The number of downloads of DeNA’s box office hit – the card “butler” Rage of Bahamut – exceeded 3 million only outside the Japanese market, according to the game developers from Cygames. 

According to CNet, sales of Samsung tablets in the American market account for only 4% of total iPad sales.

One of the world’s largest players in the market of “big” games – Activision – has finally begun to be active in the mobile sphere. The other day, the release of the first mobile project developed within the walls of her internal studio, The Blast Furnace, took place. 

Ex-employees of Big Huge Games, closed a few months ago, have started creating a role-playing action game Infinity Blade: Dungeons for the iOS mobile platform.

The With Friends franchise of Zynga has been replenished today with a new iOS game Gems with Friends, which is another variation of the classic match3 gameplay Bejeweled from PopCap.

At Casual Connect in Seattle, venture entrepreneur Tim Chang said that “If content is king, then advertising is an All–powerful God.” It doesn’t matter how high-quality your application is, how high its customer retention rate is. None of this matters if users don’t know about your app. 

In the second quarter of 2012, sales of Android-based smartphones increased more than fourfold compared to the same period last year, according to Svyaznoy.

The French publisher and developer of mobile games presented to the public his first game on the engine from Epic Games – the gloomy slasher Wild Blood.

The Japanese company DeNA, the owner of the social gaming mobile platform Mobage, reported on the results of the quarter ended June 30. The company earned $609 million, which is 37% higher than in the same period a year ago and made a net profit of $131 million.

The management of the Korean company denied rumors about possible cooperation with the creators of BlackBerry. 

The announcement of the Windows Camp event dedicated to the latest platforms of Microsoft Corporation: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

iOS has every chance to become the largest platform in the history of the gaming industry, according to analysts at Azimco.

South Korean developer and publisher of mobile games Com2uS reported record results in the last quarter.  The company’s revenue amounted to $19.7 million, which is 158% higher than in the same period last year. And net profit increased by 490% to $5.31 million.   

Journalists from PocketGamer have drawn a colorful infographic that clearly explains why mobile developers and publishers need to pay close attention to the rapidly developing Asian market.

According to the IDC report, in the second quarter of this year, global smartphone shipments increased by 42.2%, amounting to 154 million devices. The lion’s share in 85% of deliveries belongs to the undisputed leaders in the market of operating systems – Android and iOS.

Despite Apple’s legal difficulties in China, the iPad has become the undisputed leader in the Chinese tablet market. 

German startup Elblabs has entered the market with an original advertising exchange platform in mobile, social and online games.

It occurred to me that there are so many abstruse conclusions based on data taken from nowhere that I also wanted to build my own statistics.

Acer admits that they do not know how to react to the imminent release of the Surface. Microsoft itself regards the tablet as a potential competitor to other Windows 8-based devices.