The other day we had an interesting conversation with Oleg Pridiuk, a technical evangelist from Unity Technologies. We talked about the advantages of the Unity engine and myths about it, about the company as a whole and its strategic plans, as well as why St. Petersburg can be called the heart of Russian game development. 

Analysts admit that the new mobile platform from Mozilla will be another challenge to the current giant of the mobile market – the Android company. 

As part of the BlackBerry Jam 2012, RIM not only introduced the new BlackBerry 10, but also boasted of a sudden increase in the number of users of its devices.

There are 675 thousand apps available on Google Play. This figure is interesting not so much in itself, but because it demonstrates how Android is close to overtaking iOS in terms of the number of applications possible to download.

Have you made a free app and think it will save you from pirates? It will not save, according to experts of the company Arxan Technology. 

The analytical company On Device conducted a study in order to track the degree of satisfaction of users of the new iOS in comparison with previous OS releases.

Yesterday, Samsung announced the launch of sales of a smartphone with a 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II display in South Korea.

Gameloft has launched the Gameloft Live iOS app, which gives iPhone and iPad users access to the French company’s social gaming network. 

Barnes & Noble has unveiled two new tablets behind closed doors in San Francisco: the Nook HD and the Nook HD+.

At the beginning of the month, rumors appeared online that Huawei plans to develop its operating system for mobile devices. This data was officially confirmed by the head of Huawei Wang Biao (Wan Biao).

Today, the total number of downloads from the official Android app store has exceeded 25 billion.

As part of the BlackBerry Jam 2012 event, RIM introduced the BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system.

TechCrunch, together with the analytical company aveden, tried to figure out how much the mechanism for ranking applications has changed in the new version of Apple’s mobile OS.

Developers from the Best Apps Market presented the original search engine for games on the Android platform. It selects suitable applications based on the specific desires of the user. 

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, said at an internal corporate meeting in Taiwan that Windows 8 will be released raw.

Warner Bros. Film Company I entrusted the development of as many as two game adaptations of Peter Jackson’s future trilogy “The Hobbit” to the creators of Kingdoms of Camelot.

Pixle studio has created two useful and uncomplicated tools for mobile developers that allow you to determine the optimal ratio of the screen with a picture on it without the presence of the device itself.

There has been no news from the Finnish Jolla Mobile team for many weeks. And so, as they say, they are back. Jussi Hurmola, executive director of Jolla, said in an interview with Gigaom that the company will announce its first device before the end of this year. 

Another game news. Again about quests, again about classics. Revolution Software company, led by its permanent head Charles Cecil, has announced its intention to develop a sequel to the cult cyberpunk adventure Beneath a Steel Sky. The game will be released on iOS, Android and PC.