Recently, Venturebeat published an article by Dean Takahashi, the lead author of the GamesBeat section, dedicated to the development of American, European and Asian gaming companies. We offer the Russian version of the material.

Kingdoms At War by A Thinking Ape ranked 8th in the iPhone box office top in 2010, 13th in 2011. Then the game spent a couple of years in the top 40, and a month ago broke into the top twenty. How does this ancient project still manage to make a profit?

Last week, Flappy Bird took first place among the free apps of the App Store and Google Play. The simplicity of the game’s graphics is compensated by a rather complex gameplay, which probably caused its popularity.

Game Analytics in the material about analytics distinguishes two basic concepts – telemetry and metric. Sometimes they are used as synonyms, but this is not entirely justified.

Game Analytics publishes articles on game analytics issues. The new material deals with the basics of this process and the sources of information.

Anders Drachen, the main author of Game Analytics, decided to turn to what is analytics in the gaming industry. He proposed 12 steps to build a work with such information. Which ones? Read in the material.

About the difficulties of evaluating, interpreting and collecting game experience – in the article of the chief analyst of Game Analytics Anders Drachen.

The Chinese government has introduced its own operating system – China Operating System (COS). The new OS should compete with Android and iOS.

Yodo1, the publisher of Western games in the Chinese market, attracted 100 million users from China. In particular, the expansion of the user base was due to the release of Cut the Rope 2.

Ninja Metrics has announced the launch of Katana Social Analytics Engine. The new service will help developers identify the most important users of a mobile application by measuring the “social value” of each user.

By the beginning of the year, the hit from Colopl had “conquered” 13% of the population of the Japanese archipelago.

The success of the Farm Heroes Saga title on Facebook prompted King to port it to iOS and Android. Now users can enjoy another “royal game” on mobile devices.

CEO Dave Roberts and chief game designer Jason Kapalka are leaving the Plants vs. Zombies studio.

Official data provided by GPC and 17173.com , show that the total revenue of the Chinese gaming market in 2013 amounted to $13.7 billion. Of these, $1.9 billion (about 14%) brought mobile games.

The Google Market selection includes 14 applications. We tried to analyze how these games showed themselves in the world store and how they deserved a feature from Google in Russia.

The Casual Gaming Association (CGA) has published a report on the gaming sector of the market, considering games for smartphones and tablets. The key provisions of the report can be read further in our material.

The lack of great competition in the Amazon store has given major brands the opportunity to strengthen their power there. Which Disney took advantage of.

Strategy Analytics has published the results of a survey of 1,600 mobile app developers. More than 32% of respondents intend to support Windows Phone in 2014, which is 2 times higher than this year.

The authors of the latest research2guidance report drew attention to the potential of using cross-platform tools and provided relevant statistics, estimating the market at $2.4 billion.