The main novelties of the American chart of free apps on iOS and Android platforms are in detail. This time we will talk about Pyramid Run, Mutant Roadkill, Flick Kick Football, SuperPretzel Factory, Marble Saga and Music Hero.

Apple’s quarterly growth rate in the third fiscal quarter was the lowest in the last two years, with record earnings for the company in April-June.   

One of the company’s executives spoke about the future of the gaming industry, meta-games, and why iOS is still better than Facebook.

At the largest Casual Connect Seattle 2012 conference that opened on July 24 in Seattle, Big Fish Games announced the launch of the Big Fish Unlimited cloud gaming service.

Apple said that the user will no longer need to enter the password from his ID when downloading free apps.

The PlayPhone company, which created the mobile gaming social network of the same name – acting on the same field with the networks of such serious players as Gree, DeNa and Papaya – has announced a new version of its SDK.

The developers of Madfinger Games explained that they made the zombie blockbuster Dead Trigger on the Android platform free because of the incredibly high level of piracy. 

Yesterday, a new HTML5 engine called CAAT (Canvas Advanced Animation Toolkit) was released, which, in theory, allows you to develop and publish games on the market as quickly as possible due to the availability of ready-made code fragments and a large number of libraries.

Alexander Lyskovsky, CEO of Alawar Entertainment, shared with us tips on what a young team needs to do to succeed, and how a publisher can retain a developer who has already released a hit.

Mobile publishers, since January 2012, have managed to earn over $ 400 million on advertising, the number of impressions of which has exceeded the 35 billion mark, according to Opera.  

The big tour of Mobile Developer Day in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States continues. Odessa is the next stop. 

Only last week, the first, still working screenshots of Mozilla’s mobile OS appeared, and several vendors have already announced their intention to release smartphones running on it. 

Velti has published a monthly report on trends in the mobile advertising market. According to him, the most “mobile-involved” country is Israel, the iPod Touch accounts for more advertising impressions than the iPad, and eCPM (effective price per thousand impressions) in the USA, the number of games increased by 20% in a month. 

This was stated by Russian officials, denying applications the right to be called “intellectual property”, and at the same time loading VAT. 

Google managers seriously underestimated the market potential of the older version of their own tablet. As it became known yesterday, the 16 GB Nexus 7 has already been completely sold out by now. 

Hi, exactly a week ago, the Bnet team, to which I was lucky enough to have a certain relationship, released the Dialogues application for iPhone.On the basis of this application, several hypotheses related to the promotion of applications were tested, to a greater extent in the Russian segment of the AppStore. Actually, the conclusions that were made will be discussed.

The research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has published the results of its study of iPad user preferences conducted in the period from December 2011 to April 2012.

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert in Microsoft software development technologies, answered several questions about the promotion of the Windows Phone platform, the future of mobile games and the principles of their implementation.