American gaming journalists have calculated how much a new “free” Electronic Arts game can cost avid gamers. The figure turned out to be, to put it mildly, impressive.

Within the framework of the Winter Nights conference, the issues of finding and hiring employees were discussed at the round table “The labor market in the mobile gaming industry”. Where is it better to look? How much should I pay? Hire an expensive “experienced” specialist or teach young people “in battle”?

Aggressive advertising on Japanese television helped GungHo’s game achieve record revenue figures, according to analyst Serkan Toto. 

The revival of classical genres on mobile platforms continues. Next up is the dungeon crawler.

Yandex has launched its own store for users of smartphones and tablets on the Android platform. 

Do Kingdoms of Camelot and Arcane Empires compete with each other, Andrew Sheppard, president of Kabam Game Studios, told us about his fastest-growing game and a new racing project. 

The Korean company LG is well prepared for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On the first day of the event, she announced the purchase of webOS, support for Firefox OS and her attitude to Windows Phone 8.

Words With Friends is twice as popular as Temple Run and Angry Birds, and tablets generate three times more traffic than smartphones, analysts at ByteMobile say in their February report. 

Nikolay Kim, Business Development Manager at Ancor, at the Winter Nights conference, spoke in his report about the labor market in the mobile gaming industry outside Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Read about the reasons for the popularity of collectible card games, how much users spent on mobile games in 2012, the difference in revenue between mobile and portable games, and much more in our news digest for last week.

The German company Wooga has announced a line of new products, and at the same time announced that it has finally started making money on game development.

At Casual Connect Europe, we caught the Director of business Development King.com Karina Tietje, who, unfortunately, turned out to be not very verbose and not inclined to share secrets on the development of hits. However, we were still able to learn something from her.

The publisher of Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga is going to conquer Japan and Korea. Gongong has already been “captured”.  

Revenue from games for portable consoles in the 4th quarter of 2012 was more than revenue from gaming applications for iOS, App Annie c IDC reports in its latest report.

PlayHaven, a company engaged in monetization and promotion of applications, has announced the creation of an office in Europe. It was headed by Ville Heijari, former vice President of Marketing at Rovio.

Yulia Sakharova, director of HeadHunter North-West, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about the supply and demand in the labor market of mobile application developers.

On the official website of the Tizen project, supported by the Linux Foundation, a message appeared about the release of the SDK and source code of the second version of the Tizen mobile platform, codenamed Magnolia.

Last year was so eventful that many managed to forget about the project, which last spring was promised the laurels of Angry Birds – Draw Something.