In the UK alone, children spend about £31 million of parental money per month on unauthorized purchases and IAP, The Guardian reports in its research conducted jointly with Microsoft.

The new game from Betaworks One has managed to enter the top 5 free downloads in 19 countries in a week since its release, and the number of its downloads has crossed the 1 million mark. Read more about the project and its achievements in our material.

Warner Bros. announced the creation of a new game studio in San Francisco. It was headed by former Glu Mobile boss Greg Ballard. The studio will create mobile free-to-play projects. In his interview with GamesIndustry International, Ballard talked about her plans.

comScore analysts presented the latest data on the distribution of vendor and mobile OS shares in the US smartphone market.

Recently, the Japanese company GungHo and its mega-hit Puzzle & Dragons have been constantly appearing in the headlines of news feeds. Yesterday Gamesindustry.biz published an interview with Kazuki Morishita, president of the company, in which he shared some secrets of success. 

The authors of Kingdoms of Camelot have created a second office in Europe. This time in the very center of it, in the capital of Germany – Berlin. 

Apple is going to tighten the “infamous” article 2.25 of the rules for using the Apple App Store. Thus, the struggle of the giant from Cupertino with recommendation services has entered a new phase.

How many types of advertising there are in total and which of them proved to be the most effective in the first quarter of 2013, the research company AppsFlyer said in its report. We offer a short version of it in Russian. 

Last March, the number of downloads decreased, according to Fiksu. However, the price of a loyal user after the February fall, on the contrary, increased. 

In recent weeks, Disney has been under constant fire from network critics. The reason is simple. Mickey Mouse closed the iconic Lucas Arts, and with it a couple of potentially strong projects based on Star Wars. As it turned out, they criticized in vain. 

Not a day goes by without news from Amazon. The Israeli company PlayScape yesterday, on the sixth of May, announced a partnership with the American platform. As part of the collaboration, she is going to publish a number of her projects on the Amazon Appstore.

Facebook analysts talked about the effectiveness of advertising on Zuckerberg’s social network.

In early May, PlayHaven announced that the number of its unique users had grown to 523 million. In this regard, the company gave the Pocket Gamer-u resource an interview in which it talked about the main thing in monetization. 

Zynga has announced that it will be the publisher of the Solstice Arena mobile MOBA game from the former A Bit Lucky. 

Samsung is becoming more active in relation to Tizen: the Korean company is consistently preparing the ground for the promotion of the platform. In Unity in the course.

Without undue fuss, at the end of last week, Amazon opened its app store in China, where both free and paid applications are available to users.

News for those who feel sorry for the money for Unity and Marmalade, but do not feel sorry for their own time for experiments. The British company Turbulenz has made its HTML5 engine open. 

There are only a few days, if not hours, left before the milestone of 50 billion App Store downloads. For the conditional celebration, Apple presented a list of the most downloaded paid and free apps from iTunes.