, global sales of smartphones to end users in the first quarter of 2013 reached 210 million units, which is 34.8% higher than in the same period last year (147 million) and 44% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2012.

 

May 15, Cosmos Hotel, the first day of the Eleventh Game Developers Conference, or, in short, KRI and our first impressions of it.

Rovio Entertainment yesterday announced the opening of a new division of Rovio Stars, which will be engaged in publishing third-party mobile projects.

Ninel Gruner from Room 8, during her report “What a publisher won’t do for you”, talked about the intricacies of promoting and marketing mobile games.

Sundar Pichai, head of Android and Chrome, gave his first interview since taking office. He talked about how he sees the future of Android, commented on the situation around Samsung and dispelled several rumors about the upcoming I/O.

The Electronic Arts company announced yesterday that the Frostbite Go mobile engine is in development.

Yesterday, a round table “Development and publication of mobile games” was held at FlashGAMM. It was moderated by Yulia Lebedeva from Nevosoft, who, after asking the participants “who are indie developers”, set the tone for the entire discussion.