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Other May 17, 2012

Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 has begun

Today, the Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 conference dedicated to the development of flash, social and mobile games opened in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel at 10.00.

Other May 17, 2012

Platform Market: Android Stability, Windows Phone Growth

Android holds a dominant position in the mobile systems market thanks to Samsung’s good sales; Windows Phone has doubled its share in the American and European markets in a year.

Other May 16, 2012

Multi-faceted Android

Staircase3 has found out which smartphone is the most popular among Android devices, on which devices it is best to test your own applications, and also why the fragmentation of the “green” platform is growing from year to year.

Other May 16, 2012

GREE told how much mobile developers can earn

Thanks to the GREE report for the third fiscal quarter (the company has it in January-March 2012), it became clear what amounts a developer can count on whose games fall into the top-grossing iOS applications.

Other May 16, 2012

The growth rate of free games on iOS (May 6-14)

At the top of the free iPhone games chart is the 100 Floors puzzle. On the iPad, the situation is different: the Highway Rider racing runner is the most popular. As for the growth rate, Ice Rage hockey is out of competition among free iOS games.

Other May 15, 2012

Windows Phone: 90 thousand apps

According to unofficial data, there are very few left to the mark of 100 thousand unique applications on the Microsoft platform.

Other May 15, 2012

Mobile Developer Day will be held in June

On June 7-8, 2012, a conference for mobile application developers Mdday#MoCO will be held in Moscow. It will be held within the framework of the VIII-th business forum “World of Mobile Content 2012” (MoCO).

Other May 15, 2012

Zynga has done it again (UPDATE)

The social giant recently bought Wild Needle studio for an unknown amount, which developed games for a casual female audience.

Other May 14, 2012

To Moscow, at the conference

Two big events of the Russian gaming industry will take place this week: Flash GAMM! Moscow 2012 and the main conference of domestic developers of computer and video games KRI 2012.

Other May 14, 2012

PopCap Games: “Android is far from the best business for most players on the market”

The high level of fragmentation on Android prevents developers from making money on their own applications, says David Roberts, executive director of PopCap Games.

Other May 14, 2012

White nights in just a month!

The countdown to the mobile gaming conference – White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, which will be held in St. Petersburg on June 14-15 during the St. Petersburg White Nights, has begun. At the event, it will be possible to communicate with representatives of Rovio, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Flurry Analytics, Big Fish Games, Nevosoft, Social Quantum, Alawar and more.

Other May 14, 2012

iPhone is the number one in Japan

The most popular smartphone in the land of the rising sun turned out to be a gadget from Apple. It has 30% of the Japanese market.

Other May 12, 2012

The secret of GetJar’s success

Just a few days ago it became known that GameDuell, one of the central players in the German mobile software market, and Vostu, Brazil’s largest social gaming company, announced support for GetJar’s new virtual currency – GetJar Gold. Read below about why they decided to support an independent Android app store.

Other May 12, 2012

Jetpack Joyride has flown on Facebook

Facebook seems to have passed the time when projects were ported to iOS from Facebook, now they are porting to Facebook from iOS. At least that’s exactly what the developers from the Halfbrick studio did when their unpretentious, but extremely popular arcade game Jetpack Joyride in the iOS version scored more than 25 million downloads.

Other May 11, 2012

Hardcore on iOS

The expected shooter N.O.V.A. 3, despite the high price and a relatively small target audience for this platform, turned out to be at the top of the world charts the very next day after the release.

Other May 11, 2012

Google is preparing its gaming service

There was information that the search corporation is developing a single gaming hub that will connect all gamers on the Android platform. There is also an opinion that the new service will be an analogue of the Facebook App Center announced recently.

Other May 11, 2012

Rovio has announced a new game (UPDATE)

The creators of Angry Birds, the most downloaded mobile game and, there is such a suspicion, the most popular game of the last five years in general, announced that their new project will be a remake of the popular puzzle, and not the original title.

Other May 10, 2012

Box office hits 02.05.2012 – 09.05.2012

Kingdoms of Camelot, after a two-week pause, once again leads the top of the most profitable games on the iPhone; Angry Birds Space is descending down the “standings” lower and lower, while managing to gain 1 billion downloads; Smurfs’ Village after the update is in the top ten on all leading digital platforms.

Other May 10, 2012

Facebook introduced the App Center

The world’s largest social network has announced an extremely unusual service that risks becoming one of the leading app stores in the future. With its help, users will be able to download applications to their own, including mobile devices, and developers will be able to promote their own projects more successfully.

Other May 10, 2012

Free games are only fashion!

Every day there are fewer and fewer companies in the mobile games market that firmly adhere to the paid distribution model. Most of them have either already transferred, or are transferring their projects to the “shareware” type of monetization. However, one of the authors of Ticket to Ride claims that this is nothing more than a fashion that will soon pass.