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.

Every month Metacritic publishes the top ten games for iOS, according to the estimates of the English-language press. Which projects have become the best at the end of this August, read in our material.

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the third part of his story on App2Top.

According to EA representatives, PvZ 2 has already been downloaded more than 25 million times, which exceeds the total number of downloads of the first part in the entire history of its existence.

When Russian users spend on mobile applications, what exactly Google has banned in the new rules for publishing apps, why it is necessary to focus on American moms in development – about this and much more in our weekly digest.

Downloads from the MIUI app store, embedded in Xiaomi‘s Android phone firmware, reached a billion a year after launch. According to Xiaomi, its store is among the five largest of the 200 available in China.

Drink “Crazy Beer” on your phone! 

The Wooga Jelly Splash game was released last week. Read below about why it is better monetized than Candy Crush Saga.