Last April, the number of downloads of free apps in the American App Store continued to decline, as for the cost of attracting a loyal user, it, on the contrary, increased,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report. 

This summer, the Russian bank will start issuing its own cards with the heroes of the popular Finnish game Angry Birds. Thanks to this announcement, the number of Angry Birds downloads in Russia also became known. 

The association of developers Because we may, which advocates that developers set prices for their games that they consider necessary, announced massive discounts in the last week of spring in honor of The App Store, Google Play, Steam and some other digital stores.

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

It turned out that the younger models of Nokia smartphones with Windows Phone on board do not support a number of the most popular applications of the platform. Including Angry Birds and PES 2012.

Developers are losing interest in creating Android apps due to problems with fragmentation and a large number of app stores, Appcelerator reports. 

Microsoft and Nokia, with the help of a jury, determined 7 winners of the second wave of the mobile developers competition called “The best applications – free promotion!”.

Apple has started to feature two new categories of applications directly in the mobile version of the App Store. The growth of downloads should be expected by those whose programs or games are marked by Cupertinos with Editor’s Choice or Free App of the Week medals.

The American tops of the highest-grossing apps have changed little since the last report. As before, the ideological heirs of social projects and gambling continue to earn the most on mobile devices. Arcades and puzzles, that is, projects that recently seemed to be more suitable for smartphones and tablets, are almost not represented in the box office tops.

The organizers of Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 stated that almost 800 people attended the conference. They also believe that there would have been even more visitors if not for the early closing of registration.

Yesterday, Google introduced subscription support in its own app store. Glu Mobile immediately took advantage of this. She introduced a subscription to her virtual currency: now for $9.99 per month, players receive twice as many credits as if they paid the same amount at a time.

The share of Android in the American smartphone market has grown to 49% in the first quarter of 2012, according to experts of the advertising company Millennial Media. So Google’s operating system continues to be the “king of the mountain”; also in the US, 15 of the top 20 mobile devices run on Android 

Potential tablet buyers are less and less interested in purchasing devices from Apple, according to Ipsos Mediact analysts, who provided detailed data on the current preferences of American consumers. 

China is becoming an increasingly important territory for Apple. In the first quarter of 2012 alone, sales of Apple smartphones in the Chinese market tripled. 

They write little and rarely about Djinnworks, despite the fact that this small Austrian studio has been releasing top projects over and over again for the fourth year. Now, for example, Wingsuit Stickman is in the American top 10 paid games, and Line Surfer is in the top 10 free apps. Read about the studio, as well as the secret of their success, below.

The tablet market is storming, despite Apple’s unconditional leadership. Among the leading vendors, there is a fierce struggle for second place in the market for the supply of devices. Kindle Fire starts to lose, Samsung goes up. 

Applications developed on HTML5 work up to ten times slower even on the most advanced smartphones than on laptops, according to Spaceport experts in their new study.

The company has released a multiplatform commercial version of its engine with a long history – GameMaker: Studio. The company’s first major client was the popular German publisher HandyGames. 

The most popular free game on the iPhone for the second week in a row is the puzzle 100 Floors. On the iPad, the first place went to the unusual social game Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade & Friends. In terms of growth rates, the Dragon Story game was ahead of everyone.