The mascot of the largest European game publisher, Ubisoft, “ran” to mobile iOS devices in the recently released game Rayman Jungle Run.

Colleagues have thrown a cool screenshot – well illustrates the desire of Android users to pay for software :)

The German company Xyologic has opened access to the beta version of its mobile search technology to iOS users. So now it covers not only Google Play, but also the App Store. Any user can use the new search, as well as get recommendations from the company itself, having familiarized themselves with the original charts and the showcase of Xyologic-promoted applications. 

Just 24 hours after the release, the new version of Apple’s operating system was installed on 15% of the company’s devices. A year ago, iOS 5 reached a comparable figure (20%) only in 5 days from the date of publication. 

Qualcomm, which manufactures Snapdragon processors, has announced two competitions for developers.  Their total prize fund is 370 thousand dollars.

The Japanese company DeNA has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Japanese studio gloops. Within its framework, the studio is going to launch as many as 11 mobile projects on the Mobage platform in 2013.

Pricing for IAP in mobile games is a sore point for developers. Why one item should cost a buck, and the other should be offered for free, how to make users want to pay themselves, and how not to scare them away from the game with high prices – these and many other questions were answered in her article on the Pocket Gamer portal by the creator of Pocket Legends mobile MMO Zoya Street from…

Those who closely follow Zynga may have noticed that recently the company’s executives have been leaving one by one. The flight became massive after it became known that the financial results of the second quarter were lower than expected.  

Another popular Facebook game appeared on iOS: SGN announced that since yesterday Panda Jam can be found on the virtual shelves of the App Store. 

Last night, Apple opened access to download iOS 6. Users of iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2 tablets and the new iPad can update the operating system to the new version of iOS.

Yesterday, at a presentation in New York, HTC introduced two new smartphones based on Windows Phone 8. The problem is that they could not surprise, please with something special. Concentrating on the design, or rather, copying it from the latest Nokia gadgets, HTC showed the least interesting gadgets among all devices on the new OS from Microsoft.

Competition in the market of mobile social gaming networks is escalating. While Japanese giants GREE and DeNA are actively expanding in the Western market, “local” companies are trying to oppose them with something.

According to yesterday’s rumors, the presentation of the fourth smartphone from the Samsung GALAXY S line was to take place in February as part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2013) conference and exhibition. This report by The Korea Times was refuted today.

According to official data, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Research in Motion (RIM) on the use of the exFAT file system in mobile devices.

Sony announced today that the PlayStation Mobile Store will launch on October 3. Users of Japan, USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia will be the first to test it in practice.

The era of the Japanese console games industry is coming to an end. There are fewer and fewer developers in this market who create successful projects,” says Yoshiki Okamoto, founder of Game Republic. Everyone goes into mobile development. 

Facebook is testing a new mobile advertising system that allows social network advertisers to place banners in third-party applications.

According to the Danish company Distimo, the forecast of analysts from Gartner, according to which free downloads in 2012 will account for “only” 89% of all installations, overestimates the user’s love for paid programs.

Ludei, a company specializing in creating HTML5 application development tools, announced the release of the Ludei Cloud Compiler public beta.