The German company b-interactive has announced a cross-platform version of the classic checkers game, which provides an online game from any smartphone running Windows Phone, iOS, Android or PC.

The most interesting iOS game releases of this week in one material. In the first issue, read about Poker Night 2, Bam fu, Call of Mini: DinoHunter, Dead Ahead, Epic and Zombie Fish Tank.

Marmalade recently announced that their cross-platform SDK already supports the new Google Play game service. However, not yet in full. 

On the pages of Fierce Developer, Microsoft evangelist Jesse Freeman talked about what the game needs to succeed in the casual market. 

A study conducted by Tapjoy and the Yankee Group showed that consumer spending on virtual currency in applications will grow in the coming years. By 2017, they will reach $3.2 billion, three times higher than last year.

The global mobile games market will grow to $12.3 billion by the end of this year, Newzoo reports in its latest report. Analysts say that this is 35% more than last year. 

According to Insidesocialgames, SlotoQuest: Gambling Adventure from the game publisher Renatus holds the first place in the top of actively growing games on Facebook, increasing its audience by 19,901 monthly active users and thus ensuring a 24% increase in the gaming audience.

Another Japanese company noted the fact of a slowdown in the growth of the mobile games market. Following Konami, this was announced by the publisher Capcom, which noted a similar trend in its latest quarterly financial report. 

Vice President of Taptica Matt Tubergen tells on the pages of Pocket Gamer how to work with analytics. We offer a translation of his third article, “Key Questions to Data”, devoted, respectively, to key questions on analytics.

One of the main franchises of the Games Workshop company is experiencing a real renaissance. In 2013, the third game in the brutal world of Warhammer 40,000 is announced. This time, the brave space marines from the Slitherine studio act as developers.

The Skillz service from the startup of the same name will allow users to compete with each other in mobile games for real money. Recently, its beta version for Android applications was released in the USA. The first results showed a threefold increase in revenue and session length.

As part of yesterday’s Xbox One presentation, Xbox Live Vice President Mark Whitten announced that the number of downloads of the Xbox SmartGlass mobile app exceeded the milestone of 10 million.

It has been reported that Aspyr Media is porting the iconic role-playing game in the Star Wars universe Knights of the Old Republic to Apple tablets. 

Burstly, a provider of solutions for mobile developers, has announced that its services will be available to all developers, not just the creators of the “coolest” applications.

The latest information on the leaders of the American Google Play games market for the week from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

Facebook announced the introduction of a native share dialog for iOS applications. Do we expect an increase in virality in the mobile market?

The multiplatform Godus project, for which Molineux 22cans successfully raised £526,000 last December, will be published by the Japanese giant DeNA on iOS and Android platforms.

Everyone knows last year’s story about the loud rise and scandalous fall of Draw Something indicators. The second part of the game, judging by the first results, repeats the fate of the original.

David Helgason, executive director of Unity, said that the basic mobile licenses for the engine of the same name, including versions for iOS and Android, are now distributed for free.