Mail.Ru The Group received a controlling stake in the social network VKontakte. 

The authors of Clash of Clans and Hay Day have opened an office in one of the most expensive districts of Seoul – Gangnam (aka Gangnam).

“Anger is a very strong emotion,” Florian Steinhoff, Chief Product Officer at Wooga, began his speech at the GDC 2014 currently taking place in San Francisco.

Kontagent+PlayHaven has finally decided on the name; Twitch can already be tested in Asphalt 8; new functionality has appeared in Google Play Games – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Monday, March 17.

A few days ago, we reported on Rovio’s plans to release an RPG in the Angry Birds universe. You can see exactly how the game will look in the latest video.

A report by Greg Ballard from Warner Bros. at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The purchase of the Applicier, the most up–to-date data on China, as well as a brief extract of the interview with the creator of Flappy Bird – in our digest for last week. 

In February, for the first time in many months, the Finnish strategy overtook Candy Crush Saga in total monthly revenues from the App Store and Google Play. Why, the answer was looking for App2Top.

Last Friday, the Japanese company announced Crazy Taxi: City Rush, a mobile sequel to the original game, which is being created with an eye to modern gaming standards. 

In an interview with GamesBeat, Alice Chumachenko, founder and president of Game Insight, told how much the company’s leading projects earn. 

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, 2.48 million devices were sold in Russia, and last year Russians purchased 8.58 million tablets,” IDC reports.

The Spanish publisher of social games is increasing its presence in the mobile games market. The company is doing so well that its representatives assure that in 2014 Social Point will earn $ 100 million.

Report by Jaime Ocampo from DeNA at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The studio that created Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Bejeweled has laid off 30 employees. 

According to the latest data for 2013, there are more than 700 million smartphones in China, according to the Chinese analytical company Umeng. 

Unity has acquired the authors of the Everyplay service, which allows you to record the gameplay in mobile games, the reaction to user events using the front camera, as well as embed video ads.

Mathematicians have proved that Candy Crush is a complex game; a Chinese publisher invests $ 600 million in mobile games; Techcrunch claims that the game console market is in crisis – about this and much more in our digest of the industrial press for Thursday, March 13.

Presentation by Pavel Ryakkonen, Distribution Director of Nevosoft, at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.