The total revenue of Android apps for 2013 will double, according to analysts at ABI Research in their latest forecast.

Call of Duty: Strike Team unexpectedly appeared on the App Store yesterday. Moreover, according to the first reviews, the Activision project is surprisingly good.

MDDay published the program and told about the speakers of the future conference.

PlayFirst, a developer and publisher of casual games from San Francisco, has absorbed a small startup Big Head Mode (formerly GameFace). The goal is to increase the effectiveness of targeting and cross-advertising campaigns.

The Russian Mobile Awards’ 2013 contest will be held as part of the tenth Mobile VAS & Apps Conference. The acceptance of applications for participation in it has already begun.

Google Glass augmented reality glasses will get their own app store in 2014.

In August, 33.8% of visits to Pavel Durov’s social network site occurred from mobile devices, writes Roem.ru with a link to LiveInternet.

The revenue of the Chinese mobile games market by the end of this year will amount to $ 1.2 billion, representatives of Niko Partners assure in their latest research. 

On the pages of Gamesindustry, the author of the first part of Deus Ex and the Epic Mickey series, Warren Spector, shared ten rules from which he starts when creating his own games. We, in turn, have selected illustrative examples of these rules.

Since the launch of the Android mobile platform on September 23, 2008, it has been activated 1 billion times, the search giant reported yesterday, and we decided to calculate how many iOS and Windows Phone devices have also been sold in the world.

The online edition of Gamesbrief has presented a gorgeous infographic telling about how to properly monetize games. 

At WWDC, the Apple company announced that simultaneously with the release of iOS7, a new category of applications for children will appear on the App Store. The first details have recently become known.

Stephen Elop will be appointed Executive Vice President of Microsoft Devices and will be engaged in the further development of Windows Phone, Xbox console and Surface tablet series in early 2014.

The Apple company has sent out official invitations to the event, at which, according to rumors, it will show its new devices. 

A year ago, in an article by one of the employees of the Indian marketing company Communication Crafts, the following figure slipped through: 53% of smartphone users play on their device every day. We wondered how many people are there?

According to the latest Kantar report, Windows Phone managed to gain a serious user base in Europe over the year. Also, Windows Phone devices pushed the sales leaders in Mexico. 

Apple has updated the online developer tool Bug Reporter (aka Radar). Last weekend, the site had a new design and new features.

Users of the USA and China prefer to spend time in applications of their native countries. 

Microsoft will pay about $5 billion for the division that creates devices, and another $2.18 billion for Nokia‘s patent portfolio. The software and NSN departments of the Finnish company will remain independent.