A report by Sandra Ilyina from Opera at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

During the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Kazuki Morishita, President and CEO of GungHo, spoke about the creation of Puzzle & Dragons.

HasOffers report on the Mobile App Tracking platform at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

As part of the report at GDC, the executive director and programmer of Frogmind studio Johannes Vourinen told about how much one of the most “Oscar-winning” mobile games of last year earned.

As soon as Dong Nguyen announced that he intended to return Flappy Bird to the App Store, the American company Ultimate Arcade Inc. announced: she will do everything to prevent the game from returning to the store.

It was reported that the Puzzle & Dragons game developer company created the GGF B.V. holding in the Netherlands last year.

Minecraft authors earned 38% more on their IP last year than in 2012, the Wall Street Journal reports. Almost a quarter of the amount is revenue from the mobile version of the game.

Links to the most relevant materials of the industrial press on Thursday, March 20.

A joint report by Upsight (then Kontagent + PlayHaven) and Nival at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

The authors of the game series The Room told how much they spent and how much they earned on their games.

A year after the announcement of World of Tanks, Blitz has finally reached the status of a closed beta version for iOS.

The once very popular search engine and mail service Yahoo! Announced the creation of the Yahoo! gaming distribution network Games Network. 

Following Epic Games, Crytek, the company that developed CryEngine, announced a change in monetization policy (with its help, games such as Crysis and Warface were created).

In San Francisco, Epic Games announced a change in the Unreal Engine 4 monetization model . Starting today, access to the code of one of the leading game engines costs $19 per month.

Links to the most relevant materials in our digest of the industrial press for Wednesday, March 19.

A report by Olivier Bernard from App Annie at the Winter Nights 2014 conference.

At the GDC 2014 conference currently taking place in San Francisco, the authors of Jetpack Joyride presented a game about a bear and art galleries. 

Last week Pocket Gems celebrated the birthday of its leading title – time manager Tap Paradise Cove. In honor of this event, the CEO of the company Ben Liu shared the secrets of the success of the project on the pages of Gamasutra.

At the GDC conference, Flurry demonstrated a “loyalty matrix” for mobile games, which was built on the basis of user behavior in 1,382 top Android projects.