The main thing for the week (20.05 – 24.05)

Google Play’s revenue from IAP has grown by 700%; Unity has become free for mobile developers; Amazon tablets will be sold in 170 countries – read about this and more in our traditional digest for a week.

1. Over the year, revenues from IAP in Google Play increased by 700%Speaking at the Google I/O 2013 conference, Google Play product manager Ibrahim Elbuchikhi gave a lot of interesting figures and facts regarding the monetization of mobile applications in the official Android store.

2. Google announced how the Google Play search robot worksGoogle talked about the work of the Google Play search engine, as well as how developers can improve the visibility of their programs with its help.

3. Syberia is out on iOSWhile Benoit Sokal is writing the script for the third part of Syberia, Big Fish has released the original 2002 game on iOS.

So far, however, only for Canadian iPhone and iPad users.

4. Unity has become free for iOS and Android developersUnity Executive Director David Helgason said that the basic mobile licenses for the engine of the same name, including versions for iOS and Android, are now distributed for free.

5. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic will appear on iPadIt has been reported that Aspyr Media is porting the iconic role-playing game in the Star Wars universe Knights of the Old Republic to Apple tablets.

6. Skillz introduced competitions for money into mobile gamesThe Skillz service from the startup of the same name will allow users to compete with each other in mobile games for real money.

Recently, its beta version for Android applications was released in the USA. The first results showed a threefold increase in revenue and session length.

7. Mobile application analytics from A to Z. Part #3Vice President of Taptica Matt Tubergen tells on the pages of Pocket Gamer how to work with analytics.

We offer a translation of his third article, “Key Questions to Data”, devoted, respectively, to key questions on analytics.

8. The mobile games market will earn $12.3 billion in 2013The global mobile games market will grow to $12.3 billion by the end of this year, Newzoo reports in its latest report.

Analysts say that this is 35% more than last year.

9. Amazon Kindle Fire is available for pre-order in 170 countriesAmazon plans to start selling Kindle Fire HD 7 and 8.9 from next month in more than 170 countries.

10. “M.Video” told about the Russian smartphone marketOne of the largest Russian retailers of household appliances company “M.

Video” told about the segmentation of the smartphone market in Russia following the results of the first quarter of 2013. There were some surprises.

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