The number of international subscribers of the Chinese “conversational” WeChat application has reached 70 million. About the present and future of the platform – in our material. 

With the furious success of Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and Puzzle & Dragons, investors are growing faith in the gaming segment of the mobile market. They are in a hurry to open funds. And they are looking for developers. 

A Japanese publisher has announced that the revenue of Knights & Dragons, a third-party studio project, has crossed the $1 million mark per month. About the developers’ dislike of publishers and about the success of the Canadian game – in our material.    

The critically acclaimed Limbo platformer from the Danish independent Playdead team has appeared on the App Store today.

The South Korean social application KakaoTalk celebrated a significant event – the registration of a hundred millionth user.

Most developers and publishers of mobile applications believe that advertising companies inflate the prices of their services, employees of the cross-advertising platform AppFlood claim in their research. 

The British publishing house plans to transfer one of the central titles of the ancient Amiga to mobile rails – the cheerful arcade strategy Cannon Fodder.

There was information about the date and venue of the third Ukrainian Mobile Developer Day. 

Personnel sensation: the chair of Zynga executive director Mark Pincus (Mark Pincus) gave way to the former head of Microsoft’s entertainment division Don Mattrick (Don Mattrick).

At the Build 2013 conference, Microsoft representative Rosa Thomas said that since the launch of the Xbox SmartGlass client application in October 2012, it has been downloaded 17 million times.

The Japanese giant of the social mobile games industry GREE reports that 40.3% of the profits received by the company from Android devices are brought by users of only two devices.

We talked to the creators of Jungle Heat from Mail.ru Group about their project, the search for style, as well as whether they are not afraid of a lawsuit from Supercell.

Apple has given the go-ahead to developers, and now the cheapest games and apps in the App Store will cost at least £0.99 in the United Kingdom and €0.99 in the rest of the Eurozone.

The game will not help to become successful 2-3 weeks of testing, virtual currency and rare pushy, you need to do the opposite, says Chris Williams from Big Fish.

The other day Kabam happily announced that its game Fast & Furious 6: The Game has become the champion in download speed among mobile applications. The game has gained 17 million downloads in a month. About how it was – read the material.

Kabam is gaining a foothold in the mobile market, and at the same time carries out serious permutations. The company has already laid off a “small” number of employees. To strengthen the mobile division, they promise to hire about two hundred new ones.

Distimo has published statistics on revenue and downloads of the most popular applications. Thanks to this data, it became clear exactly how many downloads are required to get into the tops of the App Store.

Is it possible to make money on the console port, the whole truth about the first days of White Nights, details about the new mobile version – CPE, as well as much more in our traditional weekly digest.