The other day, the release of the closed beta PlayHaven Push Notifications program took place. The main feature of the service is the ability to send customized notifications to users.

The French company Pretty Simple Games has announced its plans to port Criminal Case to the Apple mobile platform.

Japanese developer GungHo has finally revealed the download statistics of his super hit in North America.

A list of conferences related to the mobile gaming industry, which will be held this August.

Japanese company Gree is shutting down Tellit, a mobile messaging service that was launched last year. According to the company, the reason for this is the need for constant rationalization of costs in a highly competitive environment.

Capcom yesterday announced a whole line of games for mobile platforms. They promised projects under such major brands as Monster Hunter, Street Fighter and Breath of Fire.

Fiksu has published a traditional report on the state of the American App Store for the month. In short: downloads are falling, the user’s price is rising. 

Aggressive financial policy in the case of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, distributed on the App Store at a price of $19.99, worked.

At Casual Connect 2013, Gary Gattis from Spacetime Games studio (Pocket Legends, Arcane Legends) told how to maintain a balance in the game between monetization and the pleasure received by users. 

A round table dedicated to attracting players was held at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference. It was attended by Inmobi, Glispa, Playhaven, Chartboost and Trademob.

The mobile games industry is growing, and independent developers are having more and more problems with it. Big companies with tight wallets come to the market. Chris Gray from TapStar told how to compete with them.

App Annie specialists have published an overview of the mobile market for the second quarter of 2013.

The Korean messenger Kakao “lowered the bar”. Starting in August, it is enough for a mobile game to meet only one of two conditions to enter the Kakao Game Platform.

Last Friday, the third meeting of the St. Petersburg Applications Club took place, which we attended. About how it was – in our brief report.

Former EA Executive Director John Riccitiello told Casual Connect what mobile developers should do today. 

About the need to raise new topics in games, about those who have already done it, about the game about Snowden and Microsoft’s political advertising – read our short material. 

A shelf of publishers has arrived: Wooga has announced that it is no longer an independent developer distributing and promoting its games independently, but a full-fledged publisher.

At least the main news of this week, an event that in the near future will completely change the situation on the App Store and Google Play gaming market: Facebook has announced that it is taking up the publication of mobile games.