Developers will soon have to focus on the emerging markets of Africa and Eastern Europe. What are the reasons, Pyramid Research analysts found out.

Moscow was greeted with the sun, the Cosmos Hotel with long–legged girls. We are currently at the FlashGAMM Moscow 2013 conference. There are dozens of developers and publishers around. The first materials about the reports are next in line.

Google announced yesterday that all Android app developers will now be able to respond to user reviews in the Google Play app store. 

Amazon is developing a new smartphone, the highlight of which will be the presence of a 3D screen. On top of everything else, Amazon promises to save us from having to use glasses for viewing. 

Yesterday, on May 13, Amazon officially “put into circulation” the virtual currency Amazon Coins, announced back in February.

In April, King company “captured” Facebook and mobile markets with the help of its latest hit Candy Crush Saga. At the same time, Zynga and Disney were losing their active users, according to VentureBeat with reference to Cowen and Co.

The other day, GungHo published its financial report for April. According to him, the company earned $113 million on Puzzle & Dragons in one month. After the publication of the report, the company’s value jumped to $15 billion.

There are very few days left before the Google I/O conference, at which the search giant is likely to make several high-profile announcements at once, so there is nothing surprising in the appearance of rumors about various new services. One of them will definitely be Google Play Games. 

The Japanese company Capcom reported on the results of the fiscal year ended March 31. Its mobile division contributed ¥11 billion ($117 million) to the total piggy bank, which is 74% higher than the previous year.

At the end of April, App Annie published a detailed review of the mobile games market for March. According to him, the Japanese Puzzle & Dragons is still the highest-grossing game on iOS and Google Play. The Candy Crush Saga and Temple Run 2 projects are the leaders in downloads.

How much Minecraft developers have earned on the mobile version of the game, which applications are the most popular on the App Store, data from the latest Fiksu report and why testing is so necessary for the “game as a service” – read our news digest for the holidays.

BlueStacks, which announced two weeks ago that the number of users of its eponymous service has reached 10 million, announced an Android-based gaming console called Gamepop and a subscription gaming service going to it. 

The number of Fruit Ninja downloads has surpassed the 500 million mark. Moreover, 200 million of them were in China. 

The phrase “games are a service” is already perceived as a banality today. But when developing, it often happens that developers forget about it. And they continue to work with the game as an end product. 

Havok, a company specializing in middleware development, has announced that support for the upcoming Tizen OS has been added to its Projet Anarchy toolkit.

Zynga has announced the release of its own endless runner Running With Friends for iOS. This is the company’s seventh product released under the With Friends brand. About the chips of the project and its first results on the market, read our material.

Electronic Arts company published a press release yesterday, in which it shared the results of its work for the first quarter of 2013. The company’s profit amounted to $1.04 billion, while the mobile application segment accounted for $104 million.