The Casual Gaming Association (CGA) has published a report on the gaming sector of the market, considering games for smartphones and tablets. The key provisions of the report can be read further in our material.

According to information from the Chinese store Wandoujia, which distributes software for Android, the success of Clash of Clans in China is not yet supported by financial indicators.

The lack of great competition in the Amazon store has given major brands the opportunity to strengthen their power there. Which Disney took advantage of.

In December 2013, Rockstar promises to release a port of the GTA: San Andreas criminal action on mobile devices. The game will be supplemented with new controls and improved graphics, as reported by the official website of the developers.

Strategy Analytics has published the results of a survey of 1,600 mobile app developers. More than 32% of respondents intend to support Windows Phone in 2014, which is 2 times higher than this year.

The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.

A couple of weeks ago, we started publishing translations of articles by Mikhail Katkoff, product director at Scopely, about the mechanics of midcore games. Today is the second part, it’s about user retention.

2014 may be a turning point for the market. According to Canalys, it is at this time that tablets will account for half of the global supply of personal computers.

Apple has adjusted the App Store search engine to correct minor errors, typos and incorrect placement of spaces.

At the last Vas Forum conference, Dmitry Martynov from Google shared the secrets of successful applications.

The first information about the Finnish Angry Birds Go project! it appeared back in June 2013. The announcement was followed by a short August teaser trailer and just a few months later the game appeared in the New Zealand App Store. This is reported by Toucharcade.

Fiksu representatives tried to figure out how the release of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C affected the mobile application market.

SuperData, an American research company, reports that the cost of acquiring users has exceeded the average income that developers of games for tablets and smartphones receive.

Smashing Ideas, a division of Random House, has published a report according to which about half of American smartphone owners spend about 200 hours a year on mobile games.

Forbes magazine published a small note explaining the reasons for the success of Finnish mobile games for iPad. After the games Oceanhorn, Angry Birds Star Wars 2 and several Supercell projects took the first place in the list of the most popular iOS tablet games in the United States, many began to think about the secret of Finnish entertainment.

Japanese messenger LINE has added another 100 million users in just 4 months. Now the company intends to raise 500 million by the end of 2014.

Monetization is the very word that keeps developers in constant suspense. To better understand this issue, we suggest considering the opinions of experienced representatives of the gaming industry.

The administration of the Google Play Store mobile software store has finally begun to take tablets seriously. Android Police reports that the Google Play Store now only shows tablet-optimized programs when you enter the store from a tablet computer.

Apple has added a video to the product page in the App Store. A similar honor was awarded to the game Clumsy Ninja, which is advertised with a minute trailer.