Takeaways from this week’s conference: Big business dominating the market, handsets as TV controllers and the cost of user acquisition

The Mobile Gaming USA conference last week was a gathering of executives in the mobile gaming industry along with people in associated businesses. The conference, held at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, had numerous sessions dealing with a range of topics concerning the business of mobile games, from technical sessions to marketing, from branded advergames to HTML 5. Here are the highlights of the conference, presented in key quotes…

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From Lingplay.com: The conference gathered more than 500 people from over than 120 companies. Developers from different countries shared the top experience with both newbies and industry veterans. More than 20 lectures were held on the event.

Conference visitors had a unique chance to discuss top trends and most recent tendencies in social gaming with star speakers from GameInsight, GREE/OpenFeint, 6waves, Kontagent, Mamba, Crazy Panda and many others.

Russian social games market moves very fast: more and more young and perspective companies getting on an IPO while the industry veterans expand and open affiliates abroad. Alice Chumachenko (CEO at GameInsight) announced branch office opening in San Francisco. GameInside’s new office will function as a publisher. It was mentioned that new trend goes on non-gaming and gambling apps. Apps like post cards creation, press readers, slot games will be in the center of attention very soon.

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