At the Cupertino event, Tim Cook and Co presented a new generation of iPad and iPad mini tablets. 

Today, the Facebook group Farminers raised the question: how much will the Russian mobile application market earn by the end of 2013. We also decided to count. What we got – read in the material.

Traffic is a sore point. Where, for how much, how – these questions torment almost all developers of mobile games and applications today. Therefore, we decided to start getting acquainted with the companies offering traffic. The first in the list is AppTools.

The Japanese company Sega has seriously taken up the mobile market. The publisher is going to release four video games for iOS and Android, including the classic platformer Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and a brand new project Demon Tribe. This is reported by Polygon.

Today in Abu Dhabi, the Finnish giant presented its own tablet for five minutes to dead Windows RT 8.1, as well as several new smartphones and phones.

The Chinese company Chukong Technologies received $50 million of investments from the venture fund New Horizon Capital. The money will be spent on creating their own publishing brand, a development department and a department dealing with engines, as reported by GamesIndustry.

Gartner analysts expect tablet shipments to reach 184 million by the end of this year.

Mikhail Katkoff, who recently left Supercell, shared his thoughts on why Plants vs. Zombies 2 is an unsuccessful project for PopCap and EA in his blog.

Today, the Russian search engine announced the launch of its own free analytical service created for mobile application developers.

How much can a Clash of Clans clone earn, who is now on the crest of success in stores, whether it is necessary to cooperate with Kakao in Korea – about this and much more in the selection of the best materials for the past week. 

Pocket Gamer has some interesting material from our colleague Matthew Diener about what can wait for Canada after BlackBerry leaves the mobile market. We couldn’t resist and translated the article.

At the end of September, devtodev, a domestic tool for collecting mobile analytics and advertising, appeared on the market. We contacted Dmitry Kravtsov, the CEO of the service, and asked him about how the work on devtodev began, how it differs from foreign analogues and what the startup has in common with IMI.VC .

Several indie game developers have teamed up to release the Game Bundle under the Thumb Arcade wing – a collection of 10 games for iOS.

Former Zynga employee Todd Arnold has become the head of the growing games division of Tango, a mobile messaging service.

At the beginning of the week we wrote about the rapid rise of Samurai Siege, a successful clone of the Finnish Clash of Clans. Today, new data has appeared on the daily revenue of the application, as well as how, in the opinion of the developers themselves, their project is seriously different from the Supercell product.

At the RIW-2013 Moscow conference dedicated to the Russian Internet, VKontakte representative Alexander Kruglov announced the launch of closed testing of the site’s advertising network vk.com .

In early October, 2020: My Country was released in South Korea with the support of Kakao. In connection with the release, we contacted Daria Trushkina, Vice president of business Development at Game Insight, who spoke about her experience working with Kakao and the Korean market.